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Factors influencing outcomes of the treatment of positional plagiocephaly in infants: a 7-year experience
Sandi Lam, MD, MBA1, I-Wen Pan, PhD1, Ben A. Strickland, MD1, Caroline Hadley, MD1, Bradley Daniels, BS1, Jim Brookshier, CPO, LPO2, and Thomas G. Luerssen, MD1 1Department of Neurosurgery/Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine; and 2Hanger Clinic, Houston, Texas
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The health belief model and factors associated with adherence to treatment recommendations for positional plagiocephaly
Sandi Lam, MD, MBA1, Thomas G. Luerssen, MD1, Caroline Hadley, MD1, Bradley Daniels, BS1, Ben A. Strickland, MD1, Jim Brookshier, CPO, LPO2, and I-Wen Pan, PhD1 1Department of Neurosurgery/Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine; and 2Hanger Orthotics, Houston, Texas
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Preoperative transdural collateral vessels in moyamoya as radiographic biomarkers of disease
Armide Storey, BS1, R. Michael Scott, MD1, Richard Robertson, MD2, and Edward Smith, MD1Departments of 1Neurosurgery and 2Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Possible toxicity following embolization of congenital giant vertex hemangioma: case report
Ingrid Kieran, MD1, Zaitun Zakaria, MD2, Chandrasekaran Kaliaperumal, FRCSEd2, Declan O’Rourke, MRCP3, Alan O’Hare, FRCR4, Eoghan Laffan, FFR5, John Caird, FRCSI(SN)2, Mary D. King, FRCPI, FRCPCH3, and Dylan J. Murray, FRCS, FDS, FFD1Departments of 1Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery, 2Neurosurgery, 3Pediatric Neurology, and 5Radiology, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital; and 4Department of Neuroradiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Correlations of atrial diameter and frontooccipital horn ratio with ventricle size in fetal ventriculomegaly
Jared M. Pisapia, MD1,2, Martin Rozycki, MS2, Hamed Akbari, MD, PhD2, Spyridon Bakas, PhD2, Jayesh P. Thawani, MD1, Julie S. Moldenhauer, MD3, Phillip B. Storm, MD1,4, Deborah M. Zarnow, MD5, Christos Davatzikos, PhD2, and Gregory G. Heuer, MD, PhD1,4 1Department of Neurosurgery; 2Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, University of Pennsylvania; 3Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Special Delivery Unit; and Divisions of 4Neurosurgery and 5Neuroradiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Hydrocephalus in a patient with an unruptured pial arteriovenous fistula: hydrodynamic considerations, endovascular treatment, and clinical course
Jesús A. Morales-Gómez, MD1, Vicente V. Garza-Oyervides, MD1, José A. Arenas-Ruiz, MD1, Mariana Mercado-Flores, MD2, C. Guillermo Elizondo-Riojas, MD, PhD2, Frederick A. Boop, MD3, and Ángel Martínez-Ponce de León, MD1 1Servicio de Neurocirugía and 2Centro Universitario de Imagen Diagnóstica, Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González,” Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; and 3Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee
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Endonasal management of pediatric congenital transsphenoidal encephaloceles: nuances of a modified reconstruction technique. Technical note and report of 3 cases
Mehdi Zeinalizadeh, MD1,2, Seyed Mousa Sadrehosseini, MD3, Zohreh Habibi, MD4, Farideh Nejat, MD4, Harley Brito da Silva, MD5, and Harminder Singh, MD6 1Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries Repair and Research Center, 2Department of Neurological Surgery, and 3Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences; and 4Department of Neurological Surgery, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 5Department of Neurological Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and 6Department of Neurological Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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Report of effective trametinib therapy in 2 children with progressive hypothalamic optic pathway pilocytic astrocytoma: documentation of volumetric response
Catherine Miller, MD1, Daniel Guillaume, MD1, Kathryn Dusenbery, MD2, H. Brent Clark, MD, PhD3, and Christopher Moertel, MD4Departments of 1Neurosurgery, 2Radiation Oncology, 3Pathology, and 4Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Initial experience with endoscopic ultrasonic aspirator in purely neuroendoscopic removal of intraventricular tumors
Giuseppe Cinalli, MD, Alessia Imperato, MD, Giuseppe Mirone, MD, Giuliana Di Martino, MD, Giancarlo Nicosia, MD, Claudio Ruggiero, MD, Ferdinando Aliberti, MD, and Pietro Spennato, MDDepartment of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Santobono-Pausilipon Children’s Hospital, Naples, Italy
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Long-term follow-up of superior gluteal artery perforator flap closure of large myelomeningoceles
Brett A. Whittemore, MD1, Dale M. Swift, MD2, Bradley E. Weprin, MD2, and Frederick J. Duffy Jr., MD3Departments of 1Neurosurgery and 2Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and 3Department of Plastic Surgery, Medical City Hospital, Dallas, Texas
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Solitary fibrous tumors of the spine: a pediatric case report with a comprehensive review of the literature
Gregory W. Albert, MD1,2, and Murat Gokden, MD3 1Division of Neurosurgery, Arkansas Children’s Hospital; and Departments of 2Neurosurgery and 3Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
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Clinical and surgical management of a congenital Type II split cord malformation presenting with progressive cranial neuropathies: case report
Patrick R. Maloney, MD1, Meghan E. Murphy, MD1, Molly J. Sullan, MS2, Kathryn M. Van Abel, MD2, Shelagh A. Cofer, MD2, John C. Cheville, MD3, and Nicholas M. Wetjen, MD1Departments of 1Neurosurgery, 2Otolaryngology, and 3Pathology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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Interdural cavernous sinus dermoid cyst in a child: case report
Flavio Giordano, MD1, Giacomo Peri, MD1, Giacomo M. Bacci, MD, PhD2, Massimo Basile, MD3, Azzurra Guerra, MD4, Patrizia Bergonzini, MD4, Anna Maria Buccoliero, MD5, Barbara Spacca, MD1, Lorenzo Iughetti, MD, PhD4, PierArturo Donati, MD1, and Lorenzo Genitori, MD1 1Department of Neurosurgery, 2Neuro-ophthalmology Unit, 3Radiology Unit, and 5Pathology Unit, Anna Meyer Hospital, Firenze; and 4Department of Pediatrics, Ospedale Policlinico, University of Modena, Italy
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Perioperative outcomes for pediatric neurosurgical procedures: analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program–Pediatrics
Benjamin J. Kuo, BS1,2,3, Joao Ricardo N. Vissoci, PhD1,2, Joseph R. Egger, PhD2, Emily R. Smith, PhD1,2, Gerald A. Grant, MD6, Michael M. Haglund, MD, PhD1,2,4, and Henry E. Rice, MD2,5 1Division of Global Neurosurgery and Neuroscience and 2Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 3Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; Departments of 4Neurosurgery and 5Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; and 6Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Letter to the Editor: Postoperative hyponatremia
María José Mayorga-Buiza, MD, PhD, Mónica Rivero-Garvía, MD, PhD, Javier Márquez-Rivas, MD, PhD, Carlos Velásquez-Rodríguez, MD, and Emilio Gómez-González, PhDHospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain; Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital, Santander, Spain; and Seville University, Engineering School, Seville, Spain
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Letter to the Editor: Early seizure prophylaxis in pediatric severe traumatic brain injury: still a long way to go
Eduardo Mekitarian Filho, MD, MSc, PhDUniversity of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Letter to the Editor: Cranial vault remodeling
Miguel Gelabert-González, PhD, Eduardo Arán-Echabe, MD, and José María Santín-Amo, MDUniversity of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics December 2016
Graded aerobic treadmill testing in pediatric sports-related concussion: safety, clinical use, and patient outcomes
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy with choroid plexus cauterization outcome: distinguishing success from failure
Normative ranges of anthropometric cranial indices and metopic suture closure during infancy
Endoscope-assisted management of sagittal synostosis: wide vertex suturectomy and barrel stave osteotomies versus narrow vertex suturectomy
In situ repair of vagus nerve stimulator lead damage: technical note
Presurgical evaluation of pediatric epilepsy patients prior to hemispherotomy: the prognostic value of 18F-FDG PET
Endoscopic posterior interhemispheric complete corpus callosotomy
Recurrent giant cranial desmoid tumor in a 3-year-old boy with familial adenomatous polyposis requiring bifrontoparietal cranioplasty: case report
Mature salivary gland rests within sonic hedgehog-positive medulloblastoma: case report and insights into the molecular genetics and embryopathology of ectopic intracranial salivary gland analogs
Thoracic osteomyelitis and epidural abscess formation due to cat scratch disease: case report
Surgical outcomes of Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism Type II with intracranial vascular anomalies
Pediatric neurosurgery telemedicine clinics: a model to provide care to geographically underserved areas of the United States and its territories
Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics October 2016
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in children: prospective, multicenter results from the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network
Using urinary bFGF and TIMP3 levels to predict the presence of juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma and establish a distinct biomarker signature
Physiological growth hormone replacement and rate of recurrence of craniopharyngioma: the Genentech National Cooperative Growth Study
Mobile spinal enterogenous cyst resulting in intermittent paraplegia in a child: case report
Pediatric occipitocervical fixation: radiographic criteria, surgicaltechnique, and clinical outcomes based on experience of a single surgeon
Rapid de novo aneurysm formation after clipping of a ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysmin an infant with an MYH11 mutation
Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric frontotemporal pits: report of 2 cases
Massive sialadenitis resulting in critical airway after elective craniotomy: case report
Health-related quality of life outcomes and level of evidence in pediatric neurosurgery
Use of a contoured bioresorbable plate with a hemostatic plug to control life-threatening bleeding from the superior sagittal sinus during hemispherotomy: technical note
Comparison between an Ascenda and a silicone catheter in intrathecal baclofen therapy in pediatric patients: analysis of complications
Variation in seizure prophylaxis in severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics: August 2016
Lack of efficacy of an intradural somatic-to-autonomic nerve anastomosis (Xiao procedure) for bladder control in children with myelomeningocele and lipomyelomeningocele: results of a prospective, randomized, double-blind study.
Multicenter retrospective evaluation of the validity of the Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score system in children.
Radiographic predictors of deterioration in patients with lumbosacral lipomas.
Spinal intramedullary hamartoma with acute presentation in a 13-month old infant: case report.
Thoracic meningocele in lumbo-costo-vertebral syndrome in a child: possible enlargement with repeated motion by anchoring to the diaphragm.
Thoracic meningocele in lumbo-costo-vertebral syndrome in a child: possible enlargement with repeated motion by anchoring to the diaphragm.
A decision-making guide for the closure of myelomeningocele skin defects with or without primary repair.
Sudden falls as a persistent complication of selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery in children with bilateral spasticity: report of 3 cases.
Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics May 2016
Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 1: validation of an ICD-9-CM code search algorithm
Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 2: complications and the influence of comorbid disease in California, Florida, and New York
Development of a nonintermediate-incision ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedure using a nasogastric feeding tube for infant patients with hydrocephalus: technical note
Frequency and long-term follow-up of trapped fourth ventricle following neonatal posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus
Isolated unilateral trismus as a presentation of Chiari malformation: case report
Long-term survival rates of gravity-assisted, adjustable differential pressure valves in infants with hydrocephalus
Ophthalmological outcomes of patients treated for pineal region tumors
Pediatric intracranial gunshot wounds: the Memphis experience
Regression of ventriculomegaly following medical management of a patient with Hurler syndrome
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Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics: April 2016
A new Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network protocol to reduce cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection
Adjuvant hypofractionated partial-brain radiation therapy for pediatric Ewing sarcoma brain metastases: case report.
Efficacy of phosphorus-32 brachytherapy without external-beam radiation for long-term tumor control in patients with craniopharyngioma
Growth patterns of craniopharyngiomas: clinical analysis of 226 patients
Hemorrhagic presentations of cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas in children resulting in death: report of 2 cases
Return to the emergency department after ventricular shunt evaluation
Risk factors for shunt malfunction in pediatric hydrocephalus: a multicenter prospective cohort study
Sports participation with Chiari I malformation
Sports participation with arachnoid cysts
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Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics: March 2016
Surgical management of hydrocephalus secondary to intraventricular hemorrhage in the preterm infant
Predicting shunt failure in children: should the global shunt revision rate be a quality measure?
Trends in hospitalization of preterm infants with intraventricular hemorrhageand hydrocephalus in the United States, 2000-2010.
Noninvasive measurement of cerebrospinal fluid flow using an ultrasonic transit time flow sensor: a preliminary study.
Ventriculo-bipleural shunt as last resort in a 4-year-old child in whom a VP and VA shunt failed.
Short-term mortality following surgical procedures for the diagnosis of pediatric brain tumors: outcome analysis in 5533 children from SEER, 2004-2011
Successful treatment of primary intracranial sarcoma with the ICE chemotherapy regimen and focal radiation in children
Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics: February 2016
The natural history of cerebral cavernous malformations in children
Determination of sinus pericranii resectability by external compression during angiography: technical note
Postoperative imaging for detection of recurrent arteriovenous malformations in children
Endoscopic transnasal external fistulation in recurrent cystic subdiaphragmatic craniopharyngioma: a novel technique
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during endoscopic endonasal surgery for pediatric skull base tumors
Reevaluating the weekend effect on patients with hydrocephalus undergoing operative shunt intervention
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization with a rigid neuroendoscope in infants with hydrocephalus
Improvement of syrinx resolution after tonsillar cautery in pediatric patients with Chiari Type I malformation
Acute spinal cord injury associated with multilevel pediatric idiopathic intervertebral disc calcification: case report
Allograft versus autograft for pediatric posterior cervical and occipito-cervical fusion: a systematic review of factors affecting fusion rates
Young adults with spina bifida transitioned to a medical home: a survey of medical care in Jacksonville, Florida
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