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Ethical Considerations in Surgical Decompression for Stroke

Stroke, 2022
Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Neurosurgical decompression is often considered for the treatment of malignant infarcts and intraparenchymal hemorrhages, but this treatment can be frought with ethical dilemmas. In this article, the authors outline the primary principles of bioethics and their application to stroke care, provide an ...
Nathan A. Shlobin, Jeffrey R. Clark, Justin M. Campbell, Mark Bernstein, Babak S. Jahromi, Matthew B. Potts   +5 more
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Delayed traumatic intracerebral hematomas after surgical decompression

Neurosurgery, 1979
Abstract Delayed traumatic intracerebral hematomas found after an initially unrevealing computerized tomographic scan have been reported occasionally. Such hemorrhage may occur in an area of brain contusion with cerebral vessel injury. Four cases of intracerebral hematoma appearing after evacuation of a different traumatic intracranial ...
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Surgical Decompression for Spinal Stenosis

2008
Il capitolo esamina i trattamenti chirurgici più validi, e le relative indicazioni, nei pazienti affetti da stenosi del canale vertebrale ...
POSTACCHINI, Franco, CINOTTI, Gianluca, Postacchini R.   +2 more
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Surgical orbital decompression for thyroid eye disease

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009
Orbital decompression is an established procedure for the management of exophthalmos and visual rehabilitation from optic neuropathy in cases of thyroid eye disease. Numerous procedures for removal of orbital bony wall, fat or a combination of these for a variety of indications in different stages of the disease have been well reported in the medical ...
Boboridis, Kostas G, Bunce, Catey
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Surgical Decompression of the Orbit

2011
In 1835 Graves first described the characteristic exophthalmos of thyroid eye disease, and his name has since become synonymous with thyrotoxic ophthalmopathy. Graves disease is relatively common, with a prevalence and incidence of 1% and 0.1%, respectively.
J.D. Perry, Craig Lewis
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Orbital Decompression: Graded Surgical Approach

2018
Orbital decompression is an effective surgical intervention for the treatment of thyroid eye disease and other conditions causing expansion of orbital soft tissue volume. Indications for surgery include disfiguring proptosis, compressive optic neuropathy, exposure keratopathy, orbital congestion, and reduction of proptosis in preparation for strabismus
Kyle J. Godfrey, Christine C. Annunziata, Bobby S. Korn, Don O. Kikkawa   +3 more
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Surgical Decompression of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusions

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1988
Many patients with branch retinal vein occlusions can develop significant long-term diminution of vision due to such complications as macular edema, retinal neovascularization, and vitreous hemorrhage. One of us (S.C.) developed a new surgical procedure that involves sectioning or decompression of the common sheath connecting the artery and vein at the
M D, Osterloh, S, Charles
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Surgical options in ICH including decompressive craniectomy

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2007
Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) accounts for 15 to 20% of strokes. The condition carries a higher morbidity and mortality than occlusive stroke. Despite considerable research effort, no therapeutic modality either medical or surgical has emerged with clear evidence of benefit other than in rare aneurysmal cases.
Mitchell P, Gregson BA, Vindlacheruvu RR, Mendelow AD   +3 more
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SURGICAL DECOMPRESSION OF MALIGNANT EXOPHTHALMOS

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1950
MALIGNANT exophthalmos1is a clinical entity distinct from exophthalmos as generally seen accompanying thyrotoxicosis. These conditions may be closely related etiologically2; yet the diverse clinical pictures they present and the difference in their management make it necessary that the clinician be acquainted with the diagnostic criteria of the disease
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Minimally Invasive Surgical Decompression of Occipital Nerves

Journal of Visualized Experiments
Occipital neuralgia (ON) stands out as one of the most distressing forms of headache disorders, distinguished by persistent pain at the base of the skull, recurring occipital headaches, and scalp dysesthesia or allodynia. ON is notorious for its unrelenting agony, severely impacting the lives of those afflicted.
Giorgio, Pietramaggiori, Saja, Scherer
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