Publications by authors named "C Shean"

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  • The study compared recurrence rates of paresthesias in patients who had primary cubital tunnel surgery with and without wrapping the ulnar nerve in human amniotic membrane (HAM).
  • A total of 78 patients were analyzed, revealing that none of the 21 patients wrapped in HAM experienced recurrence of symptoms, while 19.3% of the 57 control patients did.
  • The results suggest that using HAM significantly lowers the risk of recurring symptoms, prompting the need for more extensive studies to explore its effectiveness in cubital tunnel surgery.
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The differential diagnosis of abdominal pain is wide as both benign and malignant pathologies must be considered. There are currently no published case reports of low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasms (LAMNs) mimicking perforated diverticulitis. LAMNs are a heterogenous group of tumours, with no consensus treatment algorithm based on stage and histology.

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Purpose: Multifocal pupillographic objective perimetry (mfPOP) is being developed as an alternative to subjective threshold perimetry for the management of visual and neurological disorders. Here, we evaluate, in normal subjects, differences in signal quality between the original mfPOP method of spatially sparse Continuous stimulus presentation and the new Clustered Volleys (CVs) method. We hypothesized that the CVs method would lead to increased signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) over the original method due to the stabilization of gain within the pupillary system.

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Hiatus hernia is defined as a -diaphragmatic protrusion of the intra-abdominal contents through the oesophageal hiatus into the mediastinum. Surgical repair is indicated in symptomatic patients, with some patients presenting emergently with strangulation and ischaemia of hernial contents. In this situation, emergent decompression and surgical repair is indicated.

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Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is commonly caused by intra-abdominal adhesions, usually from prior surgery. Conservative management is the mainstay of treatment, with adhesiolysis required for non-resolving obstruction. An unusual patient presentation of ASBO is presented here, where the cause is proposed as an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) within the abdomen.

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