Neurosurgical Focus

Article	Citations
Middle meningeal artery embolization treatment of nonacute subdural hematomas in the elderly: a multiinstitutional experience of 151 cases	64
The current state of electrocorticography-based brain–computer interfaces	60
Applications of indocyanine green in brain tumor surgery: review of clinical evidence and emerging technologies	53
The association between lower Hounsfield units on computed tomography and cage subsidence after lateral lumbar interbody fusion	45
Single-position prone lateral approach: cadaveric feasibility study and early clinical experience	43
Lumbar disc height and vertebral Hounsfield units: association with interbody cage subsidence	40
Ambulatory neurosurgery in the COVID-19 era: patient and provider satisfaction with telemedicine	39
Association of osteopenia and osteoporosis with higher rates of pseudarthrosis and revision surgery in adult patients undergoing single-level lumbar fusion	37
Habenula deep brain stimulation for intractable schizophrenia: a pilot study	37
Virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a turning point in neurosurgical education	36
Quality Outcomes Database Spine Care Project 2012–2020: milestones achieved in a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care and evolution to the American Spine Re	36
Magnetic resonance imaging–based synthetic computed tomography of the lumbar spine for surgical planning: a clinical proof-of-concept	35
PEEK versus titanium cages in lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a comparative analysis of subsidence	35
Augmented reality–assisted ventriculostomy	34
Virtual education in neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Informed consent in neurosurgery: a systematic review	34
The role of frailty in geriatric cranial neurosurgery for primary central nervous system neoplasms	32
First in-human report of the clinical accuracy of thoracolumbar percutaneous pedicle screw placement using augmented reality guidance	31
Frailty predicts worse outcomes after intracranial meningioma surgery irrespective of existing prognostic factors	30
The association between lower Hounsfield units of the upper instrumented vertebra and proximal junctional kyphosis in adult spinal deformity surgery with a minimum 2-year follow-up	29
Increases in female academic productivity and female mentorship highlight sustained progress in previously identified neurosurgical gender disparities	28
Hounsfield units of the vertebral body and pedicle as predictors of pedicle screw loosening after degenerative lumbar spine surgery	28
Holographic mixed-reality neuronavigation with a head-mounted device: technical feasibility and clinical application	27
Augmented reality head-mounted display–based incision planning in cranial neurosurgery: a prospective pilot study	27
Clinical applications of neurochemical and electrophysiological measurements for closed-loop neurostimulation	27

Neurosurgery training in India during the COVID-19 pandemic: straight from the horse’s mouth	27
Does interbody cage lordosis impact actual segmental lordosis achieved in minimally invasive lumbar spine fusion?	27
The effect of augmented reality on the accuracy and learning curve of external ventricular drain placement	26
Anxiety in neurosurgical patients undergoing nonurgent surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Learning curves in robot-assisted spine surgery: a systematic review and proposal of application to residency curricula	26
The role of diffusion tensor imaging and tractography in the surgical management of brainstem gliomas	26
Clinical trials using oncolytic viral therapy to treat adult glioblastoma: a progress report	25
Does robot-assisted navigation influence pedicle screw selection and accuracy in minimally invasive spine surgery?	25
Acute subdural hematoma in the elderly: outcome analysis in a retrospective multicentric series of 213 patients	25
A systematic review of virtual reality for the assessment of technical skills in neurosurgery	24
Virtual dissection of the real brain: integration of photographic 3D models into virtual reality and its effect on neurosurgical resident education	24
Spinal anesthesia in awake surgical procedures of the lumbar spine: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 3709 patients	24
Augmented reality navigation for cranial biopsy and external ventricular drain insertion	24
Morbidity and mortality in elderly patients undergoing evacuation of acute traumatic subdural hematoma	23
Neurosurgeons in 2020: the impact of gender on neurosurgical training, family planning, and workplace culture	23
Fully automatic brain tumor segmentation for 3D evaluation in augmented reality	22
Evaluation of the precision of operative augmented reality compared to standard neuronavigation using a 3D-printed skull	22
Evaluating robotic pedicle screw placement against conventional modalities: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	22
MRI and tractography techniques to localize the ventral intermediate nucleus and dentatorubrothalamic tract for deep brain stimulation and MR-guided focused ultrasound: a narrative review and update	22
Comparison of intracranial injury predictability between machine learning algorithms and the nomogram in pediatric traumatic brain injury	22
Machine learning–based prediction of outcomes of the endoscopic endonasal approach in Cushing disease: is the future coming?	22
Osteoporosis in spine surgery patients: what is the best way to diagnose osteoporosis in this population?	22
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of null-cell versus silent gonadotroph adenomas in a series of 1166 pituitary adenomas from a single institution	21
The immunology of low-grade gliomas	21
PET-guided repeat transsphenoidal surgery for previously deemed unresectable lateral disease in acromegaly	21
Performance assessment of the metastatic spinal tumor frailty index using machine learning algorithms: limitations and future directions	21
Risk factors, comorbidities, quality of life, and complications after surgery in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: review of the INPH-CRasH study	21
Intraoperative imaging of brain tumors with fluorescein: confocal laser endomicroscopy in neurosurgery. Clinical and user experience	21
Rate of failure of indirect decompression in lateral single-position surgery: clinical results	21
Real-time navigation guidance with intraoperative CT imaging for pedicle screw placement using an augmented reality head-mounted display: a proof-of-concept study	21
Mechanical thrombectomy versus intravenous thrombolysis for distal large-vessel occlusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	20
Supratentorial high-grade gliomas: maximal safe anatomical resection guided by augmented reality high-definition fiber tractography and fluorescein	20
To drill or not to drill, that is the question: nonsurgical treatment of chronic subdural hematoma in the elderly. A systematic review	20
Women neurosurgeons around the world: a systematic review	20
Carbon fiber–reinforced PEEK instrumentation in the spinal oncology population: a retrospective series demonstrating technique, feasibility, and clinical outcomes	20
Safety and interim survival data after intracranial administration of M032, a genetically engineered oncolytic HSV-1 expressing IL-12, in pet dogs with sporadic gliomas	20
Impact of tumor characteristics and pre- and postoperative hormone levels on hormonal remission following endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery in patients with acromegaly	19
Trends in acute ischemic stroke treatments and mortality in the United States from 2012 to 2018	19
Microsurgical clipping of middle cerebral artery aneurysms: preoperative planning using virtual reality to reduce procedure time	19
Functional and radiological outcome of anterior retroperitoneal versus posterior transforaminal interbody fusion in the management of single-level lumbar degenerative disease	19
Recurrent high-grade glioma surgery: a multimodal intraoperative protocol to safely increase extent of tumor resection and analysis of its impact on patient outcome	19
Awake spinal surgery: simplifying the learning curve with a patient selection algorithm	19
Spinal versus general anesthesia for minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: implications on operating room time, pain, and ambulation	18
Clinical characteristics and outcomes in elderly patients undergoing transsphenoidal surgery for nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma	18
A population-based study of fall-related traumatic brain injury identified in older adults in hospital emergency departments	18
Ten years’ experience with intraoperative MRI-assisted transsphenoidal pituitary surgery	18
Predicting meningioma consistency and brain-meningioma interface with intraoperative strain ultrasound elastography: a novel application to guide surgical strategy	18
Minimally invasive lateral corpectomy for thoracolumbar traumatic burst fractures	18
Medical malpractice in spine surgery: a review	18
Delta-24 adenoviral therapy for glioblastoma: evolution from the bench to bedside and future considerations	17

Vulnerability of the L5 nerve root during anterior lumbar interbody fusion at L5–S1: case series and review of the literature	16
Viral therapies for glioblastoma and high-grade gliomas in adults: a systematic review	16
Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia diagnosed using quantitative CT in 296 consecutive lumbar fusion patients	16
Treatment of patients with glioma during the COVID-19 pandemic: what we learned and what we take home for the future	16
The oncolytic Newcastle disease virus as an effective immunotherapeutic strategy against glioblastoma	16
Intraarterial delivery of virotherapy for glioblastoma	16
History of African women in neurosurgery	16
Regional improvements in lumbosacropelvic Hounsfield units following teriparatide treatment	16
Women’s role in neurosurgical research: is the gender gap improving?	15
COVID-19: changing patterns among neurosurgical patients from North India, efficacy of repeat testing, and inpatient prevalence	15
The anterior-to-psoas approach for interbody fusion at the L5–S1 segment: clinical and radiological outcomes	15
Navigated ultrasound-based image guidance during resection of gliomas: practical utility in intraoperative decision-making and outcomes	15
Three-dimensional–printed marker–based augmented reality neuronavigation: a new neuronavigation technique	15
Randomized study comparing 3D virtual reality and conventional 2D on-screen teaching of cerebrovascular anatomy	15
Women in neurosurgery: where does the United Kingdom stand?	15
The progression of diversity: Black women in neurosurgery	14
Direct thrombectomy versus bridging thrombolysis with mechanical thrombectomy in middle cerebral artery stroke: a real-world analysis through National Inpatient Sample data	14
Central nervous system injury–induced immune suppression	14
The prevalence of imposter syndrome among young neurosurgeons and residents in neurosurgery: a multicentric study	14
Introduction. Virtual and augmented reality in neurosurgery: a timeline	14
Transcriptome-wide analysis of intracranial artery in patients with moyamoya disease showing upregulation of immune response, and downregulation of oxidative phosphorylation and DNA repair	14
Osteoporosis treatment in patients undergoing spinal fusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Drain type after burr-hole drainage of chronic subdural hematoma in geriatric patients: a subanalysis of the cSDH-Drain randomized controlled trial	13
Optimizing pre-, intra-, and postoperative management of patients with sellar pathology undergoing transsphenoidal surgery	13
Delayed variations in the diagnostic accuracy of intraoperative neuromonitoring in the resection of intramedullary spinal cord tumors	13
Impact of different visualization devices on accuracy, efficiency, and dexterity in neurosurgery: a laboratory investigation	13
Impact of health disparities on treatment for single-suture craniosynostosis in an era of multimodal care	13
Intraoperative MRI–based elastic fusion for anatomically accurate tractography of the corticospinal tract: correlation with intraoperative neuromonitoring and clinical status	13
Genomic and molecular characterization of pituitary adenoma pathogenesis: review and translational opportunities	13
Preoperative bone health assessment and optimization in spine surgery	12
Patient perception of scoliosis correction surgery on Instagram	12
Impact of frailty on surgery for glioblastoma: a critical evaluation of patient outcomes and caregivers’ perceptions in a developing country	12
Minimally invasive surgical treatment of intracranial meningiomas in elderly patients (≥ 65 years): outcomes, readmissions, and tumor control	12
Editorial. Geriatric neurosurgery: the unfolding of a new subspecialty	12
The medicolegal impact of misplaced pedicle and lateral mass screws on spine surgery in the United States	12
Pseudarthrosis rate following anterior cervical discectomy with fusion using an allograft cellular bone matrix: a multi-institutional analysis	12
Safety and efficacy of cement augmentation with fenestrated pedicle screws for tumor-related spinal instability	12
Neurosurgery in times of a pandemic: a survey of neurosurgical services during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Veneto region in Italy	12
Deep brain stimulation telemedicine programming during the COVID-19 pandemic: treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders	12
Is age an additional factor in the treatment of elderly patients with glioblastoma? A new stratification model: an Italian Multicenter Study	12
Using viral vectors to deliver local immunotherapy to glioblastoma	12
Robotic and robot-assisted skull base neurosurgery: systematic review of current applications and future directions	12
Functional outcome and morbidity after microsurgical resection of spinal meningiomas	11
Lateral lumbar interbody fusion in revision surgery for restenosis after posterior decompression	11
Spine surgery under awake spinal anesthesia: an Egyptian experience during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Preparedness and guidelines for neurosurgery in the COVID-19 era: Indian perspective from a tertiary care referral hospital	11
Refining the treatment of spinal cord lesions: experience from 500 cases	11
Percutaneous instrumentation with cement augmentation for traumatic hyperextension thoracic and lumbar fractures in ankylosing spondylitis: a single-institution experience	11
Slow progress in the visibility of women in neurosurgery in the United States: opportunity for improvement	11
Augmented reality–assisted roadmaps during periventricular brain surgery	11
Back pain outcomes after minimally invasive anterior lumbar interbody fusion: a systematic review	11
360° 3D virtual reality operative video for the training of residents in neurosurgery	11
A systematic review of endovascular stent-electrode arrays, a minimally invasive approach to brain-machine interfaces	11
Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Spinal Cord Injury (TRACK-SCI): an overview of initial enrollment and demographics	11
Video-assisted thoracoscopic image-guided spine surgery: evolution of 19 years of experience, from endoscopy to fully integrated 3D navigation	11
Surgical outcomes and multidisciplinary management strategy of Cushing’s disease: a single-center experience in China	11
Implications of IDH mutations on immunotherapeutic strategies for malignant glioma	11
Experiences of neurological surgeons with malpractice lawsuits	11
Does the use of preoperative bisphosphonates in patients with osteopenia and osteoporosis affect lumbar fusion rates? Analysis from a national spine registry	11
Syngeneic murine glioblastoma models: reactionary immune changes and immunotherapy intervention outcomes	11
Long-term pain outcomes in elderly patients with trigeminal neuralgia: comparison of first-time microvascular decompression and stereotactic radiosurgery	10
Pediatric neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: update and recommendations from the Brazilian Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery	10
Recapitulating the Bayesian framework for neurosurgical outpatient care and a cost-benefit analysis of telemedicine for socioeconomically disadvantaged patients in the Philippines during the pandemic	10
Neurosurgery at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: experience from a Surabaya academic tertiary hospital	10
Inhibition of glioma using a novel non-neurotoxic vesicular stomatitis virus	10
Magnetic resonance–guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for brain tumors in geriatric patients	10
Spinal neurovascular complications with anterior thoracolumbar spine surgery: a systematic review and review of thoracolumbar vascular anatomy	10
Immunoregulatory effects of glioma-associated stem cells on the glioblastoma peritumoral microenvironment: a differential PD-L1 expression from core to periphery?	10
Early practices in endonasal skull base surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global survey	10
Endovascular treatment as the first-line approach for cure of low-grade brain arteriovenous malformation	10
Management of spine fractures in ankylosing spondylitis and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: a challenge	10
Development of an inside-out augmented reality technique for neurosurgical navigation	10
Synthetic and systems biology principles in the design of programmable oncolytic virus immunotherapies for glioblastoma	9
The role of atorvastatin in collateral circulation formation induced by encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis: a prospective trial	9
Benefits of endoscope-assisted microsurgery in the management of pediatric brain tumors	9
Prior smoking and nasoseptal flap usage adversely impact quality of life and healing after endoscopic pituitary surgery	9
Minimally invasive spinal fixation in an aging population with osteoporosis: clinical and radiological outcomes and safety of expandable screws versus fenestrated screws augmented with polymethylmetha	9
Delays in presentation and mortality among Black patients with mechanical thrombectomy after large-vessel stroke at a US hospital	9
Automated prediction of the Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score from CT using a novel deep learning algorithm	9
A systematic review of next-generation point-of-care stroke diagnostic technologies	9

Management of sagittal synostosis in the Synostosis Research Group: baseline data and early outcomes	9
Cross-sectional analysis of women in neurosurgery: a Canadian perspective	9
Optimizing the neuron-electrode interface for chronic bioelectronic interfacing	8
Resection of meningiomas in octogenarians: a comparison with a younger geriatric population	8
Quantitative and qualitative comparison of morphometric outcomes after endoscopic and conventional correction of sagittal and metopic craniosynostosis versus control groups	8
Reconversion of neurosurgical practice in times of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a narrative review of the literature and guideline implementation in a Mexican neurosurgical referral center	8
Intraoperative blood loss in oncological spine surgery	8
Does pituitary compression/empty sella syndrome contribute to MRI-negative Cushing’s disease? A single-institution experience	8
Simulation of surgery for supratentorial gliomas in virtual reality using a 3D volume rendering technique: a poor man's neuronavigation	8
Development of cerebral vasospasm following traumatic intracranial hemorrhage: incidence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes	8
Enhanced biomaterials: systematic review of alternatives to supplement spine fusion including silicon nitride, bioactive glass, amino peptide bone graft, and tantalum	8
Day 2 neutrophil-to-lymphocyte and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios for prediction of delayed cerebral ischemia in subarachnoid hemorrhage	8
Improvement following minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in patients aged 70 years or older compared with younger age groups	8
Editorial. Machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to the diagnosis and management of Cushing disease	8
Overview of medical malpractice in neurosurgery	8
Management and surgical outcomes of dystrophic scoliosis in neurofibromatosis type 1: a systematic review	8
History of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS)	8
Remote video-based outcome measures of patients with Parkinson’s disease after deep brain stimulation using smartphones: a pilot study	8
Central or axial atlantoaxial dislocation and craniovertebral junction alterations: a review of 393 patients treated over 12 years	8
Repair of the sellar floor using bioresorbable polydioxanone foils after endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery	8
Mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke with tandem occlusions: impact of extracranial carotid lesion etiology on endovascular management and outcome	8
Advancements in the treatment of traumatic spinal cord injury during military conflicts	8
Minimally invasive procedures for hypothalamic hamartoma–related epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Update on intrathecal management of cerebral vasospasm: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Time trends in the risk of delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	8
Existing clinical evidence on the use of cellular bone matrix grafts in spinal fusion: updated systematic review of the literature	8
A novel rat robot controlled by electrical stimulation of the nigrostriatal pathway	7
Does stroke etiology influence outcome in the posterior circulation? An analysis of 107 consecutive acute basilar occlusion thrombectomies	7
Status of current medicolegal reform in the United States: a neurosurgical perspective	7
Robot-guided versus freehand fluoroscopy-guided minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: a single-institution, observational, case-control study	7
Electroencephalography for detection of vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective analysis and systematic review	7
Heparin in the treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Systematic review of charged-particle therapy for chordomas and sarcomas of the mobile spine and sacrum	7
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the advanced treatment of medically intractable pediatric epilepsy	7
Neurotoxicity of subarachnoid Gd-based contrast agent accumulation: a potential complication of intraoperative MRI?	7
The feasibility of computer-assisted 3D navigation in multiple-level lateral lumbar interbody fusion in combination with posterior instrumentation for adult spinal deformity	7
Short-segment cement-augmented fixation in open separation surgery of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: initial experience	7
Study of comparative surgical exposure to the petroclival region using patient-specific, petroclival meningioma virtual reality models	7
Perceptions of Indian neurosurgeons about medicolegal issues and malpractice suits	7
Impact of surgeon rhBMP-2 cost awareness on complication rates and health system costs for spinal arthrodesis	7
Ultra-early synostectomy and cranial remodeling orthoses in the management of craniosynostoses	7
Workflow and performance of intraoperative CT, cone-beam CT, and robotic cone-beam CT for spinal navigation in 503 consecutive patients	7
Antiresorptive and anabolic medications used in the perioperative period of patients with osteoporosis undergoing spine surgery: their impact on the biology of fusion and systematic review of the lite	7
Endoscope-assisted fluorescence-guided resection allowing supratotal removal in glioblastoma surgery	7
Correlation of return to work with patient satisfaction after surgery for lumbar spondylolisthesis: an analysis of the Quality Outcomes Database	7