Publications by authors named "C Woodhouse"

Plastic pollution is now considered globally ubiquitous, irreversible, and a planetary boundary threat. Solutions are urgently needed but their development and application are hampered by the complexity and scale of the issue. System dynamics is a technique used to understand complex behaviours of systems through model building and is useful for conceptualising the relationships between various interacting, dynamic factors, and identifying potential intervention points within the system where specific policies or innovations might have the greatest impact or meet with the greatest resistance.

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  • Incidental durotomy (ID) is a common issue in spine surgeries that can lead to longer hospital stays and complications like pseudomeningocele formation, prompting a study comparing traditional open vs. minimally invasive (MIS) microdiscectomy techniques.
  • The study included 192 MIS patients and 2902 open surgery patients, ultimately analyzing 156 matched patients from both groups for ID occurrences and complications.
  • Results showed a similar incidence rate of ID in both methods (3.1% total), with one re-operation in the open cohort for pseudomeningocele, but no significant difference in re-operation rates between the two groups, highlighting the need for more extensive future research.
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Conventionally, confirmation of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) (Gleason grade group ≥ 2) involves an initial multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) followed by biopsy. Prostate biopsy incurs inherent risks of infection, bleeding, patient discomfort, and a 6-week delay before robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP). We explored the feasibility of immediate RALP in men with PIRADS 5 lesions without preceding biopsy.

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