ALLMedicine™ Craniotomy Center

Mar 19th, 2023 - It is very unusual for a primary intracranial malignancy to present as a chronic subdural hematoma. This case report describes one such case in a 3-year-old girl who presented with raised intracranial pressure following a mild head injury. Imaging...

Mar 19th, 2023 - BACKGROUND Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), including vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), is an extremely rare adverse effect, mostly seen after initial vaccination with the viral vector-based AstraZeneca-Oxf...

Mar 19th, 2023 - Preoperative differentiation of facial nerve schwannoma (FNS) from vestibular schwannoma (VS) can be challenging, and failure to differentiate between these two pathologies can result in potentially avoidable facial nerve injury. This study presen...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) have been positively correlated with response to systemic therapy for triple-negative and HER2 + subtypes and improved clinical outcomes in early breast cancer (BC). Less is known about TILs in metastatic site...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Despite decades of increasingly sophisticated neurocritical care, patient outcomes after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remain dismal. Whether this reflects therapeutic nihilism, or the effects of the primary injury has been questioned...

Nov 8th, 2017 - : Although there are numerous publications addressing venous thromboembolism and its prevention in neurosurgery, there are relatively few high-quality studies to guide decisions regarding thromboprophylaxis. In patients undergoing craniotomy, we r...

Sep 17th, 2016 - Nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) are the most frequent pituitary tumors. To create evidence-based guidelines for the initial management of NFPAs. A multidisciplinary task force composed of physician volunteers and evidence-based medicine-...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Scalp incision is a powerful nociceptive stimulus that can exacerbate rapid changes in hemodynamic and sympathetic activity. Management of hemodynamic stability is essential in neuro-anesthesia and can be challenging among neurosurgery anesthesiol...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Background Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remains a devastating disease with mortality rates up to 52% at 30 days. It is a major public health problem with an annual incidence of 10-30 per 100'000 population, accounting for 2 million (...

Feb 27th, 2023 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate benefit of post-surgical stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) on the resection bed in providing 6 month local control (decreasing the risk of local tumor recurrence) when compared to surgical resection alone. SECONDAR...

Feb 24th, 2023 - Anesthetic management: Peripheral i.v line will be inserted and 2-3 mg midazolam is given. A pre-induction radial arterial line is inserted with the aid of infiltration of 2 ml lidocaine 2%. Invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring is started a...

Feb 22nd, 2023 - Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (HICH) is the most common hemorrhagic stroke. The morbidity and mortality exceed 60% and only 12% patients could live independently. The choice of surgical or conservative treatment for patients with HICH is c...

Jun 30th, 2022 - (Reuters Health) - Call it a case of where Voltaire was correct to say, "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." A new prospective study of children and adolescents with a single skull lesion caused by ...

Apr 5th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Neuroendoscopy for the treatment of patients with brain abscesses has curative effects and is associated with less traum...

Mar 30th, 2022 - For more than 20 years, investigators have tried numerous targeted therapy strategies against glioblastoma (GBM) that have fallen frustratingly short in establishing clinical benefit.1 That changed in November 2021 when an international team of in...

Feb 16th, 2022 - Vijayakrishna Gadi, MD, PhD: Nancy, there were great data from this woman named Nancy Lin presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Maybe you could tell us firsthand what you presented? Nancy Lin, MD: We presented an update with additiona...

Dec 16th, 2021 - Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines are recommended over Johnson & Johnson's for all adults, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said on Thursday. The ACIP voted 15-0 that either of the two mRNA vaccines are preferred ...