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  1. Redefining transition: Self-efficacy in urologic care
  2. Heterogeneity of catheter insertion rates: an initial benchtop assessment of shunt catheter insertion for hydrocephalus
  3. Advocacy efforts by the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons: evolving priorities, ongoing initiatives, and future directions
  4. Global Neurosurgical Advocacy at the 78th World Health Assembly: Critical Collaboration at a Time of Geopolitical Change
  5. Psychometric Evaluation of Sexual Knowledge and Self-Efficacy Components of the SPARKS Survey for Adults with Spina Bifida
  6. Fortify Alabama: Corn Masa Fortification for Spina Bifida Prevention
  7. Neurosurgery as a Catalyst for Global Health and Surgery Targets: Road to 2030 Highlights from World Health Organization's 78th World Health Assembly
  8. Pediatric hydrocephalus management at a major neurosurgical referral center in Kumasi, Ghana
  9. Corrigendum to Global Neurosurgery at the 76th World Health Assembly (2023): First Neurosurgery-Driven Resolution Calls for Micronutrient Fortification to Prevent Spina Bifida [World Neurosurgery, 2024 May:185:135-140]
  10. A global survey of neurosurgeons’ awareness of neural tube defect prevalence, prevention strategies, and their clinical time allocation to spina bifida care
  11. Presentation and management of neural tube defects in the middle belt of Ghana
  12. Stereotactic radiosurgery treatment of pediatric arteriovenous malformations: a PRISMA systematic review and meta-analysis
  13. Association between orthopedic manifestations and tethered cord release in patients with spina bifida: a survival analysis
  14. Reproductive Education and Sexual Abuse Among Individuals With Spina Bifida: A Mixed Methods Study
  15. Epilepsy surgery outcomes in children with tuberous sclerosis complex: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  16. Editorial. Revolutionizing myelomeningocele management: challenges and opportunities
  17. Treatment of sleep-disordered breathing among children with myelomeningocele
  18. Development and content validation of a survey assessing domains of sexual and reproductive health in adults with spina bifida
  19. The Power of Advocacy in Global Neurosurgery
  20. Editorial. Two novel models to optimize transitional care in spina bifida: the patient as provider and the congenital neurosurgeon in active collaboration
  21. Introduction. Transitional care in neurosurgery
  22. The role of a dedicated transition process from pediatric to adult interdisciplinary care for persons with spina bifida
  23. Transition mentorship for spina bifida patients with the JUMP program: a pilot study
  24. Neurosurgical management of Myelomeningocele in premature infants: a case series
  25. Neurosurgical Advocacy in the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects
  26. Endoluminal Biopsy for Vein of Galen Malformation
  27. Global Neurosurgery at the 76th World Health Assembly (2023): First Neurosurgery-Driven Resolution Calls for Micronutrient Fortification to Prevent Spina Bifida
  28. Evaluation of multidisciplinary high-risk pregnancy clinic for myelomeningocele
  29. Endovascular balloon usage in endoscopic third ventriculostomy for hydrocephalus during a national shortage: case series and technical note
  30. Pediatric non-galenic pial arteriovenous fistula’s characteristics and outcomes: a systematic review
  31. The genetic basis of hydrocephalus: genes, pathways, mechanisms, and global impact
  32. A re-evaluation of the Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Success Score: a Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network study
  33. Improvement of serum folate status in the US women of reproductive age with fortified iodised salt with folic acid (FISFA study)
  34. Causes of death among people with myelomeningocele: A multi-institutional 47-year retrospective study
  35. The Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Interest Group (PESIG) under the auspice of the ISPN Research Committee: Availability of relevant technology and geographical distribution
  36. Characteristics and outcomes of pediatric dural arteriovenous fistulas: a systematic review
  37. Added value of corpus callosotomy following vagus nerve stimulation in children with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome: A multicenter, multinational study
  38. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on global neurosurgery collaborations
  39. Does subtotal resection ameliorate hypothalamic morbidity in pediatric craniopharyngioma? A 30-year retrospective cohort study
  40. Hemispherectomy Outcome Prediction Scale: a validity study
  41. First-time tethered cord release among adults with myelomeningocele: an analysis of people in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  42. What has changed in pediatric neurosurgical care in spina bifida? A 30-year UAB/Children’s of Alabama observational overview
  43. Treatment of hydrocephalus following posterior fossa tumor resection: a multicenter collaboration from the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network
  44. Preventing spina bifida through folate fortification: a labor of love
  45. Global Neurosurgery: Progress and Resolutions at the 75th World Health Assembly
  46. Neurosurgeon-Led Advocacy for Folic Acid Fortification to Prevent Spina Bifida
  47. Postoperative seizure freedom after vagus nerve stimulator placement in children 6 years of age and younger
  48. The development of a transition medical home utilizing the individualized transition plan (ITP) model for patients with complex diseases of childhood
  49. Editorial. The elusive fibrofatty filum holy grail
  50. Editorial. Neurocognition in fetal myelomeningocele closure: "not shunting per se"
  51. Understanding and identifying the needs of parent caregivers of children with hydrocephalus: a qualitative study
  52. Editorial. Myelomeningocele care: moving beyond Groningen
  53. The role of neurosurgeons in global public health: the case of folic acid fortification of staple foods to prevent spina bifida
  54. Corpus Callosotomy Is a Safe and Effective Procedure for Medically Resistant Epilepsy
  55. Functional level of lesion scale: Validating fourteen years of research with the national spina bifida patient registry
  56. Time to shunt failure in children with myelomeningocele: an analysis of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  57. Mandatory food fortification with folic acid – Authors' reply
  58. Outcomes of endovascular embolization for Vein of Galen malformations: An individual participant data meta-analysis
  59. Community-engaged research: a powerful tool to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes in pediatric neurosurgery
  60. High prevalence of gram-negative and multiorganism surgical site infections after pediatric complex tethered spinal cord surgery: a multicenter study
  61. Quantifying and reporting outcome measures in pediatric epilepsy surgery: A systematic review
  62. Expedited epilepsy surgery prior to drug resistance in children: a frontier worth crossing?
  63. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy revision after failure of initial endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization
  64. Preventing birth defects, saving lives, and promoting health equity: an urgent call to action for universal mandatory food fortification with folic acid
  65. Limited utility of structural MRI to identify the epileptogenic zone in young children with tuberous sclerosis
  66. Commentary: Case Series on Removal of Subdural to Peritoneal Shunt After Resolution of Subdural Collection in the First 2 Years of Life
  67. Editorial. Social determinants in care for dysraphism
  68. Care for Chiari malformation type I: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage and race
  69. Determination of anatomic level of myelomeningocele by prenatal ultrasound
  70. Editorial. Observations on a report of a new neurosurgical service in Nigeria
  71. Scope of care in the first four years of life for individuals born with myelomeningocele: A single institution experience1
  72. Early implementation of stereoelectroencephalography in children: a multiinstitutional case series
  73. A qualitative interview study on successful pregnancies in women with spina bifida
  74. Caring for the Child with Spina Bifida
  75. Epilepsy surgery in infants up to 3 months of age: Safety, feasibility, and outcomes: A multicenter, multinational study
  76. Variation in pediatric stereoelectroencephalography practice among pediatric neurosurgeons in the United States: survey results
  77. 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
  78. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Seizures-Child
  79. Tethered spinal cord among individuals with myelomeningocele: an analysis of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  80. Imaging characteristics associated with surgery in Chiari malformation type I
  81. Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caregivers and Children with Hydrocephalus
  82. Shunt failure clusters: an analysis of multiple, frequent shunt failures
  83. Neurosurgical procedures for children with myelomeningocele after fetal or postnatal surgery: a comparative effectiveness study
  84. Hydrocephalus in Spina Bifida
  85. Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children With Myelomeningocele
  86. Neurosurgery guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida
  87. Anxiety, depression, fatigue, and headache burden in the pediatric hydrocephalus population
  88. Pilot Study of Neurodevelopmental Impact of Early Epilepsy Surgery in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
  89. Hydrocephalus-related quality of life as assessed by children and their caregivers
  90. Prenatal counseling for myelomeningocele in the era of fetal surgery: a shared decision-making approach
  91. The impact of imposed delay in elective pediatric neurosurgery: an informed hierarchy of need in the time of mass casualty crisis
  92. Functional outcomes at 2 years of age following treatment for posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity: what do we know at the time of consult?
  93. Health care transition in pediatric neurosurgery: a consensus statement from the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
  94. Editorial. Pediatric neurosurgery along with Children's Hospitals' innovations are rapid and uniform in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  95. Relative contribution of individual versus combined functional imaging studies in predicting seizure freedom in pediatric epilepsy surgery: an area under the curve analysis
  96. How technology is driving the landscape of epilepsy surgery
  97. Letter to the Editor. Fetal closure of myelomeningocele
  98. Symptoms of the Chiari II Malformation
  99. Cerebellar Astrocytomas
  100. Treatment of pediatric high‐grade central nervous system tumors with high‐dose methotrexate in combination with multiagent chemotherapy: A single‐institution experience
  101. Incidence of delayed intracranial hypertension in children with isolated sagittal synostosis following open calvarial vault reconstruction
  102. Care management and contemporary challenges in spina bifida: a practice preference survey of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
  103. Concepts in the neurosurgical care of patients with spinal neural tube defects: An embryologic approach
  104. Development of an evidence-based individualized transition plan for spina bifida
  105. Introduction. Advancing the care of children with spina bifida, prenatally and postnatally
  106. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on Closure of Myelomeningocele Within 48 Hours to Decrease Infection Risk
  107. 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
  108. 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
  109. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on the Management of Patients With Myelomeningocele: Whether Persistent Ventriculomegaly Adversely Impacts Neurocognitive Development
  110. 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
  111. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines for Pediatric Myelomeningocele: Executive Summary
  112. Commentary: Open Resection versus Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for the Treatment of Pediatric Insular Epilepsy
  113. Increased complications without neurological benefit are associated with prophylactic spinal cord untethering prior to scoliosis surgery in children with myelomeningocele
  114. Program Evaluation of Camp V.I.P: Promoting Self-confidence and Independence for Patients with Spina Bifida
  115. Patients with “benign” Chiari I malformations require surgical decompression at a low rate
  116. Editorial. Pediatric stereoelectroencephalography: review of a cohort
  117. Editorial. Evolving utility of bibliometric indices in pediatric neurosurgery
  118. Occult Spinal Dysraphism
  119. Lipomyelomeningoceles
  120. Natural History of Occult Spinal Dysraphism
  121. Outcomes in Occult Spinal Dysraphism
  122. The development of a lifetime care model in comprehensive spina bifida care
  123. Development of best practices to minimize wound complications after complex tethered spinal cord surgery: a modified Delphi study
  124. Decompression for Chiari malformation type II in individuals with myelomeningocele in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  125. Treated hydrocephalus in individuals with myelomeningocele in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry
  126. Reducing inequities in preventable neural tube defects: the critical and underutilized role of neurosurgical advocacy for folate fortification
  127. Letter to the Editor. Family history of neural tube defects
  128. Intradural spine surgery may not carry an increased risk of shunt revision compared with extradural spine surgery in pediatric patients with myelomeningocele
  129. Predictors of permanent disability among adults with spinal dysraphism
  130. Surveillance survey of family history in children with neural tube defects
  131. ACR Appropriateness Criteria ® Suspected Physical Abuse—Child
  132. 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
  133. Extratemporal resections in pediatric epilepsy surgery-an overview
  134. Technical descriptions of four hemispherectomy approaches: From the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Meeting at Gothenburg 2014
  135. Skull Base and Cervical Spine Involvement in Jansen Syndrome: Case Report
  136. A comparison of the MOMS trial results to a contemporaneous, single-institution, postnatal closure cohort
  137. Rate of shunt revision as a function of age in patients with shunted hydrocephalus due to myelomeningocele
  138. Hemispherectomy for Hemimegalencephaly Due to Tuberous Sclerosis and a Review of the Literature
  139. Chiari III malformation: a comprehensive review of this enigmatic anomaly
  140. Sleep-disordered breathing in patients with myelomeningocele
  141. Pediatric central nervous system solitary fibrous tumor: case report
  142. Effect of EEG electrode number on epileptic source localization in pediatric patients
  143. Assessing health-related quality of life in children with spina bifida
  144. Hemispherectomy for treatment of refractory epilepsy in the pediatric age group: a systematic review
  145. Vagus Nerve Stimulation
  146. Bihemispheric gunshot wounds: survival and long-term neuropsychological follow-up of three siblings
  147. Fast-sequence MRI studies for surveillance imaging in pediatric hydrocephalus
  148. Epilepsy surgery in bifrontal injury from prior craniopharyngioma resections
  149. Magnetic source imaging (MSI) in children with neocortical epilepsy: Surgical outcome association with 3D post-resection analysis
  150. William Watson Cheyne (1852–1932): a life in medicine and his innovative surgical treatment of congenital hydrocephalus
  151. The association between race and frequent shunt failure: a single-center study
  152. Multidisciplinary staged surgical management of bifrontal meningoencephalocele with long-term follow-up
  153. Major white matter fiber changes in medically intractable neocortical epilepsy in children: A diffusion tensor imaging study
  154. Institutional experience of endoscopic suprasellar arachnoid cyst fenestration
  155. Symptoms of the Chiari II Malformation
  156. Clinical evaluation and surveillance imaging in children with spina bifida aperta and shunt-treated hydrocephalus
  157. Parental recognition of shunt failure: a prospective single-institution study
  158. Parameters of Care for Craniosynostosis
  159. Parameters of Care for Craniosynostosis
  160. Massive pediatric neurosurgical injuries and lessons learned following a tornado disaster in Alabama
  161. Corrigendum to “Planning extent of resection in epilepsy: Limited versus large resections” [Epilepsy & Behavior 20, Issue 2 (2011) 233–240]
  162. Safety and utility of supplemental depth electrodes for localizing the ictal onset zone in pediatric neocortical epilepsy
  163. Persistence of the left superior vena cava in a patient with duplication of chromosome 8p—A case report
  164. Institutional experience with 500 cases of surgically treated pediatric Chiari malformation Type I
  165. Planning extent of resection in epilepsy: Limited versus large resections
  166. Small-ventricle neuroendoscopy for pediatric brain tumor management
  167. Retroclival Epidural Hematomas
  168. Safety and Utility of Scheduled Nonnarcotic Analgesic Medications in Children Undergoing Craniotomy for Brain Tumor
  169. Desmoplastic Infantile Gangliogliomas
  170. Effect of epilepsy magnetic source imaging on intracranial electrode placement
  171. Acute ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction following opening of the spinal subarachnoid space: a case series
  172. Advances in intracranial monitoring
  173. Functional imaging: I. Relative predictive value of intracranial electroencephalography
  174. Functional imaging: II. Prediction of epilepsy surgery outcome
  175. Endoscopically assisted decompression of the suprascapular nerve in the supraspinous fossa: a cadaveric feasibility study
  176. Craniopharyngioma marsupialization
  177. Infections of pediatric cerebrospinal fluid shunts related to fundoplication and gastrostomy
  178. Spinal cord transection for definitive untethering of repetitive tethered cord
  179. Institutional experience with cranial vault encephaloceles
  180. Anatomy of the falcine venous plexus
  181. Death in shunted hydrocephalic children: a follow-up study
  182. Scheduled oral analgesics and the need for opiates in children following partial dorsal rhizotomy
  183. Pansynostosis: a review
  184. The nerve to the mylohyoid as a donor for facial nerve reanimation procedures: a cadaveric feasibility study
  185. The lateral atlantooccipital ligament
  186. Contribution of surgical evacuation of a large subgaleal hematoma to the resolution of severe conjugated hyperbilirubinemia in a neonate
  187. THE SPHENOPARIETAL SINUS
  188. Neuropathic arthropathy of the elbow in a paediatric patient with myelomeningocele
  189. The tectorial membrane: Anatomical, biomechanical, and histological analysis
  190. 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
  191. Quantitation of the lower subscapular nerve for potential use in neurotization procedures
  192. Exposure of the V1–V3 segments of the vertebral artery via the posterior cervical triangle: a cadaveric feasibility study
  193. Landmarks for the identification of the cutaneous nerves of the occiput and nuchal regions
  194. Pericallosal artery pseudoaneurysm secondary to endoscopic-assisted ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement
  195. History of surgery for cerebrovascular disease in children. Part II. Vein of Galen malformations
  196. History of surgery for cerebrovascular disease in children. Part I. Intracranial arterial aneurysms
  197. History of surgery for cerebrovascular disease in children. Part III. Arteriovenous malformations
  198. Vagus nerve stimulation in children less than 5 years old
  199. Superficial surgical landmarks for identifying the posterior interosseous nerve
  200. Quantitation of and superficial surgical landmarks for the anterior interosseous nerve
  201. Quantitation of and landmarks for the muscular branches of the ulnar nerve to the forearm for application in peripheral nerve neurotization procedures
  202. Surgical anatomy of the cervical and infraclavicular parts of the long thoracic nerve
  203. Magnetic source imaging versus intracranial electroencephalogram in epilepsy surgery: A prospective study
  204. The marginal sinus
  205. Right-sided vagus nerve stimulation inhibits induced spinal cord seizures
  206. The use of a sump antibiotic irrigation system to save infected hardware in a patient with a vagal nerve stimulator
  207. Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Rapid Detection of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt or Ventriculostomy Infections
  208. Forces necessary for the disruption of the cisternal segments of cranial nerves II through XII
  209. Superficial landmarks for the spinal accessory nerve within the posterior cervical triangle
  210. Supraplacode spinal cord transection in paraplegic patients with myelodysplasia and repetitive symptomatic tethered spinal cord
  211. Right-sided Vagus Nerve Stimulation
  212. An Unusual Case of Impalement of the Cranium in a Child
  213. Unusual findings during abdominal placement of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt
  214. The Triangle of the Vertebral Artery
  215. Anatomical landmarks for the lumbar plexus on the posterior abdominal wall
  216. Vagus nerve stimulation for induced spinal cord seizures: insights into seizure cessation
  217. Transient ventriculoperitoneal shunt dysfunction in children with myelodysplasia and urinary bladder infection
  218. Referred shoulder pain from ventriculoperitoneal shunts
  219. Syringomyelia in Twin Brothers Discordant for Chiari I Malformation: Case Report
  220. Isolated atlantal stenosis in a patient with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency, and Klippel-Feil and Duane?s syndromes
  221. Complications of ventriculosubgaleal shunts in infants and children
  222. Neuroendoscopic findings in patients with intracranial germinomas correlating with diabetes insipidus
  223. Sports And Pediatric Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts: Who Can Play?
  224. Left-sided vagus nerve stimulation decreases intracranial pressure without resultant bradycardia in the pig: a potential therapeutic modality for humans
  225. Degree of tectal beaking correlates to the presence of nystagmus in children with Chiari II malformation
  226. Eyebrow incision with supraorbital trephination for endoscopic corpus callosotomy: a feasibility study
  227. Multiple subpial transections in the treatment of pediatric epilepsy
  228. Cessation of chronic hypertension after posterior fossa decompression in a child with Chiari I malformation
  229. Meroacrania
  230. Duplication of the Massa Intermedia in a Child
  231. In utero Spontaneous Cervical Thoracic Epidural Hematoma Imitating Spinal Cord Birth Injury
  232. Anatomic Landmarks for the Cervical Portion of the Thoracic Duct
  233. Complications of chronic vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy in children
  234. Cutaneous manifestations and the Chiari I malformation
  235. Human Horns: A Historical Review and Clinical Correlation
  236. Atlantoaxial interlaminar distances in cervical flexion in children
  237. Intracranial anatomic asymmetry in situs inversus totalis
  238. Inclination of the odontoid process in the pediatric Chiari I malformation
  239. Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy for Hydrocephalus Secondary to Central Nervous System Infection or Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Children
  240. Suprasellar Lymphoid Hyperplasia Presenting with Diabetes insipidus and Hypogonadism
  241. Ectopic Brain Tissue in a Neonate
  242. Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency and Chiari I Malformation: A Morphometric Analysis of the Posterior Cranial Fossa
  243. Alternative Uses for the Subgaleal Shunt in Pediatric Neurosurgery
  244. Life Expectancy of Ventriculosubgaleal Shunt Revisions
  245. Reformation of the Posterior Atlanto-Occipital Membrane following Posterior Fossa Decompression with Subsequent Constriction at the Craniocervical Junction
  246. Cervical Spine Involvement in Larsen's Syndrome: A Case Illustration
  247. Quantitative anatomy of the transverse ligament tubercles
  248. Posterior atlantooccipital membrane for duraplasty
  249. Long-term Control of Hydrocephalus via Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Children with Tectal Plate Gliomas
  250. Absence of the falx cerebelli in a Chiari II malformation
  251. Choroid Plexectomy Reduces Neurosurgical Intervention in Patients with Hydranencephaly
  252. Superficial surgical landmarks for the frontal sinus
  253. Jarcho-Levin Syndrome
  254. Horizontal Sacrum as an Indicator of a Tethered Spinal Cord
  255. Acute Hydrocephalus following a Chiari I Decompression
  256. Surgical landmarks for the proximal portion of the axillary nerve
  257. Spinal lipomas
  258. Preliminary Observations on the Association between Simple Metopic Ridging in Children without Trigonocephaly and the Chiari I Malformation
  259. Histological Appearance of a Chronically Stimulated Vagus Nervein a Pediatric Patient
  260. 784 Multiple Subpial Transections in the Surgical Management of Pediatric Epilepsy
  261. Craniocephalic Disproportion with Increased Intracranial Pressure and Brain Herniation: A New Clinical Syndrome in Anemic Patients: Report of Two Cases
  262. Intrathecal granuloma complicating chronic spinal infusion of morphine
  263. Transplantation of human fetal tissue from spontaneous abortions to a rodent model of parkinson's disease
  264. Suitability of Fetal Tissues From Spontaneous Abortions and From Ectopic Pregnancies for Transplantation
  265. Complications in Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting
  266. Chapter 64 Fetal dopamine neural grafts: extended reversal of methylphenyltetrahydropyridine-induced parkinsonism in monkeys
  267. Desmoplastic Infantile Gangliogliomas