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Getting the best outcomes from epilepsy surgery. [PDF]

, 2018
Neurosurgery is an underutilized treatment that can potentially cure drug-refractory epilepsy. Careful, multidisciplinary presurgical evaluation is vital for selecting patients and to ensure optimal outcomes.
Duncan, John S, Elger, Christian E, Engel, Jerome, Staba, Richard, Vakharia, Vejay N, Witt, Juri-Alexander   +5 more
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Surgical interventions for the early management of Bell's palsy [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Bell's palsy is an acute paralysis of one side of the face of unknown aetiology. Bell's palsy should only be used as a diagnosis in the absence of all other pathology.
Adour, Adour, Adour, Antoni, Aoyagi, Ballance, Brown, DerSimonian, Engstrom, Fisch, Fisch, Fisch, Friedman, Gantz, Giancarlo, Lockhart, May, May, May, McCormick, McNeill, Mechelse, Morgenlander, Peitersen, Salinas, Sillman, Spiegelhalter, Stjernquist-Desatnik, Sullivan, Theil, Yanagihara   +30 more
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
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PROMISE: Prognostic Radiomic Outcome Measurement in Acute Subdural Hematoma Evacuation Post-Craniotomy

Brain Sciences
Background/Objectives: Traumatic acute subdural hematoma (aSDH) often requires surgical intervention, such as craniotomy, to relieve mass lesions and pressure. The extent of hematoma evacuation significantly impacts patient outcomes.
Alexandru Guranda, Antonia Richter, Johannes Wach, Erdem Güresir, Martin Vychopen   +4 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and outcome from coronary artery bypass grafting [PDF]

, 2007
Background: An elevated preoperative white blood cell count has been associated with a worse outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Leukocyte subtypes, and particularly the neutrophil-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, may however, convey superior ...
Buchan, Keith G., Croal, Bernard L., Cuthbertson, Brian, El-Shafei, Hussein, Gibson, George, Gibson, Patrick H., Hillis, Graham S., Ifezulike, Ada I., Jeffrey, Robert R., Small, Gary R.   +9 more
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
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Assessing the real benefits of surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis without instability and spondylolisthesis: a single surgeon experience with a mean 8-year follow-up [PDF]

, 2018
Background: The degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is one of the most commonly treated spinal disorders in older adults; despite its increasing frequency, it is not yet clear what the most effective therapy might be.
Caruso, Riccardo, Lanciano, Tiziana, Martines, Valentina, Paolini, Sergio, Pesce, Alessandro, Piccione, Emanuele, Wierzbicki, Venceslao   +6 more
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Urolithiasis: Presentation and Surgical Outcome at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Ethiopia

Research and Reports in Urology, 2020
Seid Mohammed,1 Binyam Yohannes,2 Alemayehu Tegegne,1 Kirubel Abebe2 1Urology Unit, Department of Surgery, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 2Department of Surgery, St.
Mohammed S, Yohannes B, Tegegne A, Abebe K   +3 more
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Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion Using Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Instrumentation Can Provide a Better Health-Related QOL in Early Stage Than Conventional Methods in the Treatment of Single-Level Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Diseases

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2023
Masumi Iwabuchi,1 Ryoji Tominaga,1 Jun Komatsu,1,2 Osamu Shirado1 1Department of Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgery, Aizu Medical Center at Fukushima Medical University, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan; 2Department of Medicine for Motor Organs, Juntendo ...
Iwabuchi M, Tominaga R, Komatsu J, Shirado O   +3 more
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