The neurosurgical curriculum: Which procedures are essential? [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020 Objective: Traditionally, neurosurgery is a competitive field. Throughout the years, the surgical armamentarium has been subject to change, e.g. due to the rise of indications for gamma knife, functional or endovascular surgery.
Pravesh S. Gadjradj +2 more
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Incidence of emergency neurosurgical TBI procedures: a population-based study
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background The rates of emergency neurosurgery in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients vary between populations and trauma centers. In planning acute TBI treatment, knowledge about rates and incidence of emergency neurosurgery at the population level is
C. Tverdal +6 more
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Neurosurgical robots and ethical challenges to medicine [PDF]
Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2021 Over the last 20 yr, neurosurgical robots have been increasingly assisting in neurosurgical procedures. Surgical robots are considered to have noticeable advantages over humans, such as reduction of procedure time, surgical dexterity, no experience of ...
A Saniotis, M Henneberg
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Operating room waste: disposable supply utilization in neurosurgical procedures.
Journal of Neurosurgery, 2017 Objective Disposable supplies constitute a large portion of operating room (OR) costs and are often left over at the end of a surgical case. Despite financial and environmental implications of such waste, there has been little evaluation of OR supply ...
C. Zygourakis +6 more
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Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2021 To compare the frequencies of neurosurgical procedures to treat comorbid conditions of myelomeningocele in patients who underwent fetal surgery versus postnatal surgery for closure of the placode.
G. Worley +12 more
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Growth patterns of young achondroplasia patients in Korea and predictability of neurosurgical procedures. [PDF]
Orphanet J Rare Dis, 2023 Background Achondroplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder mainly affecting bony growth, typically resulting in markedly short stature. From a neurosurgical viewpoint, patients sometimes develop spinal cord compression at the narrowed foramen magnum ...
Lee JS +5 more
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Progress in the application of neurosurgical collaborative robot systems
Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023 Currently, the common neurosurgical robot systems rely on traditional optical navigation for positioning and movement, which is large and expensive, and its clinical application is limited.
XIONG Ruo⁃chu, CHEN Xiao⁃lei
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The association of unfavorable outcomes with the intensity of neurosurgical care in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 There is wide regional variability in the volume of procedures performed for similar surgical patients throughout the United States. We investigated the association of the intensity of neurosurgical care (defined as the average annual number of ...
Symeon Missios, Kimon Bekelis
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Pattern of Neurosurgical Procedures in Ethiopia: Experience from Two Major Neurosurgical Centres in Addis Ababa. [PDF]
, 2011 Background: In Ethiopia, the number of practicing neurosurgeons is very few and the pattern of neurosurgical diseases and operations is not well known.This study was aimed to define the patterns of neurosurgical diseases and the operative procedures ...
Bekele, A. +3 more
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Neurosurgical Procedures and Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case-Control Multicenter Study
World Neurosurgery, 2020 Objective Quantitative documentation of the effects of outbreaks, including the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is limited in neurosurgery.
K. Bajunaid +34 more
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