World Neurosurg
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Our study assesses the impact of an author's social media presence on citation rates and readership of spine literature. ⋯ Activity on Twitter and Instagram may have variable associations with altmetrics of literature visibility and readership but with citation rates. Interestingly, presence/promotion on Twitter predicted less attention/readership, while Instagram presence predicted higher Mendeley readership.
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Case Reports
Microvascular Decompression through Cyanoacrylate Glue-Coated Teflon Sling Transposition Technique.
Vertebral artery dolichoectasia may produce a variety of clinical scenarios depending on the level of compression of several nervous structures along its course. Despite the fact that the pathophysiology is not fully clarified, it would seem that this pathologic elongation and dilation of the artery are acquired and determined by a thinning of the internal elastic lamina exposed to chronic arterial hypertension or as a result of degeneration and atherosclerosis of the arterial wall with age. When treatment is indicated, several techniques to relieve compression have been proposed, but they are usually challenging and nonstandardized. ⋯ The patient gave written consent for participating in the procedure, surgical video, and publication of her images. Unfortunately, we did not take the picture of patient positioning for this specific case. For this reason, in order to better illustrate this surgical phase, we used the picture of another patient, who expressed her consent for publication and was operated on for a microvascular decompression with the same position as the one used for the patient described in this paper.
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Granular cell tumors are rare vascular neoplastic lesions of the sellar and suprasellar region that usually arise from the pituitary stalk but can originate as low as the posterior pituitary or as high as the tuber cinereum.1 Complete resection, although ideal, can yield high rates of endocrine or visual morbidity.1,2 On headache workup, a 66-year-old woman was found to have a 1.2 × 1.1 × 1.3-cm contrast-enhancing lesion in the anterior-inferior third ventricle, posterior to the infundibulum. Endocrine testing was unremarkable, and a lumbar puncture was nondiagnostic. An open biopsy and possible resection were selected by the patient over short-interval imaging. ⋯ Postoperatively, the patient had transient diabetes insipidus, with preserved vision and normal endocrine function on follow-up. The trans-lamina terminalis approach can be used for safe resection of anterior third ventricular tumors. Preservation of the floor and walls of the third ventricle is critical to avoid morbidity.
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To compare biomechanical stability and rod strain among uniform rod (UR), tapered rod (TR), and UR+accessory rod (AR) constructs in a human cadaveric C7 pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) model of cervical deformity correction. ⋯ C7 PSO is highly destabilizing. Maximal rod strain was concentrated across the PSO and the cranial fixation site. TR provided higher stability than did UR in 1 direction of movement; however, UR+AR provided the greatest reduction of pRS.
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To comprehensively analyze malpractice claims relating to arteriovenous malformations. ⋯ While the courts rule in favor of defendants more than plaintiffs, the time and psychological demands of litigation place a high burden on physicians.