Victor M. Lu

TL;DR: It appears that the addition of duraplasty to posterior decompression in the definitive treatment of CM-I in children may alter surgical and performance outcomes, and parameters of overall clinical improvement, length of stay, and postoperative complication may differ between children undergoing PFDD and those undergoing PFDO.

TL;DR: FED and MED appear to be safe and efficacious alternatives to traditional approaches, but these results require further investigation and validation by prospective randomized studies.

TL;DR: According to the current literature, pHGG patients positive for the H3K27M mutation are more than 3 times more susceptible to succumbing to this disease by more than 2 years, compared to patients negative for the mutation.

TL;DR: This meta-analysis of contemporary literature suggests that repeat surgery at GBM recurrence in select patients confers a significant, prognostic overall survival advantage independent of other prognostic factors.

TL;DR: Neurosurgical telemedicine encounters appear promising in resource-scarce times, such as during global pandemics, according to a systematic literature review investigating treatment of neurosurgical patients via telemedICine.