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March 20, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Definitive single-stage posterior surgical correction of complete traumatic spondyloptosis at the thoracolumbar junction.

High self-assessment of disability and the surgeon’s recommendation against surgical intervention may negatively impact satisfaction scores in patients with spinal disorders.

Long-term outcomes in primary spinal osteochondroma: a multicenter study of 27 patients.

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JNS Weekly Podcast

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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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

February 27, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Fast dynamic imaging technique to identify obstructive lesions in the CSF space: report of 2 cases.

Hyponatremia and poor cognitive outcome following pediatric brain tumor surgery.

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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

February 27, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Comparison of minimally invasive surgery with standard open surgery for vertebral thoracic metastases causing acute myelopathy in patients with short- or mid-term life expectancy: surgical technique and early clinical results.

Patient misconceptions concerning lumbar spondylosis diagnosis and treatment.

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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

February 20, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Giant cell tumors of the spine: has denosumab changed the treatment paradigm?

Intraoperative and perioperative complications in minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: a review of 513 patients.

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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

February 13, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Early outcome of combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization in childhood hydrocephalus.

Interstitial radiotherapy using phosphorus-32 for giant posterior fossa cystic craniopharyngiomas.

Preliminary experience with an intraoperative MRI-compatible infant headholder: technical note.

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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

February 6, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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En bloc spondylectomy for primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the thoracic spine with aortic involvement: case report.

Percutaneous “K-wireless” pedicle screw fixation technique: an evaluation of the initial experience of 100 screws with assessment of accuracy, radiation exposure, and procedure time.

Posterior thoracic laminoplasty with dorsal, intramural identification of ventral defect and transferal discectomy for a spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak: case report.

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JNS Weekly Podcast

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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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

January 30, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Utility of neurophysiology in the diagnosis of tethered cord syndrome.

Arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging: toward noninvasive diagnosis and follow-up of pediatric brain arteriovenous malformations.

Test characteristics of quick brain MRI for shunt evaluation in children: an alternative modality to avoid radiation.

Spontaneous regression of infantile dural-based non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis after surgery: 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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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

January 16, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Thirteen-year follow-up of parasellar intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia successfully treated by surgical excision: case report.

Does the real-time thermal damage estimate allow for estimation of tumor control after MRI-guided laser-induced thermal therapy? Initial experience with recurrent intracranial ependymomas.

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JNS Weekly Podcast

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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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

January 9, 2015 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Progressive restoration of spinal sagittal balance after surgical correction of lumbosacral spondylolisthesis before skeletal maturity.

Outcomes following surgical intervention for impending and gross instability caused by multiple myeloma in the spinal column.

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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

December 19, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Treatment of pediatric Grade II spinal ependymomas: a population-based study.

Use of intraoperative Doppler ultrasound with neuronavigation to guide arteriovenous malformation resection: a pediatric case series.

Clinical implications of medulloblastoma subgroups: incidence of CSF diversion surgery.

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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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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

November 14, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Chiari malformation I and autism spectrum disorder: an underrecognized coexistence.

The supraorbital eyebrow approach in children: clinical outcomes, cosmetic results, and complications.

The supracerebellar-transtentorial approach to posteromedial temporal lesions in children with refractory epilepsy.

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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

November 14, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Effects of cross-linked high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid on epidural fibrosis: experimental study.

Entero-paraspinous fistula from recurrent spinal metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

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JNS: Spine Weekly Podcast

October 31, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Evaluation of glycerol-preserved bone allografts in cervical spine fusion: a prospective, randomized controlled trial.

Delayed cervical palsy following cervical spine fusion leads to an increase in hospital-related costs.

Factors affecting survival in 37 consecutive patients undergoing de novo stereotactic radiosurgery for contiguous sites of vertebral body metastasis from renal cell carcinoma.

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JNS: Pediatrics Weekly Podcast

October 31, 2014 — Neurosurgical Focus

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Sinus pericranii: diagnosis and management in 21 pediatric patients.

Microsurgical treatment of arteriovenous malformations in pediatric patients: the Boston Children’s Hospital experience.

Design and evaluation of a new synthetic brain simulator for endoscopic third ventriculostomy.

Long-term outcomes of resective epilepsy surgery after invasive presurgical evaluation in children with tuberous sclerosis complex and bilateral multiple lesions.

Targeted intraarterial anti-VEGF therapy for medically refractory radiation necrosis in the brain.

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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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