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John C. Wellons
Researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Publications - 268
Citations - 7014
John C. Wellons is an academic researcher from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hydrocephalus & Endoscopic third ventriculostomy. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 250 publications receiving 5695 citations. Previous affiliations of John C. Wellons include University of Alabama & Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
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Epidemiology of Global Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Qualitative Review.
TL;DR: TBI is a relatively common entity stretching across traditional geographic and demographic boundaries and affecting pediatric populations worldwide, and Continued civil infrastructure development and public health policy reforms may help to reduce the societal burden of pediatric TBI.
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Institutional experience with 500 cases of surgically treated pediatric Chiari malformation Type I.
R. Shane Tubbs,Joshua M. Beckman,Robert P. Naftel,Joshua J. Chern,John C. Wellons,Curtis J. Rozzelle,Jeffrey P. Blount,W. Jerry Oakes +7 more
TL;DR: This is believed to be the largest reported series of surgically treated pediatric Chiari malformation Type I patients and the authors hope that their experience will be of use to others who treat this surgical entity.
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Cerebrospinal fluid shunt survival and etiology of failures: a seven-year institutional experience.
Matthew J. McGirt,Jean-Christophe Leveque,John C. Wellons,Alan T. Villavicencio,John S. Hopkins,Herbert E. Fuchs,Timothy M. George +6 more
TL;DR: Shunt life span remains poorer in shunt revisions and in younger patients, and patient characteristics may suggest a specific risk and mechanism of failure, aiding in the long-term management of shunted hydrocephalus.
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Global hydrocephalus epidemiology and incidence: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Michael C. Dewan,Michael C. Dewan,Abbas Rattani,Abbas Rattani,Rania A. Mekary,Rania A. Mekary,Laurence Glancz,Ismaeel Yunusa,Ismaeel Yunusa,Ronnie E. Baticulon,Graham Fieggen,John C. Wellons,Kee B. Park,Benjamin C. Warf,Benjamin C. Warf +14 more
TL;DR: For the first time in a global model, the annual incidence of pediatric hydrocephalus is estimated and low- and middle-income countries incur the greatest burden of disease, particularly those within the African and Latin American regions.
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A standardized protocol to reduce cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection: The Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network Quality Improvement Initiative
John R. W. Kestle,Jay Riva-Cambrin,John C. Wellons,Abhaya V. Kulkarni,William E. Whitehead,Marion L. Walker,W. Jerry Oakes,James M. Drake,Thomas G. Luerssen,Tamara D. Simon,Richard Holubkov +10 more
TL;DR: In an effort to reduce the ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection rate, a standardized protocol was developed and implemented at 4 centers of the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (HCRN) as mentioned in this paper.