Showing papers in "World Neurosurgery in 2016"

TL;DR: TBI is a relatively common entity stretching across traditional geographic and demographic boundaries and affecting pediatric populations worldwide, and Continued civil infrastructure development and public health policy reforms may help to reduce the societal burden of pediatric TBI.

TL;DR: A unified voice of neurosurgery is necessary to effectively advocate for all those who need neurosurgical care wherever, whenever, and concurrent scale-up of human resources, investments in capacity building, local data collection, and analysis for accurate assessment are essential.

TL;DR: With minor refinements, personalized, deformable brain models created via 3D printing will improve surgical training and preoperative planning with the ultimate goal to provide accurate, customized, high-precision treatment.

TL;DR: Eleven endoscopic third ventriculostomy with choroid plexus coagulation procedures have been performed with the use of VIPAR between Vietnam and the United States, with no significant complications.

TL;DR: Although a learning curve is needed in order to become familiar with PELD, PELD seemed to be a good choice for disc herniation in the lumbar spine for active, young adults.

TL;DR: Telemedicine is effective in many health care scenarios and will become more relevant to neurosurgical patient care and favor proceeding with legislation to reduce barriers to telemedicin's growth.

TL;DR: A hands-on, dimensionally accurate model for aneurysm clipping using patient-derived anatomic data and three-dimensional (3D) printing has the potential to improve learning experiences in surgical environment.

TL;DR: Diabetes, prolonged operative times, body mass index more than 35, posterior approach, and number of intervertebral levels (≥7) are associated with an increased risk of SSI after spinal surgery.

TL;DR: Among pituitary adenomas with CSI, GTR in endoscopic series is higher than microscopy and improves with experience without significant additional morbidity, indicating the relative safety of endonasal endoscopy in experienced hands for removing tumors with CSI.

TL;DR: This comprehensive, best evidence-based, quantitative, systematic review indicates that the use of a closed system drainage after burr-hole evacuation reduces the rate of recurrences but has no other significant differences.

TL;DR: An acceptable rate of complications associated with ETS for nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas is confirmed, allowing good conditions for a satisfactory resection in the majority of NFPAs.

TL;DR: Frailty may be an underused metric for the preoperative risk assessment of geriatric glioblastoma patients and receive less aggressive intervention, have longer hospital stays, and experience more complications.

TL;DR: Severe SAH evident on computed tomography scan appears to be a definite risk factor for CV after SAH, followed by cigarette smoking, hypertension, and left ventricular hypertrophy on electrocardiogram.

TL;DR: Bony decompression plus duroplasty showed the most favorable outcomes and shunt may aggregate clinical signs and symptoms and increase the size of cavities.

TL;DR: GFAP and UCH-L1 are significantly associated with outcome, but they do not add predictive power to commonly used prognostic variables in a population of patients with TBI of varying severities.

TL;DR: The ability of attackers to exert malicious control over brain implants ("brainjacking") has unique challenges that are addressed in this review, with particular focus on deep brain stimulation implants.

TL;DR: This technique is safe and effective for the treatment of intraventricular and periventricular lesions and minimizes trauma to brain incident in the surgeon's path.

TL;DR: The neurosurgery elective course significantly increased student knowledge across several areas and changed perceptions about collegiality, quality of life, and family-work balance, while not altering the students' views about the difficulty of training.

TL;DR: IoUS-guided surgical resection of gliomas is a useful tool for guiding the resection and for improving the extent of resection, and can be used in conjunction with other complementary technologies that can improve anatomic orientation during surgery.

TL;DR: In surgically treated patients with spinal metastasis, certain perioperative parameters may significantly predict the risk of major in-hospital complications and mortality.

TL;DR: Brain invasion and its patterns are correlated to gender and invasion was associated with recurrence only after gross total resection and not independent of further histopathologic criteria of atypia.

TL;DR: An expandable interbody cage led to significant improvement in clinical and radiographic outcomes after MIS TLIF, including intervertebral disc height restoration and high fusion rates, with no evidence of device-related complications.

TL;DR: An augmented reality-based navigation system with whole-operation-room tracking that achieves volumetric navigation in contrast to conventional point-to-point navigation and is useful for planning skin incisions as well as craniotomy and the localization of superficial tumors.

TL;DR: Hyponatremia is common after SAH, and there is evidence that it is associated with certain poorer outcomes, and larger, prospective studies are needed to assess these findings and provide further evidence.

TL;DR: Different uses of social media platforms and numbers of users of the online neurosurgical community are shown, which followed a similar pattern in their presence and popularity.

TL;DR: The endoscopic approach is an increasingly accepted technique for anterior skull base tumor surgery and is associated with acceptable complication rates, and increasing experience with this technique can decrease rates of complications.

TL;DR: Evaluating the microsurgical anatomy of the fiber tract connections of the supplementary motor area (SMA) and pre-SMA, and examining its potential functional role with reference to clinical trials in the literature concluded the SMA complex has numerous connections throughout the cerebrum.

TL;DR: The present observations suggest that the current surgical treatment regimens for iNPH (primarily shunt surgery) address only some aspects of the disease process, in particular the aspect of brain water disturbance.

TL;DR: In geographic areas with limited access to advanced medical treatment for severe TBI, DC is of benefit when performed <5 hours after injury in younger patients with Glasgow Coma Scale >5, and in specific populations does not offer GOS or mortality advantages compared with medical treatment.

TL;DR: Analysis of a large national patient database revealed many independent risk factors for SSIs after spinal surgery, some of which can be modified preoperatively to reduce the risk of postoperative infection.