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Percutaneous vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a prospective randomized comparison

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.

C. Griffoni, J. N. M. Lukassen, L. Babbi, M. Girolami… in European Spine Journal (2020)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Light Absorbing Diamond for Solar Energy Conversion

High-temperature solar cells are possible by exploiting the Photon-Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) concept, which represents a novel and very attractive mechanism for the exploitation of solar radiation, e...

S. Orlando, A. Bellucci, M. Girolami, M. Mastellone… in Quantum Nano-Photonics (2018)

Chapter

Anatomy of the Subaxial Cervical Spine

The cervical spine is a deep anatomical structure centrally located in the axial view of the neck and surrounded by a thick and powerful muscular compartment. It is surrounded and contained by the deep layer o...

M. Girolami, R. Ghermandi, M. Ghirelli… in Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervi… (2017)

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Exemplificative Cases in Cervical Spine

Fourteen-year-old female, progressive neck pain in the nuchal area radiating to the head with painful contracture of the right paraspinal musculature. Pain was unrelated to weight-bearing and was increasing du...

A. Gasbarrini, M. Girolami, R. Ghermandi… in Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervi… (2017)

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Cervical Spine Instrumentation

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is often used as a surgical treatment for cervical degenerative disorders. Numerous long-term follow-up studies have shown that is effective in case of cervical m...

M. Girolami, R. Ghermandi, A. Gasbarrini… in Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervi… (2017)

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Surgical Planning in Cervical Spine Oncologic Patients

Primary bone tumors of the spine are very rare [1]; they comprise only 10 % or less of all bone tumors. In the United States, about 7,500 new cases are estimated per year. The overall world occurrence can be e...

S. Boriani, R. Ghermandi, M. Girolami… in Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervi… (2017)

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Posterior Approach to Cervical Spine

In the neck, the spine takes up the mid-part of the cross-sectional area, and its posterior aspect is surrounded by a thick layer of powerful muscles (see §2. Anatomy).

R. Ghermandi, M. Girolami, A. Gasbarrini… in Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervi… (2017)

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Anesthesiological Management and Patient Positioning

Prior to the surgery, reproduction of symptoms with extension of the neck should be assessed. Extension may help for better exposure and visualization. However, the severity of stenosis may limit the amount of...

M. R. Bacchin, M. Di Fiore, Y. E. Akman… in Atlas of Craniocervical Junction and Cervi… (2017)

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Past and present of interposition arthroplasties for joint repair with special tribute to the contribution by Vittorio Putti

Several techniques have been proposed to restore the compromised function of a joint. These include the arthroplasty by placing various tissues or materials between the articular surfaces. An important contri...

N. Nicoli Aldini, A. Angelini, S. Pagani… in Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthros… (2016)

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Infrared absorption of fs-laser textured CVD diamond

Nanoscale periodic texturing on polycrystalline CVD diamond surface was performed to obtain a significant increase in optical absorptance to visible and near-infrared radiation. Surface texturing, obtained by...

P. Calvani, A. Bellucci, M. Girolami, S. Orlando, V. Valentini… in Applied Physics A (2016)

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Raman investigation of femtosecond laser-induced graphitic columns in single-crystal diamond

We report on the fabrication of graphitic columns induced in single-crystal diamond plates using 100 fs laser pulses at 800 nm wavelength. Different values of laser fluence (0.6–1.2 J/cm²) and graphitization spee...

M. Girolami, A. Bellucci, P. Calvani, S. Orlando, V. Valentini… in Applied Physics A (2014)

Article

Discussion of the paper: “Sampling schemes for generalized linear Dirichlet process random effects models” by M. Kyung, J. Gill, and G. Casella

M. Filippone, A. Mira, M. Girolami in Statistical Methods & Applications (2011)

Chapter and Conference Paper

UV Laser Beam Profilers Based on CVD Diamond

1D and 2D detector arrays have been realized on 270 μm thick 10 × 10 mm² CVD diamond samples. The relatively high resistivity of diamond specimens in the dark (>3 × 10¹² Ωcm) allowed the fabrication of photocondu...

M. Girolami, P. Allegrini, G. Conte, S. Salvatori in Sensors and Microsystems (2010)

Chapter and Conference Paper

UV Schottky Sensors Based on Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Planar Al/GaN/Ni Schottky diodes were realized on GaN films deposited on sapphire substrates and characterized in the dark and under illumination. The optoelectronic characteristics of GaN photodetectors appea...

P. Allegrini, P. Calvani, M. Girolami, G. Conte, M. C. Rossi in Sensors and Microsystems (2010)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Photoconductive Position Sensitive CVD Diamond Detectors

Different contact structures were studied to realize CVD-diamond sensors able to detect light beam displacements. Photons irradiate the sample backside where a mesh contact is used for device biasing. Photogen...

M. Girolami, P. Allegrini, G. Conte, S. Salvatori in Sensors and Microsystems (2010)