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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/29800 holds various files of this Leiden University
dissertation.
Author: Moojen, Wouter Anton
Title: Introducing new implants and imaging techniques for lumbar spinal stenosis
Issue Date: 2014-11-19
List of publications
1. Moojen WA, Schenck CD, Lycklama à Nijeholt GJ, Jacobs WCH, Van der Kallen
BF, Arts MP, Peul WC, Vleggeert-Lankamp CLAM. Preoperative MR imaging in
patients with intermittent neurogenic claudication: relevance for diagnosis and
prognosis. 2014. Submitted.
2. Moojen WA, Bredenoord AL, Viergever RF, Peul WC. Scientific evaluation of spinal
implants; an ethical necessity. 2014. Submitted.
3. Van den Akker-van Marle ME, Moojen WA, Arts MP, Vleggeert-Lankamp CL, Peul
WC. Interspinous Process Devices without bony decompression versus Standard
Conventional Surgical Decompression for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Cost Utility
Analysis. Spine J. 2014.
4. Moojen WA, Arts MP, Jacobs WC, van Zwet EW, van den Akker-van Marle ME,
Koes BW, Vleggeert-Lankamp CL, Peul WC. IPD without bony decompression
versus conventional surgical decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis: 2-year
results of a double-blind randomized controlled trial. Eur Spine J. 2014.
5. Overdevest GM, Moojen WA, Arts MP, Vleggeert-Lankamp CL, Jacobs WC, Peul
WC. Management of lumbar spinal stenosis: a survey among Dutch spine
surgeons. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2014 Aug 7.
6. Moojen WA, Arts MP, Jacobs WC, van Zwet EW, van den Akker-van Marle ME,
Koes BW, Vleggeert-Lankamp CL, Peul WC; Leiden-The Hague Spine Intervention
Prognostic Study Group. BMJ. 2013 Nov 14;347:f6415. Interspinous process
device versus standard conventional surgical decompression for lumbar spinal
stenosis: randomized controlled trial.
7. Jacobs WC, Rubinstein SM, Willems PC, Moojen WA, Pellisé F, Öner FC, Peul WC, van
Tulder MW. Eur Spine J. 2014 Feb;23(2):481-2. Answer to the letter to the editor of
F. M. Kovacs et al. entitled “overviews should meet the methodological standards
of systematic reviews” concerning “the evidence on surgical interventions for
low back disorders, an overview of systematic reviews” by Wilco C.H. Jacobs et
al.; Eur Spine J, doi:10.1007/s00586-013-2823-4.
8. Jacobs WC, Kruyt MC, Moojen WA, Verbout AJ, Oner FC. J Clin Epidemiol. 2013
Dec;66(12):1347-55.e3. No evidence for intervention-dependent influence of
methodological features on treatment effect.
9. Jacobs WC, Rubinstein SM, Willems PC, Moojen WA, Pellisé F, Oner CF, Peul WC,
van Tulder MW. The evidence on surgical interventions for low back disorders,
an overview of systematic reviews. Eur Spine J. 2013 Sep;22(9):1936-49.
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List of publications
10.Bartels RH, van Tulder MW, Moojen WA, Arts MP, Peul WC. Laminoplasty and
laminectomy for cervical sponydylotic myelopathy: a systematic review. Eur
Spine J. 2013 Apr 11.
11.Moojen WA, Arts MP, Bartels RH, Jacobs WC, Peul WC. Effectiveness of interspinous
implant surgery in patients with intermittent neurogenic claudication: a
systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Spine J. 2011 Oct;20(10):1596-606. doi:
10.1007/s00586-011-1873-8. Epub 2011 Jun 11. Review.
12.Moojen WA, Vleggeert-Lankamp CL, Krol AD, Dijkstra SP. Spine (Phila Pa 1976).
Long-term results: adjuvant radiotherapy in en bloc resection of sacrococcygeal
chordoma is advisable. 2011 May 1;36(10):E656-61.
13.Moojen WA, Arts MP, Brand R, Koes BW, Peul WC. The Felix-trial. Double-blind
randomization of interspinous implant or bony decompression for treatment of
spinal stenosis related intermittent neurogenic claudication. BMC Musculoskelet
Disord. 2010 May 27;11:100. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-11-100.
14.Boone J, Schipper ME, Moojen WA, Borel Rinkes IH, Cromheecke GJ, van
Hillegersberg R. Robot-assisted thoracoscopic oesophagectomy for cancer. Br J
Surg. 2009 Aug;96(8):878-86. doi: 10.1002/bjs.6647.
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Curriculum vitae
Wouter Anton Moojen was born on the 27th of June, 1983 in Utrecht, The
Netherlands. He grew up in the village Groenekan. He obtained his Athenaeum
diploma (pre-university diploma) cum laude in Utrecht 2001. In 2001 he started
medical school at the Utrecht University and received his medical doctor degree
in 2007. In the same year he started working as a house officer at the University
Medical Center Utrecht (dr. J.W. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel). His interests in
vascular/skull base surgery and spine surgery (dr. G.J. Amelink and Professor F.C.
Öner) started. After six months he started at the Leiden University Medical Center. In
the summer of 2008 he visited Toronto Western Hospital (Professor Fehlings) where
his interest for spine research was triggered. In December 2008 his neurosurgery
residency program (J.HC. Voormolen and Professor W.C. Peul) commenced. The
patient inclusion for Felix Trial in Leiden University Medical Center and the Medical
Center Haaglanden started in 2009. In 2009 he was trained in neurology at the
Leiden University Medical Center (Professor R.A.C. Roos), in radiology at the Leiden
University Medical Center (Professor M.A. van Buchem), in intensive care medicine
(Professor E. de Jonge), pathology (dr. S.G. van Duinen), and in thoracic surgery
(Professor R.J.M. Klautz). In 2011 and in 2013 he worked in total for 15 months at the
neurosurgical departments in the Medical Center Haaglanden (R. Walchenbach) in
The Hague and for three months in Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (Professor
C.M.F. Dirven). In 2012 he finished his epidemiology training (MSc) at the VU
University Amsterdam. In 2014 he visited two neurosurgical centers abroad as part
of a travelling fellowship: Helsinki (Professor J. Hernesniemi) in July and August,
and Berlin (Professor P. Vajkoczy) in September and October. He will finish his
neurosurgery residency at the end of 2014. His areas of interest in neurosurgery
are spine, vascular and skull-base surgery.
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Acknowledgements
The following persons made it possible for me to write this thesis:
Elske van den Akker-van Marle, Sandra Annokkee, Hans Amelink, Annelien
Bredenoord, Mark Arts, Ronald Bartels, Elmy van Beelen, Irene van Beelen, Janneke
van Beijnum, Nanette van den Bersselaar, Jolanda Blom-de Vreugd, Ralph de Boer,
Jannie van Duijn, Saskia Dukker, Nathalie den Dulk, Niels van der Gaag, Anneke
Gaasbeek, Mirjam de Gooijer, Els den Hollander-Duym, Wilco Jacobs, Bas van de
Kallen, Ingrid van Kessel, Fred Kloet, Bart Koes, Brenda Kromhout-Hogewoning,
Jolanda Lavue, Geert Lycklama à Nijeholt, Martijn Malessy, Claudine Nogarede,
Marjon Nuijten, Cumhur Öner, Marina Oosterhuis, Wilma Ouwehand, Wilco Peul,
Willem Pondaag, Michelle de Raaf, Petra Robbers, Godard de Ruiter, Catharina
Schenck, Lidwien Smakman-Hageman, Jan Schoones, Brenda Schouten-Le Maître,
Pieter Schutte, Anouk Streede-Lamme, Adriaan Taselaar, Maurits van Tulder,
Jos Twisk, Ditte Varkevisser-Miedema, Hanneke Verheijde, Marco Verstegen, Rik
Viergever, Joice Videler-Pitlo, Tjitske Visser, Jacqueline Vogelaar-van Welie, Johan
Voormolen, Yvon van der Voort-Warmerdam, Christie Waanders, Rob Walchenbach,
Bonny Wennekers, Peter Willems, Jasper Wolfs, Hans Wurzer, Robin van Zijl.
The following organisations made it possible for me to write and print this thesis:
- Spine Intervention Prognostic Study Group
- Dutch Spine Society
- DePuySynthes companies of Johnson&Johnson
- InSpine
- Paradigm Spine
- BIOMET
- ChipSoft
- Implantcast Benelux
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This PhD Thesis is also digital viewable at:
http://www.my-thesis.nl/Moojen/, password: PDFMoojen
http://www.my-thesis.nl/Moojen/
password: PDFMoojen
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