Antonio Varone
Boston Children's Hospital
13 Papers
45 Citations
Antonio Varone is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Hydrocephalus. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
Neuroendoscopic management of interhemispheric cysts in children
Giuseppe Cinalli,Paola Peretta,Pietro Spennato,Luciano Savarese,Antonio Varone,Paola Vedova,Gianpina Grimaldi,Paola Ragazzi,Claudio Ruggiero,Emilio Cianciulli,Giuseppe Maggi +10 more
TL;DR: Endoscopic treatment of interhemispheric arachnoid cysts can be considered a useful alternative to traditional treatments, even if some complications are to be expected, such as subdural or subcutaneous CSF collections and CSF leaks due to thinness of cerebral mantle and to the often-associated multifactorial hydrocephalus.
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Pseudotumor cerebri
Pietro Spennato,Claudio Ruggiero,Raffaele Stefano Parlato,Maria Consiglio Buonocore,Antonio Varone,Emilio Cianciulli,Giuseppe Cinalli +6 more
- 01 Feb 2011
TL;DR: Pseudotumor cerebri is a condition characterized by raised intracranial pressure, normal CSF contents, and normal brain with normal or small ventricles on imaging studies as mentioned in this paper.
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Neuroendoscopic management of interhemispheric cysts in children
Giuseppe Cinalli,Paola Peretta,Pietro Spennato,Luciano Savarese,Antonio Varone,Paola Vedova,Gianpina Grimaldi,Paola Ragazzi,Claudio Ruggiero,Emilio Cianciulli,Giuseppe Maggi +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, seven consecutive pediatric patients with interhemispheric arachnoid cysts underwent neuroendoscopic treatment involving cystoventriculostomy in two patients, cystocisternostoma in two, and cystovectomy in three.
Cytogenetic evaluation of isochromosome 17q in posterior fossa tumors of children and correlation with clinical outcome in medulloblastoma. Detection of a novel chromosomal abnormality.
Carolina DeChiara,Annamaria Borghese,Amedeo Fiorillo,Rita Genesio,Anna Conti,Rosa D'Amore,Guido Pettinato,Antonio Varone,Giuseppe Maggi +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that this chromosomal abnormality, i(17q), representing a loss of heterozygosity for the short arm of the chromosome 17, is not an independent prognostic factor, but may be a marker for uncontrolled cell proliferation.
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Malignant cerebral infarction associated with COVID-19 in a child.
Maria Rosaria Scala,Maria Rosaria Scala,Pietro Spennato,Domenico Cicala,Veronica Piccolo,Antonio Varone,Giuseppe Cinalli +6 more
TL;DR: A case of a child with serological evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection whose onset was a massive right cerebral artery ischemia that led to a malignant cerebral infarction was presented in this article.