Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group

Check out just some of the articles in the April issues!

Print Journals
Note: all the articles listed below are freely accessible.

Journal of Neurosurgery Volume 134: Issue 4 (April 2021)

• Subsecond EEG-fMRI analysis for presurgical evaluation in focal epilepsy

  Authors: Yuji Ito, Satoshi Maesawa, Epifanio Bagarinao, Yu Okai, Daisuke Nakatsubo, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kidokoro, Naotaka Usui, Jun Natsume, Minoru Hoshiyama, Toshihiko Wakabayashi, Gen Sobue, and Norio Ozaki

• Feasibility and performance of a frameless stereotactic system for targeting subcortical nuclei in nonhuman primates

  Authors: Felipe Branco de Paiva, Brett A. Campbell, Leonardo A. Frizon, Adriana Martin, Andres Maldonado-Naranjo, André G. Machado, and Kenneth B. Baker

• Clinical outcomes of globus pallidus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease: a comparison of intraoperative MRI– and MER-guided lead placement

  Authors: Yarema B. Bezchlibnyk, Vibhash D. Sharma, Kushal B. Naik, Faical Isbaine, John T. Gale, Jennifer Cheng, Shirley D. Triche, Svjetlana Miocinovic, Cathrin M. Buetefisch, Jon T. Willie, Nicholas M. Boulis, Stewart A. Factor, Thomas Wichmann, Mahlon R. DeLong, and Robert E. Gross

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine Volume 34: Issue 4 (April 2021)

• Editorial. Interspinous spacers for lumbar stenosis: time for obsolescence?

  Authors: Marjorie C. Wang and Mohammed Y. T. AlGhamdi

• A randomized controlled trial of the X-Stop interspinous distractor device versus laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis with 2-year quality-of-life and cost-effectiveness outcomes

  Authors: Anouk Borg, Ciaran Scott Hill, Besnik Nurboja, Giles Critchley, and David Choi

• Simultaneous translation on two rods improves the correction and apex translocation in adolescent patients with hypokyphotic scoliosis

  Authors: Daisuke Sakai, Jordy Schol, Akihiko Hiyama, Hiroyuki Katoh, Masahiro Tanaka, Masato Sato, and Masahiko Watanabe

• 14^th Lumbar Spine Research Society Annual Scientific Meeting Oral and Poster Presentations

  Presented Virtually, April 8–10, 2021

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics Volume 27: Issue 4 (April 2021)

• Standardization of cerebrospinal fluid shunt valves in pediatric hydrocephalus: an analysis of cost, operative time, length of stay, and shunt failure

  Authors: Jessica Berns, Blake Priddy, Ahmed Belal, R. Dianne Seibold, Kristin Zieles, and Andrew Jea

• Acute surgical management of children with ruptured brain arteriovenous malformation

  Authors: Sarah Stricker, Grégoire Boulouis, Sandro Benichi, Marie Bourgeois, Florent Gariel, Lorenzo Garzelli, Jean-François Hak, Quentin Alias, Basile Kerleroux, Kevin Beccaria, Anaïs Chivet, Timothée de Saint Denis, Syril James, Giovanna Paternoster, Michel Zerah, Manoelle Kossorotoff, Nathalie Boddaert, Francis Brunelle, Philippe Meyer, Stéphanie Puget, Olivier Naggara, and Thomas Blauwblomme

Online-only Journals

Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons Volume 1: Issues 14–17 (April 2021)

All articles in JNS: Case Lessons are open access and freely available. The following shows a small sample.

• Vascular occlusion in a previously unaffected territory after treatment with intravenous plasminogen activator: illustrative case

  Authors: Akira Sugie, Makoto Yamada, Kunio Yokoyama, Tomoaki Miyake, Yutaka Ito, Hidekazu Tanaka, Yukiya Nomura, Masutsugu Fujita, Toshio Nakatani, and Masahiro Kawanishi

• Primary cranial vault germinoma in a 23-year-old man: illustrative case

  Authors: Christopher Lauren, Donny Argie, Elric B. Malelak, Reza Mawardy, Samuel E. Suranta, Vito M. Junaidy, and Yohanes Firmansyah

• Rare large colloid cyst obstructing the posterior third ventricle: illustrative case

  Authors: Jakob V. E. Gerstl, Kristian Aquilina, and Jeffrey E. Florman

Neurosurgical Focus Volume 50: Issue 4 (April 2021):

Topic: Controversies in the Management of Single-Suture Craniosynostosis

All articles in Neurosurgical Focus are freely available.

Topic editors: Concezio Di Rocco, John R. W. Kestle, Richard Hayward and Jesse A. Taylor

The April issue of Neurosurgical Focus presents twelve articles and two editorials on management of single-suture craniosynostosis. Endoscopic and open surgical procedures are described and discussed, as are timing of surgery, remodeling orthotics (cranial helmets), the role of epigenetics in craniosynostosis, the effect of disparities in healthcare access on treatment, and more.

Neurosurgical Focus: Video Volume 4: Issue 2 (April 2021)

Topic: Craniosynostosis

All articles in Neurosurgical Focus: Video are open access and freely available.

Topic editors: Craig Birgfeld, Federico Di Rocco, Cormac O. Maher, Mark R. Proctor and Matthew D. Smyth

In their introduction to the April issue, the topic editors speak of advances in craniosynostosis surgery over the past decades. Some technological innovations include preoperative models for training and planning surgery, endoscopic approaches, Piezoelectric surgery for bone cutting, external distractors and postoperative springs and orthotics.

In describing the issue, the topic editors state:

“In this exciting video journal dedicated to craniosynostosis, the authors evaluate some of the basic techniques and then describe the use of these new and innovative techniques for the treatment of single-suture and multisuture syndromic synostosis. The reader should be able to appreciate many of the nuances in the treatment of these disease processes and see how surgeons are dealing with the conditions using the new innovations available in the modern era.”