Surgical treatment of symptomatic pineal cysts without hydrocephalus-meta-analysis of the published literature

CONCLUSIONS: Although the results support the role of surgery in the management of nhSPCs, they have to be interpreted with a great deal of caution as the current evidence is limited, consisting only of case reports and retrospective surgical series. Inherent to such studies are inhomogeneity and incompleteness of data, selection bias and bias related to assessment of outcome carried out by the treating surgeon in the majority of cases. Prospective studies with patient-reported and objective outcome assessment are needed to provide higher level of evidence.PMID:34854993 | DOI:10.1007/s00701-021-05054-0

Source: Pain Physician - December 2, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Riccardo Masina Ali Ansaripour Vladim ír Beneš Moncef Berhouma Joham Choque-Velasquez Per Kristian Eide Stepan Fedorko Steffen Fleck Juha Hernesniemi Andrzej Koziarski Martin M ájovský Andrzej Podgorski Henry Schroeder Charles Teo Andreas W Unterberg Source Type: research