Spinal Cord Injuries — Duroplasty for Injured Cervical Spinal Cord With Uncontrolled Swelling
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Phang I, Werndle MC, Saadoun S, Varsos G, Czosnyka M, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC Expansion duroplasty improves intraspinal pressure, spinal cord perfusion pressure, and vascular pressure reactivity index in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury: injured spinal cord pressure evaluation study. J Neurotrauma. 2015 Jun 15;32(12):865-74. doi: 10.1089/neu.2014.3668. Epub 2015 May 4.
Phang I, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC, Saadoun S Microdialysis to Optimize Cord Perfusion and Drug Delivery in Spinal Cord Injury. Ann Neurol. 2016 Oct;80(4):522-31. doi: 10.1002/ana.24750. Epub 2016 Aug 19.
Saadoun S, Papadopoulos MC Acute, Severe Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Monitoring from the Injury Site and Expansion Duraplasty. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2021 Jul;32(3):365-376. doi: 10.1016/j.nec.2021.03.008. Epub 2021 May 7. Review.
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