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Surgery versus endovascular treatment for spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas: a multicenter experience and systematic literature review
Surgery and endovascular therapy are the primary treatment options for spinal dural arteriovenous fistula (SDAVF). Due to the absence of a consensus regarding which therapy yields a superior outcome, we conduc...
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360 Degrees Endoscopic Access to and Through the Orbit
The treatment of pathologies located within and surrounding the orbit poses considerable surgical challenges, due to the intricate presence of critical neurovascular structures in such deep, confined spaces. H...
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Combined endoscopic endonasal and sublabial transmaxillary approaches for resection of intracranially extended juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas (JNAs) are rare, benign, and locally invasive nasopharyngeal tumors. Endoscopic endonasal resection is effective, non-invasive, with low complication rates. Until recently...
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Open AccessCorrection to: COVID‑19‑associated Guillain‑Barré syndrome in the early pandemic experience in Lombardia (Italy)
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Microsurgical transcranial approaches to the posterior surface of petrosal portion of the temporal bone: quantitative analysis of surgical volumes and exposed areas
Different microsurgical transcranial approaches (MTAs) have been described to expose the posterior surface of the petrous bone (PPB). A quantitative, anatomical comparison of the most used MTAs, for specific a...
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Endoscopic endonasal surgical anatomy of the optic canal: key anatomical relationships between the optic nerve and ophthalmic artery
A detailed understanding of the neurovascular relationships between the optic nerve (ON) and the ophthalmic artery (OA) in the optic canal (OC) is paramount for safe surgery. We focused on the neurovascular an...
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Open AccessCOVID-19-associated Guillain-Barré syndrome in the early pandemic experience in Lombardia (Italy)
To estimate the incidence and describe clinical characteristics and outcome of GBS in COVID-19 patients (COVID19-GBS) in one of the most hit regions during the first pandemic wave, Lombardia.
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The endonasal midline inferior intercavernous approach to the cavernous sinus: technical note, cadaveric step-by-step illustration, and case presentation
Traditional endoscopic endonasal approaches to the cavernous sinus (CS) open the anterior CS wall just medial to the internal carotid artery (ICA), posing risk of vascular injury. This work describes a potenti...
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Combined endoscopic endonasal transpterygoid and sublabial transmaxillary approaches for a large infratemporal fossa trigeminal schwannoma
Trigeminal schwannomas (TSs) with solitary extracranial location are rare, and surgical excision is challenging. In recent years, the endoscopic endonasal transmaxillary transpterygoid approach (EETPA) has bee...
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How I do it: resection of spinal cord cavernous malformation
Spinal cord cavernous malformations (CMs) account for 5 to 12% of all spinal vascular malformations. Surgical removal is indicated in symptomatic patients, especially if the CM comes close to the dorsal or lat...
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Endoscopic endonasal surgical anatomy through the prechiasmatic sulcus: the key window to suprachiasmatic and infrachiasmatic corridors
Classically, the transtuberculum and transplanum approaches have been utilized to reach the suprachiasmatic and infrachiasmatic corridors. The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of the key...
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Letter to the Editor: “Olfactory nerve sparing technique for anterior skull base meningiomas: How I do it”
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The precuneal interhemispheric, trans-tentorial corridor to the pineal region and brainstem, surgical anatomy, and case illustration
The pineal region and dorsal midbrain are among the most challenging surgical targets. To approach lesions in this region that harbor a superior to inferior long axis, we describe the basic steps of the precun...
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Open AccessAneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage during the COVID-19 outbreak in a Hub and Spoke system: observational multicenter cohort study in Lombardy, Italy
Lombardy was the most affected Italian region by the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and underwent urgent reorganization for the management of emergencies, including subarachnoid hemorrhage from a rupture...
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Open AccessCerebral cavernous malformation remnants after surgery: a single-center series with long-term bleeding risk analysis
The aim of this work is to investigate the long-term bleeding risk of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) remnants. A review of clinical, radiological, operative, and post-operative data of a cerebral cavern...
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Symptomatic ecchordosis physaliphora of the upper clivus: an exceedingly rare entity
This paper highlights the management of 5 patients affected by symptomatic ecchordosis physaliphora (EP), treated via endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal-transclival approach and contextual multilayer skull b...
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Open AccessEmergency endovascular treatment of cavernous internal carotid artery acute bleeding with flow diverter stent: a single-center experience
To describe our single-center experience in the treatment of cavernous internal carotid artery (ICA) acute bleeding with flow diverter stent (FDS), as a single endovascular procedure or combined with an endosc...
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Open AccessIs Guillain-Barrè syndrome triggered by SARS-CoV-2? Case report and literature review
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the infectious agent responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Respiratory and gastrointestinal manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 are well ...
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Correction: Transient acute-onset tetraparesis in a COVID-19 patient
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Transient acute-onset tetraparesis in a COVID-19 patient
