PHILIPP HENDRIX, CHRISTOPH J. GRIESSENAUER, JULIEN COHEN-ADAD, SHANMUGANATHAN RAJASEKARAN, KEITH A. CAULEY, MOHAMMADALI M. SHOJA, PARHAM PEZESHK, AND R. SHANE TUBBS Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery, Ganga Hospital, ...

BackgroundProcalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker of bacterial infections with more sensitivity and specificity than commonly used inflammatory markers. PCT can be particularly helpful in the postsurgical population where surgery itself often leads to noninfectious inflammation. We aimed examine utility perioperative profiles predicting infection two pediatric surgical populations.MethodsWe conducte...

Background: Anterior encephalocele is a rare pathologic condition in pediatric neurosurgery. Most of encephaloceles are located in the occipital region. The present study reports a series of 15 children with anterior encephaloceles. Methods: This was a descriptive retrospective survey conducted on the medical recordings of encephalocele patients underwent a neurosurgery during a 12-year period....

1 Medical Oncology 1, Veneto Institute of Oncology-IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, 35128 Padua, Italy 2 Neurosurgery Department, Padua Hospital, 35128 Padua, Italy 3 Department of Neuro-Oncology, UPMC, GH Pitié-Salpétrière, 75005 Paris, France 4DBBS, National Neurological Institute C. Mondino, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy 5 Neurology Unit, National Cancer Unit, Regina Elena, 00144 Rome, I...