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Acta Neurochirurgica

Issue 3/2022

Content (40 Articles)

Central Nervous System Trauma Review Article - Brain trauma

Long-term outcome after severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic literature review

Cassidy Q. B. Mostert, Ranjit D. Singh, Maxime Gerritsen, Erwin J. O. Kompanje, Gerard M. Ribbers, Wilco C. Peul, Jeroen T. J. M. van Dijck

Open Access Central Nervous System Trauma Original Article - Brain trauma

Prognosis in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury in a Swedish cohort and external validation of the IMPACT models

Elham Rostami, David Gustafsson, Anders Hånell, Timothy Howells, Samuel Lenell, Anders Lewén, Per Enblad

Open Access Subdural Hematoma Original Article - Brain trauma

Craniotomies following acute traumatic brain injury in Finland—a national study between 1997 and 2018

Nea Nevalainen, Teemu M. Luoto, Grant L. Iverson, Ville M. Mattila, Tuomas T. Huttunen

Craniotomy Original Article - Brain Tumors

Optimizing post anesthesia care unit admission after elective craniotomy for brain tumors: a cohort study

Marina Munari, Alessandro De Cassai, Ludovica Sandei, Christelle Correale, Sabrina Calandra, Davide Iori, Federico Geraldini, Alessandra Vitalba, Marzia Grandis, Franco Chioffi, Paolo Navalesi

Open Access Traumatic Brain Injuries Original Article - Brain trauma

Alcohol intoxication and lack of helmet use are common in electric scooter-related traumatic brain injuries: a consecutive patient series from a tertiary university hospital

Eetu N. Suominen, Antti J. Sajanti, Eero A. Silver, Veerakaisa Koivunen, Anton S. Bondfolk, Janne Koskimäki, Antti J. Saarinen

Original Article - Brain trauma

Customized cost-effective polymethylmethacrylate cranioplasty: a cosmetic comparison with other low-cost methods of cranioplasty

Manish Baldia, Mathew Joseph, Suryaprakash Sharma, Deva Kumar, Ashwin Retnam, Santosh Koshy, Reka Karuppusami

Wound Dehiscence Original Article - Neurosurgical technique evaluation

Hydroxyapatite cement cranioplasty for reconstruction of translabyrinthine approach: aesthetic results, long-term satisfaction, quality of life, and complications

Rafael Martinez-Perez, Katherine E. Kunigelis, Ryan C. Ward, Timothy H. Ung, Gregory D. Arnone, Stephen P. Cass, Samuel P. Gubbels, A. Samy Youssef

Open Access Computer Aided Design Technical Note - Neurosurgical technique evaluation

The “springform” technique in cranioplasty: custom made 3D-printed templates for intraoperative modelling of polymethylmethacrylate cranial implants

Johannes P. Pöppe, Mathias Spendel, Christoph Schwartz, Peter A. Winkler, Jörn Wittig

Open Access Glioblastoma Original Article - Tumor - Glioma

Combined use of multimodal techniques for the resection of glioblastoma involving corpus callosum

Meng Cui, Hewen Chen, Guochen Sun, Jialin Liu, Meng Zhang, Hepu Lin, Caihong Sun, Xiaodong Ma

Open Access Glioma Original Article - Brain Tumors

Pretreatment patient-reported cognitive function in patients with diffuse glioma

Stine Schei, Ole Solheim, Øyvind Salvesen, Marianne Jensen Hjermstad, David Bouget, Lisa Millgård Sagberg

Open Access Glioma Original Article - Brain Tumors

Psychooncological distress in low-grade glioma patients—a monocentric study

Alessandra Ley, Marcel Kamp, Christiane von Sass, Daniel Hänggi, Michael Sabel, Marion Rapp

Open Access Glioma Original Article - Brain Tumors

The utility of plasma circulating cell-free messenger RNA as a biomarker of glioma: a pilot study

Michael Itak Ita, Jiang Huai Wang, André Toulouse, Chris Lim, Noel Fanning, Michael O’Sullivan, Yvonne Nolan, George Finbarr Kaar, Henry Paul Redmond

Targeted Therapy Case Report- Pituitaries

Dabrafenib monotherapy for a recurrent BRAFV600E-mutated TTF-1-positive posterior pituitary tumor

Flavie Grenier-Chartrand, Sami Barrit, Marie Lucie Racu, Sylvie Luce, Julien Spitaels, Niloufar Sadeghi-Meibodi, Laetitia Lebrun, Isabelle Salmon, Florence Lefranc, Olivier De Witte

Letter to the Editor (by Invitation) - Brain Tumors

Response to letter: “Stereotactic biopsies of brainstem lesions: dilemma on the best trajectory”

Amer Jaradat, Claudio Pollo

Letter to the editor - Neurosurgical technique evaluation

Stereotactic biopsies of brainstem lesions: dilemma on the best trajectory

Bertrand Mathon, Henri Malaizé, Aymeric Amelot

Letter to the Editor (by Invitation) - Brain Tumors

Response to: Some historical remarks on ipsilateral hemiparesis and the absence of decussation of the pyramidal tracts

Amit R. Persad, Layla Gould, Jonathan A. Norton, Kotoo Meguro

Autopsy Letter to the editor - History of Neurosurgery

Some historical remarks on ipsilateral hemiparesis and the absence of decussation of the pyramidal tracts

Rodrigo Carrasco Moro , José M. Pascual

Ependymoma How I Do it - Tumor - Other

Maximizing the subtonsillar transcerebellomedullary approach to suprasellar cistern: how I do it

Samuel G. McClugage III, Howard L. Weiner, Guillermo Aldave

Glioma How I Do it - Tumor - Glioma

How I do it: surgical resection of ventrolateral pontomesencephalic junction glioma via oculomotor-tentorial triangle

Zixiao Yang, Zhifeng Shi, Xiaowen Wang, Jianping Song

How I Do it - Neurosurgical Anatomy

How I do it: horizontal fissure approach to the middle cerebellar peduncle

Caleb Rutledge, Daniel A. Tonetti, Kunal P. Raygor, Adib A. Abla

Open Access Ependymoma How I Do it - Tumor - Other

How I do it: minimally invasive resection of a sub-ependymoma of the fourth ventricle

Marco V. Corniola, Torstein R. Meling

Open Access Intracranial Aneurysm Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

Current decision support tools fail to agree or predict therapeutic decisions in a single cohort of unruptured intracranial aneurysms

Ahilan Kailaya-Vasan, Joseph Frantzias, Jayantan Kailaya-Vasan, Ian A. Anderson, Daniel C. Walsh

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

The role of microsurgery for poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages in the endovascular era

Sahin Hanalioglu, Balkan Sahin, Sima Sayyahmelli, Burak Ozaydin, Ufuk Erginoglu, Abdurrahman Aycan, Mustafa K. Baskaya

Aneurysm Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

Outflow angle: a risk factor for thromboembolic complications in coil embolisation for treating unruptured middle cerebral artery bifurcation aneurysms

Ryotaro Suzuki, Tomoji Takigawa, Yasuhiko Nariai, Masaya Nagaishi, Akio Hyodo, Kensuke Suzuki

Open Access Aneurysm Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Ischemia

Brain retraction injury after elective aneurysm clipping: a retrospective single-center cohort study

B. Konya, J. W. Dankbaar, A. van der Zwan

Endoscopy How I Do it - Functional Neurosurgery - Pain

How I do it: two-step transposition technique during endoscopic microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia

Fuminari Komatsu, Yoko Kato, Yuichi Hirose

Open Access Pica Syndrome Original Article - Functional Neurosurgery - Movement disorders

Microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm involving the vertebral artery

Jing Wang, Yulong Chong, Chengrong Jiang, Yuxiang Dai, Weibang Liang, Lianshu Ding

Open Access Facial Palsy Original Article - Functional Neurosurgery - Other

A multivariable prediction model for recovery patterns and time course of symptoms improvement in hemifacial spasm following microvascular decompression

Ahmed Al Menabbawy, Ehab El Refaee, Reem Elwy, Amany A. Salem, Sebastian Lehmann, Marcus Vollmer, Marc Matthes, Steffen Fleck, Jörg Baldauf, Henry W. S. Schroeder

Brain Abscess Case Report - Infection

Robot-assisted stereotactic multiple brain abscesses’ puncture: technical case report

Gaston Tabourel, Paul Le Turnier, Kevin Buffenoir, Vincent Roualdes

Subdural Hematoma Case Report - Pediatric Neurosurgery

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in infant with COVID-19

Jana Blazkova, Petr Skalicky, Ondrej Bradac, Vladimir Benes Jr.

Antibiotic Original Article - Infection

Extensively drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant gram-negative pathogens in the neurocritical intensive care unit

Marina Munari, Francesca Franzoi, Massimo Sergi, Alessandro De Cassai, Federico Geraldini, Marzia Grandis, Massimiliano Caravello, Annalisa Boscolo, Paolo Navalesi

Wound Infection Original Article - Infection

Combined use of vancomycin powder and betadine irrigation lowers the incidence of postcraniotomy wound infection in low-risk cases: a single-center risk-stratified cohort analysis

Omri Maayan, Christopher Babu, Miguel E. Tusa Lavieri, Jason Chua, Paul J. Christos, Theodore H. Schwartz

Incision Case Report - Infection

Uncommon presentations of a neurosurgical site infection: impaired wound healing with hypergranulation and crust formation

Dennis R. Buis, Hisse Arnts, K. Mariam Slot, Myron G. Best, W. Peter Vandertop

Antibiotic Original Article -Spine - Other

Medicosurgical management of deep wound infections after thoracolumbar instrumentation: risk factors of poor outcomes

Paul Frechon, Jocelyn Michon, Aurelie Baldolli, Evelyne Emery, François Lucas, Renaud Verdon, Anna Fournier, Thomas Gaberel

Acne Original Article - Spine - Other

Routine intraoperative microbiological smear testing in patients with reoperation after elective degenerative non-instrumented spine surgery–useful or negligible adjunct

Sebastian Siller, Benjamin Skrap, Beatrice Grabein, Raimund Trabold, Stefan Zausinger, Joerg-Christian Tonn

Open Access Original Article - Neurosurgery general

Safety analysis and complications of condylar screws in a single-surgeon series of 250 occipitocervical fusions

Sharon Ka Po. Tam, Paolo A. Bolognese, Roger W. Kula, Andrew Brodbelt, Mansoor Foroughi, Marat Avshalumov, Denmark Mugutso, Ilene Ruhoy

Open Access Spondylolisthesis Original Article - Spine degenerative

Complications of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis and stenosis surgery in patients over 80 s: comparative study with over 60 s and 70 s. Experience with 678 cases

Enrico Aimar, Guglielmo Iess, Federica Mezza, Paolo Gaetani, Alberto Luca Messina, Andrea Todesca, Fulvio Tartara, Giovanni Broggi

Endoscopy How I Do it - Spine degenerative

Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar foraminotomy: how I do it

Yong Ahn, Sang Gu Lee