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The role of surgery in traumatic brain injuryFranco Servadei
WHO Neurotrauma Collaborating Centre, Neurosurgical and ICU Units, M Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Curr Opin Crit Care 13:163-8. 2007..To identify the surgical indications in the treatment of posttraumatic intracranial hematomas and to evaluate the role of external decompression in severe posttraumatic intracranial hypertension...
Coma scalesFranco Servadei
WHO Neurotrauma Collaborating Centre, M Bufalini Hospital, 47023 Cesena, Italy
Lancet 367:548-9. 2006
Effect of Italy's motorcycle helmet law on traumatic brain injuriesF Servadei
WHO Collaborating Centre on Neurotrauma, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Inj Prev 9:257-60. 2003..To evaluate the impact of a revised Italian motorcycle-moped-scooter helmet law on crash brain injuries...
Patients with moderate head injury: a prospective multicenter study of 315 patientsChristian Compagnone
Intensive Care Unit, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Neurosurgery 64:690-6; discussion 696-7. 2009..To analyze the risk factors of worst outcome associated with moderate head injury...
Factors associated with neurological outcome and lesion progression in traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage patientsArturo Chieregato
Intensive Care Unit, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Neurosurgery 56:671-80; discussion 671-80. 2005..The amount of subarachnoid blood and the presence of associated parenchymal damage are powerful independent factors associated with CT progression, thus linking poor outcomes and CT changes...
The management of patients with intradural post-traumatic mass lesions: a multicenter survey of current approaches to surgical management in 729 patients coordinated by the European Brain Injury ConsortiumChristian Compagnone
World Health Organization Neurotrauma Collaborating Centre and Department of Neurosurgery, M. Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Neurosurgery 57:1183-92; discussion 1183-92. 2005..The relative benefits of early versus delayed surgery in patients with intraparenchymal lesions and on the indications, technique and benefits of decompressive craniectomy could be topics for future head injury research...
Clinical performance of NICE recommendations versus NCWFNS proposal in patients with mild head injuryAndrea Fabbri
Dipartimento Emergenza Urgenza Accettazione, Ospedale Morgagni Pierantoni, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Forlì, Via Forlanini 34, I 47100 Forlì, Italy
J Neurotrauma 22:1419-27. 2005....
Which type of observation for patients with high-risk mild head injury and negative computed tomography?Andrea Fabbri
Dipartimento Emergenza Urgenza Accettazione, Ospedale G B Morgagni, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Forlì, Forli, Italy
Eur J Emerg Med 11:65-9. 2004..Current guidelines suggest hospital admission followed by home monitoring for high-risk patients with mild head injury and negative computed tomography scan. We tested early home monitoring under the care of a competent observer...
Centrifugal distribution of regional cerebral blood flow and its time course in traumatic intracerebral hematomasArturo Chieregato
Neurorianimazione, , Ospedale M. Bufalini, Cesena, Italy
J Neurotrauma 21:655-66. 2004..These results could encourage a surgical approach based on an early evacuation of the hemorrhagic core associated to a preservation of the surrounding edematous tissue...
Central executive system impairment in traumatic brain injuryAndrea Serino
Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Cesena, Italy
Brain Inj 20:23-32. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: The cognitive impairment following TBI seem to be caused by an impairment of the Central Executive System, rather than a speed processing deficit...
Descriptive epidemiology of head injury in Romagna and Trentino. Comparison between two geographically different Italian regionsFranco Servadei
Division of Neurotraumatology, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Neuroepidemiology 21:297-304. 2002..Based on similar international literature findings, different prevention measures are suggested to reduce the occurrence and severity of head injury...
Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage: demographic and clinical study of 750 patients from the European brain injury consortium survey of head injuriesFranco Servadei
Divisione di Neurochirurgia per la Traumatologia, Ospedale Maurizio Bufalini, Cesena, Italy
Neurosurgery 50:261-7; discussion 267-9. 2002..The mechanism underlying the link between tSAH and prognosis has not been clarified. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between CT evidence of tSAH and outcomes after moderate or severe head injuries...
Routine serial computed tomographic scans in mild traumatic brain injury: when are they cost-effective?Sherman C Stein
Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Trauma 65:66-72. 2008..No study has looked at the special case in which the initial scan revealed an intracranial abnormality which did not require surgery...
Progression of traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage: a prospective observational studyRaj K Narayan
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati, The Neuroscience Institute at University Hospital and The Mayfield Clinic, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
J Neurotrauma 25:629-39. 2008..The time frame during which hemorrhagic expansion occurs provides an opportunity for early intervention to limit a process with adverse prognostic implications...
Traumatic intracerebellar hemorrhage: clinicoradiological analysis of 81 patientsDomenico D'Avella
Clinica Neurochirurgica, Policlinico Universitario, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Universita di Messina, 98100 Messina, Italy
Neurosurgery 50:16-25; discussion 25-7. 2002..We report 81 patients with a traumatic intracerebellar hemorrhagic contusion or hematoma managed between 1996 and 1998 at 13 Italian neurosurgical centers...
Surgical management of traumatic parenchymal lesionsM Ross Bullock
Department of Neurological Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Neurosurgery 58:S25-46; discussion Si-iv. 2006....
A pilot study for rehabilitation of central executive deficits after traumatic brain injuryAndrea Serino
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna
Brain Inj 21:11-9. 2007..Here we investigated the efficacy of a rehabilitative program (working memory training: WMT) targeting the CES in improving WM and other cognitive functions dependent on this system...
Brain traumaFranco Servadei
J Neurosurg 98:1326-8; author reply 1328-9. 2003
New European directive on clinical trials: implications for traumatic head injury researchNino Stocchetti
Intensive Care Med 30:517-8. 2004
Surgical management of posterior fossa mass lesionsM Ross Bullock
Department of Neurological Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Neurosurgery 58:S47-55; discussion Si-iv. 2006..METHODS: Suboccipital craniectomy is the predominant method reported for evacuation of posterior fossa mass lesions, and is therefore recommended...
