Highlights • The exact consequences of “venous injury,” inadvertently caused during the course of routine neurosurgical operations, find scant mention in neurosurgical literature. • Numerous so-called “unpredictable” postoperative complications in…
Highlights • Avoidance of surgical complications is an important step in achieving a profitable health care system and therefore needs a judicious reporting system in defining the incidence of complications….
Highlights • Medical complication after a neurosurgical procedure is defined as an unanticipated adverse event that is not directly related to the neurosurgical technique or procedure. • It includes venous…
Highlights • Wrong-site surgery is a rare occurrence that can lead to significant clinical morbidity, increased healthcare costs, and medicolegal consequences. • Wrong-site procedures occur in roughly one out of…
The theory of informed consent has its origins in a multitude of dimensions ranging from law, medical practice, ethics, political policies, social sciences, philosophy, and behavioral sciences. It cannot be…
Indications • Intramedullary spinal cord lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the setting of neurologic symptoms (pain, sensory disturbances, motor weakness, nonspecific complaints) • Intramedullary spinal cord lesion on…
Indications • Intradural meningioma causing pain or neurologic deficits • Intradural meningioma causing mass effect on the spinal cord or associated nerve roots in the absence of clinical symptoms; surgery…
Indications • An intradural extramedullary lesion causing neurologic symptoms, including weakness, sensory deficits, or pain, is an indication for surgery. Early and aggressive surgical resection, with the aim of gross…
Indications • Any newborn with an open dysraphic condition should undergo operative closure as soon as possible, preferably within the first 48 hours after delivery. Contraindications • With an open…
Indications • Tethered cord on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (spinal cord adhesions, low conus medullaris, thickened fatty filum, dural sinus, lipomyelomeningocele [LMMC], split cord malformation) with progressive clinical deteriorating symptoms…
