A randomized controlled trial comparing conservative versus surgical treatment in patients with foot drop due to peroneal nerve entrapment: results of an internal feasibility pilot study.

Background: Based on the lack of literature to support any treatment strategy in patients with foot drop due to peroneal nerve entrapment, a prospective study randomizing patients between surgery and conservative treatment is warranted. Since studies comparing surgery to no surgery are often challenging, we first examined the feasibility of such a randomized controlled trial.

Methods/design: An internal feasibility pilot study was conducted to assess several aspects of process, resource, management, and scientific feasibility.

Generalization of fear of movement-related pain and avoidance behavior as predictors of work resumption after back surgery: a study protocol for a prospective study (WABS).

Background: Previous studies indicated that about 20% of the individuals undergoing back surgery are unable to return to work 3 months to 1 year after surgery. The specific factors that predict individual trajectories in postoperative pain, recovery, and work resumption are largely unknown. The aim of this study is to identify modifiable predictors of work resumption after back surgery.

Evidence in peroneal nerve entrapment: A scoping review.

Background And Purpose: Daily management of patients with foot drop due to peroneal nerve entrapment varies between a purely conservative treatment and early surgery, with no high-quality evidence to guide current practice. Electrodiagnostic (EDX) prognostic features and the value of imaging in establishing and supplementing the diagnosis have not been clearly established.

Methods: We performed a literature search in the online databases MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Library.

Intracranial Solitary Fibrous Tumor.

Solitary fibrous tumours are rare mesenchymal spindle-cell tumours that occur most often in the visceral pleura or liver. If they occur intracranially, they are extra-axially located and develop from the meninges. In those cases, the differential diagnosis has to be made with other intracranial extra-axial-located tumours, such as meningeoma and hemangiopericytoma.

Transient hemiparesis caused by spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma.

Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma (SCEH) is rare and can result in various clinical phenotypes. Transient focal neurological symptoms, which have not yet been reported on, can result in overlooking this differential diagnosis in patients presenting with passing neurological deficits and assuming the diagnosis of a transient ischemic attack. Therefore, a thorough documentation of patient history is of importance, since this can reveal symptoms suggestive of a different etiology.