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Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Neurochirurgica is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Safety analysis and complications of condylar screws in a single-surgeon series of 250 occipitocervical fusions	34
Hemodynamic response and clinical outcome following intravenous milrinone plus norepinephrine–based hyperdynamic hypertensive therapy in patients suffering secondary cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal	32
Glioblastoma in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome: first case report and review of potential pathomechanisms	31
The role of microsurgery for poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages in the endovascular era	22
Reducing complication rates for repeat craniotomies in glioma patients: a single-surgeon experience and comparison with the literature	20
Super-selective balloon test occlusion with electrophysiological monitoring to occlude angiographically invisible posterior communicating artery perforators with unruptured aneurysm	19
Ictal onset stereoelectroencephalography patterns in temporal lobe epilepsy: type, distribution, and prognostic value	17
Surgical treatment of symptomatic pineal cysts without hydrocephalus—meta-analysis of the published literature	15
Unstable ventricular tachycardia requiring defibrillation from rapid ventricular pacing during basilar apex aneurysm clipping	14
In reply to “Vascular supplies to the column of the fornix other than the subcallosal artery: median artery of the corpus callosum and posterior choroidal arteries”	14
Customized cost-effective polymethylmethacrylate cranioplasty: a cosmetic comparison with other low-cost methods of cranioplasty	14
Combined use of vancomycin powder and betadine irrigation lowers the incidence of postcraniotomy wound infection in low-risk cases: a single-center risk-stratified cohort analysis	13
Intracerebral hemorrhage due to vasculitis following COVID-19 vaccination: a case report	12
Vascular supplies to the column of the fornix other than the subcallosal artery: median artery of the corpus callosum and posterior choroidal arteries	12
Fred Gentili, MD, FRCSC (1947–2022): Say it loud, say it clear	11
Comment: Invasive tests for predicting shunt response in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus—the risk aspect	11
Waiting time for surgery influences the outcome in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus — a population-based study	10
Management of non-vestibular schwannomas in adult patients: a systematic review and consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section Part III: Lower cranial nerve schwannomas, jugular fora	10
Correction to: Atypical evolution of meningiomatosis after discontinuation of cyproterone acetate: clinical cases and histomolecular characterization	9
How I do it: surgical resection of ventrolateral pontomesencephalic junction glioma via oculomotor-tentorial triangle	9
Extended testing for cognition: has awake brain mapping moved to the next level?	8
Vagus nerve stimulation: a 20-year Australian experience	8
Letter: “Motor and functional outcome of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia at 12 and 24 months of follow‐up”	7
Efficacy of caudal pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation on postural instability and gait disorders in Parkinson’s disease	7
Invasive tests for predicting shunt response in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: the risk aspect	7

Craniotomies following acute traumatic brain injury in Finland—a national study between 1997 and 2018	7
International practice variation in perioperative laboratory testing in glioblastoma patients—a retrospective cohort study	7
Correction to: Diffusional kurtosis imaging as a possible prognostic marker of cervical incomplete spinal cord injury outcome: a prospective pilot study	6
Response to Letter regarding ”Motor and functional outcome of selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia at 12 and 24 months of follow-up”	6
Spontaneous angiogram-negative subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective single center cohort study	6
Genetic alterations associated with malignant transformation of sporadic vestibular schwannoma	6
A new uPAR-targeting fluorescent probe for optical guided intracranial surgery in resection of a meningioma—a case report	6
Pretreatment patient-reported cognitive function in patients with diffuse glioma	5
Contextualization of post-operative mini-strokes in glioma surgery	5
Uncommon presentations of a neurosurgical site infection: impaired wound healing with hypergranulation and crust formation	5
Management of non-vestibular schwannomas in adult patients: a systematic review and consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section Part II: Trigeminal and facial nerve schwannomas (CN V,	5