Adverse events are common in neurosurgery. Their reporting is inconsistent and widely variable due to nonuniform definitions, data collection mechanisms, and retrospective data collection. Historically, neurosurgery has lagged behind general…
Medical errors are common and dangerous, estimated to cause over 400,000 deaths per year in the United States alone. The field of neurosurgery is not immune to these errors, and…
The delivery of safe healthcare is one of the fundamental tenets of medicine, but the study of patient safety has lagged in neurosurgery. Patients are at high risk for medical…
John D. Rolston, MD, PhD, Editor Seunggu J. Han, MD, Editor Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD Editor Health care workers want to provide the best care they can, and patients demand…
NEUROSURGERY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA www.neurosurgery.theclinics.com Consulting Editors RUSSELL LONSER ISAAC YANG April 2015 • Volume 26 • Number 2 Related posts: Quality Improvement in Neurosurgery Quality Improvement Tools and…
The surgical management of trigeminal schwannomas (TNs) entails the use of a variety of cranial base approaches for their effective surgical management. Although an extended middle fossa or posterior petrosal…
Based on the anatomic relationship between sinonasal complex and orbit, endoscopic transnasal procedures could be a smart solution for approaching the medial orbital region. These techniques should be considered a…
Chondrosarcomas of the skull base are rare, locally invasive tumors that typically arise in the petroclival region, from degenerated chondroid cells located within the synchondrosis. Given their usually slow growth…
Odontoidectomy is the treatment of choice for irreducible ventral cervical-medullary compression. The endonasal endoscopic approach is an innovative approach for odontoidectomy. The aim of this article is to identify in…
