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  • Condition: Acute Brain Injury
  • Journal: Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue
  • Treatment Used: Early Goal Directed Sedation (EGDS)
  • Number of Patients: 108
  • Published —
This study observed the effect of early goal directed sedation (EGDS) on cerebral oxygen metabolism in patients with acute brain injury.
  • Condition: Intracranial Metastatic Choriocarcinoma
  • Journal: The Journal of international medical research
  • Treatment Used: Emergency Craniotomy
  • Number of Patients: 1
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The study researched the outcomes of an emergency craniotomy in patients with intracranial metastatic chroriocarcnioma.
  • Condition: Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea
  • Journal: International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
  • Treatment Used: Endoscopic Repair
  • Number of Patients: 0
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In this study, researchers evaluated the outcomes of endoscopic repair for the treatment of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea in children.
  • Condition: Myelomeningocele
  • Journal: Pediatrics
  • Treatment Used: Prenatal vs Postnatal Surgery
  • Number of Patients: 161
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This study compared the adaptive behavior (behavior that enables a person to get along in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others) and other outcomes at school age between prenatal (before birth) versus postnatal (after birth) surgery in patients with myelomeningocele (neural tube defect in which the bones of the spine do not completely form).
  • Condition: Congenital anterior cranial base encephaloceles
  • Journal: International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
  • Treatment Used: Endoscopic approach
  • Number of Patients: 14
  • Published —
The study researched the use of endoscopic approaches for congenital anterior cranial base encephaloceles.
  • Condition: Complex Syndromic Craniosynostosis (CS)
  • Journal: The Journal of craniofacial surgery
  • Treatment Used: Surgery
  • Number of Patients: 1
  • Published —
This review of the literature examines the surgical treatment of complex syndromic synostosis (early skull suture fusion).
  • Condition: Triple Neural Tube Defect
  • Journal: BMC surgery
  • Treatment Used: Surgery
  • Number of Patients: 1
  • Published —
This case report describes a 1-month old infant with a triple neural tube defect.
  • Condition: Middle Cranial Fossa (MCF) Floor Defect
  • Journal: Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
  • Treatment Used: Modified Middle Cranial Fossa (MCF) Suprapetrous Approach
  • Number of Patients: 11
  • Published —
This study evaluated the safety and effectiveness of the modified middle cranial fossa (MCF) suprapetrous approach for the treatment of patients requiring repair of a middle cranial fossa floor (a depression in the floor of the cranial base) defect.
  • Condition: Temporal Encephalocele (TE)/Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE)
  • Journal: Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape
  • Treatment Used: Magnetic Resonance-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (MRgLITT)
  • Number of Patients: 2
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (places a laser probe into the tumor with real-time monitoring of the extent of thermal ablation by magnetic resonance thermometry, allowing targeted thermal injury to the lesion; MRgLITT) for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy (recurrent, unprovoked focal seizures that originate in the temporal lobe; TLE) caused by temporal encephalocele (a sac-like protrusion of the brain and the membranes that cover it through an opening in the skull; TE).
  • Condition: Malignant Cerebral Venous Infarction
  • Journal: World neurosurgery
  • Treatment Used: Decompressive Craniectomy versus Medical Treatment
  • Number of Patients: 48
  • Published —
The study compared the outcomes of decompressive craniectomy versus medical treatment for malignant cerebral venous infarction.
  • Condition: Meningoencephalocele of the Lateral Sphenoid Recess
  • Journal: Zhurnal voprosy neirokhirurgii imeni N. N. Burdenko
  • Treatment Used: Lateral Extended Transsphenoidal Endoscopic Surgical Approach
  • Number of Patients: 4
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This study tested the safety and efficacy of using a lateral extended transsphenoidal endoscopic surgical approach to treat patients with meningoencephalocele of the lateral sphenoid recess.
  • Condition: Pediatric Meningoencephaloceles
  • Journal: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  • Treatment Used: Endoscopic Management
  • Number of Patients: 5
  • Published —
This article discusses a case series of patients with congenital meningoencephaloceles, a rare clinical entity, treated with endoscopic management.
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