BACKGROUND: Infection is a significant cause of morbidity with cranioplasty procedures.
However, few studies have investigated the effect of specific surgical practices on cranioplasty …

Background context The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and the American Society of
Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status Classification System (ASA grade) are useful for …

Objectives/Hypothesis: Repair of the skull base still begins with a direct repair of the dural
defect. We present a new button closure for primary repair of the dura for high flow defects. …

Object Large studies of ICD-9–based complication and hospital-acquired condition (HAC)
chart reviews have not been validated through a comparison with prospective assessments of …

Study Design. Prospective observational study. Objective. To determine how patient
comorbidities and perioperative complications after spinal surgery affect the health care costs to …

Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are divided into sporadic and familial forms. For
clinical imaging, T2-weighted gradient-echo sequences have been shown to be more …

BACKGROUND:: Surgical intervention is performed on the cervical spine in a heterogeneous
number of pathologic conditions in a diverse patient population. Several authors have …

Object Using strict biochemical remission criteria, the authors assessed surgical outcomes
after endoscopic transsphenoidal resection of growth hormone (GH)–secreting pituitary …

Object The expanded endoscopic approach to craniopharyngiomas has recently been
described in several small case series. The authors present their experience with this technique …

BACKGROUND: The risk factors predictive of intracranial aneurysm rupture remain incompletely
defined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between various nonmodifiable risk …