Preoperative neurological status in predicting surgical outcome of spinal epidural hematomas

D Foo, AB Rossier - Surgical neurology, 1981 - Elsevier
The postoperative progress of 3 patients with spinal epidural hemorrhage, but without spinal
fracture or dislocation, is presented. From the literature, 158 cases were collected of …

Post-traumatic syringomyelia (cystic myelopathy): a prospective study of 449 patients with spinal cord injury.

B Schurch, W Wichmann, AB Rossier - Journal of Neurology …, 1996 - jnnp.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES--To assess the incidence of post-traumatic syringomyelia (PTS), to correlate
the presence of PTS with its most common signs and symptoms, and to compare results from …

Botulinum-A toxin as a treatment of detruosor-sphincter dyssynergia: a prospective study in 24 spinal cord injury patients

B Schurch, D Hauri, B Rodic, A Curt, M Meyer… - The Journal of …, 1996 - auajournals.org
Purpose: The paralytic effect of botulinum-A toxin injections on the external urethral
sphincter was investigated prospectively in patients with neurogenic voiding disorders …

Current facts on para-osteo-arthropathy (POA)

AB Rossier, PH Bussat, F Infante, R Zender… - Spinal Cord, 1973 - nature.com
Twelve cases of chronic POA and five cases of acute POA from clinical and radiologic onset
were studied in the light of the following parameters: X-rays; lower limb angiographies with …

Bladder cancer and squamous metaplasia in spinal cord injury patients

JM Kaufman, B Fam, SC Jacobs, F Gabilondo… - The Journal of …, 1977 - Elsevier
The influence of long-term indwelling urethral catheterization was studied by random
bladder and urethral biopsies in 62 spinal cord injury patients. Six patients (10 per cent) had …

Posttraumatic cervical syringomyelia: incidence, clinical presentation, electrophysiological studies, syrinx protein and results of conservative and operative treatment

AB Rossier, D Foo, J Shillito, FM Dyro - Brain, 1985 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In eleven years, 30 (3.2%) of 951 patients with spinal cord injury developed cervical
syringomyelia. This condition was found in 22 (4.5%) of 488 posttraumatic tetraplegic and 8 …

Post-traumatic spinal epidural hematoma

D Foo, AB Rossier - Neurosurgery, 1982 - journals.lww.com
Five patients with vertebral fracture and spinal epidural hematoma (SEH) are described.
Another 58-year-old man developed a post-traumatic SEH without bony damage. From the …

Anterior spinal artery syndrome and its natural history

D Foo, AB Rossier - Spinal Cord, 1983 - nature.com
The anterior spinal artery syndrome in three patients is described and from the literature 6o
additional patients were collected. Motor recovery in the following groups of patients was …

Prostaglandin E2 measurements: their value in the early diagnosis of heterotopic ossification in spinal cord injury patients

B Schurch, M Capaul, MB Vallotton… - Archives of physical …, 1997 - Elsevier
Objective: To look for a possible relation between the occurrence of heterotopic ossification
(HO) and the modifications of the 24-hour prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) urinary excretion …

Detrusor bladder neck dyssynergia revisited

B Schurch, K Yasuda, AB Rossier - The Journal of urology, 1994 - Elsevier
To our knowledge, direct measurement of active closure of the bladder neck during bladder
contraction resulting in bladder neck dyssynergia and outflow obstruction has not yet been …