Endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery: How we do it. Consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section

Introduction and research question: The use of an endoscope in skull base surgery provides a panoramic close-up view over the intracranial structures from multiple angles with excellent illumination, thus permitting greater extent of resection of tumors arising at sellar area, mostly represented by PitNet LED Emergency KITS - Pituitary neuroendocri

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Systematization of Nursing Care: how did the concept mature?

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the Systematization of Nursing Care conceptual maturation from the perspective of pragmatic utility.Methods: a concept analysis study.The stages were: select the concept; elaborate analytical questions; comprehensively review the literature; and determine concept structural components.Sixty-one documents were analyze

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Baseline hospital performance and the impact of medical emergency teams: Modelling vs. conventional subgroup analysis

Abstract Background To compare two approaches to the statistical analysis of the relationship between the baseline incidence of adverse events and the effect of medical emergency teams (METs).Methods Using data from a cluster randomized controlled trial (the MERIT study), we analysed the relationship between the baseline incidence of adverse events

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Morphological diversity of foliar trichomes in Asteraceae from Sand-fields of the Pampa biome, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil

ABSTRACT Asteraceae is the largest family of angiosperms and occurs predominantly in grassland areas.This study aimed to identify and characterize the foliar trichomes of 34 Asteraceae species from Sand-fields of the Sweeper Pampa biome, by means of epidermal analyzes (front and transverse view) under light and scanning electron microscopy.Eleven t

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