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List of works by Sandi Lam

A case for international neurosurgical experience: US resident experiences with pediatric spinal dysraphism cases

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

A novel percutaneous system for bone graft delivery and containment for elevation and stabilization of vertebral compression fractures. Technical note

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A standardized protocol to reduce pediatric baclofen pump infections: a quality improvement initiative

scientific article published on 26 January 2018

Acute spinal cord injury associated with multilevel pediatric idiopathic intervertebral disc calcification: case report

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Analysis of risk factors and survival in pediatric high-grade spinal cord astrocytoma: a population-based study

scientific article published in January 2012

Analysis of survival in pediatric high-grade brainstem gliomas: A population-based study.

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Ankyrin-G isoform imbalance and interneuronopathy link epilepsy and bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Anterior Choroidal Artery Aneurysms: Influence of Regional Microsurgical Anatomy on Safety of Endovascular Treatment

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Cerebrospinal fluid shunt placement in the pediatric population: a model of hospitalization cost

scientific article published in November 2014

Choroid plexus tumors in children: a population-based study

scientific article published on January 2013

Clinical outcomes of microendoscopic foraminotomy and decompression in the cervical spine

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

Comparing Short-term Complications of Inpatient Versus Outpatient Single-level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: An Analysis of 6940 Patients Using the ACS-NSQIP Database

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Comparison between patient and surgeon perception of degenerative spine disease outcomes--a prospective blinded database study

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Comparison of open and minimally invasive surgery for intradural-extramedullary spine tumors.

scientific article published on August 2015

Complete Resolution of Papilledema in Syndromic Craniosynostosis with Posterior Cranial Vault Distraction

scientific article published on April 2017

Complications after craniosynostosis surgery: comparison of the 2012 Kids' Inpatient Database and Pediatric NSQIP Database

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Congenital neurocristic tumor presenting as an isolated calvarial defect in an infant: case report

scientific article published on 3 April 2015

Connectivity changes after laser ablation: Resting-state fMRI.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Correlating Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity by Independent Component Analysis-Based Epileptogenic Zones with Intracranial Electroencephalogram Localized Seizure Onset Zones and Surgical Outcomes in Prospective Pediat

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

Cranial Fasciitis: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic Approach to a Pediatric Scalp Mass

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Cranioplasty for large-sized calvarial defects in the pediatric population: a review.

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Craniosynostosis surgery: the legacy of Paul Tessier

scientific article published in April 2014

Deep brain stimulator-induced diaphoresis in Parkinson's disease patients

scientific article published on 9 August 2013

Delayed intracranial hypertension after surgery for nonsyndromic craniosynostosis

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Dermal sinus tract: clinical presentation and imaging findings

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Dyspnea and dysphagia from upper airway obstruction after occipitocervical fusion in the pediatric age group

scientific article published on April 2015

Eosinophilic granuloma/Langerhans cell histiocytosis: Pediatric neurosurgery update

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Evaluating the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric Surgical Risk Calculator for Pediatric Craniosynostosis Surgery

Exchange hybrid cranioplasty using particulate bone graft and demineralized bone matrix: the best of both worlds

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Factors influencing outcomes of the treatment of positional plagiocephaly in infants: a 7-year experience

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

GE-06IDENTIFICATION OF TARGETABLE MUTATIONS IN RARE PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMORS BY CLINICAL WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING.

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

HG-48INTEGRATED SEQUENCING OF PEDIATRIC PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA WITH ANAPLASIA REVEALS MOLECULAR FEATURES OF BOTH LOW AND HIGH-GRADE GLIAL TUMORS.

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

History of synthetic materials in alloplastic cranioplasty

scientific article published on April 2014

Impact of Anemia and Transfusion on Readmission and Length of Stay After Spinal Surgery: A Single-center Study of 1187 Operations

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Impact of antibiotic prophylaxis for intrathecal baclofen pump surgery in pediatric patients

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Impact of negative clinical trial results for vertebroplasty on vertebral augmentation procedure rates

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Infected Subgaleal Hematoma Following Blunt Head Trauma in a Child: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

scientific article published on 13 June 2015

Insurance transitions and healthcare utilization for children with refractory epilepsy

Interrupted time-series analysis: studying trends in neurosurgery.

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Intracranial venous hypertension in craniosynostosis: mechanistic underpinnings and therapeutic implications

Intraoperative and perioperative complications in minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: a review of 513 patients.

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Intraventricular Cyst Causing Acute Obstructive Hydrocephalus: Neurocysticercosis Managed With Neuroendoscopy

scientific article published on 26 September 2015

Is there a "July effect" in pediatric neurosurgery?

scientific article published on 13 May 2017

Isolated Unilateral Frontosphenoidal Craniosynostosis: A Rare Cause of Anterior Plagiocephaly

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Key perspectives on donepezil following brain irradiation, sacroiliac joint fusion, indocyanine green fluorescence endoscope in endonasal transsphenoidal surgery, postconcussion syndrome in young athletes

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Letter to the Editor: Bridging the gap between administrative data and clinical observations

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Letters to the Editor: challenges in identifying endoscopic third ventriculostomy

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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of the spine: a SEER database analysis

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Management of hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumors

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Management of intracerebral hemorrhage in pediatric neurosurgery

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Massive sialadenitis resulting in critical airway after elective craniotomy: case report

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Measuring surgical outcomes in cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: assessment of minimum clinically important difference.

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Measuring surgical outcomes in subaxial degenerative cervical spine disease patients: minimum clinically important difference as a tool for determining meaningful clinical improvement

scientific article published in February 2014

Meconium staining of the brainstem with open myelomeningocele

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Microendoscopic decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy

scientific article published on July 2013

Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) for Spondylolisthesis in 282 Patients: In Situ Arthrodesis versus Reduction.

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Modern management of medulloblastoma: Molecular classification, outcomes, and the role of surgery

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Multidisciplinary Management of Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome in Children: Operationalizing an Outpatient Patient-Centered Workflow

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Multidisciplinary care of craniosynostosis

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Multilevel thoracic hemangioma with spinal cord compression in a pediatric patient: case report and review of the literature.

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Multimodal Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms in Children: Clinical Case Series and Review of the Literature

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Nationwide practice patterns in the use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in pediatric spine surgery as a function of patient-, hospital-, and procedure-related factors

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

Neuromuscular hamartoma of the sciatic nerve: Case report and review of the literature.

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Neurosurgery Concepts: Key perspectives on C2 nerve root transection following C1 lateral mass screw fixation, choroid plexus cauterization in infants with hydrocephalus, quality of life following treatment of vestibular schwannoma, dynamic magnetic

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Neurosurgery Concepts: Key perspectives on quality of life in children with spina bifida, cilengitide for the treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma, surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of intracranial metastasis, Gamma Knife

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Neurosurgery concepts: Key perspectives on deferoxamine and chronic hydrocephalus from intraventricular hemorrhage, laboratory dissection training in neurosurgical residency, tetanus toxoid and dendritic cell vaccines for glioblastoma, and intracran

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Neurosurgery concepts: Key perspectives on imaging characteristics of spinal metastases, surgery for low back pain, anesthesia for disc surgery, and laminectomy versus laminectomy and fusion for lumbar spondylolisthesis.

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

Neurosurgery concepts: Key perspectives on intrathecal fluorescein for detecting intraoperative cerebrospinal fluid leak during endoscopic endonasal surgery, spinal intraarterial chemotherapy, oligoastrocytoma classification by in situ molecular gen

scientific article published on 07 October 2016

Orbital Infection With Intracranial Involvement.

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Outcomes of cranioplasty following decompressive craniectomy in the pediatric population.

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Outcomes of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in adults

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Patient and treatment factors associated with survival among adult glioblastoma patients: A USA population-based study from 2000-2010.

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Patient and treatment factors associated with survival among pediatric glioblastoma patients: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results study

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Patient-, procedure-, and hospital-related risk factors of allogeneic and autologous blood transfusion in pediatric spinal fusion surgery in the United States

scientific article published on April 2015

Pediatric National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: Useful for Quality Improvement in Craniosynostosis Surgery?

scientific article published on April 2016

Pediatric cerebral cavernous malformations: Genetics, pathogenesis, and management.

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Pediatric endoscopic third ventriculostomy: a population-based study.

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Pediatric intracranial aneurysms: considerations and recommendations for follow-up imaging

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Pediatric knowledge update: Approach to the management of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations in neonates

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Perioperative antibiotic use in vagus nerve stimulator implantation: a clinical series.

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Permeability imaging in pediatric brain tumors

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Posterior cranial fossa box expansion leads to resolution of symptomatic cerebellar ptosis following Chiari I malformation repair.

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Posterior fossa syndrome in children following tumor resection: Knowledge update

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Predictors of Thirty Day Hospital Readmission Following Posterior Cervical Fusion in 3401 Patients

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Predictors of survival in patients with spinal ependymoma.

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Prognostic factors and survival in primary adult high grade brainstem astrocytoma: a population based study from 1973-2008.

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Putative height acceleration following tethered cord release in children

scientific article published on 17 October 2014

Readmission and complications within 30 days after intrathecal baclofen pump placement

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Reconstructive approach to hostile cranioplasty: A review of the University of Chicago experience.

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

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Revision surgeries following vagus nerve stimulator implantation

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Risk Factors for Medical and Surgical Complications Following Single-Level ALIF.

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Risk factors and long-term survival in adult patients with primary malignant spinal cord astrocytomas

scientific article published on 29 September 2013

Risk factors and long-term survival in adult patients with primary malignant spinal cord astrocytomas.

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Subcentimeter epilepsy surgery targets by resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging can improve outcomes in hypothalamic hamartoma

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Surgical management of lipomyelomeningocele in children: Challenges and considerations

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Survey of the Effectiveness of Internet Information on Patient Education for Bone Morphogenetic Protein.

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

The Impact of Insurance, Race, and Ethnicity on Age at Surgical Intervention among Children with Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis

scientific article published on May 2015

The effect of weekend and after-hours surgery on morbidity and mortality rates in pediatric neurosurgery patients.

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The health belief model and factors associated with adherence to treatment recommendations for positional plagiocephaly

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

The impact of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on recovery from mild traumatic brain injury

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

The impact of obesity on surgeon ratings and patient-reported outcome measures after degenerative cervical spine disease surgery

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

The impact of steroids, methotrexate, and biologics on clinical and radiographic outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing fusions at the craniovertebral junction.

scientific article published on April 2015

The relationship between obesity and symptomatic Chiari I malformation in the pediatric population

scientific article published on October 2015

The role of spinal angiography in the evaluation and treatment of pediatric spinal vascular pathology: a case series and systematic review

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

The safety and efficacy of use of low-molecular-weight heparin in pediatric neurosurgical patients

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

The use of vancomycin powder in modern spine surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis of the clinical evidence.

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Thecal shunt placement for treatment of obstructive primary syringomyelia

scientific article published on December 2008

Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Factors Following Single-Level Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) for 4992 Patients From the ACS-NSQIP Database

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Thirty-day outcomes after postnatal myelomeningocele repair: a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric database analysis

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Thirty-day outcomes in pediatric epilepsy surgery

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Thirty-day readmission rate and risk factors for patients undergoing single level elective anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF).

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Transfrontal and Transsphenoidal Approaches to Pediatric Craniopharyngioma: A National Perspective

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Treatment of pediatric Grade II spinal ependymomas: a population-based study

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Treatment options for pediatric craniopharyngioma

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Trends in epidemiology and hospitalization utilization for myelomeningocele repair from 2000 to 2009.

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Trends in outcomes, complications, and hospitalization costs for hemispherectomy in the United States for the years 2000-2009.

scientific article published on 20 December 2014

Unplanned intraoperative extubations in pediatric neurosurgery: analysis of case series to increase patient safety

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Use of a formal assessment instrument for evaluation of resident operative skills in pediatric neurosurgery.

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Use of subtransverse process polyester bands in pediatric spine surgery: a case series of 4 patients with a minimum of 12 months' follow-up

scientific article published on 30 October 2015

Usefulness of minimum clinically important difference for assessing patients with subaxial degenerative cervical spine disease: statistical versus substantial clinical benefit

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Venous thromboembolism in the setting of pediatric traumatic brain injury

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Virtual surgical planning and 3D printing in repeat calvarial vault reconstruction for craniosynostosis: technical note

scientific article published on 3 February 2017