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Aliya Kassam

Associate Professor
Verified email at ucalgary.ca
Cited by 5991

[HTML][HTML] Expanded endonasal approach: the rostrocaudal axis. Part I. Crista galli to the sella turcica

A Kassam, CH Snyderman, A Mintz, P Gardner… - Neurosurgical …, 2005 - thejns.org
Object Transsphenoidal approaches have been used for a century for the resection of
pituitary and other sellar tumors. More recently, the standard endonasal approach has been …

Discrimination in health care against people with mental illness

G Thornicroft, D Rose, A Kassam - International review of …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This paper discusses factors associated with low rates of help-seeking and poorer quality of
physical healthcare among people with mental illnesses. Evidence is reviewed on the …

Evolution of reconstructive techniques following endoscopic expanded endonasal approaches

A Kassam, RL Carrau, CH Snyderman, P Gardner… - Neurosurgical …, 2005 - thejns.org
Harvey Cushing first popularized the transsphenoidal route to the sella turcica, and Jules
Hardy subsequently refined it by adding the operating microscope. Over the ensuing decades, …

Yield response to water

J Doorenbos, AH Kassam - Irrigation and drainage paper, 1979 - books.google.com
Water is essential for crop production. Available water must be used rationally for efficient
crop production and high yields. This requires a proper understanding of the effect of water-…

Stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole brain radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for patients with multiple brain metastases

D Kondziolka, A Patel, LD Lunsford, A Kassam… - International Journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
Purpose: Multiple brain metastases are a common health problem, frequently diagnosed in
patients with cancer. The prognosis, even after treatment with whole brain radiation therapy (…

Fourth-order time-stepping for stiff PDEs

AK Kassam, LN Trefethen - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2005 - SIAM
A modification of the exponential time-differencing fourth-order Runge--Kutta method for
solving stiff nonlinear PDEs is presented that solves the problem of numerical instability in the …

Hypoxia promotes expansion of the CD133-positive glioma stem cells through activation of HIF-1α

…, RD McKay, J Engh, T Iwama, T Kunisada, AB Kassam… - Oncogene, 2009 - nature.com
Hypoxia contributes to the progression of a variety of cancers by activating adaptive
transcriptional programs that promote cell survival, motility and tumor angiogenesis. Although the …

The spread of conservation agriculture: justification, sustainability and uptake

A Kassam, T Friedrich, F Shaxson… - International journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been practised for three decades and has spread widely.
We estimate that there are now some 106 million ha of arable and permanent crops grown …

Stigma: ignorance, prejudice or discrimination?

G Thornicroft, D Rose, A Kassam… - The British Journal of …, 2007 - cambridge.org
The term stigma refers to problems of knowledge (ignorance), attitudes (prejudice) and
behaviour (discrimination). Most research in this area has been based on attitude surveys, media …

[HTML][HTML] Expanded endonasal approach: fully endoscopic, completely transnasal approach to the middle third of the clivus, petrous bone, middle cranial fossa, and …

AB Kassam, P Gardner, C Snyderman, A Mintz… - Neurosurgical …, 2005 - thejns.org
Object The middle third of the clivus and the region around the petrous internal carotid artery
(ICA) is a difficult area of the skull base in terms of access. This is a deep area rich with …