NEUROSURGERY · MEMORIAL GÖZTEPE
Doç. Dr. Mustafa Sakar
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery · Memorial Göztepe Hospital
Mustafa Sakar is a neurosurgeon at Memorial Göztepe Hospital, where he has worked since 2025. He graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine (1997–2003) and completed his neurosurgery residency at the same university, qualifying as a specialist in 2010. He joined Marmara University Faculty of Medicine in 2013, became an assistant professor in 2017 and an associate professor in 2023, working successively on spinal surgery, paediatric neurosurgery and, most recently, adult brain tumours and cerebrovascular disease. He has undertaken further training in fetal spina bifida surgery at HCor Hospital in São Paulo and in skull-base tumour surgery at Tübingen University. He is a member of the Turkish Neurosurgical Society, EANS and ISPN.
Specialties:
Neurosurgery
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PubMed records
Brain tumours, including glioma and meningioma surgeryCerebrovascular surgery and aneurysm surgeryPituitary adenoma surgeryPaediatric neurosurgerySkull base surgeryDeep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease
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Turkish
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ISTANBUL · 08/2026
EDUCATION & CAREER
Timeline
1997–2003
Medical degree, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
2004–2010
Neurosurgery residency, Hacettepe University
2011–2012
Elbistan State Hospital
2013–2025
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery
2017
Appointed Dr. Öğr. Üyesi (assistant professor)
2023
Title of Doçent (associate professor) awarded
2025–present
Neurosurgery, Memorial Göztepe Hospital
PUBLICATIONS
Scientific work
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2026Child's Nervous System«Foramen magnum decompression in infants and children with achondroplasia: clinical outcomes from a 15-patient surgical series»
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2026Operative Neurosurgery«The 6 Surgical Approaches for Tentorial Meningiomas Based on Site of Origin and Extension»
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2026Clinical and Translational Oncology«Longitudinal analysis of systemic inflammatory biomarkers in glioblastoma patients: an exploratory single-center analysis»
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2025Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology«Effect of gamma knife dose rate and tumor-specific factors on treatment outcomes in brain metastases: insights from a cohort study»
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2025Turkish Neurosurgery«Investigation of Clinical, Surgical, and Histopathological Findings of Pediatric Intracranial Meningiomas: A Single-Center Study»
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2025Child's Nervous System«Epidural seeding in medulloblastoma: a rare presentation of tumor seeding»
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