World Neurosurg
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of Oral Glibenclamide on Brain Contusion Volume and Functional Outcome of Patients with Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury; A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.
This study investigated effects of oral glibenclamide on brain contusion volume and functional outcome of patients with moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries. ⋯ Oral glibenclamide is associated with decreased contusion expansion rate in patients with moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries sustaining cerebral contusions.
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Reports of Baastrup disease have been underrepresented in the medical literature. Therefore, the current comprehensive review was performed by searching standard search engines using the terms "Baastrup's," "disease," "lumbar," "interspinous bursitis," and "kissing spine disease." Baastrup disease appears to be more common than once believed. Baastrup disease is associated with other degenerative disease processes of the spine that could potentially lead a physician to perform unnecessary surgery. Appreciation of this disease and identification on imaging can improve diagnosis and appropriate treatment of associated back pain.
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Gait analysis represents one of the newest methodologies used in the clinical evaluation of patients with cervical myelopathy (CM). ⋯ Gait analysis may well be a valuable and objective tool along with other parameters in the evaluation of functionality in patients with CM, as well as in the assessment of the outcome of any surgical intervention in these patients.
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Review Case Reports
Orbital hydatid cyst causing papilledema and proptosis in an adult.
Hydatid cyst is an infectious disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus, primarily involving the liver and lungs. The orbit is an extremely rare site for involvement with hydatid cyst. We present a 36-year-old man with unilateral visual loss, proptosis, and papilledema caused by an orbital hydatid cyst.
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Review Case Reports
Anterior transposition of anomalous tortuous vertebral artery causing cervical radiculopathy - A report of 2 cases and review of literature.
Cervical radiculopathy secondary to compression from vertebral artery (VA) tortuosity is a rare entity. We describe successful transposition through an anterolateral approach of tortuous VA loops causing cervical radiculopathy. ⋯ Decompression using an anterolateral approach with direct microvascular transposition of the VA is a safe and effective treatment of this pathology and addresses the cause of radiculopathy more directly than the posterolateral approach.