1. Fiorella, D. J., Turk, A. S., Levy, E. I., Pride, G. L., Woo, H. H., Albuquerque, F. C., et al. (2011). US Wingspan Registry: 12-Month Follow-Up Results. Stroke, 42, 1976-1981. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.613877. 158 patients with 168 intracranial atherostenotic lesions
I have been negligent in my posting for annotated bibliographies, but I had too many things juggling in the air, and something had to give. Part of my tardiness relates to my lack of organization of all my PDF files.
1. Marawar S, Girardi FP et al. National Trends in Anterior Cervical Fusion Procedures. Spine 2010;35:1454–1459. An 8-fold increase in prevalence and a similar increase in utilization of ACDF in the study population over a 15-year period (771, 932 discharges
1. Zhang Q, Raoof M, et al. Circulating mitochondrial DAMPs cause inflammatory responses to injury. Nature (letters) Vol 464,4 March 2010. You will need a glossary for this paper: DAMP = ‘damage’-associated molecular pattern. Cellular disruption by trauma will release
1. Suk I, Tamargo RJ. Concealed Neuroanatomy in Michelangelo’s Separation of Light From Darkness in the Sistine Chapel. Neurosurgery 66:851-861, 2010. First of all, you need to see this as a pdf or printed as color. Black and white will
1. Samartzis D et al. Atlantoaxial Rotatory Fixation in the Setting of Associated Congenital Malformations. Spine 2010;35:E119–E127. New subtypes to the Fielding and Hawkins classification scheme for atlantoaxial rotatory fixation should exist to account for variations in anatomy and the
Al-Otaibi et al. Clinically silent magnetic resonance imaging findings after subdural strip electrode implantation. J Neurosurg 112:461–466, 2010. Clinically silent abnormalities were found in 100% of subjects, including subdural hematomas in 35, cortical contusions in 25%, local edema in 25%,
1. Focal cortical dysplasia type II: biological features and clinical perspectives. Lancet Neurol 2009; 8: 830–43 Very nice review article with histopathology, imaging and helpful graphics 2. Neuro-Behçet’s disease: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and management. Lancet Neurol 2009; 8: 192–204. Behcet’s
This is the latest in my series of posts titled Annotated Bibliography, that is, current literature titles which are generally not from the mainstream Radiology journals, but rather from related neuroscience fields which I have stumbled across and find of
The Use of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenic Protein in Posterior Interbody Fusions of the Lumbar Spine, J Spinal Disord Tech 2009;22:315–320. Anterior, posterolateral and transforaminal approaches have shown good outcomes with this stuff, and this paper adds posterior interbody fusion
