Apostolopoulou, Katerina Setia, Vikrant Pettorini, Benedetta Parks, Chris Ellenbogen, Jonathan Dawes, William Mallucci, Conor Mehta, Bimal Sinha, Ajay
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Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
The aim of the study is to enhance understanding, raise awareness and inform prevention programmes regarding potential factors that lead to severe paediatric injuries caused by unintentional falls from windows. This is a retrospective review from a major Trauma Centre, covering the majority of North West England and North Wales and included childre...
Jovanović, Aleksa Ilić, Rosanda Pudrlja Slović, Marija Paripović, Lejla Janić, Dragana Nikitović, Marina Grujičić, Danica Ilić, Vesna
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The aim was to evaluate the total diagnostic interval (TDI) and presenting complaints in children with brain tumours in Serbia. This study retrospectively analysed 212 children aged 0-18 years newly diagnosed with brain tumours in two tertiary centres from mid-March 2015 to mid-March 2020 covering virtually all children with brain tumours in Serbia...
Benato, Alberto Riva, Giulio Raneri, Fabio
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Eosinophilic granuloma (EG) is the most common form of Langerhans cell histiocytosis, presenting as a single osteolytic lesion of the calvarium. Its diagnosis is based on typical clinical and radiological features. While surgical resection has been the standard treatment for EG, growing evidence favors watchful waiting, as unifocal calvarial lesion...
Benavides-Lara, Adriana Fernández-Sánchez, Oscar Barboza-Argüello, María de la Paz Alfaro-Calvo, Thelma Martínez, Homero
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(1) To describe how Costa Rica implemented an integrated surveillance strategy of folate deficiency, neural tube defects (NTDs) prevalence, NTDs-associated infant mortality rate (NTDs-IMR), and folic acid food fortification (FAFF), to support with evidence NTDs prevention policies; (2) to disseminate updated data from monitoring programs. We perfor...
Koning, Marinus Koning, Jan Kancherla, Vijaya O'Neill, Patricia Dorsey, Amanda Zewdie, Kibruyisfaw Yesehak, Bethelehem Ashagre, Yordanos Woldermarium, Mersha Biluts, Hagos
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Spina bifida is a serious birth defect affecting the central nervous system, characterized by incomplete closure of the neural tube. Ethiopia has a very high prevalence of spina bifida, affecting about 40 cases per 10,000 births. Babies born with spina bifida require early closure surgery, done within the first 2-3 days after birth. Some babies nee...
Khalid, Syed I Thomson, Kyle Hunter, Brittany M Garcia, Roxanna M Bowman, Robin Lam, Sandi
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In 1996, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated folic acid fortification for all enriched cereal grains. This resulted in a reduction of neural tube defect (NTD)-affected pregnancies. However, Hispanic women continued to be twice as likely to give birth to a child affected by NTD compared to non-Hispanic White women. Some hypotheses exp...
Yazar, Uğur Aydın, Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli Özkaya, Ahmet Kağan Kırımlı, Kaan Güvercin, Ali Rıza
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Subdural empyema refers to the collection of purulent material in the subdural space and the most source of it is bacterial meningitis in infants while sinusitis and otitis media in older children. It has been very recently reported that coronaviruses (CoV) exhibit neurotropic properties and may also cause neurological diseases. CoV-related complic...
de Matos, Maiave Micaelle Figueiredo Batista, Larissa Aparecida Thomé, Ursula Sakamoto, Américo Ceiki Santos, Marcelo Volpon Machado, Hélio Rubens Wichert-Ana, Lauro Hamad, Ana Paula Andrade
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We aimed to analyze the potential for postoperative (PO) medication suspension and reduction, emphasizing passive withdrawal. Retrospective study of patients under 18 years old submitted to surgical treatment for pharmacoresistant epilepsy and classified as Engel I during the first year of PO follow-up. Therapeutic management was evaluated through ...
Lewis, Daniel Sethuraman, Chitra Varthalitis, Dimitrios
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Pseudomeningocele formation following posterior fossa surgery is a well-recognised complication, occurring in up to 33% of operated cases in some series. Ossification of a cranial pseudomeningocele is, however, an exceptionally rare event with only three prior reported cases. We present the unique case of a paediatric patient who developed rapid os...
Elmesallamy, Wael Abd Elrahman Ali Abofaid, Akrem Mhemed Ali Mohamed, Mohamed Salah Taha, Mahmoud M
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Ventriculoperitoneal (V-P) shunt is one of the most common neurosurgical procedures in pediatrics for the treatment of hydrocephalus. Shunt failure is one of the common mechanical complications which lead to major morbidities. This study aims to compare between cranial part insertions of the V-P shunts guided by trans-anterior fontanel ultrasound v...
