Posterior cervical foraminotomy versus anterior cervical discectomy for Cervical Brachialgia: the FORVAD RCT

Autor: Simon Thomson, Gemma Ainsworth, Senthil Selvanathan, Rachel Kelly, Howard Collier, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Talbot, Sarah Tess Brown, Julie Croft, Nikki Rousseau, Ruchi Higham, Yahia Al-Tamimi, Neil Buxton, Nicholas Carleton-Bland, Martin Gledhill, Victoria Halstead, Peter Hutchinson, James Meacock, Nitin Mukerji, Debasish Pal, Armando Vargas-Palacios, Anantharaju Prasad, Martin Wilby, Deborah Stocken

Publikováno v: Health Technology Assessment, Vol 27, Iss 21 (2023)

Background Posterior cervical foraminotomy and anterior cervical discectomy are routinely used operations to treat cervical brachialgia, although definitive evidence supporting superiority of either is lacking. Objective The primary objective was to

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Antibiotic or silver versus standard ventriculoperitoneal shunts (BASICS): a multicentre, single-blinded, randomised trial and economic evaluation

Autor: Conor L Mallucci, Michael D Jenkinson, Elizabeth J Conroy, John C Hartley, Michaela Brown, Joanne Dalton, Tom Kearns, Tracy Moitt, Michael J Griffiths, Giovanna Culeddu, Tom Solomon, Dyfrig Hughes, Carrol Gamble, Benedetta Pettorini, Christopher Parks, Ajay Sinha, Libby van Tonder, Mitchel T Foster, Catherine McMahon, Neil Buxton, Emmanuel Chavredakis, Andrew R Brodbelt, David DA Lawson, Paul R Eldridge, Jibril O Farah, Rasheed Zakaria, Sunderland Geraint, Guirish Solanki, Desiderio Rodrigues, Richard Edwards, Adam Williams, Matthew Garnett, Angelos Kolias, Peter JA Hutchinson, Karen Caldwell, Silvia Tarantino, Paul Leach, Malik Zaben, Gulam Zilani, Dmitri Shastin, Joseph Merola, Rahim Hussain, Ravindra Vemaraju, Liudmila Selezneva, Georgina Radford, Nadine Lloyd, Darach Crimmins, John Caird, Maria N Sayar, Noelle O'Mahoney, Dominic Thompson, Kristian Aquilina, Gregory James, Roger Strachan, Nitin Mukerji, Bassel Zebain, Bhaskar Thakur, Holly Dickson, Eniola Nsirim, Adedamola Adebayo, John Goodden, Kenan Deniz, Janet Clarke, Mary Kambafwile, Ian Anderson, Rebecca Chave-Cox, Asim Sheik, Ryan Mathew, Oliver Richards, Soumya Mukherjee, Paul Chumas, Atul Tyagi, Gnanamurthy Sikakumar, Admed Toma, Linda D'Antona, Laurence Watkins, Lewis Thorne, Claudia Craven, Vanessa Bassen, Damien Holliman, Ian Coulter, Donald Macarthur, Maria Cartmill, Simon Howarth, Stuart Smith, Shazia Javed, Ian Kamaly, Roberto Ramirez, Andrew King, Ardash Nadig, John Thorne, Shungu Ushewokunze, Saurabh Sinha, Hesham Zaki, John McMullan, Diederik Bulters, Ryan Waters, George Zilidis, Joy Roach, Ahmed Sadek, Patrick Holton, Ardalan Zolnourian, Aabir Chakraborty, Jothy Kandasamy, Mark Hughes, Paul M Brennan

Publikováno v: Lancet
LANCET

Summary Background Insertion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt for hydrocephalus is one of the commonest neurosurgical procedures worldwide. Infection of the implanted shunt affects up to 15% of these patients, resulting in prolonged hospital treatment

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A rare case of ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction due to scrotal migration of the peritoneal catheter

Autor: Mitchell T Foster, Neil Buxton, Graeme Wilson, Michael D. Jenkinson

Publikováno v: BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

The authors describe an unusual cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction presenting as acute hydrocephalus.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28950733

Carcinoid transformation of presacral dermoid cyst in patient with currarino syndrome: a case report

Autor: Petr Janous, Neil Buxton, Francesca Colombo

Publikováno v: British Journal of Neurosurgery. 33:285-286

Currarino syndrome (CS) is a congenital disorder characterized by partial sacral agenesis, anorectal malformation and a presacral mass. Only three cases of carcinoid transformation of the presacral mass have been described in the literature. We prese

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https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2017.1339226

Congenital spinal dermal sinuses: poor awareness leads to delayed treatment

Autor: Neil Buxton, J. Alapatt, R. Ramnarayan, A. Dominic

Publikováno v: Child's Nervous System. 22:1220-1224

Congenital spinal dermal sinuses are relatively uncommon congenital abnormalities that result from abnormal neurulation. Lack of awareness about this problem, especially at the primary care level, results in these patients not being managed appropria

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-006-0073-z