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.

WORLD NEUROSURGERY Editor's Choice

Partnership with the WORLD NEUROSURGERY journal took a different form such that the Editor's choice articles will instead be presented. A quick navigation link is available in the table below.

1. Deciphering the frontostriatal circuitry through the fiber dissection technique: direct structural evidence on the morphology and axonal connectivity of the fronto-caudate tract
2. Effects of ventricular entry on patient outcome during glioblastoma resection
3. Basal ganglia cavernous malformations: case series and systematic review of surgical management and long-term outcomes
4. Stereotactic radiosurgery for treatment of radiation-induced meningiomas: a multiinstitutional study
5. MRI-guided stereotactic laser corpus callosotomy for epilepsy: distinct methods and outcomes
6. DBS targeting for essential tremor using intersectional dentato-rubro-thalamic tractography and direct proton density visualization of the VIM: technical note on 2 cases
7. An evaluation of the SAFIRE grading scale as a predictor of long-term outcomes for patients in the Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial
8. Utility of image-guided external ventriculostomy: analysis of contemporary practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland
9. Intraoperative seizure outcome of levetiracetam combined with perampanel therapy in patients with glioma undergoing awake brain surgery
10. Resective temporal lobe surgery in refractory temporal lobe epilepsy: prognostic factors of postoperative seizure outcome

1. Etiology of intracerebral hemorrhage in children: cohort study, systematic review, and meta-analysis
2. Mapping efficacious deep brain stimulation for pediatric dystonia
3. Retrospective analysis of open surgical versus laser interstitial thermal therapy callosotomy in pediatric patients with refractory epilepsy
4. The relationship between Chiari 1.5 malformation and sleep-related breathing disorders on polysomnography
5. Image quality of EOS low-dose radiography in comparison with conventional radiography for assessment of ventriculoperitoneal shunt integrity
6. Presurgical brain mapping of the language network in pediatric patients with epilepsy using resting-state fMRI
7. Acute surgical management of children with ruptured brain arteriovenous malformation
8. Standard work tools for dynamic stereoelectroencephalography using ROSA: naming convention and perioperative planning
9. Endoscope-assisted posterior quadrant disconnection plus corpus callosotomy: case report
10. Occipital artery to middle cerebral artery bypass in pediatric moyamoya disease: rescue therapy after failed revascularization

1. Impact of intrawound vancomycin powder on prevention of surgical site infection after posterior spinal surgery
2. Outcomes of decompression without fusion in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and substantial back pain
3. Cauda equina syndrome secondary to portal vein thrombosis: case report of favorable outcome with conservative treatment
4. Clinical and radiological results of indirect decompression after anterior lumbar interbody fusion in central spinal canal stenosis
5. Radiologic prognostic factors of curve progression in early degenerative lumbar scoliosis
6. Institutional review of the management of type II odontoid fractures: associations and outcomes with fibrous union
7. Association of intravenous administration of human Muse cells with deficit amelioration in a rat model of spinal cord injury
8. Microendoscopic decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis caused by facet-joint cysts: a novel technique with a cyst-dyeing protocol and cohort comparison study
9. Change in pelvic incidence between the supine and standing positions in patients with bilateral sacroiliac joint vacuum signs
10. Letter to the Editor. Suggested addition to the classification system for multirod constructs

1. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: 2020 Update of the Decompressive Craniectomy Recommendations
2. Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for Chronic Subdural Hematoma: A Multi-Center Experience of 154 Consecutive Embolizations
3. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition
4. Structural and Functional Imaging in Glioma Management
5. In Reply: Dismantling the Apocalypse Narrative: The Myth of the COVID-19 Stroke
6. Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Third Edition: Update of the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines, Executive Summary
7. Amygdala and Hypothalamus: Historical Overview With Focus on Aggression
8. A Review of Passive Brain Mapping Techniques in Neurological Surgery
9. Survival, Dependency, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm: 10-Year Follow-up of the United Kingdom Cohort of the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial
10. A Review of Cortical and Subcortical Stimulation Mapping for Language

1. Risk of Brain Herniation After Craniotomy With Preoperative Lumbar Spinal Drainage: A Single-Surgeon Experience of 365 Patients Among 3000 Major Cranial Cases
2. Unexpected Decrease in Shunt Surgeries Performed during the Shelter-in-Place Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic
3. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Trauma
4. Ten-Step Minimally Invasive Spine Lumbar Decompression and Dural Repair Through Tubular Retractors
5. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: The Neurological Examination
6. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Vascular
7. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Spine
8. Thrombolysis for Evacuation of Intracerebral and Intraventricular Hemorrhage: A Guide to Surgical Protocols With Practical Lessons Learned From the MISTIE and CLEAR Trials
9. A Case Series of Surgically Treated Spinal Dumbbell Tumors of Critical Parent Nerve Roots: To Cut or Not to Cut?
10. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Introduction: What is Neurosurgery?

1. Risk Factors for Progression of Conservatively Managed Acute Traumatic Subdural Hematoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2. Single versus Double Burr Hole for Drainage of Chronic Subdural Hematoma: Randomized Controlled Study

3. The Impact of COVID-19 on Neurosurgical Services in Africa

4. Generational Changes in Lumbar Spinal Canal Dimensions: Findings from a Sample U.S. Population

5. Principles of Remediation for the Struggling Neurosurgery Resident

6. Risk Factors for Transverse Ligament Disruption and Vertebral Artery Injury Following an Atlas Fracture