William R. Cheek
Baylor College of Medicine
25 Papers
213 Citations
William R. Cheek is an academic researcher from Baylor College of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Myelography. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of William R. Cheek include Boston Children's Hospital.
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Chiari type I malformation in children
TL;DR: Magnetic resonance imaging was essential to the diagnosis; the presence of tonsillar herniation was confirmed at surgery and the results of suboccipital decompression were favorable in this series.
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Epidural hibernoma as a complication of corticosteroid treatment. Case report.
TL;DR: This child was receiving chronic steroids for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when he presented with such a myelopathy, which was confirmed by metrizamide computerized tomography myelography as well as by surgical exploration and revealed that the epidural tissue was a brown-fat tumor or "hibernoma."
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Cytogenetic demonstration of gene amplification in a primary intracranial germ cell tumor.
TL;DR: Multiple numerical and structural chromosome abnormalities were noted along with a large homogeneously staining region (HSR) in a primary pineal germinoma and no isochromosome 12p was identified.
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Cerebellar hemorrhage in the term neonate: Developmental and neurologic outcome
W. Daniel Williamson,W. Daniel Williamson,Alan K. Percy,Alan K. Percy,Marvin A. Fishman,Marvin A. Fishman,William R. Cheek,William R. Cheek,Murdina M. Desmond,Murdina M. Desmond,Nancy LaFevers,Nancy LaFevers,Susan D Thurber,Susan D Thurber +13 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that term neonates surviving cerebellar hemorrhage have neurologic deficits related to the site of hemorrhage, and cognitive deficitsrelated to more generalized cerebral insult.
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Successful conservative management of cerebellar hematomas in term neonates.
TL;DR: In the 21 cases diagnosed during Abbreviations used CT: computerized tomography TCH: Texas Children's Hospital life, only one patient did not undergo operative procedure, and that infant died; the survival rate was 85% in the surgically treated patients.
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