What follows is a collaborative effort between the Neurosurgical Atlas and leading publishers of neurosurgical literature to provide you with a concise list of newly released articles that are most frequently accessed. Participating journals are listed in alphabetical order with a quick navigation link available in the table below.

1. The neurosurgery applicant’s “arms race”: analysis of medical student publication in the Neurosurgery Residency Match
2. Endoscopic transorbital approach to the infratemporal fossa and parapharyngeal space: a cadaveric study
3. The side door and front door to the upper retroclival region: a comparative analysis of the open pretemporal and the endoscopic endonasal transcavernous approaches
4. Gender disparities in academic rank achievement in neurosurgery: a critical assessment
5. Multimodal cerebral arteriovenous malformation treatment: a 12-year experience and comparison of key outcomes to ARUBA
6. Early postmarket results with PulseRider for treatment of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms: a multicenter experience
7. Spatial convergence of distant cortical regions during folding explains why arteries do not cross the sylvian fissure
8. Histology of the vertebral artery–dural junction: relevance to posterolateral approaches to the skull base
9. Dual BRAF/MEK therapy in BRAF V600E-mutated primary brain tumors: a case series showing dramatic clinical and radiographic responses and a reduction in cutaneous toxicity
10. Contemporary trends in extracranial-intracranial bypass utilization: analysis of data from 2008 to 2016

1. Cortical stimulation mapping for localization of visual and auditory language in pediatric epilepsy patients
2. Management of an odontoid synchondrosis fracture causing chronic translational anterior atlanto-axial subluxation in a child with autism: case report
3. Enhancing outcomes of endoscopic vertical approach hemispherotomy: understanding the role of “temporal stem” residual connections causing recurrence of seizures
4. Thirty-day readmission risk after intracranial tumor resection surgeries in children
5. Clinical characteristics, treatment, and survival outcome in pediatric patients with atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors: a retrospective study by the Japan Children’s Cancer Group
6. Predictors of surgical treatment in children with tethered fibrofatty filum terminale
7. High prevalence of systemic hypertension in pediatric patients with moyamoya disease years after surgical treatment
8. The role of screening spinal MRI in children with solitary posterior fossa low-grade glial tumors
9. Parental involvement in decision making about intracranial pressure monitor placement in children with traumatic brain injury
10. Pediatric intracranial arteriovenous malformations: a single-center experience

1. Topping-off technique for stabilization of lumbar degenerative instabilities in 322 patients
2. Predicting the combined occurrence of poor clinical and radiographic outcomes following cervical deformity corrective surgery
3. Oncologic benefits of dural resection in spinal meningiomas: a meta-analysis of Simpson grades and recurrence rates
4. Risk factors for deep surgical site infection following thoracolumbar spinal surgery
5. Radiological and clinical outcomes of 3-level cervical disc arthroplasty
6. Spontaneous spinal CSF–venous fistulas associated with venous/venolymphatic vascular malformations: report of 3 cases
7. Treatment approaches for Scheuermann kyphosis: a systematic review of historic and current management
8. Preoperative coil localization for spinal surgery: technical note
9. Instrumented surgical treatment for metastatic spinal tumors: is fusion necessary?
10. The morphology of cervical deformities: a two-step cluster analysis to identify cervical deformity patterns

1. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition

2. Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Third Edition: Update of the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines, Executive Summary

3. Imaging of Intracranial Pressure Disorders

4. Metastatic Spine Disease: Should Patients With Short Life Expectancy Be Denied Surgical Care? An International Retrospective Cohort Study

5. Cerebrovascular Imaging: Which Test is Best?

6. Letter: Air Travel After Brain Surgery—Does It Really Matter When to Fly?

7. Subperiosteal vs Subdural Drain After Burr-Hole Drainage of Chronic Subdural Hematoma: A Randomized Clinical Trial (cSDH-Drain-Trial)

8. Head and Neck: Skull Base Imaging

9. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury—Repair and Regeneration

10. Lumbar Arthroplasty: Past, Present, and Future

1. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: The Neurological Examination

2. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Spine

3. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Trauma

4. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Introduction: What is Neurosurgery?

5. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Tumor

6. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Vascular

7. Implantation of a Thoracic Spinal Cord Stimulator Paddle Electrode and Generator Under General Anesthesia With Intraoperative Neuromonitoring: 2-Dimensional Operative Video

8. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Neurosurgical Physiology and Neurocritical Management of the Acute Neurosurgical Patient

9. First-in-Human Experience With Integration of a Hydrocephalus Shunt Device Within a Customized Cranial Implant

10. Posterior Cervical Decompression and Instrumented Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: 2-Dimensional Operative Video