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    Infection rates of external ventricular drains are reduced by the use of silver-impregnated catheters

    External ventricular drainage (EVD) placement for temporary cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion is a frequent therapeutic procedure. Several types of EVD catheters are currently available, some of which have a...

    M. Lajcak, V. Heidecke, K. H. Haude, N. G. Rainov in Acta Neurochirurgica (2013)

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    Intervertebral disc replacement for cervical degenerative disease – clinical results and functional outcome at two years in patients implanted with the Bryan® cervical disc prosthesis

    Background. This is a prospective study of patients with degenerative cervical disease who underwent ventral discectomy and disc replacement with the Bryan® cervical disc prosthesis. The ...

    V. Heidecke, W. Burkert, M. Brucke, N. G. Rainov in Acta Neurochirurgica (2008)

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    Dual electrode spinal cord stimulation in chronic leg and back pain

    Patients with chronic back and leg pain (CBLP) suffer from a disabling spinal condition of multifactorial origin and are often resistant to medical therapy. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a minimally invasiv...

    Nikolai G. Rainov, W. Demmel, V. Heidecke in Operative Neuromodulation (2007)

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    Hardware failures in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic benign pain of spinal origin

    Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has become an established clinical option for treatment of refractory chronic pain not related to cancer. Current hardware and implantation techniques for SCS are already highly d...

    Nikolai G. Rainov, V. Heidecke in Operative Neuromodulation (2007)

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    Experimental therapies for chronic pain

    Chronic pain, an underestimated but complex medical and social phenomenon, is often resistant to currently used analgesic drugs. The effect of these substances is frequently self-limiting, with increasing leve...

    Nikolai G. Rainov, V. Heidecke in Operative Neuromodulation (2007)

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    Long Term Survival in a Patient with Recurrent Malignantc Glioma Treated with Intratumoral Infusion of an IL4-Targeted Toxin (NBI-3001)

    Intratumoral infusion of a recombinant targeted toxin (NBI-3001) consisting of the receptor binding domain of human interleukin 4 (1L-4) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A is an investigational treatment for m...

    N.G. Rainov, V. Heidecke in Journal of Neuro-Oncology (2004)

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    Results and outcome of neurosurgical treatment for extradural metastases in the cervical spine

    ¶Metastatic lesions are the most common spinal extradural tumours. Significant advances in their neurosurgical management have been made in the last two decades. This retrospective study was undertaken to summ...

    V. Heidecke, N. G. Rainov, W. Burkert in Acta Neurochirurgica (2003)

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    Outcome in Cloward Anterior Fusion for Degenerative Cervical Spinal Disease

    ¶ The Cloward ventral interbody fusion is often employed for treatment of cervical degenerative disease. The present study was aimed at evaluating results and complications in this classical type of autologous...

    V. Heidecke, N. G. Rainov, T. Marx, W. Burkert in Acta Neurochirurgica (2000)

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    Occipito-Cervical Fusion with the Cervical Cotrel-Dubousset Rod System

     Diseases and conditions which cause instability of the cranio-cervical junction and the adjacent upper cervical spine are relatively common and potentially life-threatening. Direct internal occipito-cervical ...

    V. Heidecke, N. G. Rainov, W. Burkert in Acta Neurochirurgica (1998)

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    Direct anterior fixation of odontoid fractures with a hollow spreading screw system

    Direct fixation of odontoid fractures has the advantage of preserving rotation in the atlanto-axial motion segment. Early mobilisation of patients and minor intra-operative trauma increase the value of this te...

    N. G. Rainov, V. Heidecke, W. Burkert in Acta Neurochirurgica (1996)

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    Abdominal CSF pseudocysts in patients with ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. Report of fourteen cases and review of the literature

    The abdominal intraperitoneal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst is an infrequent but important complication in patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunts. Since 1954, 115 cases of paediatric pseudocysts have been ...

    N. Rainov, A. Schobeß, V. Heidecke, W. Burkert in Acta Neurochirurgica (1994)