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CV of I K Pople
 
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Qualifications & Research



Qualifications


MB ChB, 1983 (general qualification)

FRCS, 1987 (general surgery degree)

MD, 1992 (doctorate of medicine)

FRCS(SN), 1993(neurosurgical specialist fellowship degree)

American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgery Exam 1995





Research Papers

1. Pople IK. Trigger wrist due to idiopathic synovial hypertrophy. J Hand Surg [Br] 1986;11(3):453-4.

2. Pople IK, Phillips H. Bone cement and the liver. A dose-related effect? J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 1988;70(3):364-6.

3. Pople IK, Ralphs DN. An aetiology for fistula in ano. Br J Surg 1988;75(9):904-5.

4. Pople IK. Merkel cell tumour of the face successfully treated with radical radiotherapy. Eur J Surg Oncol 1988;14(1):79-81.

5. Pople IK, Quinn MW, Bayston R. Morbidity and outcome of shunted hydrocephalus. Z Kinderchir 1990;45 Suppl 1:29-31.

6. Pople IK, Quinn MW, Bayston R, Hayward RD. The Doppler pulsatility index as a screening test for blocked ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. Eur J Pediatr Surg 1991;1 Suppl 1:27-9.

7. Pople IK, Harding B. Primary intracranial malignant fibrous histiocytoma in a 5-year-old boy: case report. Br J Neurosurg 1991;5(5):509-13.

8. Kelly AJ, Pople I, Cummins BH. Unusual craniocerebral penetrating injury by a power drill: case report. Surg Neurol 1992;38(6):471-2.

9. Pople IK, Bayston R, Hayward RD. Infection of cerebrospinal fluid shunts in infants: a study of etiological factors. J Neurosurg 1992;77(1):29-36.

10. Quinn MW, Pople IK. Middle cerebral artery pulsatility in children with blocked cerebrospinal fluid shunts. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1992;55(4):325-7.

11. Pople IK. Doppler flow velocities in children with controlled hydrocephalus: reference values for the diagnosis of blocked cerebrospinal fluid shunts. Childs Nerv Syst 1992;8(3):124-5.

12. Pople IK, Stranjalis G, Nelson R. Anticoagulant-related intracranial haemorrhage [see comments]. Br J Hosp Med 1993;49(6):428-9.

13. Pople IK, Griffith HB. Control of hydrocephalus by endoscopic choroid plexus coagulation--long- term results and complications. Eur J Pediatr Surg 1993;3 Suppl 1:17-8.

14. Pople IK, Arango JC, Scaravilli F. Intrinsic malignant glioma of the pineal gland. Childs Nerv Syst 1993;9(7):422-4.

15. Pople IK, Griffith HB. Prediction of an extruded fragment in lumbar disc patients from clinical presentations. Spine 1994;19(2):156-8.

16. Patel N, Pople IK, Cummins BH. Revisional lumbar microdiscectomy: an analysis of operative findings and clinical outcome. Br J Neurosurg 1995;9(6):733-7.

17. The Doppler effect (review article on the use of transcranial Doppler in the assessment of hydrocephalus). I.K.POPLE. Link 1991;134:8-10.

18. 4 chapters in 'Neurosurgery 93' (revision book for candidates taking higher professional exams in neurosurgery), on hydrocephalus, chronic subdural in infancy, complications of shunts and lumbar disc disease.

19 Pople IK, Ettles D. The role of endoscopic choroid plexus coagulation in the management of hydrocephalus. Neurosurgery 1995;36(4):698-701; discussion 701-2.

20 Pople IK, Muhlbauer MS, Sanford RA, Kirk E. Results and complications of intracranial pressure monitoring in 303 children. Pediatr Neurosurg 1995;23(2):64-7.

21 Musa BS, Pople IK, Cummins BH. Intracranial meningiomas following irradiation--a growing problem? Br J Neurosurg 1995;9(5):629-37.

22 Pople IK, Sanford RA, Muhlbauer MS. Clinical presentation and management of 100 infants with occipital plagiocephaly. Pediatr Neurosurg 1996;25(1):1-6.

23 Bateman D, Pople I. Brown Sequard at a theme park. Lancet 1998;352(Dec 98):1902.

24 Porchet F, Lombardi D, de Preux J, Pople IK. Inhibition of epidural fibrosis with ADCON-L: effect on clinical outcome one year following re-operation for recurrent lumbar radiculopathy [In Process Citation]. Neurol Res 1999;21 Suppl 1:S51-60.

25 Whitelaw A, Christie S, Pople I. Transforming growth factor beta-1. A possible signal molecule for post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus? Pediatric Research 1999;46:576-80.

26 R Bayston, J de Louvois, EM Brown, P Lees, IK Pople. The rational use of antibiotics in the treatment of brain abscess. Report by the Infection in Neurosurgery Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Br J Neurosurg 2000; 14: 525-530

27 R Bayston, J de Louvois, EM Brown, P Lees, IK Pople. Antibiotics in the management of penetrating intracranial injury ., Infection in Neurosurgery Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Lancet 2000; 355; 1813-1817.

28 Pople IK, Edwards RE, Aquilina C. Endoscopic Management of Hydrocephalus treatment. Chapter in Neurosurg Clin N Am 2001 Oct 12:4 719-35

29. Pople IK, Athanasiou TC, Sandeman DR, Coakham HB. The role of endoscopic biopsy and third ventriculostomy in the management of pineal region tumours. Br J Neurosurg 2001; 15:305-311.

30. Aquilina K, Edwards RJ, Pople IK. Placement of an Ommaya Reservoir at Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV): a useful adjunct in the diagnosis of ventriculostomy failure. Eur J Pediatr Surg 2001; 11(Suppl 1): S60-S68.

31. Pople IK. Editorial: 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. Eur J Pediatr Surg 2001; 11(Suppl 1): S3.

32. Brown EM, de Louvois J, Bayston R, Lees P, Pople IK, for the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Working Party on Neurosurgical Infections. Distinguishing between chemical and bacterial meningitis in patients who have undergone neurosurgery (letter). Inf Dis 2001;34:556-7.

33. Bridges SJ, Chambers TL, Pople IK.Plagiocephaly and Head Binding. Arch Dis Child 2002;86:144-145


PAPERS READ AT LEARNED SOCIETIES

The role of endoscopic choroid plexus coagulation in the management of hydrocephalus.
38th annual meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. Hertford, Connecticut, June 1994.
Control of hydrocephalus by choroid plexus coagulation - long-term results and complications. Annual meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, Glasgow June 1993.

Non-operative admissions to a regional neurosurgical unit - are they justified ? Society of British Neurological Surgeons Meeting, Birmingham 1993.

Endoscopic management of pineal-region tumours. At the 3rd international neuro-oncology meeting, Royal Marsden Hospital, 19th April 1993

The prediction of free prolapse in lumbar disc patients from their clinical presentation. At the Society of British Neurological Surgeons meeting in Hull, Sept.1992.

Doppler flow velocity changes in blocked ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. At the 35th meeting of the Society for Research into Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus, Liverpool, July 1991.

Morbidity and Outcome of Shunted Hydrocephalus. At the 34th international meeting of the Society for Research into Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus, Oveido, Spain, July 1990.