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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Resection Surgery"”.
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An Investigation of Cognitive Deficits Related to Surgery for Glioblastoma using a Computerised Assessment Tool
… Investigation of Cognitive Deficits Related to Surgery for Glioblastoma using a Computerised Assessment Tool - Rohitashwa Sinha Glioblastoma, the most aggressive type of primary brain cancer, causes abysmal survival rates and high risks of cognitive deficit to its sufferers. These deficits are …
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Optical Imaging Of Tissue Physiology With Exogenous Contrast Agents
… could be useful for image guidance during tumor resection surgery, and could also provide rapid and useful constraining information for more comprehensive fluorescent tomography.
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Surgeon directed transcranial motor evoked potential spinal cord monitoring in spinal deformity surgery: A review of viability, safety and efficacy
Aims Spinal deformity surgery carries the risk of neurological injury. Neurophysiological monitoring allows early identification of intraoperative cord injury facilitating early intervention which has a better prognosis. Although multimodal monitoring is the ideal, resource constraints make surgeon …
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Microbiological, genomic and transcriptomic analyses of human tuberculosis lung cavities
… XDR-TB) patients scheduled for therapeutic lung resection surgery in Cape Town were prospectively recruited. Biopsies were obtained from specific positions in and around cavities. Drug-susceptibility testing, strain-type determination, whole-genome sequencing, and whole-transcriptome shotgun …
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WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF GLIOBLASTOMA SURGERY ON COGNITION AND QUALITY OF LIFE?
… testing paradigms. It is unclear how tumours and surgery affect postoperative cognition and vision. This thesis investigates the effects of the tumour and surgery on presurgical and postsurgical cognition and vision with structural and diffusion MRI. We also investigated the impact of cognition …
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Bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier: Cucurbit[8]uril-based Hydrogels Towards Drug Delivery Reservoirs
… materials in the local delivery of cargo to post-resection tumour cavities that is the focus of this thesis. In the first chapter the host-guest interactions of cucurbit[8]uril in aqueous assemblies, with a particular emphasis on those systems forming hydrogels, are summarised. The application of …