Identifying mild traumatic brain injury in the post-acute polytrauma setting: a scoping review of diagnostic approaches and screening tools.

Objective: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is frequently overlooked in polytrauma patients due to the overshadowing of more severe injuries, a fact that makes its identification in post-acute settings challenging since symptoms overlap with other conditions and no validated diagnostic tools exist. To address this gap, this scoping review explored the literature on mTBI diagnosis in post-acute civilian polytrauma settings.

Methods: By utilizing the Arksey and O'Malley framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, the review focused on studies from 2010 to 2024 related to delayed mTBI diagnosis in adults.

Skull Base Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma: Neuroradiologist's Guide to Diagnosis, Surgical Management, and Proton Beam Therapy.

Skull base chordomas and chondrosarcomas are distinct types of rare, locally aggressive mesenchymal tumors that share key principles of imaging investigation and multidisciplinary care. Maximal safe surgical resection is the treatment choice for each, often via an expanded endoscopic endonasal approach, with or without multilayer skull base repair. Postoperative adjuvant radiation therapy is frequently administered, usually with particle therapy such as proton beam therapy (PBT).

Prevalence of Incidental Extraspinal Findings on MR Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Low back pain is common worldwide. MR imaging may identify extraspinal findings that are not related to the proposed clinical question. The prevalence of extraspinal incidental findings and their clinical significance has not been well-established.

Comparison of electrodiagnostic findings in acute traumatic versus chronic non-traumatic ulnar neuropathy at the elbow.

Introduction/aims: A common concept is that traumatic nerve injuries are more likely axonal, and that compressive neuropathies are more likely demyelinating. The purpose of this study was to compare traumatic versus non-traumatic ulnar neuropathy at the elbow (UNE) to look for electrodiagnostic differences between the two groups.

Methods: A retrospective 3 year review of UNE patients at two academic health science centers was conducted.

Smoking status and mortality outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of smoking on short (30-day) and intermediate (30-day to 6-month) mortality following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Background: The effect of smoking on mortality post-PCI is lacking in the modern PCI era.

Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data comparing short- and intermediate-term mortality amongst smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers.