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Letter to the Editor Regarding “‘Two-Birds-One-Stone’ Approach for Treating an Infant with Chiari I Malformation and Hydrocephalus: Is Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion as Sole Treatment Enough?”
No full textLetter to the Editor Regarding “Reversible Severe Brainstem Herniation and Obstructive Hydrocephalus from Cystoperitoneal Shunt Overdrainage”
No full textLetter to the Editor Regarding “Holocord Syrinx Associated with Shunt Malfunction in Tetraventricular Hydrocephalus”
No full textLetter to the Editor Regarding “Posterior Calvarial Augmentation for Chiari Malformation Type 1 Refractory to Foramen Magnum Decompression”
No full textLetter to the Editor Regarding "Primary Aneurysmal Bone Cyst of the Thoracic Spine: A Pediatric Case Report"
No full textLetter to the editor regarding “natural history of high-grade pediatric arteriovenous malformations: implications for management options”
No full textLetter to the editor regarding “How I do it: operative nuances of multiple burr hole surgery for moyamoya disease and syndrome”
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A Novel Skin and Fascia Opening for Subfascial Inserting of Intrathecal Baclofen Pump
No full textOBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to introduce a new skin and fascia opening for intrathecal baclofen pump implantation in the abdomen, with the purpose of reducing complications related to wound breakdown.METHODS: We introduce a novel way of cutaneous and fascial opening that leads two opposed "L shaped" incisions.RESULTS: This method entails numerous advantages. The first advantage is avoiding the direct alignment of overlapped sutures, which creates a locus minoris resistentiae that can weaken and break under the push of the pump. Another advantage consists of an increased obstruction against deep extension of infective processes from cutaneous origin. The wide opening of the subfascial pocket permits the implantation of any type of pump available, and it reduces complexities in reopening the pouch for pump replacement. It also permits the fastening of all anchoring systems usually present in pumps. Another advantage is the improved possibility of careful muscle cauterization thanks to the wide fascia opening, with reduced risk of postsurgical hematoma. Our results showed a reduction of wound complications with this method.CONCLUSIONS: This method could contribute to reducing the rate of wound complications and patient discomfort
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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