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Using a customizable L stent for laryngotracheal stenosis: Patterns of success and failure

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Background A recent innovation in the management of tracheostomy‐dependent patients with laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) has been the customizable laryngotracheal stent, made by dividing a T‐tube in half (“L stent”).
Nicolas J. Casellas, Eytan Keidar, Mursalin M. Anis, David E. Rosow   +3 more
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17. Cancer Pain: Part I: Cordotomy for Unilateral Pain due to Cancer. [PDF]

Pain Pract
ABSTRACT Introduction Despite advancements in pharmacological and intrathecal treatment of oncological pain, it remains a significant challenge, affecting 44.5% of patients with cancer, with 30.6% experiencing moderate‐to‐severe pain. Methods This scoping review provides a summary of the literature from 2016 to 2024, focusing on percutaneous cordotomy ...
Huisman B, Puylaert M, Liem L, Sharma M, Ket JCF, Cohen SP, Vissers K, Steegers M.   +7 more
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Awake Percutaneous Cervical Cordotomy in Patients With Cancer: A Technical Report. [PDF]

Pain Pract
ABSTRACT Background Percutaneous cervical cordotomy (PCC) is a minimally invasive radiofrequency procedure for intractable unilateral cancer pain. Commonly performed under conscious sedation, awake PCC enables real‐time patient feedback, potentially improving targeting precision and expanding eligibility for patients in whom sedation poses risks ...
Pradhana AP, Timmerman H, Klarenbeek EJM, Verstraaten ML, Stellema R, Reyners AKL, Wolff AP.   +6 more
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How I Do It: Two Novel, Low-Cost Phonomicrosurgery Models With Open-Source, 3D-Printed Laryngoscopes. [PDF]

Laryngoscope
Two new vocal fold microflap models using products found in any grocery store have been developed along with publicly available 3D‐printable parts for simulating multiple laryngoscopes commonly used during laryngeal phonomicrosurgery. This represents a low cost, easily reproducible model for basic laryngeal phonomicrosurgery training.
Pinhas S, Schuman AD, Pinhas I, Friedman AD.   +3 more
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Surviving Separation: Laryngotracheal Injury in Blunt Neck Trauma-A Case Report and Review. [PDF]

Case Rep Otolaryngol
Laryngotracheal trauma is a rare but fatal cause of injury in patients involved in polytrauma. Most patients succumb on site due to airway compromise. Thus, a delay in instituting interventions in such patients often leads to poor outcomes. In the handful that do make it to the hospital, there is a paucity of literature with regard to the optimal ...
John R, Soh L, Huang L, Wong D, Huang X.
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Clinical characteristics and outcome of surgical treatment in children with tethered fatty filum or lipoma of filum at different ages

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Objective To evaluate the outcome of surgical treatment of tethered cord syndrome (TCS) in children with fatty filum or lipoma of filum at different ages and to explore the natural course and therapeutic strategy of this type of TCS.
XU Chen, ZHANG Yi, WANG Min, ZHAO Rui, SHI Wei, LI Hao   +5 more
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Cervical Cordotomy in Terminal Cancer: Pain Relieving in Oncological Treatment

Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2021
Cordotomy consists in the discontinuation of the lateral spinothalamic tract (LST) in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, which aims to reduce the transference of nociceptive information in the dorsal horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord
Maria Clara Cardoso Seba, Henrique Nicola Santo Antonio Bernardo, Natally Marques Santiago Sarturi, Thania Gonzalez Rossi, Newton Maciel de Oliveira, Paulo Henrique Pires de Aguiar   +5 more
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Efficacy and influencing factors of selective dorsal rhizotomy for the treatment of spastic cerebral palsy in children

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Objective To analyze clinical efficacy and influencing factors of selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) for treatment of spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) in children.
WEI Min, JIANG Wen-bin, ZHAN Qi-jia, LI Sen, LIU Chen, XIAO Bo   +5 more
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History of Spinal Cord “Pain” Pathways Including the Pathways Not Taken

Frontiers in Pain Research, 2022
Traditional medical neuroanatomy/neurobiology textbooks teach that pain is generated by several ascending pathways that course in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, including the spinothalamic, spinoreticular and spinoparabrachial tracts. The
Allan Basbaum
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OPEN ANTERIOR CORDOTOMY AS A POSSIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR PAIN RELIEF IN CANCER PATIENT: AN EXPERIENCE WITH SEVEN CASES [PDF]

Acta Medica Iranica, 1996
Seven patients who had intractable pain of the pelvis and lower extremities were scheduled for cordotomy of the spinothalamic tracts after preliminary investigations.
Sheikhrezai, A., Tabatabai, A Hussain Khan, Z.   +4 more
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