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Surgical technique for trigeminal microvascular decompression
Acta Neurochirurgica, 2012Microvascular decompression (MVD) is a non-ablative technique designed to resolve the neurovascular conflict responsible for typical idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN).With the patient in a supine position, a small elliptical retrosigmoid craniectomy is used to approach the cerebellopontine angle and the trigeminal nerve. After careful exploration of
Giovanni, Broggi +3 more
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Surgical Decompression of Idiopathic Facial Palsy
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 1991There is no consensus on the cause of Bell's palsy, just as there is no proven medical therapy. Disregarding the numerous theoretic causes, preponderant anatomic, electrophysiologic, radiologic, clinical, and pathologic evidence supports entrapment at the medical foramen of the fallopian canal as a final common pathway resulting in facial nerve ...
M A, Marsh, N J, Coker
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Ethical Considerations in Surgical Decompression for Stroke
Stroke, 2022Stroke 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 +5 more
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Delayed traumatic intracerebral hematomas after surgical decompression
Neurosurgery, 1979Abstract 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
2008Il capitolo esamina i trattamenti chirurgici più validi, e le relative indicazioni, nei pazienti affetti da stenosi del canale vertebrale ...
POSTACCHINI, Franco +2 more
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Surgical orbital decompression for thyroid eye disease
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009Orbital 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
2011In 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
2018Orbital 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 +3 more
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Surgical Decompression of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusions
Archives of Ophthalmology, 1988Many 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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