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Open AccessDevelopment of a 3D-printed, patient-specific stereotactic system for bihemispheric deep brain stimulation
The aim of the project was to develop a patient-specific stereotactic system that allows simultaneous and thus time-saving treatment of both cerebral hemispheres and that contains all spatial axes and can be u...
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Open Access3D-printing of the elbow in complex posttraumatic elbow-stiffness for preoperative planning, surgery-simulation and postoperative control
Restoration of mobility of the elbow after post-traumatic elbow stiffening due to osteophytes is often a problem.
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Open AccessDevelopment of an individual helmet orthosis for infants based on a 3D scan
An early childhood skull deformity can have long-term health and aesthetic consequences for the growing toddler. Individual helmet therapy aims at a healthy growth of the skull shape, although not every helmet...
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Open AccessDevelopment of 3D printed patient-specific skull implants based on 3d surface scans
Sometimes cranioplasty is necessary to reconstruct skull bone defects after a neurosurgical operation. If an autologous bone is unavailable, alloplastic materials are used. The standard technical approach for ...
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Prognostic model for newly diagnosed CLL patients in Binet stage A: results of the multicenter, prospective CLL1 trial of the German CLL study group
The heterogeneity of early stage CLL challenges prognostication, and refinement of prognostic indices for risk-adapted management in this population is essential. The aim of the multicenter, prospective CLL1 t...
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Open AccessCervical vagus nerve morphometry and vascularity in the context of nerve stimulation - A cadaveric study
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has become a well-established therapy for epilepsy and depression, and is emerging to treat inflammatory disease, with the cervical vagus nerve (CVN) as major stimulation site. CV...
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The Impact of Psychiatric Comorbidity on the Return to Work in Patients Undergoing Herniated Disc Surgery
Introduction This study examines (1) return to work (RTW) and ability to work (ATW) rates, and the association with (2) psychiatric comorbidity and (3) socio-demographic, illness-related, vocational and rehabilit...
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MicroTargeting® platform: an individual stereotaxic device in functional neurosurgery
Object: Deep brain stimulation of the Nucleus subthalamicus (DBS-STN) results in an improvement of cardinal symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD) and allows a significant reduction of medica...
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The reliability of stereotaxy in diagnosis of intracranial space occupying lesions
A total of 79 patients with a suspect space occupying intracranial lesion was operated stereotactically. After CT and MR image acquisition, entry and target coordinates were defined and biopsy trajectories wer...
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Intraoperative MRI to guide the resection of primary supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme—a quantitative radiological analysis
Patients with supratentorial high-grade glioma underwent surgery within a vertically open 0.5-T magnetic resonance (MR) system to evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative MR guidance in achieving gross-total re...
