Neurosurgical Procedures

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Extraoperative" MRI (eoMRI) for Brain Tumor Surgery: Initial Results at a Single Institution. 
  • 315 Race as a Predictor of Postoperative Hospital Readmission After Spine Surgery. 
  • A bio-friendly and economical technique for chronic implantation of multiple microelectrode arrays. 
  • A brief history of surgery for peripheral nerve sheath tumors. 
  • A novel application for bolus remifentanil: blunting the hemodynamic response to Mayfield skull clamp placement. 
  • A population-based study of inpatient outcomes after operative management of nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in the United States. 
  • A survey-based study of wrong-level lumbar spine surgery: the scope of the problem and current practices in place to help avoid these errors. 
  • A systematic review of the use of expandable cages in the cervical spine. 
  • Adenosine for temporary flow arrest during intracranial aneurysm surgery: a single-center retrospective review. 
  • Adenosine-induced flow arrest to facilitate intracranial aneurysm clip ligation does not worsen neurologic outcome. 
  • Adenosine-induced flow arrest to facilitate intracranial aneurysm clip ligation: dose-response data and safety profile. 
  • Adenosine-induced transient asystole for intracranial aneurysm surgery: a retrospective review. 
  • Adjunct and minimally invasive techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of vertebral tumors. 
  • Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery in Patients With Movement Disorders: A Propensity-matched Analysis of Outcomes and Cost. 
  • Aggressiveness of care following intracerebral hemorrhage in women and men. 
  • Aging spine: challenges and emerging techniques. 
  • An assessment of frailty as a tool for risk stratification in adult spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Anaplastic extramedullary cervical ependymoma with leptomeningeal metastasis. 
  • Anatomical location dictating major surgical complications for intradural extramedullary spinal tumors: a 10-year single-institutional experience. 
  • Approach to pediatric epilepsy surgery: State of the art, Part I: General principles and presurgical workup. 
  • Approach to pediatric epilepsy surgery: State of the art, Part II: Approach to specific epilepsy syndromes and etiologies. 
  • Arterial blood pressure and heart rate discrepancies between handwritten and computerized anesthesia records. 
  • Artificial Intelligence Based Hierarchical Clustering of Patient Types and Intervention Categories in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Towards a New Classification Scheme that Predicts Quality and Value. 
  • Association of surgically acquired motor and language deficits on overall survival after resection of glioblastoma multiforme. 
  • Atypical pituitary adenoma: a clinicopathologic case series. 
  • Automating neurosurgical tumor resection surgery: Volumetric laser ablation of cadaveric porcine brain with integrated surface mapping. 
  • Blurring of local and remote practice models threatens IOM's future. 
  • Brain ablation in the rat cerebral cortex using a tunable-free electron laser. 
  • Brain abscess induced by Propionibacterium acnes in a patient with severe chronic sinusitis. 
  • Brainstem auditory evoked potential monitoring: when is change in wave V significant? 
  • C-2 neurectomy during atlantoaxial instrumented fusion in the elderly: patient satisfaction and surgical outcome. 
  • Castleman's disease of the sacral spine. 
  • Central Nervous System Tumors in Uganda: Outcomes of Surgical Treatment and Complications Assessed Through Telephone Survey. 
  • Central nervous system tumor distribution at a tertiary referral center in Uganda. 
  • Cerebellar hemorrhage after spinal surgery: report of two cases and literature review. 
  • Cerebellopontine angle meningiomas: postoperative outcomes in a modern cohort. 
  • Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis mimics high-grade astrocytoma. 
  • Characterization of the supplementary motor area syndrome and seizure outcome after medial frontal lobe resections in pediatric epilepsy surgery. 
  • Characterization of transsphenoidal complications in patients with acromegaly: an analysis of inpatient data in the United States from 2002 to 2010. 
  • Chemical meningitis following cerebellopontine angle tumor surgery. 
  • Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 2: complications and the influence of comorbid disease in California, Florida, and New York. 
  • Chordoid glioma: a case report and molecular characterization of five cases. 
  • Clinical and Prognostic Significance of Cerebrospinal Fluid Opening and Closing Pressures in Pediatric Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. 
  • Clinical and radiographic presentation and treatment of patients with cervical deformity secondary to thoracolumbar proximal junctional kyphosis are distinct despite achieving similar outcomes: Analysis of 123 prospective CD cases. 
  • Clinical outcomes following brachialis to anterior interosseous nerve transfers. 
  • Clipping of a cerebral aneurysm in a patient with Loeys-Dietz syndrome: case report. 
  • Clipping of very large or giant unruptured intracranial aneurysms in the anterior circulation: an outcome study. 
  • Comparison of minimally invasive transspinous and open approaches for thoracolumbar intradural-extramedullary spinal tumors. 
  • Comparison of outcomes between patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus who received a primary versus a salvage shunt. 
  • Comparison of radiosurgery and conventional surgery for the treatment of glomus jugulare tumors. 
  • Comparison of revision rates following endoscopically versus nonendoscopically placed ventricular shunt catheters. 
  • Complications and Resource Use Associated With Surgery for Chiari Malformation Type 1 in Adults: A Population Perspective. 
  • Complications and intercenter variability of three-column osteotomies for spinal deformity surgery: a retrospective review of 423 patients. 
  • Complications and outcomes after spinal cord tumor resection in the United States from 1993 to 2002. 
  • Comprehensive Overview of Contemporary Management Strategies for Cerebral Aneurysms. 
  • Computed tomography-guided bilateral transdiscal superior hypogastric plexus neurolysis. 
  • Contemporary surgical management of vestibular schwannomas: analysis of complications and lessons learned over the past decade. 
  • Cost effectiveness of a short-term pediatric neurosurgical brigade to Guatemala. 
  • Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Craniotomy for resection of meningioma in the elderly: a multicentre, prospective analysis from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Critical assessment of operative approaches for hearing preservation in small acoustic neuroma surgery: retrosigmoid vs middle fossa approach. 
  • Current and Emerging Surgical Therapies for Severe Pediatric Epilepsies. 
  • Decompressive hemicraniectomy in pediatric patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Determinants of Patient Satisfaction 2 Years After Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Latent Class Analysis. 
  • Development of Deployable Predictive Models for Minimal Clinically Important Difference Achievement Across the Commonly Used Health-related Quality of Life Instruments in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Development of a Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index (MSTFI) Using a Nationwide Database and Its Association with Inpatient Morbidity, Mortality, and Length of Stay After Spine Surgery. 
  • Device-Based Modulation of Neurocircuits as a Therapeutic for Psychiatric Disorders. 
  • Diagnostic Approach to Health Care- and Device-Associated Central Nervous System Infections. 
  • Differences between neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons in classifying cervical dislocation injuries and making assessment and treatment decisions: a multicenter reliability study. 
  • Distal ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure secondary to Clostridium difficile colitis. 
  • Distinction between paraclinoid and cavernous sinus aneurysms with computed tomographic angiography. 
  • Does CT wand guidance improve shunt placement in patients with hydrocephalus? 
  • Durability of hearing preservation after microsurgical treatment of vestibular schwannoma using the middle cranial fossa approach. 
  • Dural arteriovenous fistulas: a review of the literature and a presentation of a single institution's experience. 
  • Early Patient-Reported Outcomes Predict 3-Year Outcomes in Operatively Treated Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Effect of Resident and Fellow Involvement in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Effect of nitrous oxide use on long-term neurologic and neuropsychological outcome in patients who received temporary proximal artery occlusion during cerebral aneurysm clipping surgery. 
  • Effect of sedative and hypnotic doses of propofol on the EEG activity of patients with or without a history of seizure disorders. 
  • Effective Prevention of Proximal Junctional Failure in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery Requires a Combination of Surgical Implant Prophylaxis and Avoidance of Sagittal Alignment Overcorrection. 
  • Effectiveness of preoperative autologous blood donation for protection against allogeneic blood exposure in adult spinal deformity surgeries: a propensity-matched cohort analysis. 
  • Efficacy, complications and cost of surgical interventions for idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Endoscopic assisted microneurosurgery for cerebral aneurysms. 
  • Endoscopic burr hole evacuation of an acute subdural hematoma. 
  • Endoscopic resection of hypothalamic hamartoma using a novel variable aspiration tissue resector. 
  • Endoscopic surgery for hypothalamic hamartomas causing medically refractory gelastic epilepsy. 
  • Endoscopic trans-sphenoidal surgery for petroclival and clival meningiomas. 
  • Endovascular Treatment of Ruptured Enlarging Dissecting Anterior Spinal Artery Aneurysm. 
  • Endovascular treatment of proximal and distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms. 
  • Enhancing Reality: A Systematic Review of Augmented Reality in Neuronavigation and Education. 
  • Epidemiologic and survival trends in adult primary bone tumors of the spine. 
  • Epidemiology and Characteristics of Neurosurgical Conditions at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 
  • Estimating the Cost of Neurosurgical Procedures in a Low-Income Setting: An Observational Economic Analysis. 
  • Evaluation of complication rates of pediatric cranial procedures in which a polyethylene glycol sealant was used. 
  • Evaluation of complication rates of pediatric spinal procedures in which a polyethylene glycol sealant was used. 
  • Evaluation of complications and neurological deficits with three-column spine reconstructions for complex spinal deformity: a retrospective Scoli-RISK-1 study. 
  • Evaluation of the Risk Assessment and Prediction Tool for Postoperative Disposition Needs After Cervical Spine Surgery. 
  • Extent of surgical resection is independently associated with survival in patients with hemispheric infiltrating low-grade gliomas. 
  • External Validation of the Adult Spinal Deformity (ASD) Frailty Index (ASD-FI) in the Scoli-RISK-1 Patient Database. 
  • Factors Associated With Ambulation in Myelomeningocele: A Longitudinal Study From the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 
  • False increase BIS values with forced-air head warming. 
  • Geriatric comanagement reduces perioperative complications and shortens duration of hospital stay after lumbar spine surgery: a prospective single-institution experience. 
  • Glioblastoma in the elderly: the effect of aggressive and modern therapies on survival. 
  • Glioblastoma multiforme: a review of where we have been and where we are going. 
  • Gorlin syndrome and desmoplastic medulloblastoma: Report of 3 cases with unfavorable clinical course and novel mutations. 
  • Group-based Trajectory Modeling: A Novel Approach to Classifying Discriminative Functional Status Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Study of a 3-year Follow-up Group. 
  • Headache outcomes following treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: a prospective analysis. 
  • Hearing preservation in surgery for large vestibular schwannomas. 
  • Holospinal epidural abscesses - Institutional experience. 
  • How much is enough? The question of extent of resection in glioblastoma multiforme. 
  • Hyponatremia in the neurosurgical patient: diagnosis and management. 
  • Identifying Components Necessary for an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway for Elective Intracranial Surgery: An Improvement Project Using the Quality of Recovery-15 Score. 
  • Image-guided resection of embolized cerebral arteriovenous malformations based on catheter-based angiography. 
  • Impact of occupational characteristics on return to work for employed patients after elective lumbar spine surgery. 
  • Impact of postoperative pneumonia following pituitary surgery. 
  • Impact of tumor histology on resectability and neurological outcome in primary intramedullary spinal cord tumors: a single-center experience with 102 patients. 
  • Importance of Spinal Alignment in Primary and Metastatic Spine Tumors. 
  • Improved efficacy of temporally non-regular deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease. 
  • In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding "Enhancing Reality: A Systematic Review of Augmented Reality in Neuronavigation and Education". 
  • In Reply: Incidence and Predictive Factors of Sepsis Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • In Reply: Institutional Review of Mortality in 5434 Consecutive Neurosurgery Patients: Are We Improving? 
  • Increased cerebral blood flow after brain arteriovenous malformation resection is substantially independent of changes in cardiac output. 
  • Independent Associations With 30- and 90-Day Unplanned Readmissions After Elective Lumbar Spine Surgery: A National Trend Analysis of 144 123 Patients. 
  • Independent association of extent of resection with survival in patients with malignant brain astrocytoma. 
  • Inflammatory and dysplastic lesions involving the spine. 
  • Initial Experience With Real-Time Continuous Physical Activity Monitoring in Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery. 
  • Initial Experience with High-Definition Camera-On-a-Chip Flexible Endoscopy for Intraventricular Neurosurgery. 
  • Institutional Review of Mortality in 5434 Consecutive Neurosurgery Patients: Are We Improving? 
  • Insurance disparities in the outcomes of spinal cord stimulation surgery. 
  • Interdisciplinary Care Model Independently Decreases Use of Critical Care Services After Corrective Surgery for Adult Degenerative Scoliosis. 
  • International normalized ratio. 
  • Intracranial vertebral artery dissections: evolving perspectives. 
  • Intraoperative US versus intraoperative MR imaging for guidance during intracranial neurosurgery. 
  • Intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring in spine surgery. 
  • Intraoperative rupture of brainstem cavernous malformation. Case report. 
  • Introduction. Neurosurgical opportunities in global health inequities. 
  • Introduction. Update on adult neuro-oncology. 
  • Introduction: peripheral nerve surgery--biology, entrapment, and injuries. 
  • Launching Effectiveness Research to Guide Practice in Neurosurgery: A National Institute Neurological Disorders and Stroke Workshop Report. 
  • Less invasive transjugular approach with Fallopian bridge technique for facial nerve protection and hearing preservation in surgery of glomus jugulare tumors. 
  • Life After the Neurosurgical Ward in Sub-Saharan Africa: Neurosurgical Treatment and Outpatient Outcomes in Uganda. 
  • Long-term Cost Utility of Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. 
  • Long-term catheter angiography after aneurysm coil therapy: results of 209 patients and predictors of delayed recurrence and retreatment. 
  • Long-term outcome of endovascular stenting for symptomatic basilar artery stenosis. 
  • Long-term use of temozolomide: could you use temozolomide safely for life in gliomas? 
  • Low-grade glioma. 
  • Lymphocytic hypophysitis with cystic MRI appearance. 
  • Male sex may not be associated with worse outcomes in primary all-posterior adult spinal deformity surgery: a multicenter analysis. 
  • Management of obstetrical brachial plexus palsy evaluation, prognosis, and primary surgical treatment. 
  • Management of peripheral nerve defects: external fixator-assisted primary neurorrhaphy. 
  • Mannitol in Critical Care and Surgery Over 50+ Years: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials and Complications With Meta-Analysis. 
  • Masson's tumor of the pineal region: case report. 
  • Microsurgical management of 53 jugular foramen schwannomas: lessons learned incorporated into a modified grading system. 
  • Microsurgical management of hypoglossal schwannomas over 3 decades: a modified grading scale to guide surgical approach. 
  • Microsurgical resection of vestibular schwannomas: complication avoidance. 
  • Middle infratemporal fossa less invasive approach for radical resection of parapharyngeal tumors: surgical microanatomy and clinical application. 
  • Minimally Invasive Advances in Deformity. 
  • Minimally Invasive Muscle Sparing Posterior-Only Approach for Lumbar Circumferential Decompression and Stabilization to Treat Spine Metastasis--Technical Report. 
  • Modified trans-oral approach with an inferiorly based flap. 
  • Morbidity and mortality in the surgical treatment of 10,242 adults with spondylolisthesis. 
  • National Trends for Reoperation in Older Patients with Glioblastoma. 
  • National trends in surgical procedures for degenerative cervical spine disease: 1990-2000. 
  • National trends, complications, and outcomes following transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's disease from 1993 to 2002. 
  • Neuroanesthesia 2000. 
  • Neuroanesthesia Guidelines for Optimizing Transcranial Motor Evoked Potential Neuromonitoring During Deformity and Complex Spinal Surgery: A Delphi Consensus Study. 
  • Neurologic Outcomes of Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Results of the Prospective, Multicenter Scoli-RISK-1 Study. 
  • Neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring of the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves. 
  • Neurophysiological monitoring for the nucleus caudalis dorsal root entry zone operation. 
  • Neuropsychologic effects of neuromodulation techniques for treatment-resistant depression: a review. 
  • Neuropsychological impact of treatment of brain tumors. 
  • Neurosurgery in East Africa: Innovations. 
  • Neurosurgical Device-Related Infections. 
  • Neurosurgical Randomized Controlled Trials-Distance Travelled. 
  • Neurosurgical complications: what the radiologist needs to know. 
  • Neurosurgical evacuation of intracranial hemorrhage after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: experience from the GUSTO-I trial. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and tissue-plasminogen activator (tPA) for Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Neurosurgical interventions for spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita: clinical presentation and assessment of the literature. 
  • Neurotologic management of intracranial epidermoid tumors. 
  • Neurotologic surgery for glomus tumors. 
  • No association between intraoperative hypothermia or supplemental protective drug and neurologic outcomes in patients undergoing temporary clipping during cerebral aneurysm surgery: findings from the Intraoperative Hypothermia for Aneurysm Surgery Trial. 
  • Nonawake vs Awake Placement of Spinal Cord Stimulators: A Prospective, Multicenter Study Comparing Safety and Efficacy. 
  • Novel therapies for epilepsy in the pipeline. 
  • Obese Patients Benefit, but do not Fare as Well as Nonobese Patients, Following Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Surgery: An Analysis of the Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Optical imaging of epileptiform activity in human neocortex. 
  • Past, Present, and Future of Neurosurgery in Uganda. 
  • Patient Satisfaction After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery Does Not Strongly Correlate With Health-Related Quality of Life Scores, Radiographic Parameters, or Occurrence of Complications. 
  • Patient characteristics of smokers undergoing lumbar spine surgery: an analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Patient-controlled analgesia. 
  • Pediatric Neurosurgical Outcomes Following a Neurosurgery Health System Intervention at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Pediatrics. 
  • Perioperative fever and outcome in surgical patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Perioperative management of a neurosurgical patient requiring antiplatelet therapy. 
  • Perioperative outcomes for pediatric neurosurgical procedures: analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatrics. 
  • Persistent outpatient hyperglycemia is independently associated with decreased survival after primary resection of malignant brain astrocytomas. 
  • Persistent perioperative hyperglycemia as an independent predictor of poor outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Perspective on Ionizing Radiation Exposure to Neurosurgery Residents in the Modern Era. 
  • Perspective: surgical options for adult syringomyelia. 
  • Phase 1 dose escalation trial of the safety and pharmacokinetics of cabozantinib concurrent with temozolomide and radiotherapy or temozolomide after radiotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with high-grade gliomas. 
  • Physical and Family History Variables Associated With Neurological and Cognitive Development in Sturge-Weber Syndrome. 
  • Pilot Use of a Novel Tool to Assess Neurosurgical Capacity in Uganda. 
  • Polyethylene glycol hydrogel dural sealant may reduce incisional cerebrospinal fluid leak after posterior fossa surgery. 
  • Post-operative delirium is an independent predictor of 30-day hospital readmission after spine surgery in the elderly (≥65years old): A study of 453 consecutive elderly spine surgery patients. 
  • Postoperative Pulmonary Complications, Early Mortality, and Hospital Stay Following Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Multicenter Study by the Perioperative Research Network Investigators. 
  • Postoperative Recovery After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Comparative Analysis of Age in 149 Patients During 2-year Follow-up. 
  • Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter? 
  • Postoperative management of incidental durotomy in minimally invasive lumbar spinal surgery. 
  • Predictive Modeling of Length of Hospital Stay Following Adult Spinal Deformity Correction: Analysis of 653 Patients with an Accuracy of 75% within 2 Days. 
  • Preoperative planning for cerebral aneurysms based on in vitro experimentation: are we there yet? 
  • Preoperative spinal tumor embolization: an institutional experience with Onyx. 
  • Prevalence, characteristics, and management of swallowing disorders following cerebellopontine angle surgery. 
  • Primary intracerebral Hodgkin lymphoma with recurrence. 
  • Prophylactic correction of the international normalized ratio in neurosurgery: a brief review of a brief literature. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intractable partial epilepsy in children: a cohort study with controls. 
  • Quantifying deficits in the perception of fear and anger in morphed facial expressions after bilateral amygdala damage. 
  • Race as a predictor of postoperative hospital readmission after spine surgery. 
  • Radiculopathy in the setting of lumbar nerve root compression due to an extradural intraforaminal lipoma: a report of 3 cases. 
  • Radiosurgery for dural arterio-venous fistulas: a review. 
  • Randomized trial of pallidotomy versus medical therapy for Parkinson's disease. 
  • Rates of infection after spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Recovery Kinetics: Comparison of Patients Undergoing Primary or Revision Procedures for Adult Cervical Deformity Using a Novel Area Under the Curve Methodology. 
  • Recovery kinetics following spinal deformity correction: a comparison of isolated cervical, thoracolumbar, and combined deformity morphometries. 
  • Reducing the Reported Mortality Index Within a Neurocritical Care Unit Through Documentation and Coding Accuracy. 
  • Relationship Among Koenig Depression Scale and Postoperative Outcomes, Ambulation, and Perception of Pain in Elderly Patients (≥65 Years) Undergoing Elective Spinal Surgery for Adult Scoliosis. 
  • Reliability of a spinal metastasis prognostic score to model 1-year survival. 
  • Response of malignant scalp dermatofibrosarcoma to presurgical targeted growth factor inhibition. 
  • Response. 
  • Results of the AANS membership survey of adult spinal deformity knowledge: impact of training, practice experience, and assessment of potential areas for improved education: Clinical article. 
  • Retrosigmoid suprafloccular transhorizontal fissure approach for resection of brainstem cavernous malformation. 
  • Revision lateral skull base surgery. 
  • Risk Assessment and Prevention of Corneal Complications After Lateral Skull Base Surgery. 
  • Risk factors for vagal palsy following cerebellopontine angle surgery. 
  • Safety and efficacy of concurrent pediatric spinal cord untethering and deformity correction. 
  • Selection of treatment modalities or observation of arteriovenous malformations. 
  • Simple Neurectomy Versus Neurectomy With Intramuscular Implantation for Interdigital Neuroma: A Comparative Study. 
  • Simple identification of the third segment of the extracranial vertebral artery by extreme lateral inferior transcondylar-transtubercular exposure (ELITE). 
  • Simple method for determining the need for sternotomy/manubriotomy with the anterior approach to the cervicothoracic junction. 
  • Single-stage bilateral choroid plexectomy for choroid plexus papilloma in a patient presenting with high cerebrospinal fluid output. 
  • Special article: basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography examination: a consensus statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Spinal cavernous and capillary hemangiomas in adults. 
  • Spinal cord astrocytomas: a modern 20-year experience at a single institution. 
  • Spinal cord astrocytomas: progresses in experimental and clinical investigations for developing recovery neurobiology-based novel therapies. 
  • Spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Spinal meningiomas: surgical management and outcome. 
  • Spine. 
  • Spontaneous hemorrhage associated with a pilomyxoid astrocytoma. Case report. 
  • Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage and multiple intracranial aneurysms in a patient with Roberts/SC phocomelia syndrome. 
  • Spontaneous spinal subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to spinal aneurysms: diagnosis and treatment paradigm. 
  • Stent/coil treatment of very large and giant unruptured ophthalmic and cavernous aneurysms. 
  • Stereotactic radiosurgery versus surgical resection for spinal hemangioblastoma: A systematic review. 
  • Surgical Options for Atypical Facial Pain Syndromes. 
  • Surgical Treatment of Parkinson Disease. 
  • Surgical approaches to pineal region tumors. 
  • Surgical decision making in the setting of severe traumatic brain injury: A survey of neurosurgeons. 
  • Surgical exposure of the sciatic nerve in the gluteal region: anatomic and historical comparison of two approaches. 
  • Surgical management of brainstem cavernomas: selection of approaches and microsurgical techniques. 
  • Surgical management of nonvascular lesions around the oculomotor nerve. 
  • Surgical management of posterior petrous meningiomas. 
  • Symptomatic brainstem cavernomas. 
  • Symptomatic epidural cerebrospinal fluid collection following lumbar puncture and aneurysm clipping. 
  • Tentorial detachment technique in the combined petrosal approach for petroclival meningiomas. 
  • The Chiari Severity Index: a preoperative grading system for Chiari malformation type 1. 
  • The clinical and financial impact of a pediatric surgical neuro-oncology clinical trial. 
  • The clinical importance of medulloblastoma extent of resection: a systematic review. 
  • The diploic venous system: surgical anatomy and neurosurgical implications. 
  • The effect of furosemide on intravascular volume status and electrolytes in patients receiving mannitol: an intraoperative safety analysis. 
  • The evolution of future directions of neuroendovascular therapy: from clips to coils to? 
  • The history of the combined supra- and infratentorial approach to the petroclival region. 
  • The implementation and efficacy of the Northwestern High Risk Spine Protocol. 
  • The incidence of unacceptable movement with motor evoked potentials during craniotomy for aneurysm clipping. 
  • The presigmoid approach to anterolateral pontine cavernomas. Clinical article. 
  • The role of concurrent fusion to prevent spinal deformity after intramedullary spinal cord tumor excision in children. 
  • The role of simulation in neurosurgery. 
  • The use of motor mapping to aid resection of eloquent gliomas. 
  • The utility of cone beam volume CT in the evaluation of thrombosed intracranial aneurysms in subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Thoracolumbar spinal deformity. 
  • Thoracolumbar vertebral reconstruction after surgery for metastatic spinal tumors: long-term outcomes. 
  • Three-dimensional brain surface visualization for epilepsy surgery of focal cortical dysplasia. 
  • Tight glycemic control reduces infection and improves neurological outcome in critically ill neurosurgical and neurological patients. 
  • Tokuhashi score is predictive of survival in a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for renal cell carcinoma spinal metastases. 
  • Total en bloc spondylectomy for locally aggressive and primary malignant tumors of the lumbar spine. 
  • Total intravenous anesthesia: advantages for intracranial surgery. 
  • Transient adenosine-induced asystole during the surgical treatment of anterior circulation cerebral aneurysms: technical note. 
  • Transnasal Transsphenoidal Elevation of Optic Chiasm in Secondary Empty Sella Syndrome Following Prolactinoma Treatment. 
  • Transsphenoidal surgery for malignant pituitary lesions: an analysis of inpatient complications. 
  • Treatment of complex intracranial aneurysms with a telescoping stent technique. 
  • Treatment outcome of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients aged 70 years and older. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Trends in surgical use and associated patient outcomes in the treatment of acoustic neuroma. 
  • Trigeminal schwannomas: skull base approaches and operative results in 105 patients. 
  • Two surgeons four-hand microneurosurgery with universal holder system: technical note. 
  • Unilateral versus bilateral lower extremity motor deficit following complex adult spinal deformity surgery: is there a difference in recovery up to 2-year follow-up? 
  • Unrecognized dislocation of the medial portion of the triceps: another cause of failed ulnar nerve transposition. 
  • Unusual association of congenital kyphosis and conus lipoma presenting as a double spinal cord tether. 
  • Unusual presentation of an adult intramedullary spinal teratoma with diplomyelia. 
  • Utility of neuromonitoring during lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy for adult spinal deformity. 
  • Utilization of Predictive Modeling to Determine Episode of Care Costs and to Accurately Identify Catastrophic Cost Nonwarranty Outlier Patients in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Step Toward Bundled Payments and Risk Sharing. 
  • Vestibular schwannomas in the modern era: epidemiology, treatment trends, and disparities in management. 
  • Who benefits from surgery for brain metastases? 
  • Women fare best following surgery for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: a comparison of the most and least satisfied patients utilizing data from the Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Working area and angle of attack in three cranial base approaches: pterional, orbitozygomatic, and maxillary extension of the orbitozygomatic approach. 
  • Working area and angle of attack in three cranial base approaches: pterional, orbitozygomatic, and maxillary extension of the orbitozygomatic approach. 
  • Worse outcomes for patients undergoing brain tumor and cerebrovascular procedures following the ACGME resident duty-hour restrictions. 
  • Young Neurosurgeons Committee of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons: Training Ground for Future Leaders in Organized Neurosurgery in the United States of America. 
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  • Berger, Miles, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke Science & Society
  • Gottfried, Oren N, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology