Case Report: Frontoparietal Metastasis From a Primary Fallopian Tube Carcinoma
Background: Metastatic brain tumors typically arise from primary malignancies of the lung, kidney, breast, skin, and colorectum. Brain metastases originating from malignancies of the female genital...
View ArticleVirtual Connections: Improving Global Neurosurgery Through Immersive...
The field of neurosurgery has always been propelled by the adoption of novel technologies to improve practice. Although advancements have occurred in the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term outcomes of...
View ArticleUsefulness of Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring During the...
Background: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) has been widely applied in brain vascular surgeries to reduce postoperative neurologic deficit (PND). This study aimed to investigate the...
View ArticleComparison of Clinical Outcomes Following Lumbar Endoscopic Unilateral...
Introduction: Both lumbar endoscopic unilateral laminotomy bilateral decompression (LE-ULBD) and minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MI-TLIF) have been used to treat one-level...
View ArticleMachine Vision Navigation in Spine Surgery
The advancements in computing and digital localizer technologies has led to the evolving clinical application of image-guided technology for the surgical management of spinal disorders. Image-guided...
View ArticleThe Decline of Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder...
Background: In February 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC)...
View ArticleAugmented Reality in Medical Practice: From Spine Surgery to Remote Assistance
Background: While performing surgeries in the OR, surgeons and assistants often need to access several information regarding surgical planning and/or procedures related to the surgery itself, or the...
View ArticleAgitation Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Is a Clinical Sign of...
Objective: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in disorders of consciousness. Patients emerging from coma frequently exhibit aberrant behaviors such as agitation. These non-purposeful...
View ArticleEndoscopic Assistance in the Deep and Narrow Spaces of the Brain—Microscopic...
Introduction: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the innovative micro-inspection tool QEVO® (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Oberkochen, Germany) as an endoscopic adjunct to microscopes for better...
View ArticleEndoscopic Endonasal Transclival Approach to Ventral Pontine Cavernous...
Ventral medial pontine cavernous malformations are challenging due to the location in eloquent tissue, surrounding critical anatomy, and potential symptomatic bleeding. Conventional approaches, such as...
View ArticleAnterior Inferior Cerebellar Aneurysm Treated by Aneurysm Resection and...
Background: Anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) aneurysms are relatively rare in clinical practice, accounting for <1% of all intracranial arteries. After the diagnosis and location are...
View ArticleTraining the Next Generation of Academic Global Neurosurgeons: Experience of...
Introduction: Although the past decade has seen a substantial increase in African neurosurgeons' academic productivity, productivity remains low compared to their colleagues from other regions....
View ArticleNeeds of Young African Neurosurgeons and Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study
Introduction: Africa has many untreated neurosurgical cases due to limited access to safe, affordable, and timely care. In this study, we surveyed young African neurosurgeons and trainees to identify...
View ArticleRacial and Ethnic Inequities in Mortality During Hospitalization for...
The health disparities which drive inequities in health outcomes have long plagued our already worn healthcare system and are often dismissed as being a result of social determinants of health. Herein,...
View ArticleAutomated Quantitative Analysis of Blood Flow in Extracranial–Intracranial...
Microvascular imaging based on indocyanine green is an important tool for surgeons who carry out extracranial–intracranial arterial bypass surgery. In terms of blood perfusion, indocyanine green images...
View ArticleSpinal Cord Diffuse Midline Glioma With Histone H3 K27M Mutation in a...
Background: Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) with histone H3 K27M mutation is a recently identified entity documented in the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumors of the Central...
View ArticleAge at Diagnosis and Baseline Myelomalacia Sign Predict Functional Outcome...
Objective: Spinal meningioma (SM) accounts for 12% of all meningiomas. Clinical and immunohistochemical factors were analyzed with regard to functional outcome, surgical adverse events, and tumor...
View ArticleRadiological and Clinical Findings of Multiple Cerebellar Liponeurocytoma: A...
Background: Cerebellar liponeurocytoma is an extremely rare benign tumor which generally occurs in cerebellum and is almost always solitary. Multifocal cerebellar liponeurocytoma is exceedingly rare,...
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