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Kostas N. Fountas
Researcher at University of Thessaly
Publications - 206
Citations - 5362
Kostas N. Fountas is an academic researcher from University of Thessaly. The author has contributed to research in topics: Traumatic brain injury & Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 198 publications receiving 4622 citations. Previous affiliations of Kostas N. Fountas include Erasmus University Rotterdam & CERETETH.
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Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion associated complications.
Kostas N. Fountas,Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki,Leonidas G. Nikolakakos,Hugh F. Smisson,Kim W. Johnston,Arthur A. Grigorian,Gregory P. Lee,Joe Sam Robinson +7 more
TL;DR: Meticulous knowledge of potential intraoperative and postoperative ACDF-related complications is of paramount importance so as to avoid them whenever possible, as well as to successfully and safely manage them when they are inevitable.
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Implantation of a closed-loop stimulation in the management of medically refractory focal epilepsy: a technical note.
Kostas N. Fountas,Joseph R. Smith,Anthony M. Murro,Jeffrey Politsky,Yong D. Park,Patrick D. Jenkins +5 more
TL;DR: The implantation of a closed-loop stimulation system, in the experience, represents a safe and relatively simple surgical procedure, however, the efficacy of this new treatment modality remains to be determined in further multi-institutional, prospective clinical studies.
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Consensus statement from the International Consensus Meeting on the Role of Decompressive Craniectomy in the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury : Consensus statement.
Peter J. Hutchinson,Angelos G. Kolias,Tamara Tajsic,Amos Olufemi Adeleye,Amos Olufemi Adeleye,Abenezer Tirsit Aklilu,Abenezer Tirsit Aklilu,Tedy Apriawan,Abdul Hafid Bajamal,Ernest J. Barthélemy,B Indira Devi,Dhananjaya I Bhat,Diederik Bulters,Randall M. Chesnut,Giuseppe Citerio,D. Jamie Cooper,D. Jamie Cooper,Marek Czosnyka,Idara Edem,Nasser M F El-Ghandour,Anthony Figaji,Kostas N. Fountas,Clare N. Gallagher,Gregory W.J. Hawryluk,Corrado Iaccarino,Mathew Joseph,Tariq Khan,Tsegazeab Laeke,Tsegazeab Laeke,Oleg V. Levchenko,Baiyun Liu,Weiming Liu,Andrew I R Maas,Geoffrey T. Manley,Paul N. Manson,Anna Teresa Mazzeo,David K. Menon,Daniel B. Michael,Susanne Muehlschlegel,David O. Okonkwo,Kee B. Park,Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld,Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld,Gail Rosseau,Andres M. Rubiano,Hamisi K. Shabani,Nino Stocchetti,Nino Stocchetti,Shelly D. Timmons,Ivan Timofeev,Chris Uff,Chris Uff,Jamie S. Ullman,Alex B. Valadka,Vicknes Waran,Adam J. Wells,Mark Wilson,Franco Servadei +57 more
TL;DR: The International Consensus Meeting on the Role of Decompressive Craniectomy in the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury took place in Cambridge, UK, on the 28th and 29th September 2017 and presented the final consensus-based recommendations.
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Management of intracranial meningeal hemangiopericytomas: outcome and experience
Kostas N. Fountas,Eftychia Z. Kapsalaki,Mozaffar Kassam,Carlos H. Feltes,Vassilios G. Dimopoulos,Joe Sam Robinson,Joseph R. Smith +6 more
TL;DR: Interventions for hemangiopericytomas management requires aggressive surgical resection, postoperative radiation treatment, and extensive follow-up to rule out local recurrences and delayed extracranial metastases.
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Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: review of the demographics, pathophysiology, current diagnosis, and treatment
TL;DR: The recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with CVST have significantly lowered the associated mortality and morbidity and have improved the outcome of these patients.