Issue 6/2021
Content (56 Articles)
The 100 most-cited articles on vestibular schwannoma: historical perspectives, current limitations, and future research directions
Rafael Martinez-Perez, Timothy H. Ung, A. Samy Youssef
Impact of combined use of intraoperative MRI and awake microsurgical resection on patients with gliomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Constantin Tuleasca, Henri-Arthur Leroy, Iulia Peciu-Florianu, Ondine Strachowski, Benoit Derre, Marc Levivier, Michael Schulder, Nicolas Reyns
Anterior perforated substance region aneurysms: review of a series treated with microsurgical technique
Jaafar Basma, Hassan Saad, Tarek Abuelem, Khaled Krisht, Li Cai, Svetlana Pravdenkova, Ali F. Krisht
The brainstem and its neurosurgical history
A. I. Cucu, S. Turliuc, C. F. Costea, A. Perciaccante, R. Bianucci, S. Donell, D. V. Scripcariu, M. D. Turliuc
Is neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio a useful tool for predicting outcome in subarachnoid hemorrhage? A systematic review
Artur Nóbrega Lima Rodrigues de Morais, Victor Matheus Ribeiro Baylão, Tamires Martins Silva, Alexandra Gomes dos Santos, Mayara Azevedo, Adilson J. M. de Oliveira
Surgical approaches for resection of third ventricle colloid cysts: meta-analysis
Walid Elshamy, Jake Burkard, Mina Gerges, Ufuk Erginoglu, Abdurahman Aycan, Burak Ozaydin, Robert J. Dempsey, Mustafa K. Baskaya
The impact of diabetes mellitus on carotid artery stenting: a meta-analysis
Shan-shan Chu, Jia Hu, Ling-wen Tang, Dao-bao Zhang
The impact of preoperative anxiety on patients undergoing brain surgery: a systematic review
Vittorio Oteri, Anna Martinelli, Elisa Crivellaro, Francesca Gigli
Different criteria for defining “spot sign” in intracerebral hemorrhage show different abilities to predict hematoma expansion and clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Chunyan Lei, Jia Geng, Zhao Qi, Lianmei Zhong
Efficacy of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in the management of multiple sclerosis-related trigeminal neuralgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Alfio Spina, Gianluca Nocera, Nicola Boari, Sandro Iannaccone, Pietro Mortini
A systematic review and meta-analysis of factors affecting the outcome of the epidural blood patching in spontaneous intracranial hypotension
Francesco Signorelli, Valerio M. Caccavella, Martina Giordano, Eleonora Ioannoni, Anselmo Caricato, Filippo Maria Polli, Alessandro Olivi, Nicola Montano
Is surgery effective for treating hypothalamic hamartoma causing isolated central precocious puberty? A systematic review
Mohit Agrawal, Raghu Samala, Ramesh Sharanappa Doddamani, Alpesh Goyal, Manjari Tripathi, Poodipedi Sarat Chandra
Intravenous milrinone for treatment of delayed cerebral ischaemia following subarachnoid haemorrhage: a pooled systematic review
Mendel Castle-Kirszbaum, Leon Lai, Julian Maingard, Hamed Asadi, R. Andrew Danks, Tony Goldschlager, Ronil V. Chandra
Complications of cranioplasty in relationship to traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
David Shepetovsky, Gianluca Mezzini, Lorenzo Magrassi
Dyslipidemia and rupture risk of intracranial aneurysms—a systematic review
Katja Løvik, Johnny Laupsa-Borge, Nicola Logallo, Christian A. Helland
Does preoperative embolization improve outcomes of meningioma resection? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Fareed Jumah, Anan AbuRmilah, Bharath Raju, Suhaib Jaber, Nimer Adeeb, Vinayak Narayan, Hai Sun, Hugo Cuellar, Gaurav Gupta, Anil Nanda
Recent progress understanding pathophysiology and genesis of brain AVM—a narrative review
Hans-Jakob Steiger
Repeat stereotactic radiosurgery for progressive vestibular schwannomas after previous radiosurgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Anne Balossier, Jean Régis, Nicolas Reyns, Pierre-Hugues Roche, Roy Thomas Daniel, Mercy George, Mohamed Faouzi, Marc Levivier, Constantin Tuleasca
Aortic injury in spine surgery……What a spine surgeon needs to know
Safwan Alomari, Ryan Planchard, Sheng-Fu Larry Lo, Timothy Witham, Ali Bydon
Preradiosurgery embolization in reducing the postoperative hemorrhage rate for patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Xin Jiang, Zixu Zhao, Ying Zhang, Yang Wang, Lingfeng Lai
Intrathecal baclofen, selective dorsal rhizotomy, and extracorporeal shockwave therapy for the treatment of spasticity in cerebral palsy: a systematic review
Amogh Kudva, Mickey E. Abraham, Justin Gold, Neal A. Patel, Julian L. Gendreau, Yehuda Herschman, Antonios Mammis
Impact of various cervical surgical interventions in patients with Hirayama’s disease—a narrative review and meta-analysis
Sandeep Bohara, Kanwaljeet Garg, Shashwat Mishra, Vivek Tandon, P. Sarat Chandra, Shashank Sharad Kale
Mucosal thickening of the maxillary sinus is frequently associated with diffuse glioma patients and correlates with poor survival prognosis of GBM patients: comparative analysis to meningioma patients
Taiichi Saito, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Takashi Maruyama, Kayoko Abe, Takashi Komori, Kosaku Amano, Seiichiro Eguchi, Masayuki Nitta, Shunsuke Tsuzuki, Atsushi Fukui, Takakazu Kawamata
Is the pre-operative lateral spread response on facial electromyography a valid diagnostic tool for hemifacial spasm?
Chang Kyu Park, Seung Hoon Lim, Seung Hwan Lee, Bong Jin Park
Surgical treatment of intramedullary spinal cord metastases: functional outcome and complications—a multicenter study
Roberto Gazzeri, Stefano Telera, Marcelo Galarza, Giorgio Maria Callovini, Sperduti Isabella, Alex Alfieri
Prevalence of high-riding vertebral arteries and narrow C2 pedicles among Central-European population: a computed tomography-based study
Tomasz Klepinowski, Natalia Żyłka, Bartłomiej Pala, Wojciech Poncyljusz, Leszek Sagan
The corticotegmental connectivity as an integral component of the descending extrapyramidal pathway: novel and direct structural evidence stemming from focused fiber dissections
Spyridon Komaitis, Faidon Liakos, Aristotelis V. Kalyvas, Evangelos Drosos, Georgios P. Skandalakis, Eleftherios Neromyliotis, Apostolos Gerogiannis, Theodore Troupis, George Stranjalis, Christos Koutsarnakis
Endoscopic sublabial transmaxillary approach to the inferior orbit: pearls and pitfalls—A comparative anatomical study
Carmine Antonio Donofrio, Lucia Riccio, Omar N. Pathmanaban, Antonio Fioravanti, Anthony J. Caputy, Pietro Mortini
Virtual reality-based evaluation of neurovascular conflict for the surgical planning of microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia patients
Samer Zawy Alsofy, Heinz Welzel Saravia, Makoto Nakamura, Christian Ewelt, Marc Lewitz, Ioanna Sakellaropoulou, Hraq Mourad Sarkis, Thomas Fortmann, Stephanie Schipmann, Eric Suero Molina, Antonio Santacroce, Asem Salma, Ralf Stroop
Intraventricular infusion test accuracy in predicting short- and long-term outcome of iNPH patients: a 10-year update of a three-decade experience at a single institution
Gianluca Trevisi, Francesco Signorelli, Chiara de Waure, Vito Stifano, Cosimo Sturdà, Alessandro Rapisarda, Angelo Pompucci, Annunziato Mangiola, Carmelo Anile
Clinicopathological characteristics and treatment outcomes of epithelioid glioblastoma
Kaijun Sun, Xingwang Zhou, Tengfei Li, Mingrong Zuo, Junhong Li, Yanhui Liu
Koos grade IV vestibular schwannomas: considerations on a consecutive series of 60 cases—searching for the balance between preservation of function and maximal tumor removal
Luciano Mastronardi, Alberto Campione, Fabio Boccacci, Carlo Giacobbo Scavo, Ettore Carpineta, Guglielmo Cacciotti, Raffaelino Roperto, Albert Sufianov, Ali Zomorodi
An institutional review of hospital resource utilization and patient radiation exposure in shunted idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Tyler Cho, Daniel Kreatsoulas, Joel Fritz, John M. McGregor, Douglas A. Hardesty
The role of the Liliequist membrane in the third ventriculostomy
José Aloysio da Costa Val Filho, Sebastião Nataniel da Silva Gusmão, Leopoldo Mandic Ferreira Furtado, Guaracy de Macedo Machado Filho, Fernando Levi Alencar Maciel
Surgical management of choroid plexus papilloma of the cerebellopontine and cerebellomedullary angle: classification and strategy
S. D. Adib, J. M. Hempel, K. Kandilaris, F. Grimm, R. Evangelista Zamora, M. Tatagiba
Is function-based resection using intraoperative awake brain mapping feasible and safe for solitary brain metastases within eloquent areas?
Jean-Baptiste Pelletier, Alessandro Moiraghi, Marc Zanello, Alexandre Roux, Sophie Peeters, Bénédicte Trancart, Myriam Edjlali, Emmanuele Lechapt, Arnault Tauziede-Espariat, Gilles Zah-Bi, Eduardo Parraga, Fabrice Chretien, Edouard Dezamis, Frédéric Dhermain, Johan Pallud
Stereotactic cysto-ventricular catheters in craniopharyngiomas: an effective minimally invasive method to improve visual impairment and achieve long-term cyst volume reduction
Christine Steiert, Juergen Grauvogel, Roland Roelz, Theo Demerath, Daniel Schnell, Juergen Beck, Volker Arnd Coenen, Peter Christoph Reinacher
Less surgical site infections in neurosurgery during COVID-19 times—one potential benefit of the pandemic?
T. Chacón-Quesada, V. Rohde, C. von der Brelie
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of central neurocytoma: a single-institution experience of 25 patients
Göktug Akyoldas, Yavuz Samanci, Eylül Su Tugcu, Selçuk Peker
A novel technique to manage internal carotid artery injury in endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery in the premise of proximal and distal controls
Limin Xiao, Shenhao Xie, Bin Tang, Xiao Wu, Han Ding, Youyuan Bao, Tao Hong
Surgical challenges in posterior cervicothoracic junction instrumentation
Alberto Balestrino, Renato Gondar, Gianpaolo Jannelli, Gianluigi Zona, Enrico Tessitore
Calvarial lesions: overview of imaging features and neurosurgical management
Isabella Nasi-Kordhishti, Johann-Martin Hempel, Florian Heinrich Ebner, Marcos Tatagiba
Prognostic value of pretreatment circulating basophils in patients with glioblastoma
Lingnan Zheng, Min Yu, Shuang Zhang
Relationship of the vascular territory affected by delayed cerebral ischemia and the location of the ruptured aneurysm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Helene Hurth, Jochen Steiner, Ulrich Birkenhauer, Constantin Roder, Till-Karsten Hauser, Ulrike Ernemann, Marcos Tatagiba, Florian Heinrich Ebner
Application of unruptured aneurysm scoring systems to a cohort of ruptured aneurysms: are we underestimating rupture risk?
James Feghali, Abhishek Gami, Risheng Xu, Christopher M. Jackson, Rafael J. Tamargo, Cameron G. McDougall, Judy Huang, Justin M. Caplan
Monocyte-based inflammatory indices predict outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
James Feghali, Jennifer Kim, Abhishek Gami, Sarah Rapaport, Justin M. Caplan, Cameron G. McDougall, Judy Huang, Rafael J. Tamargo, Christopher M. Jackson
Neurosurgery resumption in Wuhan during the early post-epidemic period: what should we pay attention to?
Yiwei Qi, Xiaojin Liu, Xueyan Wan, Liang Lu, Feng Hu, Chunxia Qi, Kai Zhao, Kai Shu, Ting Lei
The long-term outcome of CyberKnife-based stereotactic radiotherapy for central skull base meningiomas: a single-center experience
Sukwoo Hong, Kengo Sato, Kenji Kagawa, Shunsuke Ichi
Biologically effective dose correlates with linear tumor volume changes after upfront single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas
Constantin Tuleasca, Mohamed Faouzi, Philippe Maeder, Raphael Maire, Jonathan Knisely, Marc Levivier
Real-world treatment results for ruptured blood-blister aneurysm of the internal carotid artery: analysis of a Japanese nationwide multicenter study
Yusuke Egashira, Yukiko Enomoto, Noriyuki Nakayama, Miki Fujimura, Yuichiro Kikkawa, Masanori Aihara, Takatoshi Sorimachi, Takayuki Mizunari, Toru Iwama
Body mass index and leptin levels in serum and cerebrospinal fluid in relation to delayed cerebral ischemia and outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Michael Veldeman, Miriam Weiss, Tim Philipp Simon, Anke Hoellig, Hans Clusmann, Walid Albanna
A nomogram to predict the risk of early postoperative ischemic events in patients with spontaneous intracranial hematoma
Junhua Yang, Kaiwen Wang, Qingyuan Liu, Shaohua Mo, Jun Wu, Shuzhe Yang, Rui Guo, Yi Yang, Jiaming Zhang, Yang Liu, Yong Cao, Shuo Wang
Selection of surgical approach for cerebellar hemangioblastomas based on venous drainage patterns
Takashi Watanabe, Yuuki Suematsu, Kiyotaka Saito, Go Takeishi, Shinji Yamashita, Hajime Ohta, Kiyotaka Yokogami, Hideo Takeshima
Ipsilateral vs controlateral approach in tuberculum sellae meningiomas surgery: a retrospective comparative study
Lucas Troude, Mohamed Boucekine, Guillaume Baucher, Kaissar Farah, Sébastien Boissonneau, Stéphane Fuentes, Thomas Graillon, Henry Dufour
Correction to: Surgical management of choroid plexus papilloma of the cerebellopontine and cerebellomedullary angle: classification and strategy
S. D. Adib, J. M. Hempel, K. Kandilaris, F. Grimm, R. Evangelista Zamora, M. Tatagiba
Basic assumptions of a network meta-analysis — A neurosurgeon’s perspective
Kanwaljeet Garg