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Educate one to save a few. Educate a few to save manyBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Electronic address
World Neurosurg 79:S15.e15-8. 2013..Our aim is to educate a few to save many. Such a disease-specific approach may provide a useful strategy for increasing access to care for other common, treatable neurosurgical conditions in resource-poor settings...- The impact of combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization on the management of pediatric hydrocephalus in developing countriesBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Electronic address
World Neurosurg 79:S23.e13-5. 2013..Endoscopic third ventriculostomy is an excellent treatment alternative to shunt placement, but its effectiveness in young infants is substantially reduced... - Shunt survival after failed endoscopic treatment of hydrocephalusBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 10:463-70. 2012.... - Long-term outcome for endoscopic third ventriculostomy alone or in combination with choroid plexus cauterization for congenital aqueductal stenosis in African infantsBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 10:108-11. 2012..In the present study they specifically examined the long-term efficacy of ETV with or without CPC in 35 infants with congenital aqueduct stenosis treated at CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda during the years 2001-2006... - Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan AfricaBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 8:509-21. 2011..These results were then extrapolated to the potential economic impact of treating all cases of hydrocephalus in infants in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)... - Five-year survival and outcome of treatment for postinfectious hydrocephalus in Ugandan infantsBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 8:502-8. 2011..Since 2001, ETV (with or without choroid plexus cauterization) has been our primary treatment for PIH. The long-term outcome in these children is unknown... - Management of Dandy-Walker complex-associated infant hydrocephalus by combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterizationBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 8:377-83. 2011..This study is the largest series of DWC or DWM-associated hydrocephalus treated by ETV, and the first report of treatment by combined ETV and choroid plexus cauterization (ETV/CPC) in young infants with this association... - Hydrocephalus associated with neural tube defects: characteristics, management, and outcome in sub-Saharan AfricaBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Childs Nerv Syst 27:1589-94. 2011.... - Initial experience with combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization for post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity: the importance of prepontine cistern status and the predictive value of FIESTA MRI imagingBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Childs Nerv Syst 27:1063-71. 2011..This pilot study reports the initial experience... - Intraoperative assessment of cerebral aqueduct patency and cisternal scarring: impact on success of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in 403 African childrenBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 5:204-9. 2010.... - Neurocognitive outcome and ventricular volume in children with myelomeningocele treated for hydrocephalus in UgandaBenjamin Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 4:564-70. 2009..This study is the first to describe neurocognitive outcome and ventricle volume in infants with hydrocephalus due to myelomeningocele that was treated primarily by ETV/CPC... - Pediatric hydrocephalus in East Africa: prevalence, causes, treatments, and strategies for the futureBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
World Neurosurg 73:296-300. 2010..Cooperative efforts such as the East African Neurosurgical Research Collaboration are needed to broaden the scope of research and training needed to significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality of this disease... - Encephalocele in Uganda: ethnic distinctions in lesion location, endoscopic management of hydrocephalus, and survival in 110 consecutive childrenBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 7:88-93. 2011..The authors explored survival, the efficacy of primary endoscopic management of associated hydrocephalus, and ethnic differences in EC location... - Factors affecting survival of infants with myelomeningocele in southeastern UgandaBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 7:127-33. 2011..The survival of infants treated for myelomeningocele (MM) and hydrocephalus in Uganda is unknown. This study investigated 5-year survival and the factors that influenced death in these patients... - Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of childhood hydrocephalus in Uganda: report of a scoring system that predicts successBenjamin C Warf
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 5:143-8. 2010..Therefore, the authors developed and validated a model to predict the chances of ETV success, taking into account the unique characteristics of a large sub-Saharan African population... - Risk factors of sudden death in young adult patients with myelomeningoceleSarah C Jernigan
Department of Neurosurgery, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 9:149-55. 2012..This study was undertaken to determine risk factors for sudden death in this population... - Dysplastic-reactive choroid plexus presenting as an intramedullary tumor of the cervicomedullary junction in a patient with myelomeningoceleAmit Singla
Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 10:406-10. 2012..For patients with myelomeningocele and CM-II, intramedullary dysplastic-reactive choroid plexus should be included in the differential diagnosis of mass lesions in this location... - 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...