May 2016

Volume 5, Issue 9
 

Department of Surgery Plays Host to the
Traveling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 

James T. Rutka, MD, PhD, FRCSC
RS McLaughlin Chair

 

 
SpineFEST
Monday, June 13, 2016
MaRS Centre Lower Concourse
101 College Street
Dr. K. Daniel Riew
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
“The Post-operative Patient with Persistent or Recurrent Symptoms”

Book Club for Surgeons
Monday, June 13, 2016
“Doctor’s Stories”
Faculty, Residents, and Fellows welcome.  Please RSVP to Stephanie – s.neilson@utoronto.ca
 

RECENT EVENTS 

 

 

Gallie Day
Friday, May 13, 2016
MaRS Auditorium
Gordon Murray Lecturer
Dr. Mohit Bhandari
Professor and Academic Chair, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery
Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Based Orthopaedics
Associate Chair-Research, Department of Surgery, McMaster University
 
“To Succeed, We Must Often Fail”
 

From left to right: J. Rutka, M. Bhandari, M. Fehlings

Gallie Day Award Recipients:
Tovee Postgraduate Prize, Georges Azzie
Tovee Undergraduate Prize, Dennis Di Pasquale
Surgical Skills Centre Distinguished Educator Award, Sandra de Montbrun
B. Langer Surgeon-Scientist Award, Anand Govindarajan
Charles Tator Surgeon Scientist Mentorship Award, Teodor Grantcharov
George Armstrong Peters Prize, Toni Zhong
Lister Prize, Michael Taylor
D.R. Wilson Award, Joshua Greenberg and Kathryn Isaac
Zane Cohen Clinical Fellowship Achievement Award, Christoph Haller
Shafie Fazel Award, Nir Lipsman

The Life in Surgery Event 2016 was held the evening of Thursday, May 12, 2016 at the U. of T. Faculty Club where medical students and surgeons were able to meet.
 

Visit of Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, June 3-11, 2016
 
Scientific Programs while in Toronto
Monday, June 6 – Mount Sinai Hospital
Tuesday, June 7 – St. Michael’s Hospital
Wednesday, June 8 – UHN, Princess Margaret
 
Scientific Programs available at the following website:  http://surgery.utoronto.ca/home.htm
 
All Department of Surgery, U. of T. Faculty, Residents and Fellows are welcome to attend.

Andras Kapus and Katalin Szaszl (Scientists) are co-authors on a recent paper in Nature Communications.  Congratulations!

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160518/ncomms11642/full/ncomms11642.html

Speight P, Kofler M, Szaszl K, Kapus A.  Context-dependent switch in chemo/mechanotransduction via multilevel crosstalk among cytoskeleton-regulated MRTF and TAZ and TGFβ-regulated Smad3.  Nature Communications.  18 May 2016; 7:11642. 
 

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‪@UofTSurgery‪ Rounds, Tile Lecture, Friday, June 3 @7:30 a.m. Sunnybrook HSC


           
UofT Dept of Surgery ‏‪@UofTSurgery May 21 Queens, NY



Progress made possible through the Michael and Amira Dan brain tumour banking network - a unique UofT model!


 
Maral Ouzounian ‪@OuzounianMD Incredibly well deserved Scientific Achievement Award presented to Dr. TIrone Davd. ‪#aats2016 ‪#tssmn ‪#mentors 





           
UofT Dept of Surgery ‏‪@UofTSurgery May 13 

Dr Mohit Bhandari from McMaster University delivering the Gordon Murray Lecture at Gallie Day now!

                   


            
          
Teodor Grantcharov ‏‪@TGrantcharovMD May 13

Time to address the elephant in the room: practice does not always make perfect! We need a better section process ‪@UofTSurgery ‪@MLouridas

           
COA ‏‪@CdnOrthoAssoc May 11 

COA Retweeted jbjsjobs.org
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COA added,

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Peter Munk Cardiac ‏‪@PMunkCardiacCtr May 11

‪#DrThomasLindsay‪ teaching live remotely via #robot to @TBRHSF #vascular team #innovation at work @uoftsurgery


            
          
UofT Dept of Surgery ‏‪@UofTSurgery May 11 

Kazuhiro Yasufuku awarded the Ivan Silver Innovation Award at Hart House!


           
UofT Dept of Surgery ‏‪@UofTSurgery May 11 

Cindi Morshead receiving excellence in undergraduate teaching in life sciences award in Faculty of Med celebration


           
UofT Dept of Surgery ‏‪@UofTSurgery May 11 

Mike Wiley receiving the Medical Alumni Association Award now at Hart House, UofT!

            


    

U of T Spine Program ‏‪@UofTSpine May 3 Toronto, Ontario



join us at ‪#UTSpineEvents  ‪@uoftmedicine ‪@UofTSurgery ‪@UofTNeuroSurge ‪@UofTPGME ‪@UHN_News ‪@Sunnybrook ‪@sickkids

Michael G. Fehlings, Mohammed Shamji, James Rutka and 5 others 


            

 

Oleh Antonyshyn (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) has received the Department of Surgery Undergraduate Teaching Award, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
 





Sean Cleary (General Surgery) recently won the Nicolas Colapinto Teaching Award 2016.
 









Tim Dwyer (Orthopaedics) received an Education Development Fund from the Faculty of Medicine, U. of T. for his project entitled "Competence of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellows: Development of a certification examination” in the amount of $9685.06.
 







Richard Holtby (Orthopaedics) received the Marvin Tile Award, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
 







Lucas Murnaghan (Orthopaedics) received an Education Development Fund from the Faculty of Medicine, U. of T. for his project entitled “A qualitative assessment of the role 'bootcamps' in junior residency” in the amount of $4036. 
 








Richard Weisel (Cardiac Surgery) was elected to Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).
 








Nicole Woods (Educational Research) has been awarded the 2016 Mentorship Excellence award by the organization of Early Career Medical Educators in Canada (ECME). 
 



Gelareh Zadeh (Neurosurgery) is the recipient of a team grant from OCI in the amount of 200K for her project “Intraoperative RS-2HG as a biomarker of IDH mutation in personalized glioma surgery”.









Rob Zeldin (Thoracic Surgeon) was awarded a Lifetime Membership Achievement Award by the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). This award was given in recognition of my service as Chairman of the Section of Thoracic Surgery for 12 years. It is also given in recognition of the Creative Professional Activity I am involved with in furthering the benefit of regionalization of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology in the Province of Ontario.

HIGH IMPACT PAPERS HOT OFF THE PRESS

 
Abdallah FW, Whelan DB, Chan VW, Prasad GA, Endersby RV, Theodoropolous J, Oldfield S, Oh J, Brull R.  Adductor Canal Block Provides Noninferior Analgesia and Superior Quadriceps Strength Compared with Femoral Nerve Block in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.  Anesthesiology. 2016 May;124(5):1053-64.

Ahuja CS, Fehlings M.  Concise Review: Bridging the Gap: Novel Neuroregenerative and Neuroprotective Strategies in Spinal Cord Injury.  Stem Cells Transl Med. 2016 Apr 29.

Alharbi BM, Tso MK, Macdonald RL.  Animal models of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.  Neurol Res. 2016 May;38(5):448-55.

Alli S, Isik S, Rutka JT.  Microsurgical removal of craniopharyngioma: endoscopic and transcranial techniques for complication avoidance.  J Neurooncol. 2016 May 19.

Alotaibi NM, Ibrahim GM, Jalal H, Perez-Ordonez B, Hodaie M, Kalia SK.  Subdural Collection as Initial Presentation of Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis.  JAMA Neurol. 2016 May 1;73(5):602-3.

Amir AZ, Ling SC, Naqvi A, Weitzman S, Fecteau A, Grant D, Ghanekar A, Cattral M, Nalli N, Cutz E, Kamath B, Jones N, De Angelis M, Ng V, Avitzur Y.  Liver Transplantation for children with acute liver failure associated with secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.  Liver Transpl. 2016 May 23.

Ayeed SB, Hussain MA, AlHamzah M, Al-Omran M.  Poor knowledge of peripheral arterial disease among the Saudi population: A cross-sectional study.  Vascular. 2016 May 12.

Bagai A, Bhatt DL, Eikelboom JW, Mancini GB, Cohen EA, Vijayaraghavan R, Cheema AN, Udell JA, Niznick J, Tanguay JF, Verma S, Mehta SR.  Individualizing Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Acute Coronary Syndrome or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.  Circulation. 2016 May 24;133(21):2094-8.

Chesney TR, Nadler A, Acuna SA, Swallow CJ.  Outcomes of resection for locoregionally recurrent colon cancer: A systematic review.  Surgery. 2016 May 8.

Coluccia D, Figuereido C, Isik S, Smith C, Rutka JT.  Medulloblastoma: Tumor Biology and Relevance to Treatment and Prognosis Paradigm.  Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2016 May;16(5):43.

Crawford SA, Sanford RM, Forbes TL, Amon CH, Doyle MG.  Clinical outcomes and material properties of in situ fenestration of endovascular stent grafts.  J Vasc Surg. 2016 May 13.

Cypel M, Keshavjee S.  Novel Technologies for Isolated Lung Perfusion: Beyond Lung Transplant.  Thorac Surg Clin. 2016 May;26(2):139-45 .

Davidge KM, Clarke HM, Borschel GH.  Nerve Transfers in Birth Related Brachial Plexus Injuries: Where Do We Stand?  Hand Clin. 2016 May;32(2):175-90.

Deeb W, Rossi PJ, Porta M, Visser-Vandewalle V, Servello D, Silburn P, Coyne T, Leckman JF, Foltynie T, Hariz M, Joyce EM, Zrinzo L, Kefalopoulou Z, Welter ML, Karachi C, Mallet L, Houeto JL, Shahed-Jimenez J, Meng FG, Klassen BT, Mogilner AY, Pourfar MH, Kuhn J, Ackermans L, Kaido T, Temel Y, Gross RE, Walker HC, Lozano AM, Khandhar SM, Walter BL, Walter E, Mari Z, Changizi BK, Moro E, Baldermann JC, Huys D, Zauber SE, Schrock LE, Zhang JG, Hu W, Foote KD, Rizer K, Mink JW, Woods DW, Gunduz A, Okun MS.  The International Deep Brain Stimulation Registry and Database for Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome: How Does It Work?  Front Neurosci. 2016 Apr 25;10:170.

Deimling S, Sotiropoulos C, Lau K, Chaudhry S, Sturgeon K, Kelley S, Narayanan U, Howard A, Hui CC, Hopyan S.  Tibial hemimelia associated with GLI3 truncation.  J Hum Genet. 2016 May;61(5):443-6.

Downs-Canner S, Sheng Guo Z, Ravindranathan R, Breitbach CJ, O'Malley ME, Jones HL, Moon A, McCart JA, Shuai Y, Zeh HJ, Bartlett DL.  Phase I Study of Intravenous Oncolytic Poxvirus (vvDD) in Patients with Advanced Solid Cancers.  Mol Ther. 2016 May 16.

Elliott Donaghue I, Tator CH, Shoichet MS.  Local Delivery of Neurotrophin-3 and Anti-NogoA Promotes Repair After Spinal Cord Injury.  Tissue Eng Part A. 2016 May;22(9-10):733-41.

Escott BG, Richmond SA, Willan AR, Ravi B, Howard AW.  The impact of pedestrian countdown signals on single and two vehicle motor vehicle collisions: a quasi-experimental study.  Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. 2016 May 4:1-6.

Fischer CE, Golas AC, Schweizer TA, Munoz DG, Ismail Z, Qian W, Tang-Wai DF, Rotstein DL, Day GS.  Anti N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis: a game-changer?  Expert Rev Neurother. 2016 May 17:1-11.

Fortin M, Dobrescu O, Courtemanche M, Sparrey CJ, Santaguida C, Fehlings MG, Weber MH.  Association Between Paraspinal Muscle Morphology, Clinical Symptoms and Functional Status in Patients With Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.  Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2016 May 23.

Grosheva M, Nohroudi K, Schwarz A, Rink S, Bendella H, Sarikcioglu L, Klimaschewski L, Gordon T, Angelov DN.  Comparison of trophic factors' expression between paralyzed and recovering muscles after facial nerve injury. A quantitative analysis in time course.  Exp Neurol. 2016 May;279:137-48.

Gupta AA, Chong AL, Deveault C, Traubici J, Maloney AM, Knight S, Lorenzo A, Allen L.  Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) in Female Adolescent Cancer Patients Prior to, During and After Completion of Therapy: A Pilot Feasibility Study.  J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2016 May 13.

Hanna SA, Catapano J, Borschel GH.  Painful pediatric traumatic neuroma: surgical management and clinical outcomes.  Childs Nerv Syst. 2016 May 14.

Hendry JM, Alvarez-Veronesi MC, Placheta E, Zhang JJ, Gordon T, Borschel GH.  ErbB2 blockade with Herceptin (trastuzumab) enhances peripheral nerve regeneration after repair of acute or chronic peripheral nerve injury.  Ann Neurol. 2016 May 9.

Hird MA, Egeto P, Fischer CE, Naglie G, Schweizer TA.  A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of On-Road Simulator and Cognitive Driving Assessment in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment.  J Alzheimers Dis. 2016 May 11.

Huang XP, Ludke A, Dhingra S, Guo J, Sun Z, Zhang L, Weisel RD, Li RK.  Class II transactivator knockdown limits major histocompatibility complex II expression, diminishes immune rejection, and improves survival of allogeneic bone marrow stem cells in the infarcted heart.  FASEB J. 2016 May 24.

Hussain MA, Al-Omran M, Mamdani M, Eisenberg N, Premji A, Saldanha L, Wang, X Verma S, Lindsay T. Efficacy of a Guideline-Recommended Risk-Reduction Program to Improve Cardiovascular and Limb Outcomes in Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease. JAMA Surgery. 2016 Apr 6.
 
Hussain MA, Mamdani M, Saposnik G, Tu JV, Turkel-Parrella D, Spears J, Al-Omran M. Validation of carotid artery revascularization coding in Ontario health administrative databases. Clin Invest Med. 2016 Apr 2;39(2):E1-E6.
 
Hussain MA, Ayeed SB, Saeed OQ, Verma S, Al-Omran M. Impact of diabetes on carotid artery revascularization. J Vasc Surg. 2016 Apr;63:1099-107.
 
Hussain MA, Lindsay TF, Mamdani M, Wang X, Verma S, Al-Omran M. Sex differences in the outcomes of peripheral arterial disease: A population-based cohort study.  CMAJ Open. 2016 Mar 30;4(1):E124-E131.

Josse JM, Cleghorn MC, Ramji KM, Jiang H, Elnahas A, Jackson TD, Okrainec A, Quereshy FA.  The neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio predicts major perioperative complications in patients undergoing colorectal surgery.  Colorectal Dis. 2016 May 7.

Kato S, Shamji MF.  My Crooked and Aching Neck - Surgical Management of Cervical Deformity.  World Neurosurg. 2016 May 14.

Kidane B, Yasufuku K.  Advances in Image-Guided Thoracic Surgery.  Thorac Surg Clin. 2016 May;26(2):129-38.

Klotz L, Evans CP.  Surgery Provides Better Oncologic Outcomes than Radiation for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer.  J Urol. 2016 May 7.

Knudsen BS, Kim HL, Erho N, Shin H, Alshalalfa M, Lam LL, Tenggara I, Chadwich K, Van Der Kwast T, Fleshner N, Davicioni E, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR, Chan JM, Simko JP.  Application of a Clinical Whole-Transcriptome Assay for Staging and Prognosis of Prostate Cancer Diagnosed in Needle Core Biopsy Specimens.  J Mol Diagn. 2016 May;18(3):395-406.

Kolh P, Kurlansky P, Cremer J, Lawton J, Siepe M, Fremes S.  Transatlantic Editorial: a comparison between European and North American guidelines on myocardial revascularization.  Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 May;49(5):1307-17.

Lafay-Cousin L, Smith A, Chi SN, Wells E, Madden J, Margol A, Ramaswamy V, Finlay J, Taylor MD, Dhall G, Strother D, Kieran MW, Foreman NK, Packer RJ, Bouffet E.  Clinical, Pathological, and Molecular Characterization of Infant Medulloblastomas Treated with Sequential High-Dose Chemotherapy.  Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016 May 4.

Li YH, Tavallaee G, Tokar T, Nakamura A, Sundararajan K, Weston A, Sharma A, Mahomed NN, Gandhi R, Jurisica I, Kapoor M.  Identification of synovial fluid microRNA signature in knee osteoarthritis: differentiating early- and late-stage knee osteoarthritis.  Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2016 Apr 30.

Lopes RI, Naoum NK, Chua ME, Canil T, Dos Santos J, Farhat WA.  Outcome Analysis of Redo Orchiopexy: Scrotal vs Inguinal.  J Urol. 2016 May 5.

Lorenzo AJ, Romao RL.  The Evolving Role of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Pediatric and Adolescent Urologic Oncology.  Urology. 2016 May;91:180-9.

Loung RP, Cooney M, Fallon EM, Langer JC, Katzman DK.  Pneumothorax in a young man with anorexia nervosa.  Int J Eat Disord. 2016 May 19.

Loverdos I, Swan MC, Shekherdimian S, Al-Rasheed AA, Schneider R, Fish JS, Ngan BY, Adeli K, Lowe ME, Singh VP, Sevilla WM, Langer JC, Gonska T.  A case of pancreatitis, panniculitis and polyarthritis syndrome: Elucidating the pathophysiologic mechanisms of a rare condition.  J Pediatr Surg Case Rep. 2015 May;3(5):223-226.

Lu C, Jain SU, Hoelper D, Bechet D, Molden RC, Ran L, Murphy D, Venneti S, Hameed M, Pawel BR, Wunder JS, Dickson BC, Lundgren SM, Jani KS, De Jay N, Papillon-Cavanagh S, Andrulis IL, Sawyer SL, Grynspan D, Turcotte RE, Nadaf J, Fahiminiyah S, Muir TW, Majewski J, Thompson CB, Chi P, Garcia BA, Allis CD, Jabado N, Lewis PW.  Histone H3K36 mutations promote sarcomagenesis through altered histone methylation landscape.  Science. 2016 May 13;352(6287):844-9.

Mansouri A, Mansouri S, Hachem LD, Klironomos G, Vogelbaum MA, Bernstein M, Zadeh G.  The role of 5-aminolevulinic acid in enhancing surgery for high-grade glioma, its current boundaries, and future perspectives: A systematic review.  Cancer. 2016 May 16.

McEvenue G, Copeland A, Devon KM, Semple JL.  How Social Are We? A Cross-Sectional Study of the Website Presence and Social Media Activity of Canadian Plastic Surgeons. Aesthet Surg J. 2016 May 18.

Michler RE, Smith PK, Parides MK, Ailawadi G, Thourani V, Moskowitz AJ, Acker MA, Hung JW, Chang HL, Perrault LP, Gillinov AM, Argenziano M, Bagiella E, Overbey JR, Moquete EG, Gupta LN, Miller MA, Taddei-Peters WC, Jeffries N, Weisel RD, Rose EA, Gammie JS, DeRose JJ Jr, Puskas JD, Dagenais F, Burks SG, El-Hamamsy I, Milano CA, Atluri P, Voisine P, O'Gara PT, Gelijns AC; CTSN.  Two-Year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation.  N Engl J Med. 2016 May 19;374(20):1932-41.

Mouzaki M, Wang AY, Bandsma R, Comelli EM, Arendt BM, Zhang L, Fung S, Fischer SE, McGilvray IG, Allard JP.  Bile Acids and Dysbiosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.  PLoS One. 2016 May 20;11(5):e0151829.

Multani N, Goswami R, Colella B, Khodadadi M, Ebraheem A, Davis KD, Tator CH, Wennberg R, Mikulis DJ, Ezerins L, Tartaglia MC.  The association between white-matter tract abnormalities, and neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms in retired professional football players with multiple concussions.  J Neurol. 2016 May 3.

Nazari M, Ni NC, Lüdke A, Li SH, Guo J, Weisel RD, Li RK.  Mast cells promote proliferation and migration and inhibit differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells through PDGF.  J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2016 May;94:32-42.

Picillo M, Lozano AM, Kou N, Munhoz RP, Fasano A.  Programming Deep Brain Stimulation for Tremor and Dystonia: The Toronto Western Hospital Algorithms.  Brain Stimul. 2016 May-Jun;9(3):438-52.

Picillo M, Lozano AM, Kou N, Puppi Munhoz R, Fasano A.  Programming Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: The Toronto Western Hospital Algorithms.  Brain Stimul. 2016 May-Jun;9(3):425-37.

Poyet C, Wettstein MS, Lundon DJ, Bhindi B, Kulkarni GS, Saba K, Sulser T, Vickers AJ, Hermanns T.  External evaluation of a novel prostate cancer risk calculator (ProstateCheck) based on data of the Swiss arm of the ERSPC.  J Urol. 2016 May 14.

Rocco G, Nason K, Brunelli A, Varela G, Waddell T, Jones DR.  Management of stage IIIA (N2) non-small cell lung cancer: A transatlantic perspective.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016 May;151(5):1235-8.

Rumajogee P, Bregman T, Miller SP, Yager JY, Fehlings MG.  Rodent Hypoxia-Ischemia Models for Cerebral Palsy Research: A Systematic Review.  Front Neurol. 2016 Apr 25;7:57.

Sammartino F, Krishna V, Kon Kam King N, Lozano AM, Hodaie M.  Tractography-Based Ventral Intermediate Nucleus Targeting: Novel Methodology and Intraoperative Validation.  Mov Disord. 2016 May 23.

Selvadurai S, Al-Saleh S, Amin R, Zweerink A, Drake J, Propst EJ, Narang I.  Utility of brain MRI in children with sleep-disordered breathing.  Laryngoscope. 2016 May 2.

Smith TR, Hulou MM, Yan SC, Cote DJ, Nahed BV, Babu MA, Das S, Gormley WB, Rutka JT, Laws ER Jr, Heary RF.  Defensive medicine in neurosurgery: the Canadian experience.  J Neurosurg. 2016 May;124(5):1524-30.

Speight P, Kofler M, Szaszl K, Kapus A.  Context-dependent switch in chemo/mechanotransduction via multilevel crosstalk among cytoskeleton-regulated MRTF and TAZ and TGFβ-regulated Smad3.  Nature Communications.  18 May 2016; 7:11642.

Strauss I, Taha K, Krishna V, Hodaie M.  Younger age predicts greater effectiveness of spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain.  Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2016 May;158(5):999-1003.

Tarazi A, Tator CH, Tartaglia MC.  Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Movement Disorders: Update.  Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2016 May;16(5):46.

Taslimi S, Modabbernia A, Amin-Hanjani S, Barker FG 2nd, Macdonald RL.  Natural history of cavernous malformation: Systematic review and meta-analysis of 25 studies.  Neurology. 2016 May 24;86(21):1984-91.

Traub F, Singh J, Dickson BC, Leung S, Mohankumar R, Blackstein ME, Razak AR, Griffin AM, Ferguson PC, Wunder JS.  Efficacy of denosumab in joint preservation for patients with giant cell tumour of the bone.  Eur J Cancer. 2016 May;59:1-12.

Tsao AS, Scagliotti GV, Bunn PA Jr, Carbone DP, Warren GW, Bai C, de Koning HJ, Yousaf-Khan AU, McWilliams A, Tsao MS, Adusumilli PS, Rami-Porta R, Asamura H, Van Schil PE, Darling GE, Ramalingam SS, Gomez DR, Rosenzweig KE, Zimmermann S, Peters S, Ignatius Ou SH, Reungwetwattana T, Jänne PA, Mok TS, Wakelee HA, Pirker R, Mazières J, Brahmer JR, Zhou Y, Herbst RS, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Redman MW, Wynes MW, Gandara DR, Kelly RJ, Hirsch FR, Pass HI.  Scientific Advances in Lung Cancer 2015.  J Thorac Oncol. 2016 May;11(5):613-38.

Winter SF, Santaguida C, Wong J, Fehlings MG.  Systemic and Topical Use of Tranexamic Acid in Spinal Surgery: A Systematic Review.  Global Spine J. 2016 May;6(3):284-95.

Witsch J, Frey HP, Patel S, Park S, Lahiri S, Schmidt JM, Agarwal S, Falo MC, Velazquez A, Jaja B, Macdonald RL, Connolly ES, Claassen J.  Prognostication of long-term outcomes after subarachnoid hemorrhage: The FRESH-score.  Ann Neurol. 2016 Apr 30.

Yasufuku K.  Innovations in Thoracic Surgery.  Thorac Surg Clin. 2016 May;26(2):xi.

Zhong J, Chen DQ, Nantes JC, Holmes SA, Hodaie M, Koski L.  Combined structural and functional patterns discriminating upper limb motor disability in multiple sclerosis using multivariate approaches.  Brain Imaging Behav. 2016 May 4.

Zibetti M, Moro E, Krishna V, Sammartino F, Picillo M, Munhoz RP, Lozano AM, Fasano A.  Low-frequency Subthalamic Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease: Long-term Outcome and Predictors.  Brain Stimul. 2016 Apr 28.
 

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