OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurochirurgie is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Results of a French pilot database of standard of care of chronic subdural hematoma	51
In response to Syrmos et al. letter: Proposal of a decisional algorithm for abdominal pseudocysts in patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunt	38
Primary intrasellar schwannoma with intratumoral hemorrhage mimicking pituitary apoplexy: A case report	36
Ruptured dural arteriovenous fistula and sinus venous thrombosis following surgical resection of a vestibular schwannoma: Case report and review of the literature	25
The impact of primary decompressive craniectomy in ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysms with intraparenchymal hematoma	18
Contents	17
Understanding the research-care demarcation and why it must be revised	15
Iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm after surgery: Stay away from the evil. Case report and review of the literature	15
Beyond traditional surgery for far lateral lumbar herniation: transforaminal full endoscopic discectomy	15
Risk factors associated with congenital central nervous system abnormalities in the National Hospital of Zinder, Niger	12
What is the role of neurosurgeons in the current management of intracranial aneurysm in France? An analysis of professional practices	12
Adult transverse sinus capillary hemangioma: case report and review of the literature	11
Super acute subdural hematoma following drain removal for chronic subdural haematoma	11
A case of extreme hydrocephalus in a 67-year-old man whose professional and social lives were normal	11
Cervicodorsal extramedullary anaplastic ependymoma with intracranial metastasis	10
A rare cause of intracranial hypertension: Intradiploic epidermoid cyst with superior sagittal sinus compression	10
Endoscopically operated 15 ventral skull-base dermoid and epidermoid cysts: Outcomes of a case series and technical note	9
Neuro damage control: current concept and civilian applications	9
Rathke’s cleft cyst apoplexy in a boy treated by endoscopic endonasal surgery: case report and literature review	9
Dorsal rhizotomy in cerebral palsy: How root sectioning is influenced by intraoperative neuromonitoring?	9
Usefulness of discography, discoblock and a new mechanical method for identifying a painful segment/disc	9
Subependymal giant-cell astrocytoma: A surgical review in the modern era of mTOR inhibitors	9
Efficacy of Intravenous Paracetamol and Ibuprofen on Postoperative Pain and Morphine Consumption in Lumbar Disc Surgery: Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial	9
Care trials: A solution for surgical research between clinical trial and register	9
Sphenoparietal sinus and superficial middle cerebral vein thrombosis: A case report and review of literature	9

Surgical management of tumors of the cervical spine and craniovertebral junction involving the vertebral artery: A narrative review	8
Minimally invasive cerebral revascularization in moyamoya disease in adult patients	8
Understanding prognostic models: The example of the PHASES score for unruptured intracranial aneurysms	8
Neurosurgical management of penetrating brain injury during World War I: A historical cohort	8
Use of Second Window ICG in spinal cord biopsy of a mildly contrast-enhancing lesion: Technical note and review of the literature	8
Foix-Alajouanine syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of presentation, management, and outcomes	8
Women in neurosurgery: Historical vignette and current issues in France	7
Awake microsurgical management of brain aneurysms: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis on rationale, safety and clinical outcomes	7
Management of vestibular schwannoma during pregnancy: A systematic review	7
Understanding why restrictive trial eligibility criteria are inappropriate	7
Denosumab salvage therapy in an 11-year-old boy with locally recurrent unresectable giant cell tumor of the lumbar spine after surgery	7
Bone-destructive osseous arteriovenous fistula at the jugular bulb mimicking a glomus jugular tumor	7
Use and consequences of less-lethal weapons in France: A neurosurgical perspective	7
Concurrent carotid-cavernous fistula and cervical internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm due to a gunshot injury: A case report	7
Surgical treatment of hemifacial spasms: how to predict failure and complications through a series of 200 patients	7
Step by step teaching anatomy for anterior approach of the lumbar spine: A cadaveric study	7
Does long segment subarachnoido-subarachnoid shunt prevent posttraumatic and postinfectious spinal arachnoid cyst recurrence?: technical note and case series	7
Non-functional recurrent pituitary adenoma with intracranial metastasis–Pituitary carcinoma: A case report and review of the literature	6
Endoscopic endonasal resection of coexisting pituitary adenoma and meningioma: Two cases’ report and literature review	6
Understanding how the primary endpoint impacts the interpretation of trial results: The Japanese Adult Moyamoya bypass trial	6
Prognostic factors for progression-free survival of the filum terminale ependymomas in adults	6
Vertebral artery stenosis from osteophyte: A systematic review and case series	6
Fractured cervical spine, dissected vertebral artery, and life-threatening stroke: A challenging case report and literature review	6
Training and teaching of vagus nerve stimulation surgery: Worldwide survey and future perspectives	6
Spontaneous intracranial vertebral artery dissections presenting with subarachnoid hemorrhage	6
Rare hemorrhagic presentation of a brain arterioveinous malformation	6
Effects of sodium fluoride on neural tube development in chick embryos	6
Comprehensive pain management in spinal surgery: The role of botulinum toxin	6
Early aggressive constriction resection for hourglass-like constriction of peripheral nerve in the upper extremity: a retrospective study	6
Repairment of an interrupted oculomotor nerve in the cavernous sinus	6
Editorial board	6
Cerebral hydatid cyst in children: A case series of 21 patients and review of literature	6
Short-segment percutaneous osteosynthesis with long pedicle screw fixation of the injured vertebra for thoracolumbar and lumbar non neurological fractures: The Trident Fixation	6
Primary central nervous system lymphoma: A 7 years single-center experience	6
Post-traumatic cerebral venous sinus thrombosis associated with epidural hematoma: A challenging clinical situation	6
Lessons from landmark studies on the treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms	5
Enhanced prognostic accuracy in severe TBI: a comprehensive nomogram analysis	5
Highly cited scores, scoring systems, grading systems, and classifications of daily use in cranial neurosurgery: A must-have during residency training! A mini-review	5
How science can harm: The true history of thrombectomy trials	5
Surgical outcome of meningomyelocele and short-term prognostic factors: A retrospective cohort study	5
Rethinking age barriers in Parkinson’s disease for deep brain stimulation	5
Deep brain stimulation for refractory epilepsy	5
Masquelet induced cranial membrane under silicone layer during cranioplasty: Toward a natural technique for regeneration of meninges after decompressive craniectomy	5
Can fifth nerve mapping guide rhizotomy for recurrent trigeminal neuralgia? Case report	5
Clinical decisions based on reasons that reason should ignore	5
Editorial board	5
Current trends and challenges in intracranial aneurysm treatment	5
Thalamic deep brain stimulation for post-traumatic neuropathic limb pain: Efficacy at five years’ follow-up and effective volume of activated brain tissue	5
Which surgery is better for obese patients with lumbar degenerative diseases: open TLIF or Endo-LIF? A retrospective matched case–control study	5
MRI-based whole-tumor radiomics to classify the types of pediatric posterior fossa brain tumor	5

Comments on: Impact of discontinuation of antithrombotic therapy after surgery for chronic subdural hematoma, Todeschi et al., Neurochirurgie 66 (4) (2020) 195-202	5
Postoperative neurological complications in intradural extramedullary tumors: A 10-year experience of a single center	4
Hemodynamic factors of spontaneous vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms assessed with numerical and deep learning algorithms: Role of blood pressure and asymmetry	4
Spinal schwannoma causes acute subarachnoid haemorrhage: A case report and literature review	4
Commentary on “Libérons-nous de la douleur”, book by Dr Marc Leveque, M.D. (2022, Ed. Buchet Chastel)	4
Cervical collar after one level instrumented anterior cervical discectomy: An unscientific myth	4
Rapidly recurrent recalcitrant Rathke Cleft Cyst: Case report and review of the literature	4
Preoperative cervical alignment parameters can predict postoperative disability scores and myelopathy outcomes	4
Empathy burnout among neurosurgeons	4
Elucidation of effect of spinopelvic parameters in degenerative disc disease	4
MicroRNAs miR-629-3p, miR-1202 and miR-1225-5p as potential diagnostic and surgery outcome biomarkers for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis	4
Contents	4
Robot-assisted MIS surgery in a pregnant woman with lumbar traumatic fracture: A technical note	4
Performance of the Marshall and Rotterdam scales as predictors of mortality in children with severe traumatic brain injury	4
Impact of preaneurysmal M1 length in unruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm: mid-term outcome and single-center experience	4
Sustainable neurosurgical training around the globe. A review and outline	4
Is there a relationship between lumbosacral epidural spinal injections and lumbosacral epidural lipomatosis? A retrospective study	4
Application of offset Dingo instruments in Anterior to Psoas (ATP)/Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion (OLIF) procedure: A retrospective study of 80 patients	4
Idiopathic biventricular hydrocephalus: A clinical case report	4
De novo adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma with long-term pre-diagnostic imaging	4
CSF Otorrhea: A rare presentation of spinal myxopapillary ependymoma	4
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in an infant with vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation treated by endovascular occlusion: Case report and a review of literature	4
A carcinoid tumor of the middle ear masquerading as a glomus tympanicum presenting with temporal lobe hemorrhage in a 70-year-old woman: Case report and review of the literature	4
Symptomatic spinal metastasis of a supratentorial glioblastoma in a pediatric patient: a case report and comprehensive review of the literature	4
A survey on the experience of risk-taking behaviors of bedridden patients in neurosurgery	4
Interventional magnetic-resonance-guided cryotherapy combined with microsurgery for recurrent glioblastoma: An innovative treatment?	4
Functional and dysfunctional impulsivities changes after subthalamic nucleus-deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease	4
Pediatric abscessed craniopharyngioma: A case report and review of literature	4
Cerebral arterio-venous malformations hemodynamics changes in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia – case report	4
Contents	4
Metastasis of the choroid plexuses: A systematic review of the literature and case illustration	4
Understanding explanatory and pragmatic trials: Examples from randomized controlled trials on vertebroplasty	4
Editorial board	3
A narrative review of techniques for surgical revascularization of the extracranial vertebral artery in vertebrobasilar insufficiency	3
Spinal Arachnoid Web: A didactic report of two cases with clinical, radiological, surgical and pathological correlations	3
Infected psammomatous intracranial meningioma	3
Ophthalmological lesions in shaken baby syndrome: A retrospective analysis of 133 consecutive cases (1992–2018)	3
Hemangioblastoma and arteriovenous malformation in the same patient: a not random association or two isolated entities? Systematic review starting from a unique case	3
Side effects of continuous intra-arterial infusion of nimodipine for management of resistant cerebral vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage patients: A systematic review	3
Natural course of the acute unruptured intracranial vertebral artery dissections which show pearl-and-string sign	3
Feasibility of unilateral hemilaminectomy utilizing a Williams retractor for the resection of intradural-extramedullary spinal neoplasms	3
Transient meningism in children after non-autologous duraplasty for Chiari Malformation surgery: A case series	3
Tumoral and peritumoral vascularization of brain tumours: a study comparing an intraoperative ultrasensitive Doppler and a preoperative first-pass perfusion MRI	3
Cervical intradural extramedullary cavernoma as a rare cause of acute hydrocephalus – a case report and systematic review	3
The rise of gamification in neurosurgical training	3
Aggressive primary scalp lymphoma mimicking an acute epidural hematoma: Case report and review of the literature	3
Contents	3
When Clovis Vincent confronts the director at the old Pitié hospital	3
Cave-in decompression technique in percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal discectomy for ossification occupation in lumbar spinal canal: A retrospective analysis of 23 cases	3
Vagus nerve stimulation lead durability: Insights from an extensive monocentric single-operator adult series	3
How to manage a ureteral injury after anterior lumbar spine interbody fusion surgery	3
Effect of non-neurological complications on the functional outcome of patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms	3
Attachment ≠ Origin: A Critical Appraisal of the Olfactory Schwannoma Literature	3
Cervico-thoracic spine pseudo tumoral calcinosis – clinical case and review of the literature	3
Early rehabilitation using gait exoskeletons is possible in the neurosurgical setting, even in patients with cognitive impairment	3
Effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant generalized epilepsy in children aged six and younger	3
Performance of the necker cranial injury scale as a predictor of prognosis in children with severe traumatic brain injury: A retrospective cohort study	3
Primary intradural Extraosseous Ewing’s sarcoma of the cauda equina: A case report and literature review	3
Indications for surgical evacuation of cerebellar intracerebral hemorrhage: consensus guidelines from the French Society of Neurosurgery (SFNC) and the French Society of Vascular Neurology (SFNV)	3
Common fibular nerve palsy due to fabella compression: An illustrative case report	3
Lies, damned lies, and statistical populations	3
The Dural Dark-Side Approach for falcine and tentorial meningioma: A surgical series of five patients	3
The Da Vinci Robot, a promising yet underused minimally invasive tool for spine surgery: A scoping review of its current role and limits	3
Confirmed Titanium hypersensitivity causing the failure of a lumbar spine fusion	3
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on neuro-oncology multidisciplinary tumor board in the pre-vaccine era: the Normandy experience	3