Justin F. Fraser

TL;DR: Both STN lesions and high frequency stimulation ameliorate the major motor symptoms of parkinsonism in humans and animal models of Parkinson's disease and reverse certain electrophysiological and metabolic consequences of dopamine depletion.

TL;DR: A metaanalysis of studies published after 1990 in which fusion rates achieved with each procedure were reported for patients with degenerative disease at one, two, and three disc levels shows that regardless of the number of levels fused, the use of an anterior cervical plate system significantly increases the fusion rate.

TL;DR: Endonasal endoscopic Cranial base surgery is a minimal access, maximally invasive alternative to open transcranial cranial base approaches for specific indications and a clear understanding of the possible approaches is facilitated by an awareness of the nasal corridors and intracranial targets.

TL;DR: The endonasal endoscopic transclival approach represents a less invasive and more direct approach than a transcranial approach to treat certain moderate-sized midline skull base chordomas.

TL;DR: A quantitative meta-analysis was conducted on published studies reporting fusion rates after open or minimally invasive/mini-open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedures for single or multilevel degenerative disease including stenosis with spondylolisthesis and degenerative disc disease to provide clear benchmarks for fusion rates in open and mTLIF procedures for spine surgeons.