Neurosurgery
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Multicenter Study
Effectiveness of Surgical Decompression in Patients With Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Results of the Canadian Prospective Multicenter Study.
Conflicting evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM), particularly in mild DCM. ⋯ At 12 mo after surgery, patients with mild, moderate, and severe DCM all demonstrated improved outcomes. Severe DCM patients experienced the greatest breadth of improvement, but the proportion of patients in each severity group achieving clinically meaningful changes did not differ significantly across most outcome measures.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Postoperative Oral Antibiotics and Sinonasal Outcomes Following Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery for Pituitary Tumors Study: A Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Study.
Postoperative prophylactic antibiotics are commonly used in pituitary surgery, but evidence supporting their use is lacking, which has implications for antibiotic stewardship. ⋯ Postoperative prophylactic oral antibiotics did not result in superior sinonasal QOL compared with placebo among patients who underwent standard endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery.
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Multicenter Study
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Olfactory Groove Meningiomas: An International, Multicenter Study.
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is increasingly considered for selected olfactory groove meningiomas (OGMs). ⋯ SRS is associated with durable local control of the majority of OGM patients with acceptable safety profile. SRS allows preservation or improvement of olfactory function in the majority of OGM patients.