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Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for the Management of Chronic Subdural Hematomas: A New-Old Treatment
Chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) is defined as a subdural collection of blood on CT imaging that tends to persist and gradually increase in volume over time, with components that are hypodense or isodense comp...
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Article
Intra- and inter-observer variability in intracranial aneurysm segmentation: comparison between CT angiography (semi-automated segmentation software stroke VCAR) and digital subtraction angiography (3D rotational angiography)
To compare size and morphologic features of three-dimensional aneurysm models, obtained with a semi-automated segmentation software (Stroke VCAR, GE, USA) from cerebral CT angiography (CTA) data, to three-dime...
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Chapter
New Method for Representative Measurement of Anode Electrical Resistance
Anode electrical resistance is more and more recognized as a key parameter for pot operation, as the carbon material itself contributes close to 50% of the anode assembly voltage drop. Factors such as raw mate...
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Chapter
Considerations on the Treatment of Anterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome
Anterior interosseous syndrome (Kiloh–Nevin syndrome) refers to that constellation of signs and symptoms referable to weakness of the pronator quadratus, the flexor pollicis longus, and the flexor digitorum pr...
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Chapter
Treatment of Symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Degenerative Pathologies by Means of Combined Conservative Biochemical Treatments
Research in spine surgery has proposed new soft and less invasive techniques. These are the results of our experience with oxygen-ozone therapy, which we could experiment within the Italian National Health Sys...
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Article
Stem cells in the treatment of chronic spinal cord injury: evaluation of somatosensitive evoked potentials in 39 patients
A prospective, non-randomized clinical series trial.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The different outcomes of patients with disc herniation treated either by microdiscectomy, or by intradiscal ozone injection
Disc herniation with radiculopathy and chronic discogenic pain are the result of degenerative processes. Treatment approach in face of this problem has largely been debated in the last years. A number of revie...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Wrist median nerve motor conduction after end range repeated flexion and extension passive movements in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Pilot study
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) can be due to a variety of different pathological conditions. These etiological and epidemiological differences may explain the non-homogeneous response to ordinary conservative th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Traumatic Lesions of the Lumbosacral Plexus: Microsurgical Treatment
In severely injured patients there is sometimes complete palsy of an inferior limb. This may be the expression of a lesion of the innervation of the limb at various anatomical levels; the cauda, nerve roots in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computed Tomography in Peripheral Nerve Pathology
Computed tomography (CT) is a universally employed diagnostic tool of proven utility. While it is routinely used in central nervous system pathology, it has rarely been employed in the study of peripheral nerv...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Schwannomas of the Brachial Plexus
Neurogenic tumors of the brachial plexus are very rare lesions. A few reports are found in the literature, and they concern a small number of cases. Excluding cases of von Recklinghausen’s disease, the total n...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Posterior Selective Spinal Thermorhizotomy for Control of Intractable Pain Syndroms
In cases of chronic pain involving rather few metamers or roots with a. minor functional relevance, posterior rhizotomy has become a widely performed operation. However, its inevitable consequences, such as co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of Sleep EEG Alterations During Posttraumatic Coma in Order to Predict Cognitive Defects
Because of the large number of young people affected by severe cerebral traumatic lesions, the problem of predicting and treating residual neuropsychological deficits has recently been emphasized by several au...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sleep Alterations During Post-Traumatic Coma as a Possible Predictor of Cognitive Defects
Enphasis has been recently laid on the problem of quantifying and treating neuropsychological deficits following severe head injuries2,10,19, 20,27. Correlations have been sought with the entity of injury, expres...
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Chapter
Environmental impact assessment and transport facilities
Since four or five years the context of transport policies has been evolving very profoundly in developed countries.
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Article
Bruit et sommeil
Le présent article fait le point des connaissances actuelles concernant les effets du bruit sur le sommeil et contient quelques propositions susceptibles d'aider à la prise des décisions par les pouvoirs publics.
