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. Introduction. On pandemics: the impact of COVID-19 on the practice of neurosurgery
2. Editorial. Neurosurgery in the storm of COVID-19: suggestions from the Lombardy region, Italy (ex malo bonum)
3. Editorial. Impact of COVID-19 on neurosurgery resident training and education
4. Editorial. Endonasal neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Singapore perspective
5. Editorial. Response to COVID-19 in Chinese neurosurgery and beyond
6. Editorial. COVID-19 and academic neurosurgery
7. Editorial. Task shifting and task sharing for neurosurgeons amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
8. Editorial. COVID-19 and its impact on neurosurgery: our early experience in Singapore
9. Editorial. Innovations in neurosurgical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: is it time to reexamine our neurosurgical training models?
10. Editorial. A neurosurgery resident’s response to COVID-19: anything but routine

1. Editorial. Early lessons in the management of COVID-19 for the pediatric neurosurgical community from the leadership of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
2. Timing of syrinx reduction and stabilization after posterior fossa decompression for pediatric Chiari malformation type I
3. Pinning in pediatric neurosurgery: the modified rubber stopper technique
4. Radiological and clinical associations with scoliosis outcomes after posterior fossa decompression in patients with Chiari malformation and syrinx from the Park-Reeves Syringomyelia Research Consortium
5. Skull base aneurysmal bone cyst presenting with hydrocephalus: progressive residuum obliterated by Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery in a pediatric patient
6. Editorial. Pediatric neurosurgery along with Children's Hospitals' innovations are rapid and uniform in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
7. Obex position is associated with syringomyelia and use of posterior fossa decompression among patients with Chiari I malformation
8. Validation of the Surgical Intervention for Traumatic Injury scale in the pediatric population
9. Bringing high-grade arteriovenous malformations under control: clinical outcomes following multimodality treatment in children
10. Association of time to initial clinic visit with prolonged recovery in pediatric patients with concussion

1. Editorial. COVID-19 and spinal surgery
2. Minimally invasive foramen magnum durectomy and obexostomy for treatment of craniocervical junction–related syringomyelia in adults: case series and midterm follow-up
3. Strategy for obtaining solid fusion at L5–S1 in adult spinal deformity: risk factor analysis for nonunion at L5–S1
4. Clinical predictors of achieving the minimal clinically important difference after surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy: an external validation study from the Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network
5. Quantifying the impact of surgical decompression on quality of life and identification of factors associated with outcomes in patients with symptomatic metastatic spinal cord compression
6. Comparison of complete and near-complete endovascular embolization of hypervascular spine tumors with partial embolization
7. Microsurgical versus endovascular treatment of spinal epidural arteriovenous fistulas with intradural venous drainage: a multicenter study of 81 patients
8. Biomechanical analysis of occipitocervical stabilization techniques: emphasis on integrity of osseous structures at the occipital implantation sites
9. Efficacy of intraoperative cell salvage in spine surgery: a meta-analysis
10. The impact of obesity on perioperative complications in patients undergoing anterior lumbar interbody fusion

1. Letter: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Global Pandemic: A Neurosurgical Treatment Algorithm
2. A COVID-19 Patient Who Underwent Endonasal Endoscopic Pituitary Adenoma Resection: A Case Report
3. Letter: Strategies for Prevention and Control of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infection Among Medical Staff
4. Letter: Precautions for Endoscopic Transnasal Skull Base Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
5. Letter: Academic Neurosurgery Department Response to COVID-19 Pandemic: The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Model
6. Letter: Adaptation Under Fire: Two Harvard Neurosurgical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
7. Letter: The Risk of COVID-19 Infection During Neurosurgical Procedures: A Review of Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Modes of Transmission and Proposed Neurosurgery-Specific Measures for Mitigation
8. Neuroimaging of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
9. Letter: COVID-19 Infection Affects Surgical Outcome of Chronic Subdural Hematoma
10. The Hydrogel Endovascular Aneurysm Treatment Trial (HEAT): A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Second-Generation Hydrogel Coil

1. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: The Neurological Examination

2. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Spine

3. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Trauma

4. Craniometrics and Ventricular Access: A Review of Kocher's, Kaufman's, Paine's, Menovksy's, Tubbs’, Keen's, Frazier's, Dandy's, and Sanchez's Points

5. The Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy and Its Judicious Use

6. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Vascular

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

8. Left Parietal Craniotomy for Resection of Grade IV Arteriovenous Malformation: 2-Dimensional Operative Video

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

10. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Tumor

1. Assessing the Effects of Publication Bias on Reported Outcomes of Cervical Disc Replacement and Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Meta-Epidemiologic Study

2. Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor: Relation of the Dentatorubrothalamic Tract with Stimulation Parameters

3. Practical Application of Networks in Neurosurgery: Combined 3-Dimensional Printing, Neuronavigation, and Preoperative Surgical Planning

4. Pituitary Apoplexy Case Series: Outcomes After Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Surgery at a Single Tertiary Center

5. Geographic Distribution of International Medical Graduate Residents in U.S. Neurosurgery Training Programs

6. Use of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging for Hypermetabolic Facet Identification in Diagnosis of Cervical and Axial Back Pain