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Review current literature and guidelines for malignant hyperthermia in the context of neurotologic surgery.A case of malignant hyperthermia during vestibular schwannoma surgery, in a patient previously exposed to BACKGROUND
Herpes simplex is a common human pathogen that has rare but severe manifestations including encephalitis.
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A 44-year-old man underwent uneventful resection of an acoustic neuroma. Postoperatively, he developed swinging pyrexia, vomiting, and episodic confusion. Analysis of
A 67-year-old woman was hospitalized because of recurrent attacks of epigastric pain, chills, fever, jaundice and pruritus of 6 months' duration. Six years earlier, the patient had undergone cholecystectomy. The present endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography demonstrated a proximal irregular
The only known risk factor for sporadic acoustic neuroma is high-dose ionising radiation. Environmental exposures, such as radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and noise are under discussion, as well as an association with allergic diseases. We performed a population-based case-control study in
We report a rare case of gallbladder cancer associated with a common bile duct neuroma, and a cystic liver lesion with histologic findings similar to an inflammatory pseudotumor, in a patient who had had no previous abdominal surgery. The patient was a 62-year-old man whose major complaint was
Nerve sheath tumors are tumors arising from nerve sheaths or which show nerve sheath differentiation. They are divided as benign and malignant. They are associated with Von Recklinghausen syndrome. Characterised by café-au-lait spots, lisch nodules, acoustic neuromas, OBJECTIVE
Ileal and intestinal ureteral replacement remains a useful procedure for complex ureteral reconstruction. We examined the long-term safety and efficacy of this procedure, especially in regard to maintaining preoperative renal function and the avoidance of major complications.
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Over 5000 routine appendix specimens were examined at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy, Graz University, for the presence of neurogenic appendicopathy (n.a.). With light microscopy it was possible to differentiate intramucosal, finely vacuolated nerve proliferations and central neuromas (n.a.
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A history of allergy has been inversely associated with several types of cancer although the evidence is not entirely consistent. We examined the association between allergy history and risk of glioma, meningioma, acoustic neuroma, and parotid gland tumors using data on a large number of