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Spinal cord abnormalities in sportsMark R Proctor
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Sports Med 31:521-33. 2012....- Endoscopic cranial suture release for the treatment of craniosynostosis--is it the future?Mark R Proctor
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 23:225-8. 2012..In this article, the author discusses why this is not simply a return to failed techniques of the past and reviews the status of endoscopic surgery at Children's Hospital Boston... - Autologous cranial particulate bone grafting reduces the frequency of osseous defects after cranial expansionLin Lin Gao
Department of Plastic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Craniofacial Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Craniofac Surg 21:318-22. 2010..7% of group 1 patients and only 5.3% of those in group 2 (P = 0.04). Primary cranial particulate bone grafting significantly reduced the frequency of osseous defects and secondary cranioplasty following cranial remodeling... - Cost of treating sagittal synostosis in the first year of lifeMegan M Abbott
Harvard Medical School, Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 23:88-93. 2012..Whereas the former claim is well substantiated and intuitive, the latter has not been validated by rigorous cost analysis... - Pediatric cranioplasty using particulate calvarial bone graftArin K Greene
Department of Plastic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Craniofacial Centre, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 122:563-71. 2008..The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of particulate bone graft for established calvarial defects... - Perioperative corticosteroid reduces hospital stay after fronto-orbital advancementJames E Clune
Department of Plastic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 21:344-8. 2010..1%; group 2, 1.5%; P = 0.8).Perioperative corticosteroid shortens hospitalization after fronto-orbital advancement without increasing the incidence of postoperative infection. The cost of postoperative hospital care was reduced by 27.2%... - Exchange cranioplasty using autologous calvarial particulate bone graft effectively repairs large cranial defectsGary F Rogers
Departments of Plastic and Oral Surgery and Neurosurgery, Boston Children s Hospital, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 127:1631-42. 2011..This limitation can be overcome using an exchange cranioplasty technique. This study probes the effectiveness of this method for large (>5 cm(2)) or complicated cranial defects... - Endoscope-assisted strip craniectomy and postoperative helmet therapy for treatment of craniosynostosisJohn Berry-Candelario
Departments of Neurological Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
Neurosurg Focus 31:E5. 2011..In addition, cost reduction due to decreased hospital stay and limitation of blood transfusions are demonstrable benefits associated with the use of this technique... - Efficacy of tranexamic acid in pediatric craniosynostosis surgery: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trialSusan M Goobie
Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Anesthesiology 114:862-71. 2011..The primary and secondary outcome variables were reduction in perioperative blood loss and reduction in blood transfusion, respectively... - The management of sagittal synostosis using endoscopic suturectomy and postoperative helmet therapyEmily B Ridgway
Department of Plastic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 7:620-6. 2011..Recent technical innovations, such as using the endoscope combined with postoperative orthotic reshaping, have led to a resurgence of interest in suturectomy as a safer, less invasive method... - Treatment of unilateral coronal synostosis by endoscopic strip craniectomy or fronto-orbital advancement: Ophthalmologic findingsSarah MacKinnon
Department of Ophthalmology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J AAPOS 13:155-60. 2009..We compare the incidence and severity of V-pattern strabismus and aniso-astigmatism in children treated by these 2 procedures... 
Pediatric disk diseaseJonathan R Slotkin
Department of Neurosurgery, The Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neurosurg Clin N Am 18:659-67. 2007....- Primary grafting with autologous cranial particulate bone prevents osseous defects following fronto-orbital advancementArin K Greene
Craniofacial Center and Department of Plastic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 120:1603-11. 2007..The authors hypothesized that corticocancellous cranial particulate bone placed over exposed dura at the time of fronto-orbital advancement would decrease the frequency of incomplete ossification... - Endoscopic strip craniectomy in early infancy: the initial five years of anesthesia experiencePetra M Meier
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Anesth Analg 112:407-14. 2011..The hypothesis was that infants with low body weight and syndromes would have a higher risk of perioperative blood transfusion and that those with respiratory complications are more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)... - Repair of a large congenital frontal bone defect with autologous exchange cranioplastyAlexander E Ropper
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 6:464-7. 2010..The technique of autologous exchange cranioplasty using corticocancellous particulate bone graft provides a simple and reliable method to repair large structural calvarial defects... - Frontonasal osteotomy to facilitate removal of an intracranial nasal dermoidGary F Rogers
Craniofacial Centre, Division of Plastic Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Craniofac Surg 16:731-6. 2005..Additionally unnecessary disruption of the nasal bones and facial scarring are avoided... - Equivalence of fusion rates after rigid internal fixation of the occiput to C-2 with or without C-1 instrumentationTodd C Hankinson
Department of Neurosurgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 5:380-4. 2010.... - Phenotypically unusual combined craniosynostoses: presentation and managementArin K Greene
Craniofacial Centre, Department of Plastic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 122:853-62. 2008..Although most craniosynostoses can be determined by pattern recognition, some patients defy phenotypic diagnosis and require computed tomography to determine sutural fusions... - Features of the lumbar spine on magnetic resonance images following sectioning of filum terminaleAlbert H Kim
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 8:384-9. 2011..The delineation of postoperative radiological characteristics of a sectioned filum terminale is therefore valuable to clinicians managing these often complex cases... - Calvarial defects associated with neurofibromatosis type 1. Report of two casesJohn M K Mislow
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg 106:484-9. 2007.... - Lumbar microdiscectomy in pediatric patients: a large single-institution seriesKevin S Cahill
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Spine 12:165-70. 2010..The objective of this study was to determine the surgical results of lumbar microdiscectomy in the pediatric population by analyzing the experiences at Children's Hospital Boston over the past decade... - Endoscopically assisted correction of sagittal craniosynostosisLesley Brown
Children s Hospital Boston Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, MA, USA
AORN J 93:566-79; quiz 580-1. 2011..After surgery, a cranial remolding helmet is used to direct skull growth... - Extradural myelomeningocele reconstruction using local turnover fascial flaps and midline linear skin closureKamlesh B Patel
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 65:1569-72. 2012..We describe the reconstruction of large myelomeningocele defects using (1) local fascial turnover flaps with or without paraspinous muscle flaps for deep coverage of the dural repair followed by (2) linear, midline skin closure... - Astigmatism in unilateral coronal synostosis: incidence and lateralityRichard Lawrence Levy
Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 20115, USA
J AAPOS 11:367-72. 2007..The purpose of this study was to analyze the incidence and laterality of astigmatism in children with unilateral coronal synostosis... - Delayed development of os odontoideum after traumatic cervical injury: support for a vascular etiologyCorinna C Zygourakis
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 7:201-4. 2011..This case argues against the congenital etiology of os odontoideum, as well as the strict posttraumatic theory whereby a trauma-induced odontoid fracture leads to osseous remodeling and subsequent development of an os odontoideum... - The presentation and management of nasal dermoid: a 30-year experienceReza Rahbar
Department of Otolaryngology, The Children s Hospital and the Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129:464-71. 2003..To review the presentation of nasal dermoid in children and present guidelines for its management... 
Ovarian Teratoma Masquerading as a CSF Pseudocyst in a Female with a Ventriculoperitoneal ShuntJohn M K Mislow
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital of Boston and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Case Report Med 2009:240705. 2009..Conclusions. This remarkable case demonstrates that all differential diagnoses must be entertained in order to rapidly and accurately diagnose a patient with a cystic abdominal mass...- Idiopathic syrinx in the pediatric population: a combined center experienceSuresh N Magge
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 7:30-6. 2011..The authors present the combined data of 2 major pediatric neurosurgical centers to describe their experience with this condition... - Single stage reduction and stabilization of basilar invagination after failed prior fusion surgery in children with Down's syndromeDaniel Hedequist
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 35:E128-33. 2010..We describe an innovative single-stage reduction and stabilization technique using modern cervical instrumentation... - Lumbar spine injuries in athletesIan F Dunn
Center for Neurologic Sports Injury, and Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's/Children's Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Neurosurg Focus 21:E4. 2006..The authors consider common lumbar spine injuries in athletes and discuss management principles for neurosurgeons that are relevant to this population... - Spinal cord injuryMark R Proctor
Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Crit Care Med 30:S489-99. 2002..In this article, the types of injuries seen in children are discussed, with an emphasis on acute management and clearance of the cervical spine. Treatment options and long-term issues are also discussed... - Presentation and progression of a disc cyst in a pediatric patientNing Lin
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 7:209-12. 2011..Cyst excision alone or in conjunction with microsurgical discectomy is safe and effective in treating radiculopathy caused by disc cysts... - Urological outcome following multiple repeat spinal cord untethering operations. Clinical articleCormac O Maher
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 5338, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 4:275-9. 2009..The authors describe the results as well as the utility of urological testing in pediatric patients undergoing multiple repeat untethering operations... - Unilateral fusion of the frontosphenoidal suture: a rare cause of synostotic frontal plagiocephalyGary F Rogers
Craniofacial Centre, Division of Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 110:1011-21. 2002..Proper diagnosis necessitates awareness of this uncommon entity and requires focused computed tomographic assessment...