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Acta Neurochirurgica

Issue 9/2018

Content (31 Articles)

Editorial (by Invitation)

The requirements of trainees and microsurgical skills

Karl Schaller

Open Access Original Article - Neurosurgery Training

Hands train the brain—what is the role of hand tremor and anxiety in undergraduate microsurgical skills?

John Hanrahan, Michail Sideris, Terouz Pasha, Parmenion P. Tsitsopoulos, Iakovos Theodoulou, Marios Nicolaides, Efstratia-Maria Georgopoulou, Dimitris Kombogiorgas, Alexios Bimpis, Apostolos Papalois

Original Article - Neurosurgical technique evaluation

Intraoperative computed tomography as reliable navigation registration device in 200 cranial procedures

Barbara Carl, Miriam Bopp, Benjamin Saß, Christopher Nimsky

Original Article - Brain trauma

Risk factors for post-traumatic hydrocephalus following decompressive craniectomy

Davide Nasi, Maurizio Gladi, Alessandro Di Rienzo, Lucia di Somma, Elisa Moriconi, Maurizio Iacoangeli, Mauro Dobran

Letter to the Editor - Brain trauma

Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in diffuse brain injury: to do or not to do?

Ravi Sharma, Vivek Tandon, Dattaraj Sawarkar, Manoj Phalak, Amol Raheja, Shashank S. Kale

Letter to the Editor (by Invitation) - Brain trauma

ICP monitoring in diffuse brain injury: clarifications

Sudish Karunakaran

Open Access Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Other

Does time from diagnostic CT until surgical evacuation affect outcome in patients with chronic subdural hematoma?

Shaian Zolfaghari, Nils Ståhl, Henrietta Nittby Redebrandt

Review Article - Neurosurgery and pregnancy

Moyamoya disease in pregnancy: a systematic review

Georgios A. Maragkos, Luis C. Ascanio, Kohei Chida, Myles D. Boone, Christopher S. Ogilvy, Ajith J. Thomas, Ekkehard M. Kasper

Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Ischemia

Safety of urgent STA-MCA anastomosis after intravenous rt-PA treatment: a report of five cases and literature review

Ryo Kanematsu, Toshikazu Kimura, Yasumitsu Ichikawa, Tomohiro Inoue

Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Ischemia

Long-term outcomes following thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke in patients with a left ventricular assist device: a case series and literature review

Bikei Ryu, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Koji Yamaguchi, Go Matsuoka, Seiichiro Eguchi, Takakazu Kawamata

Open Access Original Article - Neurosurgical intensive care

Favorable clinical outcome following surgical evacuation of deep-seated and lobar supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage: a retrospective single-center analysis of 123 cases

Amel Hessington, Parmenion P. Tsitsopoulos, Andreas Fahlström, Niklas Marklund

How I Do it - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

How I do it—the eyebrow approach for anterior circle of Willis aneurysms

Sorin Aldea, Pierre-Cyril Cômes, Stephan Gaillard

Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

Loop microcatheter technique for coil embolization of paraclinoid aneurysms

Zhen Yu Jia, Yun Sun Song, Jae Jon Sheen, Joong Goo Kim, Chae Woon Lee, Dae Chul Suh

Review Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Other

Systematic review and meta-analysis of perioperative and long-term outcomes in patients receiving statin therapy before carotid endarterectomy

Natasha Ironside, Daniel Brenner, Eric Heyer, Ching-Jen Chen, Trae Robison, Brandon Christophe, Edward Sander Connolly

Original Article - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

Unruptured intracranial aneurysms in patients over 80 years: natural history and management implications

Thomas J. Sorenson, Roanna Vine, Giuseppe Lanzino

Original Article - Brain Tumors

Is surgical resection useful in elderly newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients? Outcome evaluation and prognostic factors assessment

Federico Pessina, Pierina Navarria, Luca Cozzi, Roberta Rudà, Marco Conti Nibali, Matteo Simonelli, Francesco Costa, Armando Santoro, Elena Clerici, Giulio Carta, Marta Scorsetti, Lorenzo Bello

Open Access Review Article - Brain Tumors

Surgical management and long-term outcome of intracranial subependymoma

Adithya Varma, David Giraldi, Samantha Mills, Andrew R. Brodbelt, Michael D. Jenkinson

Original Article - Brain Tumors

The evolution of cranial meningioma surgery—a single-center 25-year experience

Johanna Sicking, Kira Marie Voß, Dorothee Cäcilia Spille, Stephanie Schipmann, Markus Holling, Werner Paulus, Katharina Hess, Andrea U. Steinbicker, Walter Stummer, Oliver Grauer, Johannes Wölfer, Benjamin Brokinkel

Open Access Original Article - Tumor - Meningioma

Predictors of early progression of surgically treated atypical meningiomas

Karol P. Budohoski, James Clerkin, Christopher P. Millward, Philip J. O’Halloran, Mueez Waqar, Seamus Looby, Adam M. H. Young, Mathew R. Guilfoyle, Diana Fitzroll, Abel Devadass, Kieren Allinson, Michael Farrell, Mohsen Javadpour, Michael D. Jenkinson, Thomas Santarius, Ramez W. Kirollos

Original Article - Tumor - Meningioma

Posterior fossa meningioma with invasion of the internal acoustic canal

S Peraio, FH Ebner, M Tatagiba

Case Report - Brain Tumors

Extensive perineural spread of an intrapelvic sciatic malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: a case report

Ross C. Puffer, Tomas Marek, Jonathan J. Stone, Aditya Raghunathan, Benjamin M. Howe, Robert J. Spinner

Original Article - Peripheral Nerves

Epidemiological characteristics of surgically treated civilian traumatic brachial plexus injuries in Serbia

L. Rasulić, A. Savić, M. Lepić, V. Puzović, S. Karaleić, V. Kovačević, F. Vitošević, M. Samardžić

Review Article - Peripheral Nerves

Posterior interosseous nerve entrapments: review of the literature. Is the entrapment distal to the arcade of Frohse a really rare condition?

Pasquale Anania, Pietro Fiaschi, Marco Ceraudo, Alberto Balestrino, Federico Zaottini, Carlo Martinoli, Sergio Gennaro

Letter to the Editor - Infection

Bone resorption around anular closure device

Alexander V. Krutko, Evgenii S. Baykov, Abdugafur J. Sanginov

Letter to the Editor (by Invitation) - Infection

Low-grade infection due to annular closure device

Nicole Lange, Bernhard Meyer, Ehab Shiban

Letter to the Editor - Tumor - Other

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in spinal tumor surgery

Francesco Prada, Ignazio G. Vetrano, Francesco DiMeco

Letter to the Editor (by Invitation) - Spine - Other

Comment on the article "Real-time intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in vascularized spinal tumors: a technical note"

Giuseppe Maria Della Pepa, Pier Paolo Mattogno, Alessandro Olivi

Original Article - Neurosurgery - Epilepsy

Double match of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET and iomazenil-SPECT improves outcomes of focus resection surgery

Ayataka Fujimoto, Tohru Okanishi, Sotaro Kanai, Keishiro Sato, Shinji Itamura, Shimpei Baba, Mitsuyo Nishimura, Takayuki Masui, Hideo Enoki

Case Report - Functional Neurosurgery - Epilepsy

Diffuse vasospasm after transcortical temporal lobectomy for intractable epilepsy

James Charles Dickerson, Joaquin Andres Hidalgo, Zachary Stidham Smalley, James Mason Shiflett