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Kristin Smistad Myrmel
Researcher at University Hospital of North Norway
Publications - 9
Citations - 893
Kristin Smistad Myrmel is an academic researcher from University Hospital of North Norway. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Watchful waiting. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications receiving 729 citations.
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Comparison of a strategy favoring early surgical resection vs a strategy favoring watchful waiting in low-grade gliomas.
Asgeir Store Jakola,Kristin Smistad Myrmel,Roar Kloster,Sverre H. Torp,Sigurd Lindal,Geirmund Unsgård,Ole Solheim +6 more
TL;DR: For patients in Norway with LGG, treatment at a center that favored early surgical resection was associated with better overall survival than treatment at one that favored biopsy and watchful waiting, and this survival benefit remained after adjusting for validated prognostic factors.
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Surgical resection versus watchful waiting in low-grade gliomas.
Asgeir Store Jakola,Asgeir Store Jakola,Anne Jarstein Skjulsvik,Kristin Smistad Myrmel,Kristin Sjåvik,Geirmund Unsgård,Sverre H. Torp,Kristin Aaberg,Thomas Berg,Hong Yan Dai,K. Johnsen,Roar Kloster,Ole Solheim +12 more
TL;DR: In parallel population-based cohorts of LGGs, early surgical resection resulted in a clinical relevant survival benefit and the effect on survival persisted after adjustment for molecular markers.
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Low grade gliomas in eloquent locations - implications for surgical strategy, survival and long term quality of life.
Asgeir Store Jakola,Geirmund Unsgård,Kristin Smistad Myrmel,Roar Kloster,Sverre H. Torp,Sigurd Lindal,Ole Solheim +6 more
TL;DR: Eloquently located LGGs are associated with impaired survival compared to non-eloquently Located LGG, but in long-term survivors HRQL is similar, and support to the probable survival benefits of aggressive surgical strategies is added.
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Surgical strategies in low-grade gliomas and implications for long-term quality of life
Asgeir Store Jakola,Geirmund Unsgård,Kristin Smistad Myrmel,Roar Kloster,Sverre H. Torp,Lisa Millgård Sagberg,Sigurd Lindal,Ole Solheim +7 more
TL;DR: In long-term survivors an aggressive surgical approach using intraoperative 3D ultrasound image guidance in LGG does not lower HRQL compared to a more conservative surgical approach, which weakens a possible role for watchful waiting in L GG.
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Surgical strategy in grade II astrocytoma: a population-based analysis of survival and morbidity with a strategy of early resection as compared to watchful waiting
Asgeir Store Jakola,Geirmund Unsgård,Kristin Smistad Myrmel,Roar Kloster,Sverre H. Torp,Ole Kristian Losvik,Sigurd Lindal,Ole Solheim +7 more
TL;DR: Early 3D ultrasound guided resections improve survival, apparently without increased morbidity, compared to biopsy and watchful waiting in patients with diffuse World Health Organization (WHO) grade II astrocytomas.