• Journal of neuro-oncology · Jun 2020

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    Neurosurgical management of brain and spine tumors in the COVID-19 era: an institutional experience from the epicenter of the pandemic.

    • Remi A Kessler, Jeffrey Zimering, Jeffrey Gilligan, Robert Rothrock, Ian McNeill, Raj K Shrivastava, John Caridi, Joshua Bederson, and Constantinos G Hadjipanayis.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1468 Madison Ave., New York, NY, USA. remi.kessler@icahn.mssm.edu.
    • J. Neurooncol. 2020 Jun 1; 148 (2): 211-219.

    AbstractThe challenges of neurosurgical patient management and surgical decision-making during the 2019-2020 COVID-19 worldwide pandemic are immense and never-before-seen in our generation of neurosurgeons. In this case-based formatted report, we present the Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY) Department of Neurosurgery institutional experience in the epicenter of the pandemic and the guiding principles for our current management of intracranial, skull base, and spine tumors. The detailed explanations of our surgical reasoning for each tumor case is tailored to assist neurosurgeons across the United States as they face these complex operative decisions put forth by the realities of the pandemic.

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