Issue 5/2021
Content (54 Articles)
Alligator eyes: beware the occipital dermoid
Jignesh K. Tailor, Aylin Tekes, Melike Guryildirim, Alan R. Cohen
Letter to the Editor Re: Cearns MD, Kommer M, Amato-Watkins A, Campbell E, Beez T, O’Kane R (2020) Opening and closure of intraventricular neuroendoscopic procedures in infants under 1 year of age: institutional technique, case series and review of the literature
William B. Lo, Fardad T. Afshari, Desiderio Rodrigues, Abhaya V. Kulkarni
Correction to: Letter to the editor Re: Cearns MD, Kommer M, Amato-Watkins A, Campbell E, Beez T, O’Kane R (2020) opening and closure of intraventricular neuroendoscopic procedures in infants under 1 year of age: institutional technique, case series and review of the literature
William B. Lo, Fardad T. Afshari, Desiderio Rodrigues, Abhaya V. Kulkarni
Reply to the letter to the editor from Lo WB, Afshari FT, Rodrigues D and Kulkarni AV regarding the article “Opening and closure of intraventricular neuroendoscopic procedures in infants under 1 year of age: institutional technique, case series and review of the literature”
M. D. Cearns, R. O’Kane
Children with brain tumors: how do they perform in academics later?
Prateek Kumar Panda, Radhika Nandani, Indar Kumar Sharawat
A reply to the letter to the Editor by Panda and colleagues entitled “Children with brain tumours: how they perform in academics later?” with regard to the paper “Early neuropsychological profile of children diagnosed with a brain tumor predicts later academic difficulties at school age”
Maria Chiara Oprandi, Alessandra Bardoni, Maura Massimino, Lorenza Gandola, Geraldina Poggi
Subduro-peritoneal shunts in the management of subdural collection related to ruptured intracranial arachnoid cysts
Marco Ceraudo, Alessandro Prior
Pineal region tumors: a complement with imaging nuances
Rafaela Queiroz de Morais, Luana Machado Costa, Sérgio Ferreira Alves Júnior, Diogo Goulart Corrêa
Primary pituitary abscess in an adolescent female patient: case report, literature review, and operative video
Brandon A. Sherrod, Serge Makarenko, Rajiv R. Iyer, Ilyas Eli, John R. Kestle, William T. Couldwell
Role of high-density EEG (hdEEG) in pre-surgical epilepsy evaluation in children: case report and review of the literature
Michela Quintiliani, Federico Bianchi, Filomena Fuggetta, Daniela Pia Rosaria Chieffo, Antonia Ramaglia, Domenica Immacolata Battaglia, Gianpiero Tamburrini
Cerebrospinal fluid leakage after cranial surgery in the pediatric population—a systematic review and meta-analysis
Emma M. H. Slot, Kirsten M. van Baarsen, Eelco W. Hoving, Nicolaas P. A. Zuithoff, Tristan P. C van Doormaal
MRI-based diagnosis and treatment of pediatric brain tumors: is tissue sample always needed?
Jehuda Soleman, Rina Dvir, Liat Ben-Sira, Michal Yalon, Frederick Boop, Shlomi Constantini, Jonathan Roth
Treatment of large infectious extracranial carotid artery pseudoaneurysms in children: a systematic review of the literature
Chandrasekhar Sundarrajan, Samya A. Isa, James P. Caruso, Vin Shen Ban, Gopi B. Shah, Brett A. Whittemore, Rafael Sillero
Innovations and new technologies in pediatric neurosurgery
Mostafa M. E. Atteya
The STAR/HOP system: a newly proposed abbreviated descriptive clinical coding system for craniopharyngiomas
Mostafa M. E. Atteya
The utilisation of 3D printing in paediatric neurosurgery
Ravindran Karuppiah, Thangaraj Munusamy, Nor Faizal Ahmad Bahuri, Vicknes Waran
Machine learning predicts risk of cerebrospinal fluid shunt failure in children: a study from the hydrocephalus clinical research network
Andrew T. Hale, Jay Riva-Cambrin, John C. Wellons, Eric M. Jackson, John R. W. Kestle, Robert P. Naftel, Todd C. Hankinson, Chevis N. Shannon
Application of clinical prediction modeling in pediatric neurosurgery: a case study
Hendrik-Jan Mijderwijk, Thomas Beez, Daniel Hänggi, Daan Nieboer
Feasibility of cerebello-cortical stimulation for intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring of cerebellar mutism
Davide Giampiccolo, Federica Basaldella, Andrea Badari, Giovanna Maddalena Squintani, Luigi Cattaneo, Francesco Sala
Use of intra-operative stimulation of brainstem lesion target sites for frameless stereotactic biopsies
Jason Labuschagne, Denis Mutyaba, Jacques Nel, Claudia Casieri
First experience with augmented reality neuronavigation in endoscopic assisted midline skull base pathologies in children
Valentina Pennacchietti, Katharina Stoelzel, Anna Tietze, Erwin Lankes, Andreas Schaumann, Florian Cornelius Uecker, Ulrich Wilhelm Thomale
Characteristics and overall survival in pediatric versus adult craniopharyngioma: a population-based study
Brandon M. Lehrich, Khodayar Goshtasbi, Frank P. K. Hsu, Edward C. Kuan
Endoscopic extended transsphenoidal surgery for newly diagnosed paediatric craniopharyngiomas
Mohsen Javadpour, Michael Amoo, Darach Crimmins, John Caird, Patricia Daly, Jane Pears, Cormac Owens, Michael Capra, Declan Cody
Patterns of care for pediatric patients with newly-diagnosed grade II gliomas
Nicolette Taku, Kristina D. Woodhouse, Kai-Ping Liao, Chidinma P. Anakwenze, Rebecca A. Harrison, Wafik Zaky, Arnold C. Paulino, Debra N. Yeboa
Conduct of neuro-oncology multidisciplinary team meetings and closing the “gaps” in the clinical management of childhood central nervous system tumors in a middle-income country
Jen Chun Foo, Vida Jawin, Tsiao Yi Yap, Nor Faizal Ahmad Bahuri, Dharmendra Ganesan, Kein Seong Mun, Jasmin Loh, Raja Rizal Azman, Nicholas G. Gottardo, Ibrahim Qaddoumi, Daniel C. Moreira, Revathi Rajagopal
Cytomegalovirus DNA in non-glioblastoma multiforme brain tumors of infants
Zohreh Habibi, Mahsa Hajizadeh, Zohreh Nozarian, Moeinadin Safavi, Maryam Monajemzadeh, Keyvan Tayebi Meybodi, Farideh Nejat, Mohammad Vasei
Endoscopic aqueductoplasty and stenting in the treatment of isolated fourth ventricle in children: 20-year institutional experience
Alessia Imperato, Luz Monserrat Almaguer Ascencio, Claudio Ruggiero, Pietro Spennato, Giuliana Di Martino, Ferdinando Aliberti, Giuseppe Mirone, Giuseppe Cinalli
“Shunt pumping test”: detecting its efficacy through an experimental model
Manish Sharma, Karthik Ram Mohan, Suman Kumar, M. Krishna Kumar
The role of intraventricular antibiotic therapy in the treatment of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt infection in children
Ayse Sahin, Nazan Dalgic, Mustafa Kilic, Pinar Kirgiz, M. Kemal Kanik, Ersoy Oz, Adem Yilmaz
Comparison of two- and three-dimensional endoscopic visualization for fetal myelomeningocele repair: a pilot study using a fetoscopic surgical simulator
Smruti K. Patel, Oleksandra Kashyrina, Soner Duru, Marcos Miyabe, Foong-Yen Lim, Jose L. Peiro, Charles B. Stevenson
Early- and long-term surgical outcomes in 109 children with lipomyelomeningocele
Tarang K. Vora, Shabari Girishan, Ranjith K. Moorthy, Vedantam Rajshekhar
Dynamic mapping using an electrified ultrasonic aspirator in lipomyelomeningocele and spinal cord detethering surgery—a feasibility study
Yechiam Sapir, Nahum Buzaglo, Akiva Korn, Shlomi Constantini, Jonathan Roth, Shimon Rochkind
Familial tendency in patients with lipoma of the filum terminale
Masahiro Nonaka, Katsuya Ueno, Haruna Isozaki, Takamasa Kamei, Junichi Takeda, Akio Asai
Aspirin use and platelet aggregation in ischemic onset-type pediatric moyamoya patients with intractable headaches (moya-ache)
Yasuo Aihara, Shinobu Kashiwase, Kentaro Chiba, Koji Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Okada, Toshimi Kimura, Takakazu Kawamata
Computer tomography–based quantitative analysis of the orbital proptosis severity in infants with syndromic craniosynostosis: case-control study
Rosalinda Calandrelli, Fabio Pilato, Antonio Marrazzo, Luca Massimi, Marco Panfili, Concezio Di Rocco, Cesare Colosimo
Anthropometric changes in the skull base in children with sagittal craniosynostosis submitted to surgical correction
Jose Erasmo Dal’Col Lucio, Hamilton Matushita
Supratentorial vs infratentorial posterior calvarial distraction osteogenesis for the increase of ICV in children with syndromic or multi-suture craniosynostosis: a retrospective cohort study
Jack Sharman, Desiderio Rodrigues, Simon McGuirk, Mohini Panikkar, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Steve Dover, Martin Evans, Nicholas White
Orbital volume, ophthalmic sequelae and severity in unilateral coronal synostosis
Sophia A. J. Kronig, Otto D. M. Kronig, Marcel Zurek, Léon N. A. Van Adrichem
Sensenbrenner syndrome: a further challenge in evaluating sagittal synostosis and a need for a multidisciplinary approach
Thomas Quinaux, Viola Custodi, Audrey Putoux, Justine Bacchetta, Massimiliano Rossi, Federico Di Rocco
Cranial molding on neonates in Ghana: mothers’ perspective and their knowledge on potential harm to babies’ brain
Francis T. Djankpa, Mark B. Ulanja, Ellen Ola, Kevin Yartey, Korantema M. Tsegah, Emmanuel Okai, Louisa Acheampong
Brain interstitial glycerol correlates with evolving brain injury in paediatric traumatic brain injury
Nqobile S. Thango, Ursula K. Rohlwink, Lindizwe Dlamini, M. Phophi Tshavhungwe, E. Banderker, Shamiel Salie, J.M.N. Enslin, Anthony A. Figaji
Three-pillar expansive craniotomy: a new surgical technique for cerebral decompression in children
Yongqiang Wang, Yong Han, Min Chen, Hangzhou Wang
The effect of GMFCS level, age, sex, and dystonia on multi-dimensional outcomes after selective dorsal rhizotomy: prospective observational study
Conor Scott Gillespie, Alan Matthew George, Benjamin Hall, Steven Toh, Abdurrahman Ismail Islim, Dawn Hennigan, Ram Kumar, Benedetta Pettorini
Elimination of the check-valve mechanism of the sacral Tarlov cyst using a rotation flap technique in a pediatric patient: technical note
Fumitaka Yoshioka, Shoko Shimokawa, Jun Masuoka, Kohei Inoue, Atsushi Ogata, Tatsuya Abe
Laser interstitial thermal therapy for gyrus rectus cortical dysplasia in a child: a technical note
Rachel Pruitt, David Bonda, Shefali Kakare, Sanjeev Kothare, Shaun Rodgers
The utilization of sodium fluorescein in pediatric brain stem gliomas: a case report and review of the literature
Cameron M. Erdman, Catherine Christie, M. Omar Iqbal, Catherine A. Mazzola, Luke Tomycz
A rare case of intraparenchymal subependymoma in a child
Kyeong-O Go, Minji Lee, Yeji Lim, Kyu Sang Lee, Gheeyoung Choe, Chae-Yong Kim
Surgical considerations in Labrune syndrome
Andrew Kobets, David Oriko, Mari Groves, Shenandoah Robinson, Alan Cohen
An arrow that missed the mark: a pediatric case report of remarkable neurologic improvement following penetrating spinal cord injury
Lucas P. Carlstrom, Christopher S. Graffeo, Avital Perry, Denise B. Klinkner, David J. Daniels
Clinical manifestations of 11 children with fronto-ocular syndrome (FOS): a case series
Hatice Koçak Eker
Mechanical thrombectomy in a pediatric patient with sedation aided by contralateral intra-arterial propofol injection: feasibility in an extreme condition
Davide Simonato, Mario Ganau, Paolo Feltracco, Francesco Causin, Marina Munari, Andrea Bortolato
Management of a ruptured intraventricular aneurysm arising from distal anterior choroidal artery (AChA): pediatric case report
Pablo García Feijoo, Javier Manuel Saceda Gutiérrez, Remedios Frutos Martínez, Miguel Sáez Alegre, Catalina Vivancos Sánchez, Fernando Eliseo Carceller Benito
Disconnecting surgery at alveus and cornu ammonis of hippocampus, amygdala superficialis, and amygdala medial nuclei for epilepsy associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Zamzuri Idris, Zaitun Zakaria, Sanihah Abdul Halim, Salmi Abd Razak, Abdul Rahman Izaini Ghani, Jafri Malin Abdullah