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Upper Lumbar Pedicle Screw Insertion Using Three-Dimensional Fluoroscopy Navigation:Assessment of Clinical Accuracy [PDF]

, 2010
We used a navigation system to insert 128 pedicle screws into 69 vertebrae (L1 to L3) of 49 consecutive patients. We assessed the pedicle isthmic width and the permission angle for pedicle screw insertion. The permission angle is the angle defined by the
Ito, Yasuo, Mazaki, Tetsuro, Shimokawa, Tetsuya, Shiozaki, Yasuyuki, Sugimoto, Yoshihisa, Tanaka, Masato, Tomioka, Masao   +6 more
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Descriptive Epidemiology From the Myhre Syndrome Foundation Registry: The Value of Self‐Reported Data

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome is an ultrarare genetic disease characterized by short stature, distinct craniofacial features, cardiovascular and respiratory fibrosis and stenosis, neurodevelopmental delays, autism, intellectual disability, and hearing loss. The natural history of Myhre syndrome is still not fully understood due to a small patient population ...
Mary K. Young, Armelle Pindon, Maggie R. Brand, Kate Wears, Katherine H. Young, Alyssa Mendel, Michael J. Lyons   +6 more
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Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Literature Review [PDF]

, 2019
Background Improving value in healthcare means optimizing outcomes and minimizing costs. The emerging pay-for-performance era requires understanding of the effect of healthcare services on health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Desai, Virendra R., Gadgil, Nisha, Lam, Sandi K., Raskin, Jeffrey S., Saad, Shahbaz   +4 more
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Infantile‐Onset Ascending Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia due to a Homozygous ALS2 Exons 24–25 Deletion: Expanding the Genotypic Spectrum

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We describe a novel homozygous intragenic deletion in the ALS2 gene in an 8‐year‐old boy with Infantile‐onset Ascending Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (IAHSP) and oculomotor apraxia, thereby contributing to the expanding genetic landscape of ALS2‐related disorders.
Vito Luigi Colona, Maria Gnazzo, Silvia Genovese, Gessica Vasco, Lorena Travaglini, Maurizio Sabbadini, Marina Macchiaiolo, Francesco Nicita, Jacopo Sartorelli, Carmelo Piscopo, Enrico Castelli, Enrico Bertini, Andrea Bartuli, Antonio Novelli, Gessica Della Bella, Davide Vecchio   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The 'Nightmare' of Wrong Level in Spine Surgery: Is Minimally Invasive Spine Technique More Forgiving? [PDF]

Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique, 2017
Objective Operating on a wrong level is a nightmare for every surgeon, which has devastating consequences for the patient as well as the surgeon and has potential for serious medical, personal and legal repercussions. There is limited literature of Wrong
Arvind Gopalrao Kulkarni, Sudhir Gupta, Vishwanath M. Patil   +2 more
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Psychiatric Comorbidities and Treatment Modalities in Children With Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A Systematic Review of Mental Health

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To evaluate the prevalence of psychiatric signs and symptoms and describe psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological interventions among children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). PRISMA guidelines were followed, and the study was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42024588284). Studies (n = 1419) were identified across five databases.
Julia M. Morales, Camille F. Villar, Beatriz Varman, Gianna M. Colombo, Danqi Li, Sarah J. Sadek, Marie‐Eve Robinson, Chaya N. Murali, Kara Ayers, Jocelyn Gomez, Brendan Lee, V. Reid Sutton, Eric A. Storch, Andrew D. Wiese   +13 more
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Surgery to Remove Adrenocortical Oncocytic Carcinoma from an Asian Male with Scoliosis [PDF]

, 2021
Hongtao Liu, Kai Huang, Yehua Wang, Dan Liu, Xiao Gu   +4 more
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Beneficial effects of childhood selective dorsal rhizotomy in adulthood [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) has been used to treat children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) for over three decades. However, little is known about the outcomes of childhood SDR in adults.
Dobbs, Matthew B, Edwards, Caleb, Liu, Jenny L, Park, T. S, Walter, Deanna M   +4 more
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Genetic and Phenotypic Features of the Five Known Polyaminopathies: A Critical Narrative Review

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polyaminopathies are a recently described family of rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Polyaminopathies disrupt the biosynthesis of the primary polyamines: putrescine, spermidine, and spermine. Snyder–Robinson syndrome results from hemizygous loss‐of‐function variants in the spermine synthase (SMS) gene, resulting in decreased or ...
Elizabeth A. VanSickle, Sara M. Sarasua, Tracy Lowe, Christopher L. Farrell, Luigi Boccuto, Charles Schwartz, Anthony E. Pegg, Angela Peron, Victor Faundes, Mythily Ganapathi, Wendy K. Chung, Alban Ziegler, Floris Hofstede, Clément Prouteau, Katharina Steindl, Colleen Olson, Orrin Devinsky, Teresa L. Mastracci, Robert A. Casero Jr., Tracy Murray Stewart, Susan Gilmour, Teri Koerner, Mary Jo Kutler, Surender Rajasekaran, Julianne Michael, André S. Bachmann, Caleb P. Bupp   +26 more
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How to Incorporate Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in Practice? [PDF]

Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique, 2018
The primary aim of any spine surgeon is continual development of one’s techniques and thus achieve better clinical and functional patient outcomes. In a world where even the ‘gold standard’ conventional open surgery is looked upon with apprehension ...
Arvind Kulkarni, Sameer Ruparel
doaj   +1 more source