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. Brief encounters that last a lifetime: an immigrant neurosurgeon’s reflections on American exceptionalism, George Floyd, sunlight, and race
2. Do neurosurgeons receive more patient complaints than other physicians? Describing who is most at risk and how we can improve
3. The cortical organization of language: distilling human connectome insights for supratentorial neurosurgery
4. Acute low-pressure hydrocephalus: a case series and systematic review of 195 patients
5. Direct carotid puncture for mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke patients with prohibitive vascular access
6. The 5-factor modified frailty index: an effective predictor of mortality in brain tumor patients
7. Fellowship, gender, and scholarly productivity: trends among academic neurosurgeons in the US
8. Oblique trajectory angles in robotic stereo-electroencephalography
9. Neurostimulation for treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder: an update on neurocircuitry and therapeutic targets
10. Comparison of robotic-assisted carotid stenting and manual carotid stenting through the transradial approach

1. Aventricular hemispherotomy: technical note
2. Neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years after neuroendoscopic lavage in neonates with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus
3. Safety and efficacy of brainstem biopsy in children and young adults
4. Safety of responsive neurostimulation in pediatric patients with medically refractory epilepsy
5. Letter to the Editor. Systematic and safe approaches to innovation in pediatric pinning
6. Effect of surgery and chemotherapy on long-term survival in infants with congenital glioblastoma: an integrated survival analysis
7. Normal cerebral ventricular volume growth in childhood
8. Cognitive and developmental outcomes after pediatric insular epilepsy surgery for focal cortical dysplasia
9. Enhancing access to the suprasellar region: the transcallosal translamina terminalis approach
10. The clinical utility of intraoperative electrocorticography in pediatric epilepsy surgical strategy and planning

1. Patterns of neurological deficits and recovery of postoperative C5 nerve palsy
2. Neurological events due to pedicle screw malpositioning with lateral fluoroscopy–guided pedicle screw insertion
3. Vertebral body fracture rates after stereotactic body radiation therapy compared with external-beam radiation therapy for metastatic spine tumors
4. Institutional databases may underestimate the risk factors for 30-day unplanned readmissions compared to national databases
5. Asymmetrical pedicle subtraction osteotomy for correction of concurrent sagittal-coronal imbalance in adult spinal deformity: a comparative analysis
6. Pseudarthrosis in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with a self-locking, stand-alone cage filled with hydroxyapatite: a retrospective study with clinical and radiological outcomes of 98 levels with a minimum 2-year follow-up
7. Mechanical failure of the Mobi-C implant for artificial cervical disc replacement: report of 4 cases
8. Evaluation of the 6-minute walking test as a smartphone app-based self-measurement of objective functional impairment in patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease
9. Residual numbness of the upper extremity after cervical surgery in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy
10. Impact of sufficient contact between the autograft and endplate soon after surgery to prevent nonunion at 12 months following posterior lumbar interbody fusion

1. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: 2020 Update of the Decompressive Craniectomy Recommendations
2. Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Third Edition: Update of the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines, Executive Summary
3. Management of Odontoid Fractures in the Elderly: A Review of the Literature and an Evidence-Based Treatment Algorithm
4. Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Spetzler-Martin Grade I and II Arteriovenous Malformations: International Society of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (ISRS) Practice Guideline
5. Letter: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Global Pandemic: A Neurosurgical Treatment Algorithm
6. Pearls for Interpreting Neurosurgical Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Lessons From a Collaborative Effort
7. Imaging of Intracranial Pressure Disorders
8. Syndrome of the Trephined A Systematic Review
9. Overview of Mechanical Thrombectomy Techniques
10. Head and Neck: Skull Base Imaging

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. Mini-Pterional Craniotomy and Extradural Clinoidectomy for Clinoid Meningioma: Optimization of Exposure Using Augmented Reality Template: 2-Dimensional Operative Video
3. Posterior Cervical Decompression and Instrumented Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: 2-Dimensional Operative Video
4. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Spine
5. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Trauma
6. Microsurgical Treatment of Unruptured Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysms: Approaches and Outcomes in a Large Contemporary Series and Review of the Literature 
7. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: The Neurological Examination
8. The Supraorbital Eyebrow Craniotomy for Intra- and Extra-Axial Brain Tumors: A Single-Center Series and Technique Modification
9. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Neurosurgical Physiology and Neurocritical Management of the Acute Neurosurgical Patient

10. Essential Neurosurgery for Medical Students: Introduction: Vascular

1. Pediatric Giant Craniopharyngioma: Surgical Field Soak in Diluted Nimodipine Solution Reduces Cerebral Vasospasm

2. Awake Craniotomy with Cortical and Subcortical Speech Mapping for Supramarginal Cavernoma Resection

3. Detection of Transient Increase of Cerebral Blood Flow and Reversible Neuronal Dysfunction by Iodine-123-Iomazenil Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography After Cerebral Hyperperfusion Syndrome After Revascularization Surgery for Moyamoya Disease

4. Updates in Chronic Subdural Hematoma: Epidemiology, Etiology, Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Outcome

5. Factors Impacting Outcomes and Health Care Utilization in Osteoporotic Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Fusions: A MarketScan Database Analysis

6. Early Responses of Neurosurgical Practice to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Rapid Review