Neurosurgery for Psychopaths? An Ethical Analysis [PDF]
, 2016 Recent developments in neuroscience have inspired proposals to perform deep brain stimulation on psychopathic detainees. We contend that these proposals cannot meet important ethical requirements that hold for both medical research and therapy.
Hübner, Dietmar, White, Lucie
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A challenging case of an intramedullary dermoid cyst of the cervical spine - A literature review
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2019 A comprehensive differential diagnosis of intramedullary lesions of the sub-axial cervical spine must begin with the most common namely the diffuse fibrillary astrocytoma.
DrFC Neurosurgery (SA) Patrick Lekgwara +2 more
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Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring for Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to the Skull Base: A Technical Guide. [PDF]
, 2016 Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during endoscopic, endonasal approaches to the skull base is both feasible and safe. Numerous reports have recently emerged from the literature evaluating the efficacy of different neuromonitoring tests during
Doan, Adam T. +6 more
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Correlates with Short-Term Myelopathy Outcome in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy [PDF]
, 2017 Objective To determine if spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging indexes correlate with short-term clinical outcome in patients undergoing elective cervical spine surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM).
Eckardt, Gerald +6 more
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Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2019 Aim: To determine the significance of patient demographics; presenting symptoms and examination findings; pre-operative hormonal status; tumor characteristics and postoperative extent of resection on outcome in all patients whom underwent an endoscopic ...
Patrick Lekgwara, FC Neurosurgery (SA) +2 more
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Philosophy of clinical neurosurgery
Клинический разбор в общей медицине, 2022 Philosophical enquiry of the founders of neurosurgery is reflected. Practical implementation of neurosurgical philosophy through clinical thinking and conceptual approaches to surgical interventions on the brain and spinal cord is described.
Leonid B. Likhterman
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Hacia el modelado 3d de tumores cerebrales mediante endoneurosonografía y redes neuronales [PDF]
, 2017 Las cirugías mínimamente invasivas se han vuelto populares debido a que implican menos riesgos con respecto a las intervenciones tradicionales. En neurocirugía, las tendencias recientes sugieren el uso conjunto de la endoscopia y el ultrasonido, técnica ...
Prieto, Flavio, Serna, Andrés
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Ancient Schwannoma of the Cauda Equina: our experience and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2016 Ancient schwannomas (AS) are exceedingly rare variant of common schwannomas (CS). Only two cases involving the cauda equina region have been previously reported in literature.
Caruso, Riccardo +5 more
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Cervical subaxial spine uni-facet dislocation occurring in an infant
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2019 While pediatric spinal injuries account for between 1 and 10% of all spinal injuries
Aftab Younus, Dr, FC Orthopedics (SA) +2 more
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Reappraisal of cerebellopontine angle medulloblastomas: Report of a fatal case and lessons learned
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2018 CPA Medulloblastomas are rare in adults. We describe a case of medulloblastoma in the right CPA in a middle aged male patient who presented with short history and was preoperatively diagnosed as vestibular schwannoma.
Sachin Ranganatha Goudihalli, M.Ch. Neurosurgery +3 more
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