2023
Association between lower limb spasticity and cryptorchidism in males with cerebral palsy
Bortnick E, Logvinenko T, Wang H, Fogelman D, Shore B, Nelson C, Kurtz M. Association between lower limb spasticity and cryptorchidism in males with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2023, 66: 82-86. PMID: 37282840, DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.15644.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLower limb spasticityCerebral palsyLimb spasticityOrchidopexy ratesSevere lower limb spasticityPediatric Health Information System databaseHealth Information System databaseSpastic typeInformation System databaseSpasticityLogistic regressionMann-Whitney U testPalsyComparative statisticsSystem databaseCompare groupsContinuous variablesAssociationMann-WhitneyU testRiskPatientsPeopleMaleProviders
2022
Prenatal Diagnosis of Bladder Exstrophy and OEIS over 20 Years
Lee T, Weiss D, Roth E, Bortnick E, Jarosz S, Eftekharzadeh S, Groth T, Shukla A, Kryger J, Lee R, Canning D, Mitchell M, Borer J. Prenatal Diagnosis of Bladder Exstrophy and OEIS over 20 Years. Urology 2022, 172: 174-177. PMID: 36460061, DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2022.11.020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrenatal diagnosis rateRate of prenatal diagnosisBladder exstrophyRate of BEPrenatal diagnosisDiagnosis ratePrenatal historyPrenatal diagnosis of bladder exstrophyTreating institutionDiagnosis of bladder exstrophyDiagnosis of BECohort of patientsMulti-institutional databaseMultivariate logistic regressionPostnatal diagnosisFetal imagingPrimary closureDefect syndromePatientsLogistic regressionExstrophyDiagnosisStudy periodEvolving techniqueSex