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REVIEW
Mario A Pérez, Omer Y Bialer, Beau B Bruce, Nancy J Newman, Valérie Biousse
INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is increasingly recognized as a cause of spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak in the otolarnygological and neurosurgical literature. The diagnosis of IIH in patients with spontaneous CSF leaks typically is made a few weeks after surgical repair of the leak when symptoms and signs of elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) appear. METHODS: Case reports and literature review. Two young obese women developed spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea related to an empty sella in one and a cribriform plate encephalocele in the other...
December 2013: Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology: the Official Journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Brian McKinstry, Victoria Hammersley, Fergus Daly, Frank Sullivan
BACKGROUND: It is notoriously difficult to recruit patients to randomised controlled trials in primary care. This is particularly true when the disease process under investigation occurs relatively infrequently and must be investigated during a brief time window. Bell's palsy, an acute unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve is just such a relatively rare condition. In this case study we describe the organisational issues presented in setting up a large randomised controlled trial of the management of Bell's palsy across primary and secondary care in Scotland and how we managed to successfully recruit and retain patients presenting in the community...
March 28, 2007: BMC Medical Research Methodology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
L H PREWITT
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
May 1952: Journal
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