JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

February 24, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Spinal and paraspinal giant cervical cavernous malformation with postpartum presentation. Case report.

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JNS Weekly Podcast

February 24, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Staged resection of large vestibular schwannomas. Clinical article.

Indocyanine green fluorescence endoscopy for visual differentiation of pituitary tumor from surrounding structures. Clinical article.

The branching pattern of the middle cerebral artery: is the intermediate trunk real or not? An anatomical study correlating with simple angiography. Laboratory investigation.

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February 17, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Risk for leptomeningeal seeding after resection for brain metastases: implication of tumor location with mode of resection. Clinical article.

The occipital lobe convexity sulci and gyri. Laboratory investigation.

Use and utility of preoperative hemostatic screening and patient history in adult neurosurgical patients. Clinical article.

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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

February 10, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas and intrathecal venous drainage: correlation between digital subtraction angiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and clinical findings. Clinical article.

Recovery from spinal cord injury using naturally occurring antiinflammatory compound curcumin. Laboratory investigation. 

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February 10, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Spontaneous resolution of a Chiari malformation Type I and syrinx after supratentorial craniotomy for excision of a cavernous malformation. Case report.

Improvement of neurological recovery and stimulation of neural progenitor cell proliferation by intrathecal administration of Sonic hedgehog. Laboratory investigation.

Pressure-derived versus pressure wave amplitude–derived indices of cerebrovascular pressure reactivity in relation to early clinical state and 12-month outcome following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical article.

Neuroprotective and neurorestorative effects of thymosin β4 treatment initiated 6 hours after traumatic brain injury in rats. Laboratory investigation.

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February 7, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Novel report of expression and function of CD97 in malignant gliomas: correlation with Wilms tumor 1 expression and glioma cell invasiveness. Laboratory investigation.

Boxing and mixed martial arts: preliminary traumatic neuromechanical injury risk analyses from laboratory impact dosage data. Laboratory investigation.

Utility of presurgical navigated transcranial magnetic brain stimulation for the resection of tumors in eloquent motor areas. Clinical article.

A novel technique of multiple-site epidural blood patch administration for the treatment of cerebrospinal fluid hypovolemia. Clinical article.

Rates and predictors of long-term seizure freedom after frontal lobe epilepsy surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical article.

Crocodile tears syndrome after vestibular schwannoma surgery. Clinical article.

Treatment and outcomes of acute intracranial vertebrobasilar artery occlusion: one institution’s experience. Clinical article. 

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February 2012: Cerebral Blood Flow

February 1, 2012 — Neurosurgical Focus

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In this podcast, topic editor Dr. Warren Selman, with Dr. Alan Hoffer, both of University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, speak with Dr. William Freeman of the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. They discuss Dr. Freeman and colleagues’ article  “Validation of frontal near-infrared spectroscopy as noninvasive bedside monitoring for regional cerebral blood flow in brain-injured patients” which appears in this month’s issue.

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