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