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Zarina S. Ali, MD

University of Pennsylvania
Verified email at uphs.upenn.edu
Cited by 3173

Pediatric intracranial arachnoid cysts: comparative effectiveness of surgical treatment options

ZS Ali, SS Lang, D Bakar, PB Storm, SC Stein - Child's Nervous System, 2014 - Springer
Purpose A variety of surgical approaches for the treatment of pediatric intracranial arachnoid
cysts exist. In an effort to identify the optimal surgical treatment for this disorder, we …

Pre-optimization of spinal surgery patients: development of a neurosurgical enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol

ZS Ali, TS Ma, AK Ozturk, NR Malhotra… - Clinical neurology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Despite surgical, technological, medical, and anesthetic improvements, patient
outcomes following elective neurosurgical procedures can be associated with high morbidity. …

Upper brachial plexus injury in adults: comparative effectiveness of different repair techniques

ZS Ali, GG Heuer, RWF Faught, SH Kaneriya… - Journal of …, 2015 - thejns.org
OBJECT Adult upper trunk brachial plexus injuries result in significant disability. Several
surgical treatment strategies exist, including nerve grafting, nerve transfers, and a combination …

Suprasellar pediatric craniopharyngioma resection via endonasal endoscopic approach

ZS Ali, SS Lang, AR Kamat, ND Adappa… - Child's Nervous …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Purely endoscopic endonasal approaches to surgical resection of pediatric suprasellar
craniopharyngiomas are uncommonly performed. The aim of the study is to assess the …

Enhanced recovery after elective spinal and peripheral nerve surgery: pilot study from a single institution

ZS Ali, TM Flanders, AK Ozturk, NR Malhotra… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2019 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols address pre-, peri-, and
postoperative factors of a patient’s surgical journey. The authors sought to assess the effects of a …

Comparative effectiveness of treatment options for pediatric craniopharyngiomas

ZS Ali, RL Bailey, LB Daniels, V Vakhshori… - Journal of …, 2014 - thejns.org
Object No clear treatment guidelines for pediatric craniopharyngiomas exist. The authors
developed a decision analytical model to evaluate outcomes of 4 surgical approaches for …

A randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of enhanced recovery after surgery on patients undergoing elective spine surgery

ZS Ali, A Albayar, J Nguyen, RS Gallagher… - Annals of …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
… ’s been reduced over the years, but that is a good dose approximation in the last 3 to 5
years in the literature, and that’s consistent with our last several thousand patients, so it’s about …

Plasmalemmal vesicle associated protein-1 (PV-1) is a marker of blood-brain barrier disruption in rodent models

…, EB Carson-Walter, Y Liu, BN Winans, ZS Ali… - BMC neuroscience, 2008 - Springer
Background Plasmalemmal vesicle associated protein-1 (PV-1) is selectively expressed in
human brain microvascular endothelial cells derived from clinical specimens of primary and …

Ultrasonographic evaluation of peripheral nerves

ZS Ali, JM Pisapia, TS Ma, EL Zager, GG Heuer… - World neurosurgery, 2016 - Elsevier
There are a variety of imaging modalities for evaluation of peripheral nerves. Of these,
ultrasonography (US) is often underused. There are several advantages of this imaging modality, …

A comparative morphologic analysis of adult onset leukodystrophy with neuroaxonal spheroids and pigmented glia-a role for oxidative damage

ZS Ali, JP Van Der Voorn… - Journal of Neuropathology …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We performed a blinded study on 5 cases of hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with
spheroids and 10 cases of the pigmentary type of orthochromatic leukodystrophy, 6 of the latter …