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Peer-reviewed publications and selected congress presentations. Full profiles: ORCID · Google Scholar

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Publications

Evaluation of the outcomes of vagal nerve stimulation in children with drug-refractory epilepsy in South Africa
Kibuuka E, Mutyaba D, Ouma J, Labuschagne J. Childs Nerv Syst. 2026;42(1):35.
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Right-sided vagus nerve stimulation: worldwide collection and perspectives
Zanello M, Voges B, Chelvarajah R, et al (incl. Labuschagne J). Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2025;12(3):565-576.
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Sub-Saharan African experience of neurosurgical oncology care: challenges and barriers encountered at 7 cancer treatment centres
Haizel-Cobbina J, Chotai S, Labuschagne J, et al. J Neurosurg. 2024.
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Pediatric neurosurgical-oncology scope and management paradigms in Sub-Saharan Africa: a collaboration among 7 referral hospitals on the subcontinent
Haizel-Cobbina J, Chotai S, Labuschagne J, et al. Front Oncol. 2023;13:1257099.
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Awake craniotomy in Africa: a scoping review of literature and proposed solutions to tackle challenges
Mofatteh M, Mashayekhi MS, Arfaie S, et al (incl. Labuschagne JJ). Neurosurgery. 2023;93(2).
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Comparing the accuracy of ultrasound-based measurements of the cervical vagus nerve
Dörschner J, Pelz JO, Kerner AM, Labuschagne JJ, Hammer N, Löffler S. Sci Rep. 2023;13(1):884.
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Acalvaria: case report and review of the literature
Mutyaba D, Ouma J, Pillay T, Neethling W, Mohale D, Labuschagne J. Wits Journal of Neuroscience. 2023;4:6-9.
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Epstein-Barr virus-associated smooth muscle tumour involving the spine of an HIV-infected patient: a case report
Neethling W, Labuschagne J, Mutyaba D, Pillay T, Perner Y. Wits Journal of Neuroscience. 2023;4:10-13.
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Disseminated human subarachnoid coenurosis
Labuschagne J, Frean J, Parbhoo K, et al. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2022;7(12):405.
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Flexible endoscope-assisted suture release and barrel stave osteotomy for the correction of sagittal synostosis
Labuschagne J, Mutyaba D, Ouma J, Dewan M. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2023;31(1):71-77.
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Suprasellar arachnoid cyst due to ectopic choroid plexus: case report
Labuschagne J, Mutyaba D, Pillay T, Swart P. Childs Nerv Syst. 2022;38(7):1381-1384.
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Intra-operative monitoring as an adjuvant to standard vagus nerve stimulation implantation
Labuschagne J, Mutyaba D, Nel J, Casieri C. Childs Nerv Syst. 2021;37(12):3809-3816.
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Voice changes following vagus nerve stimulator implantation in the paediatric population
Labuschagne J. J Neurol Sci. 2021;429.
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Use of intra-operative stimulation of brainstem lesion target sites for frameless stereotactic biopsies
Labuschagne J, Mutyaba D, Nel J, Casieri C. Childs Nerv Syst. 2021;37(5):1515-1523.
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Tumefactive demyelinating multiple sclerosis in childhood: case report and review of the literature
Koranteng P, Mutyaba D, Bhana B, Labuschagne J. Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2021;3(3):211-214.

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The ethical aspects of intraoperative neuromonitoring: who should be performing it?
Nel J, Labuschagne J, Wareham C, Lee C, Chirwa P. Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2021;3(2).

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The use of 5-aminolaevulinic acid to assist gross total resection of paediatric posterior fossa tumours
Labuschagne JJ. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2020.
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Geospatial mapping of international neurosurgical partnerships and evaluation of extent of training and engagement
Olivieri DJ, Baticulon RE, Labuschagne JJ, Harkness W, Warf B, Dewan MC. World Neurosurg. 2020;144:e898-e907.
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Awake craniotomy in a child: assessment of eligibility with a simulated theatre experience
Labuschagne J, Lee CA, Mutyaba D, Mbanje T, Sibanda C. Case Rep Anesthesiol. 2020;2020:6902075.
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5-aminolaevulinic acid-guided surgery for recurrent supratentorial pediatric neoplasms
Labuschagne JJ. World Neurosurg. 2020;141:e763-e769.
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Intra-operative detection of a left-sided non-recurrent laryngeal nerve during vagus nerve stimulator implantation
Labuschagne JJ, Hammer N. Medicina. 2020;56(10):489.
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5-aminolaevulinic acid-guided surgery for focal pediatric brainstem gliomas: a preliminary study
Labuschagne JJ. Surg Neurol Int. 2020;11:334.
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Intrinsic brainstem epidermoid: case report and literature review
Labuschagne JJ, Mutyaba D, Koranteng P. Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020;2(3):251-254.

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Duplicated vagus nerve in adolescence: a case report and review of the literature
Labuschagne JJ, Hammer N. World Neurosurg. 2019.
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Vagus nerve stimulation: lead revision on a naïve segment of the vagus nerve
Labuschagne JJ. Neuromodulation. 2019.
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Glioblastoma multiforme as a secondary malignancy following stereotactic radiosurgery of a meningioma: case report
Labuschagne JJ, Chetty D. Neurosurg Focus. 2019;46(6):E11.
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