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Cottonoid Retention After Craniotomy: Causes and Ways to Avoid It
Nonabsorbable surgical material left in an surgical wound may cause early postoperative infections and specific types of granulomas; thus, it represents a dangerous complication in neurosurgery. The authors ha...
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Complications of Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is the most common surgery performed on the cervical spine, and the number of its cases has tripled over the last two decades. Although this intervention is typic...
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Complication Avoidance in Spine Surgery
The outcomes of spine surgery are closely related to postoperative morbidity. Therefore, an experienced surgeon must be aware of various complications and should apply all necessary preventive measures to avoi...
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Vascular Injury During Lumbar Disc Surgery: Case Report
A retroperitoneal organ injury—vascular injury or solid organ injury—that occurs during lumbar disc surgery needs to be dealt with adequately, because otherwise it could result in a poor (or, even, fatal) outc...
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Radiotherapy-Induced Neurocognitive Dysfunction in Brain Tumor Survivors: Burden and Rehabilitation
Radiotherapy-induced neurocognitive dysfunction after cranial irradiation has an incidence of 40–100%. It may affect both children and adults, and represents a significant burden not only on ill individuals an...
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Complications in Neurosurgery: General Ethical Principles for Minimizing Them and Subsequent Legal Action
Medicine and surgery carry inherent risks of inadvertent and unintended harm to the patient. Training, experience, and skill help ensure smooth recovery in most cases. However, there are circumstances beyond t...
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Surgical Complexity and Complications: The Need for a Common Language
Background: Quality measurement and outcome assessment have recently caught an attention of the neurosurgical community, but lack of standardized definitions and methodology significantly complicates these tasks.
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Major Internal Carotid Artery Injury During Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: Case Report
Major vascular structures are always at risk during complex skull base surgery, particularly with use of the endoscopic endonasal approach, and intraoperative damage of the internal carotid artery (ICA) can be...
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Injury of the Internal Carotid Artery During Dissection of a Craniopharyngioma via the Pterional Approach: Case Report
Among the various causes of intraoperative neurosurgical complications, a major arterial injury is one of the most devastating. Herein, the authors present a case of a 76-year-old patient who underwent removal...
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Complications of Endovascular and Open Aneurysm Surgery in the Era of Flow Diversion
The techniques used for treatment of intracranial aneurysms have progressed dramatically over the decades. The introduction of modern endovascular techniques and the continued refinement of progressively less ...
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Postoperative Intratumoral or Peritumoral Hematomas After Vestibular Schwannoma Resection
Background: Surgical removal of a vestibular schwannoma is a complex and challenging procedure, which may be complicated by development of postoperative hematomas, particularly after incomplete resection of the t...
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Minimally Invasive Neuroendoscopic Surgery for Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Review of the Rationale and Associated Complications
Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is associated with a poor prognosis. Its mortality rate exceeds 40%, and 10–15% of survivors remain fully dependent. Considering the limited number of effective thera...
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Management of Intraoperative Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms: Agony and Ecstasy
Intraoperative rupture (IOR) of an intracranial aneurysm is a serious complication, often with catastrophic consequences that are difficult to manage even by the best hands. Like most surgical complications, t...
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Complications of Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: Literature Review and Personal Experience
The contemporary technique of deep brain stimulation (DBS) is very effective for management of movement disorders—including Parkinson’s disease, generalized dystonia, and tremors—and has also been successfully...
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Complication Avoidance in Neurosurgery with Use of Intraoperative Ultrasonography
Intraoperative ultrasonography is an extremely valuable tool for avoidance of complications during neurosurgical procedures, including resection of intracranial and spinal cord tumors, removal of spontaneous i...
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Wrong-Level Spine Surgery: Introduction of a Protocol for Avoidance of This Complication
Wrong-level spine surgery, in which an operation is performed at a vertebral level different from the intended one, is a rare but serious complication with wide-ranging medical and legal effects. Although many...
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Management of the Vertebral Artery in Craniovertebral Junction Stabilization Surgery
The vertebral artery (VA) has an intimate relationship with the bones of the craniovertebral junction. An exact understanding of the VA anatomy in general and in the specific surgical case in particular is abs...
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Managing Complications Related to Peripheral Nerve Surgery: Selected Illustrative Cases
Peripheral nerve surgery mostly involves elective procedures; thus, the associated complications are of great clinical, social, and medicolegal importance. Apart from the general perioperative morbidity, compl...
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The Hawthorne Effect: Quality and Outcomes in Neurosurgery
Measure something, and it gets better—this is what is called as the Hawthorne effect (also known as the observer effect). The Hawthorne factory experiments in 1920s were remarkable industrial data collection a...
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Preventing Medicolegal Problems in Neurosurgical Practice: Do’s and Don’ts
There is a sea change in the scenario of medical practice, manifested in a serious trust deficit between patients and doctors and an exponential rise in malpractice litigation. This has given boost to the prac...
