Publications by authors named "P M Munarriz"
Background: There is skepticism about the benefit of surgery in elderly patients affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to the negative effect of age on the outcome and surgical complications. However, there are few studies that have investigated differences in patient's outcome between surgically and conservatively managed patients after adjusting for the imbalance in preinjury characteristics and clinical and radiological features. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of early surgery on mortality and functional recovery in a cohort of older adults with acute traumatic intracranial lesions after adjustment by Propensity Score (PS) matching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Ultrasound evaluation of thyroid nodules is the preferred technique, but it is dependent on operator interpretation, leading to inter-observer variability. The current study aimed to determine the inter-physician consensus on nodular characteristics, risk categorization in the classification systems, and the need for fine needle aspiration puncture.
Methods: Four endocrinologists from the same center blindly evaluated 100 ultrasound images of thyroid nodules from 100 different patients.
Purpose: To review a multicentric series of lateral-type posterior fossa ependymomas operated in the last ten years and to analyze the factors related to clinical evolution and tumor survival.
Methods: Descriptive, retrospective study. Active members of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery were invited to participate in this multicentric study.
Background: Spinal lipomas not associated with dysraphism are rare and have an unknown natural history. In this report, we describe two cases; they showed recurrence during long-term follow-up, which makes us doubt a benign malformative etiology.
Case Reports: Two patients, a 19-year-old South American woman and a 14-year-old boy with spinal lipomas, underwent surgical resection.