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April 3, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Quantitative analysis of the Kawase versus the modified Dolenc-Kawase approach for middle cranial fossa lesions with variable anteroposterior extension.

Sensory abnormalities and masticatory function after microvascular decompression or balloon compression for trigeminal neuralgia compared with carbamazepine and healthy controls.

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March 27, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Plaque morphology (the PLAC Scale) on CT angiography: predicting long-term anatomical success of primary carotid stenting.

A successful case of multiple stereotactic radiosurgeries for ipsilateral recurrent trigeminal neuralgia.

Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial hemangioblastomas: a retrospective international outcome study.

Combined rigid and flexible endoscopy for tumors in the posterior third ventricle.

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March 20, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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No additional protection against ventriculitis with prolonged systemic antibiotic prophylaxis for patients treated with antibiotic-coated external ventricular drains.

Pallidal stimulation for Holmes tremor: clinical outcomes and single-unit recordings in 4 cases.

Actual and projected incidence rates for chronic subdural hematomas in United States Veterans Administration and civilian populations.

Endovascular transvenous cure for ruptured brain arteriovenous malformations in complex cases with high Spetzler-Martin grades.

Isolated cortical vein thrombosis: case series.

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March 13, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Fetal-type posterior cerebral artery: the pitfall of parent artery occlusion for ruptured P2 segment and distal aneurysms.

Complications following cranioplasty: incidence and predictors in 348 cases.

Remote transplantation of a third ventricle colloid cyst: case report.

Local control after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases in patients with melanoma with and without BRAF mutation and treatment.

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March 6, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Streamlining deep brain stimulation surgery by reversing the staging order.

Combined noninvasive language mapping by navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional MRI and its comparison with direct cortical stimulation.

Augmented reality–guided neurosurgery: accuracy and intraoperative application of an image projection technique.

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February 27, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Suprachiasmatic translamina terminalis corridor used in endoscopic endonasal approach for resecting third ventricular craniopharyngioma.

Usefulness of the indocyanine green fluorescence endoscope in endonasal transsphenoidal surgery.

On-demand pulsatile intracerebral delivery of carisbamate with closed-loop direct neurostimulation therapy in an electrically induced self-sustained focal-onset epilepsy rat model.

Analysis of neurosurgical reoperations: use of a surgical checklist and reduction of infection-related and preventable complication-related reoperations.

Suture retraction technique to prevent parent vessel obstruction following aneurysm tandem clipping.

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February 20, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid flow assessed using intraoperative MRI during posterior fossa decompression for Chiari malformation.

Sir Victor Horsley: pioneer craniopharyngioma surgeon.

Sellar and parasellar tumor removal without discontinuing antithrombotic therapy.

Role of superior hypophyseal artery in visual function impairment after paraclinoid carotid artery aneurysm surgery.

Technological innovation in neurosurgery: a quantitative study.

Characterization of radiation-induced cavernous malformations and comparison with a nonradiation cavernous malformation cohort.

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February 13, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Intracranial pressure monitoring in pediatric and adult patients with hydrocephalus and tentative shunt failure: a single-center experience over 10 years in 146 patients.

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February 6, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Cranial neurosurgical 30-day readmissions by clinical indication.

Porohyperelastic anatomical models for hydrocephalus and idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Comparison of language cortex reorganization patterns between cerebral arteriovenous malformations and gliomas: a functional MRI study.

An inferior alveolar intraneural cyst: a case example and an anatomical explanation to support the articular theory within cranial nerves.

Current surgical results with low-grade brain arteriovenous malformations.

Invasion of the cavernous sinus space in pituitary adenomas: endoscopic verification and its correlation with an MRI-based classification.

Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the management of cerebral metastases from non–small cell lung cancer.

Concurrent use of the Pipeline Embolization Device and coils for intracranial aneurysms: technique, safety, and efficacy.

Prostate cancer with perineural spread and dural extension causing bilateral lumbosacral plexopathy: case report.

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January 30, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Frontal operculum gliomas: language outcome following resection.

Deep brain stimulation versus anterior capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review of the literature.

The anatomy of Meyer’s loop revisited: changing the anatomical paradigm of the temporal loop based on evidence from fiber microdissection.

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January 27, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Birth desires and intentions of women diagnosed with a meningioma.

Cerebrolysin improves cognitive performance in rats after mild traumatic brain injury.

Publication productivity of neurosurgeons in Great Britain and Ireland.

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January 16, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Accuracy of direct magnetic resonance imaging-guided placement of drug infusion cannulae.

Giant intracranial epidermoids: is total removal feasible?

The human area postrema: clear-cut silhouette and variations shown in vivo.

Effect of exosomes derived from multipluripotent mesenchymal stromal cells on functional recovery and neurovascular plasticity in rats after traumatic brain injury.

Endoscopic endonasal resection of skull base chondrosarcomas: technique and early results.

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January 9, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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The utility of preoperative diffusion tensor imaging in the surgical management of brainstem cavernous malformations.

Julius Caesar Arantius (Giulio Cesare Aranzi, 1530–1589) and the hippocampus of the human brain: history behind the discovery.

Fatal rupture of a brain arteriovenous malformation flow-related aneurysm during microcatheter removal: a rare complication.

Emergent intracranial surgical embolectomy in conjunction with carotid endarterectomy for acute internal carotid artery terminus embolic occlusion and tandem occlusion of the cervical carotid artery due to plaque rupture.

Neurosurgical decision making: personal and professional preferences.

A noninvasive estimation of cerebral perfusion pressure using critical closing pressure.

Impact of resident participation on morbidity and mortality in neurosurgical procedures: an analysis of 16,098 patients.

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January 6, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Diffusion-weighted imaging–detected ischemic lesions associated with flow-diverting stents in intracranial aneurysms: safety, potential mechanisms, clinical outcome, and concerns.

64-detector CT angiography within 24 hours after carotid endarterectomy and correlation with postoperative stroke.

Prognostic value of premorbid hypertension and neurological status in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: pooled analyses of individual patient data in the SAHIT repository.

Classification of middle fossa floor dehiscence syndromes.

Microsurgical anatomy of the central lobe.

A 3D endoscopic transtubular transcallosal approach to the third ventricle.

Aspirin is associated with an increased risk of subdural hematoma in normal-pressure hydrocephalus patients following shunt implantation.

The role of microscope-integrated near-infrared indocyanine green videoangiography in the surgical treatment of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas.

“Highly Qualified Loser”? Harvey Cushing and the Nobel Prize.

Cerebral aneurysms and accelerated atherosclerosis in Russell-Silver syndrome: a new subtype?

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December 19, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage of unknown origin: hospital course and long-term clinical and angiographic follow-up.

Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potential recovery following opening of the fourth ventricle during posterior fossa decompression in Chiari malformation: case report.

Relationship of vocal cord paralysis to the coil diameter of vagus nerve stimulator leads.

Venous organization in the transverse foramen: dissection, histology, and magnetic resonance imaging.

Integrated open surgical and endovascular embolization treatment of a paracavernous venous plexus fistula: case report.

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December 5, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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High-resolution 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for pituitary adenoma detection in Cushing disease.

Wireless control of intraspinal microstimulation in a rodent model of paralysis.

Impact of intracranial pressure monitoring on mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Impact of early-onset seizures on grading and outcome in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Quality of life following surgery for large and giant vestibular schwannomas: a prospective.

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November 28, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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RNA interference targeting hypoxia-inducible factor 1α via a novel multifunctional surfactant attenuates glioma growth in an intracranial mouse model.

Clinical features and long-term outcomes of moyamoya disease: a single-center experience with 528 cases in China.

A treatment paradigm for high-grade brain arteriovenous malformations: volume-staged radio surgical downgrading followed by microsurgical resection.

Stereotactic radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations of the postgeniculate visual pathway.

Unstable moyamoya disease: clinical features and impact on perioperative ischemic complications.

Short pressure reactivity index versus long pressure reactivity index in the management of traumatic brain injury.

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November 21, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Attrition rates in neurosurgery residency: analysis of 1361 consecutive residents matched from 1990 to 1999.

Racial and ethnic disparities in discharge to rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury.

Dural arteriovenous fistulas of the hypoglossal canal: systematic review on imaging anatomy, clinical findings, and endovascular management.

Treatment by specialist surgical neurooncologists improves survival times for patients with malignant glioma.

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November 14, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Convection-enhanced delivery to the central nervous system.

Vertebral artery transposition for revascularization of the posterior circulation: a critical assessment of temporary and permanent complications and outcomes.

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November 10, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

JNS November 7, 2014—click here to listen.

Cost-consequence analysis of antibiotic-impregnated shunts and external ventricular drains in hydrocephalus.

Grüber’s ligament as a useful landmark for the abducens nerve in the transnasal approach.

Hypertonic saline reduces cumulative and daily intracranial pressure burdens after severe traumatic brain injury.

Frameless robotic stereotactic biopsies: a consecutive series of 100 cases.

William H. Feindel (1918–2014).

Intracranial inertial cavitation threshold and thermal ablation lesion creation using MRI-guided 220-kHz focused ultrasound surgery: preclinical investigation.

Smoking is not associated with recurrence and retreatment of intracranial aneurysms after endovascular coiling.

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October 31, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Intraoperative computed tomography for intracranial electrode implantation surgery in medically refractory epilepsy.

The natural clinical course of hemodynamically stable adult moyamoya disease.

Myelin-forming cell-specific cadherin-19 is a marker for minimally infiltrative glioblastoma stem-like cells.

Brief Pain Inventory–Facial minimum clinically important difference.

Neuroendoscopic biopsy of brain lesions: accuracy and complications.

Complications of epilepsy surgery in Sweden 1996–2010: a prospective, population-based study.

The results of a third Gamma Knife procedure for recurrent trigeminal neuralgia.

Intraoperative stereotactic injection of Indigo Carmine dye to mark ill-defined tumor margins: a prospective Phase I–II study.

Clinical, radiological, and pathological features in 43 cases of intracranial subependymoma.

In vivo measurement of the frame-based application accuracy of the Neuromate neurosurgical robot.

Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury: effect of blood alcohol concentration on Glasgow Coma Scale score and relation to computed tomography findings.

The endoscopic endonasal approach to the odontoid and its impact on early extubation and feeding.

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October 24, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Increases in microvascular perfusion and tissue oxygenation via pulsed electromagnetic fields in the healthy rat brain. Laboratory investigation.

Is local hypoperfusion the reason for transient neurological deficits after STA-MCA bypass for moyamoya disease? Clinical article.

Improved preservation of function during acoustic neuroma surgery. Clinical article.

Infections in patients undergoing craniotomy: risk factors associated with post-craniotomy meningitis. Clinical article.

Brainstem arteriovenous malformations: anatomical subtypes, assessment of “occlusion in situ” technique, and microsurgical results. Clinical article.

Unplanned readmissions and survival following brain tumor surgery. Clinical article.

Clival fractures in a Level I trauma center. Clinical article.

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October 10, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Tetraarsenic oxide–induced inhibition of malignant glioma cell invasion in vitro via a decrease in matrix metalloproteinase secretion and protein kinase B phosphorylation. Laboratory investigation.

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October 3, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Prognostic value of intrathecal heme oxygenate–1 concentration in patients with Fisher Grade III aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical article.

The Sport Concussion Education Project. A brief report on an educational initiative: from concept to curriculum. Special article.

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