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  1. Global Neurosurgery at the 76th World Health Assembly (2023): First Neurosurgery-Driven Resolution Calls for Micronutrient Fortification to Prevent Spina Bifida
  2. Pediatric non-galenic pial arteriovenous fistula’s characteristics and outcomes: a systematic review
  3. The genetic basis of hydrocephalus: genes, pathways, mechanisms, and global impact
  4. Causes of death among people with myelomeningocele: A multi-institutional 47-year retrospective study
  5. The Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Interest Group (PESIG) under the auspice of the ISPN Research Committee: Availability of relevant technology and geographical distribution
  6. Characteristics and outcomes of pediatric dural arteriovenous fistulas: a systematic review
  7. Added value of corpus callosotomy following vagus nerve stimulation in children with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome: A multicenter, multinational study
  8. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on global neurosurgery collaborations
  9. Does subtotal resection ameliorate hypothalamic morbidity in pediatric craniopharyngioma? A 30-year retrospective cohort study
  10. Hemispherectomy Outcome Prediction Scale: a validity study
  11. First-time tethered cord release among adults with myelomeningocele: an analysis of people in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  12. What has changed in pediatric neurosurgical care in spina bifida? A 30-year UAB/Children’s of Alabama observational overview
  13. Treatment of hydrocephalus following posterior fossa tumor resection: a multicenter collaboration from the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network
  14. Preventing spina bifida through folate fortification: a labor of love
  15. Global Neurosurgery: Progress and Resolutions at the 75th World Health Assembly
  16. Neurosurgeon-Led Advocacy for Folic Acid Fortification to Prevent Spina Bifida
  17. Postoperative seizure freedom after vagus nerve stimulator placement in children 6 years of age and younger
  18. The development of a transition medical home utilizing the individualized transition plan (ITP) model for patients with complex diseases of childhood
  19. Editorial. The elusive fibrofatty filum holy grail
  20. Editorial. Neurocognition in fetal myelomeningocele closure: "not shunting per se"
  21. Understanding and identifying the needs of parent caregivers of children with hydrocephalus: a qualitative study
  22. Editorial. Myelomeningocele care: moving beyond Groningen
  23. The role of neurosurgeons in global public health: the case of folic acid fortification of staple foods to prevent spina bifida
  24. Functional level of lesion scale: Validating fourteen years of research with the national spina bifida patient registry
  25. Time to shunt failure in children with myelomeningocele: an analysis of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  26. Mandatory food fortification with folic acid – Authors' reply
  27. Outcomes of endovascular embolization for Vein of Galen malformations: An individual participant data meta-analysis
  28. Community-engaged research: a powerful tool to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes in pediatric neurosurgery
  29. High prevalence of gram-negative and multiorganism surgical site infections after pediatric complex tethered spinal cord surgery: a multicenter study
  30. Quantifying and reporting outcome measures in pediatric epilepsy surgery: A systematic review
  31. Expedited epilepsy surgery prior to drug resistance in children: a frontier worth crossing?
  32. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy revision after failure of initial endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization
  33. Preventing birth defects, saving lives, and promoting health equity: an urgent call to action for universal mandatory food fortification with folic acid
  34. Limited utility of structural MRI to identify the epileptogenic zone in young children with tuberous sclerosis
  35. Commentary: Case Series on Removal of Subdural to Peritoneal Shunt After Resolution of Subdural Collection in the First 2 Years of Life
  36. Editorial. Social determinants in care for dysraphism
  37. Care for Chiari malformation type I: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage and race
  38. Determination of anatomic level of myelomeningocele by prenatal ultrasound
  39. Editorial. Observations on a report of a new neurosurgical service in Nigeria
  40. Scope of care in the first four years of life for individuals born with myelomeningocele: A single institution experience1
  41. Early implementation of stereoelectroencephalography in children: a multiinstitutional case series
  42. A qualitative interview study on successful pregnancies in women with spina bifida
  43. Caring for the Child with Spina Bifida
  44. Epilepsy surgery in infants up to 3 months of age: Safety, feasibility, and outcomes: A multicenter, multinational study
  45. Variation in pediatric stereoelectroencephalography practice among pediatric neurosurgeons in the United States: survey results
  46. The International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery resolution on mandatory folic acid fortification of staple foods for prevention of spina bifida and anencephaly and associated disability and child mortality
  47. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Seizures-Child
  48. Tethered spinal cord among individuals with myelomeningocele: an analysis of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  49. Imaging characteristics associated with surgery in Chiari malformation type I
  50. Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caregivers and Children with Hydrocephalus
  51. Shunt failure clusters: an analysis of multiple, frequent shunt failures
  52. Neurosurgical procedures for children with myelomeningocele after fetal or postnatal surgery: a comparative effectiveness study
  53. Hydrocephalus in Spina Bifida
  54. Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children With Myelomeningocele
  55. Neurosurgery guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida
  56. Anxiety, depression, fatigue, and headache burden in the pediatric hydrocephalus population
  57. Pilot Study of Neurodevelopmental Impact of Early Epilepsy Surgery in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
  58. Hydrocephalus-related quality of life as assessed by children and their caregivers
  59. Prenatal counseling for myelomeningocele in the era of fetal surgery: a shared decision-making approach
  60. The impact of imposed delay in elective pediatric neurosurgery: an informed hierarchy of need in the time of mass casualty crisis
  61. Functional outcomes at 2 years of age following treatment for posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity: what do we know at the time of consult?
  62. Health care transition in pediatric neurosurgery: a consensus statement from the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
  63. Editorial. Pediatric neurosurgery along with Children's Hospitals' innovations are rapid and uniform in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  64. Relative contribution of individual versus combined functional imaging studies in predicting seizure freedom in pediatric epilepsy surgery: an area under the curve analysis
  65. How technology is driving the landscape of epilepsy surgery
  66. Letter to the Editor. Fetal closure of myelomeningocele
  67. Symptoms of the Chiari II Malformation
  68. Treatment of pediatric high‐grade central nervous system tumors with high‐dose methotrexate in combination with multiagent chemotherapy: A single‐institution experience
  69. Incidence of delayed intracranial hypertension in children with isolated sagittal synostosis following open calvarial vault reconstruction
  70. Care management and contemporary challenges in spina bifida: a practice preference survey of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
  71. Concepts in the neurosurgical care of patients with spinal neural tube defects: An embryologic approach
  72. Development of an evidence-based individualized transition plan for spina bifida
  73. Introduction. Advancing the care of children with spina bifida, prenatally and postnatally
  74. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on Closure of Myelomeningocele Within 48 Hours to Decrease Infection Risk
  75. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on the Incidence of Shunt-Dependent Hydrocephalus in Infants With Myelomeningocele After Prenatal Versus Postnatal Repair
  76. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on the Incidence of Tethered Cord Syndrome in Infants With Myelomeningocele With Prenatal Versus Postnatal Repair
  77. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on the Management of Patients With Myelomeningocele: Whether Persistent Ventriculomegaly Adversely Impacts Neurocognitive Development
  78. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on the Management of Patients With Myelomeningocele: Whether Prenatal or Postnatal Closure Affects Future Ambulatory Status
  79. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines for Pediatric Myelomeningocele: Executive Summary
  80. Commentary: Open Resection versus Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for the Treatment of Pediatric Insular Epilepsy
  81. Increased complications without neurological benefit are associated with prophylactic spinal cord untethering prior to scoliosis surgery in children with myelomeningocele
  82. Program Evaluation of Camp V.I.P: Promoting Self-confidence and Independence for Patients with Spina Bifida
  83. Patients with “benign” Chiari I malformations require surgical decompression at a low rate
  84. Editorial. Pediatric stereoelectroencephalography: review of a cohort
  85. Editorial. Evolving utility of bibliometric indices in pediatric neurosurgery
  86. Occult Spinal Dysraphism
  87. Lipomyelomeningoceles
  88. Natural History of Occult Spinal Dysraphism
  89. Outcomes in Occult Spinal Dysraphism
  90. The development of a lifetime care model in comprehensive spina bifida care
  91. Development of best practices to minimize wound complications after complex tethered spinal cord surgery: a modified Delphi study
  92. Decompression for Chiari malformation type II in individuals with myelomeningocele in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  93. Treated hydrocephalus in individuals with myelomeningocele in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  94. Reducing inequities in preventable neural tube defects: the critical and underutilized role of neurosurgical advocacy for folate fortification
  95. Letter to the Editor. Family history of neural tube defects
  96. Intradural spine surgery may not carry an increased risk of shunt revision compared with extradural spine surgery in pediatric patients with myelomeningocele
  97. Predictors of permanent disability among adults with spinal dysraphism
  98. Surveillance survey of family history in children with neural tube defects
  99. ACR Appropriateness Criteria ® Suspected Physical Abuse—Child
  100. Risk factors for surgical site infection following nonshunt pediatric neurosurgery: a review of 9296 procedures from a national database and comparison with a single-center experience
  101. Extratemporal resections in pediatric epilepsy surgery-an overview
  102. Technical descriptions of four hemispherectomy approaches: From the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Meeting at Gothenburg 2014
  103. Skull Base and Cervical Spine Involvement in Jansen Syndrome: Case Report
  104. A comparison of the MOMS trial results to a contemporaneous, single-institution, postnatal closure cohort
  105. Rate of shunt revision as a function of age in patients with shunted hydrocephalus due to myelomeningocele
  106. Hemispherectomy for Hemimegalencephaly Due to Tuberous Sclerosis and a Review of the Literature
  107. Chiari III malformation: a comprehensive review of this enigmatic anomaly
  108. Sleep-disordered breathing in patients with myelomeningocele
  109. Pediatric central nervous system solitary fibrous tumor: case report
  110. Effect of EEG electrode number on epileptic source localization in pediatric patients
  111. Assessing health-related quality of life in children with spina bifida
  112. Hemispherectomy for treatment of refractory epilepsy in the pediatric age group: a systematic review
  113. Vagus Nerve Stimulation
  114. Bihemispheric gunshot wounds: survival and long-term neuropsychological follow-up of three siblings
  115. Fast-sequence MRI studies for surveillance imaging in pediatric hydrocephalus
  116. Epilepsy surgery in bifrontal injury from prior craniopharyngioma resections
  117. Magnetic source imaging (MSI) in children with neocortical epilepsy: Surgical outcome association with 3D post-resection analysis
  118. William Watson Cheyne (1852–1932): a life in medicine and his innovative surgical treatment of congenital hydrocephalus
  119. The association between race and frequent shunt failure: a single-center study
  120. Multidisciplinary staged surgical management of bifrontal meningoencephalocele with long-term follow-up
  121. Major white matter fiber changes in medically intractable neocortical epilepsy in children: A diffusion tensor imaging study
  122. Institutional experience of endoscopic suprasellar arachnoid cyst fenestration
  123. Symptoms of the Chiari II Malformation
  124. Clinical evaluation and surveillance imaging in children with spina bifida aperta and shunt-treated hydrocephalus
  125. Parental recognition of shunt failure: a prospective single-institution study
  126. Parameters of Care for Craniosynostosis
  127. Parameters of Care for Craniosynostosis
  128. Massive pediatric neurosurgical injuries and lessons learned following a tornado disaster in Alabama
  129. Corrigendum to “Planning extent of resection in epilepsy: Limited versus large resections” [Epilepsy & Behavior 20, Issue 2 (2011) 233–240]
  130. Safety and utility of supplemental depth electrodes for localizing the ictal onset zone in pediatric neocortical epilepsy
  131. Persistence of the left superior vena cava in a patient with duplication of chromosome 8p—A case report
  132. Institutional experience with 500 cases of surgically treated pediatric Chiari malformation Type I
  133. Planning extent of resection in epilepsy: Limited versus large resections
  134. Small-ventricle neuroendoscopy for pediatric brain tumor management
  135. Retroclival Epidural Hematomas
  136. Safety and Utility of Scheduled Nonnarcotic Analgesic Medications in Children Undergoing Craniotomy for Brain Tumor
  137. Desmoplastic Infantile Gangliogliomas
  138. Effect of epilepsy magnetic source imaging on intracranial electrode placement
  139. Acute ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction following opening of the spinal subarachnoid space: a case series
  140. Advances in intracranial monitoring
  141. Functional imaging: I. Relative predictive value of intracranial electroencephalography
  142. Functional imaging: II. Prediction of epilepsy surgery outcome
  143. Endoscopically assisted decompression of the suprascapular nerve in the supraspinous fossa: a cadaveric feasibility study
  144. Craniopharyngioma marsupialization
  145. Infections of pediatric cerebrospinal fluid shunts related to fundoplication and gastrostomy
  146. Spinal cord transection for definitive untethering of repetitive tethered cord
  147. Institutional experience with cranial vault encephaloceles
  148. Anatomy of the falcine venous plexus
  149. Death in shunted hydrocephalic children: a follow-up study
  150. Scheduled oral analgesics and the need for opiates in children following partial dorsal rhizotomy
  151. Pansynostosis: a review
  152. The nerve to the mylohyoid as a donor for facial nerve reanimation procedures: a cadaveric feasibility study
  153. The lateral atlantooccipital ligament
  154. THE SPHENOPARIETAL SINUS
  155. Neuropathic arthropathy of the elbow in a paediatric patient with myelomeningocele
  156. The tectorial membrane: Anatomical, biomechanical, and histological analysis
  157. Approach to the cervical portion of the vagus nerve via the posterior cervical triangle: a cadaveric feasibility study with potential use in vagus nerve stimulation procedures
  158. Quantitation of the lower subscapular nerve for potential use in neurotization procedures
  159. Exposure of the V1–V3 segments of the vertebral artery via the posterior cervical triangle: a cadaveric feasibility study
  160. Landmarks for the identification of the cutaneous nerves of the occiput and nuchal regions
  161. History of surgery for cerebrovascular disease in children. Part II. Vein of Galen malformations
  162. History of surgery for cerebrovascular disease in children. Part I. Intracranial arterial aneurysms
  163. History of surgery for cerebrovascular disease in children. Part III. Arteriovenous malformations
  164. Vagus nerve stimulation in children less than 5 years old
  165. Superficial surgical landmarks for identifying the posterior interosseous nerve
  166. Quantitation of and superficial surgical landmarks for the anterior interosseous nerve
  167. Quantitation of and landmarks for the muscular branches of the ulnar nerve to the forearm for application in peripheral nerve neurotization procedures
  168. Surgical anatomy of the cervical and infraclavicular parts of the long thoracic nerve
  169. Magnetic source imaging versus intracranial electroencephalogram in epilepsy surgery: A prospective study
  170. The marginal sinus
  171. Right-sided vagus nerve stimulation inhibits induced spinal cord seizures
  172. The use of a sump antibiotic irrigation system to save infected hardware in a patient with a vagal nerve stimulator
  173. Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Rapid Detection of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt or Ventriculostomy Infections
  174. Forces necessary for the disruption of the cisternal segments of cranial nerves II through XII
  175. Superficial landmarks for the spinal accessory nerve within the posterior cervical triangle
  176. Supraplacode spinal cord transection in paraplegic patients with myelodysplasia and repetitive symptomatic tethered spinal cord
  177. Right-sided Vagus Nerve Stimulation
  178. An Unusual Case of Impalement of the Cranium in a Child
  179. The Triangle of the Vertebral Artery
  180. Anatomical landmarks for the lumbar plexus on the posterior abdominal wall
  181. Vagus nerve stimulation for induced spinal cord seizures: insights into seizure cessation
  182. Transient ventriculoperitoneal shunt dysfunction in children with myelodysplasia and urinary bladder infection
  183. Referred shoulder pain from ventriculoperitoneal shunts
  184. Syringomyelia in Twin Brothers Discordant for Chiari I Malformation: Case Report
  185. Isolated atlantal stenosis in a patient with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency, and Klippel-Feil and Duane?s syndromes
  186. Complications of ventriculosubgaleal shunts in infants and children
  187. Neuroendoscopic findings in patients with intracranial germinomas correlating with diabetes insipidus
  188. Sports And Pediatric Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts: Who Can Play?
  189. Left-sided vagus nerve stimulation decreases intracranial pressure without resultant bradycardia in the pig: a potential therapeutic modality for humans
  190. Degree of tectal beaking correlates to the presence of nystagmus in children with Chiari II malformation
  191. Eyebrow incision with supraorbital trephination for endoscopic corpus callosotomy: a feasibility study
  192. Multiple subpial transections in the treatment of pediatric epilepsy
  193. Meroacrania
  194. Duplication of the Massa Intermedia in a Child
  195. In utero Spontaneous Cervical Thoracic Epidural Hematoma Imitating Spinal Cord Birth Injury
  196. Anatomic Landmarks for the Cervical Portion of the Thoracic Duct
  197. Complications of chronic vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy in children
  198. Cutaneous manifestations and the Chiari I malformation
  199. Human Horns: A Historical Review and Clinical Correlation
  200. Atlantoaxial interlaminar distances in cervical flexion in children
  201. Intracranial anatomic asymmetry in situs inversus totalis
  202. Inclination of the odontoid process in the pediatric Chiari I malformation
  203. Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy for Hydrocephalus Secondary to Central Nervous System Infection or Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Children
  204. Suprasellar Lymphoid Hyperplasia Presenting with Diabetes insipidus and Hypogonadism
  205. Ectopic Brain Tissue in a Neonate
  206. Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency and Chiari I Malformation: A Morphometric Analysis of the Posterior Cranial Fossa
  207. Alternative Uses for the Subgaleal Shunt in Pediatric Neurosurgery
  208. Life Expectancy of Ventriculosubgaleal Shunt Revisions
  209. Reformation of the Posterior Atlanto-Occipital Membrane following Posterior Fossa Decompression with Subsequent Constriction at the Craniocervical Junction
  210. Cervical Spine Involvement in Larsen's Syndrome: A Case Illustration
  211. Quantitative anatomy of the transverse ligament tubercles
  212. Posterior atlantooccipital membrane for duraplasty
  213. Long-term Control of Hydrocephalus via Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Children with Tectal Plate Gliomas
  214. Absence of the falx cerebelli in a Chiari II malformation
  215. Choroid Plexectomy Reduces Neurosurgical Intervention in Patients with Hydranencephaly
  216. Superficial surgical landmarks for the frontal sinus
  217. Jarcho-Levin Syndrome
  218. Horizontal Sacrum as an Indicator of a Tethered Spinal Cord
  219. Acute Hydrocephalus following a Chiari I Decompression
  220. Surgical landmarks for the proximal portion of the axillary nerve
  221. Spinal lipomas
  222. Preliminary Observations on the Association between Simple Metopic Ridging in Children without Trigonocephaly and the Chiari I Malformation
  223. Histological Appearance of a Chronically Stimulated Vagus Nervein a Pediatric Patient
  224. 784 Multiple Subpial Transections in the Surgical Management of Pediatric Epilepsy
  225. Craniocephalic Disproportion with Increased Intracranial Pressure and Brain Herniation: A New Clinical Syndrome in Anemic Patients: Report of Two Cases
  226. Intrathecal granuloma complicating chronic spinal infusion of morphine
  227. Transplantation of human fetal tissue from spontaneous abortions to a rodent model of parkinson's disease
  228. Suitability of Fetal Tissues From Spontaneous Abortions and From Ectopic Pregnancies for Transplantation
  229. Complications in Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting
  230. Chapter 64 Fetal dopamine neural grafts: extended reversal of methylphenyltetrahydropyridine-induced parkinsonism in monkeys
  231. Desmoplastic Infantile Gangliogliomas