World Neurosurg
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The Chiari malformations present heterogeneous entities, raising many questions regarding their natural history, pathophysiology, treatment options, and prognosis. Bibliometric analyses have emerged as a method to assess the impact of articles in current clinical practice. ⋯ The present bibliometric analysis provides a succinct appraisal of the most cited articles concerning Chiari malformation, allowing a deeper insight in this area and its main influential articles with their impact on current clinical practice and future research.
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Brain tumors have always fascinated and intrigued histopathologists due to their diverse morphology and rarity. Recent surge in the molecular developments has further posed a challenge in diagnosis especially in a resource limited setting. Therefore, comprehensive tumor registries have become quintessential to compare our existing database with new found knowledge. ⋯ The layout of cases when compared with available brain tumor registries showed nearly similar trends in distribution. Our study succored data from the population in eastern part of India of which our institute is a major referral centre for neurosurgical cases.
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A narrow working space, small diameters, and the tendency to collapse with clamps make cerebral microvascular anastomosis challenging. A retraction suture (RS) is a novel technique to keep the recipient vessel lumen open during the bypass. ⋯ The RS allows continuous visualization of the vessel lumen, reduces the handling of intimal edges, and avoids incorporating the back wall in sutures, thus improving anastomosis patency.
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To demonstrate the effect of medical ozone therapy on the development of epidural fibrosis. ⋯ Medical ozone therapy may be an alternative method that can be used effectively and safely in the prevention of epidural fibrosis after laminectomy.