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Background and purpose: Over the last decades, many countries have shown increased surgery rates for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), but little information is available from Denmark.
Rikke K Jensen+7 more
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Stenosis of the vertebral canal of the lumbar spine [PDF]
The overall incidence of symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis is about 1015% among persons aged 5070 years. Due to the aging of the population, the incidence of this pathology is constantly growing. The desire of older patients to preserve their quality of
Anton V. Yarikov+6 more
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Surgical Decompression for Cerebral and Cerebellar Infarcts [PDF]
Following an infarction in the right cerebral hemisphere, massive cerebral edema developed in a woman and led to a marked intracranial hypertension and to a progressive "uncal and central herniation." The downhill course was reverted with a decompressive operation.
Mitsuo Numoto+2 more
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Surgical Decompression for Diabetic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy [PDF]
Diabetic neuropathy remains an unmet medical need. While scientific advances (1,2) have been made in understanding pathophysiology, the impact on the clinical care of patients has been minimal, aside from symptomatic treatments for the pain that may accompany diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DPN) (3).
Aaron I. Vinik+5 more
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Importance In patients with space-occupying hemispheric infarction, surgical decompression reduces the risk of death and increases the chance of a favorable outcome.
Hendrik Reinink+14 more
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Abdominal compartment syndrome in a 10-year-old boy with delayed presentation of congenital aganglionic megacolon [PDF]
Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) involves adverse physiologic consequences arising from the increased intra-abdominal pressure, leading to high mortality. However, this syndrome has been scarcely reported in pediatric emergency settings.
Kaeun Jeong, Pil-Sang Jang
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The utility of ultrasound for surgical spinal decompression [PDF]
Surgery is routinely performed to decompress the spinal cord. While a number of imaging modalities are currently used in the perioperative setting of surgical spinal cord decompression including computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound (US) usage is relatively new.
Alaa Alaqeel+3 more
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Efficacy of surgical treatment in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy [PDF]
Background/Aim. Treatment options for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) are the topic for discussion due to the lack of controlled randomized prospective studies.
Ivetić Dražen+2 more
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Safety and Outcomes of Different Surgical Techniques for Cubital Tunnel Decompression
Key Points Question For adults with primary cubital tunnel syndrome, which operation is associated with the best chance of symptomatic cure and lowest risk of complications?
R. Wade+5 more
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Efficacy of interspinous device versus surgical decompression in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis: a modified network analysis. [PDF]
Study designSystematic review using a modified network analysis.ObjectivesTo compare the effectiveness and morbidity of interspinous-device placement versus surgical decompression for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis.SummaryTraditionally, the most
Chou, Dean+3 more
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