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1 | Kestle, John R. W. | Randomized trial of cerebrospinal fluid shunt valve design in pediatric hydrocephalus | OBJECTIVE: Forty percent of standard cerebrospinal fluid shunts implanted for the treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus fail within the first year. Two new shunt valves designed to limit excess flow, particularly in upright positions, were studied to compare treatment failure rates with those for st... | Shunt failure; Valve design; Orbis-Sigma valve; Delta valve | 1998 | |
2 | Kestle, John R. W. | Does thalamotomy alter the course of Parkinson's disease? | Irving Cooper (3) observed that unilateral Parkinson's disease seemed less likely to progress to the other side of the body after thalamotomy that abolished contralateral tremor and rigidity, an effect that he felt might be the result of either the surgery itself or the slow progression of that par... | 1996 |