JOURNAL CLUB

Journal club schedule 09.10

April 27, 2007

Dante/Hanna: Spine

Hillard and Apfelbaum.  Surgical management of cervical myelopathy: indications and techniques for multilevel cervical discectomy. The Spine Journal. 6: S242-S251, 2006

Kim and Alexander.  Indications for circumferential surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. The Spine Journal. 6: S299-S307, 2006

Komotor et al.  Surgical management of cervical myelopathy: indications and techniques for laminectomy and fusion. The Spine Journal. 6: S252-S267, 2006

Medow et al.  Surgical management of cervical myelopathy: indications and techniques for surgical corpectomy. The Spine Journal. 6: S233-S241, 2006

Steinmetz and Resnick.  Cervical laminoplasty. The Spine Journal. 6: S274-S281, 2006

May 25, 2007

Spinal Cord Stimulation

Barolat et al. Mapping of sensory responses to epidural stimulation of the intraspinal neural structures in man.  J Neurosurgery.  78: 233-239, 1993

Cameron. Safety and efficacy of spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of chronic pain: a 20-year literature review. J Neurosurgery (Spine) 100:254-267,2004

Kemler et al.  Spinal cord stimulation in patients with chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy.  New England Journal of Medicine. 343: 618-624, 2000

Kemler et al.  Spinal cord stimulation in patients with chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy --   five-year follow-up.  New England Journal of Medicine. 354: 2394-2396, 2006

Spinal cord stimulation electrode design: Prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing percutaneous and laminectomy electrodes - Part I: Technical outcomes.  Neurosurgery 51: 381-390, 2002

Spinal cord stimulation electrode design: Prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing percutaneous and laminectomy electrodes - Part II: Clinical outcomes.  Neurosurgery 57: 990-996, 2005

North et al. Spinal cord stimulation for axial low back pain: a prospective controlled trial comparing dual with single percutaneous electrodes.  Spine.  30: 1412-1418, 2005

Octoberl 26, 2007

Andrews/Tjoumakaris: Treatment for Low-Grade Gliomas

Berger et al.The effect of extent of resection on recurrence in patients with low grade cerebral hemisphere gliomas.  Cancer 74: 1784-1791, 1994

Claus et al.  Survival rates in patients with low-grade glioma after intraoperative magnetic resonance image guidance.  Cancer 103: 1227-1233, 2003

Karim et al. A randomized trial on dose-response in radiation therapy of low-grade cerebral glioma: European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) study 2284. Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Bio. Phys. 36: 549-556, 1996

Leighton et al. Supratentorial low-grade glioma in adults: an analysis of prognostic factors and timing of radiation. J. Clin. Oncol. 15: 1294-1301, 1997

Schmidt et al. Repeated operations for infiltrative low-grade gliomas without intervening therapy. J. Neurosurg. 98: 1165-1169. 2003

van den Bent et al. Long-term efficacy of early versus delayed radiotherapy for low-grade astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma in adults: the EORTC 22845 randomised trial. Lancet. 366: 985-990

Laack et al. Cognitive function after radiotherapy for supratentorial low-grade glioma: a North Central Cancer Treatment Group prospective study. Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Bio. Phys. 63: 1175-1183, 2005

Fisher et al. Ki-67: a prognostic factor fow low-grade glioma? Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Bio. Phys 52: 996-1001. 2002

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