• Laminin-coated multifilament entubulation, combined with Schwann cells and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, promotes unidirectional axonal regeneration in a rat model of thoracic spinal cord hemisection 

  Deng, Ling-Xiao; Liu, Nai-Kui; Wen, Ryan Ning; Yang, Shuang-Ni; Wen, Xuejun; Xu, Xiao-Ming (Wolters Kluwer, 2021-01)

  Biomaterial bridging provides physical substrates to guide axonal growth across the lesion. To achieve efficient directional guidance, combinatory strategies using permissive matrix, cells and trophic factors are necessary. ...
• Supraorbital transciliary keyhole approach for removal of tuberculum sellae meningioma: 3D surgical video 

  Cuellar-Hernandez, J. Javier; Olivas-Campos, J. Ramon; Tabera-Tarello, Paulo M.; Anokwute, Miracle; Valadez-Rodriguez, Alan (Scientific Scholar, 2021-01-05)

  Background: Tuberculum sellae meningiomas have an incidence from 5 to 10% of all intracranial meningiomas[2] and tend to be surgically difficult and challenging tumors given their proximity to important structures such as ...
• Rapid Improvement Project: Improving Caregivers’ Understanding of Safety Recommendations for Neurosurgical Devices 

  Anokwute, Miracle C.; Seibold, Dianne; Jea, Andrew; Ackerman, Laurie L.; Raskin, Jeffrey S. (Wolters Kluwer, 2020-12-28)

  There has been a proliferation in the development of indwelling neuromodulatory devices with varied safety recommendations, making it difficult for providers to remain up-to-date. This deficit presents an opportunity for ...
• Neurotrophin-3-mediated locomotor recovery: a novel therapeutic strategy targeting lumbar neural circuitry after spinal cord injury 

  Han, Qi; Xu, Xiao-Ming (Wolters Kluwer, 2020-12)
• At-Risk Tackling Techniques in American Football 

  Stockwell, David W.; Blalock, Richard; Podell, Kenneth; Marco, Rex A.W. (Sage, 2020-02)

  Background: In American football, fewer fatalities and severe injuries have been seen annually since 1976, after data from 1971 through 1975 were retrospectively reviewed to better understand the mechanisms involved in ...
• Periprocedural safety of saccular aneurysm embolization with the Penumbra SMART Coil System: a SMART registry subset analysis 

  Starke, Robert M.; Park, Min S.; Bellon, Richard; Bohnstedt, Bradley; Schirmer, Clemens M.; Leacy, Reade De; Fiorella, David; Yoo, Albert J.; Spiotta, Alejandro M. (BMJ, 2021-02)

  Background Using data from the SMART registry, we report on periprocedural safety of the Penumbra SMART Coil System for endovascular coil embolization of saccular intracranial aneurysms. Methods The SMART registry was ...
• Institutional review of the management of type II odontoid fractures: associations and outcomes with fibrous union 

  Wilson, Christopher; Hoyos, Mariana; Huh, Andrew; Priddy, Blake; Avila, Stephen; Mendenhall, Stephen; Anokwute, Miracle C.; Eckert, George J.; Stockwell, David W. (AANS, 2021-04)

  OBJECTIVE Type II odontoid fractures may be managed operatively or nonoperatively. If managed with bracing, bony union may never occur despite stability. This phenomenon is termed fibrous union. The authors aimed to ...
• Differences in Patient-Reported Outcomes Between Anterior and Posterior Approaches for Treatment of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: A Quality Outcomes Database Analysis 

  Wilkerson, Christopher G.; Sherrod, Brandon A.; Alvi, Mohammed Ali; Asher, Anthony L.; Coric, Domagoj; Virk, Michael S.; Fu, Kai-Ming; Foley, Kevin T.; Park, Paul; Upadhyaya, Cheerag D.; Knightly, John J.; Shaffrey, Mark E.; Potts, Eric A.; Shaffrey, Christopher; Wang, Michael Y.; Mummaneni, Praveen V.; Chan, Andrew K.; Bydon, Mohamad; Tumialán, Luis M.; Bisson, Erica F. (Elsevier, 2022)

  Objective Surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) may use anterior or posterior approaches. Our objective was to compare baseline differences and validated postoperative patient-reported outcome measures between ...
• Suturing of the Arachnoid Membrane for Reconstruction of the Cisterna Magna: Technical Considerations 

  Eroglu, Umit; Büyüktepe, Murat; Zaimoğlu, Murat; Kahilogullari, Gokmen; Ugur, Hasan Caglar; Ünlü, Mustafa Ağahan; Cohen-Gadol, Aaron (Elsevier, 2021-10)

  Background Postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula following cranial or spinal surgery is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. To prevent CSF fistulas, various techniques have been described. Here, ...
• Development and external validation of the KIIDS-TBI tool for managing children with mild traumatic brain injury and intracranial injuries 

  Greenberg, Jacob K.; Ahluwalia, Ranbir; Hill, Madelyn; Johnson, Gabbie; Hale, Andrew T.; Belal, Ahmed; Baygani, Shawyon; Olsen, Margaret A.; Foraker, Randi E.; Carpenter, Carpenter; Yan, Yan; Ackerman, Laurie; Noje, Corina; Jackson, Eric; Burns, Erin; Sayama, Christina M.; Selden, Nathan R.; Vachhrajani, Shobhan; Shannon, Chevis N.; Kuppermann, Nathan; Limbrick, David D., Jr. (Wiley, 2021-12)

  Background Clinical decision support (CDS) may improve the postneuroimaging management of children with mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) and intracranial injuries. While the CHIIDA score has been proposed for this ...
• Is Placing Prophylactic Dural Tenting Sutures a Dogma? 

  Eroglu, Umit; Zaimoğlu, Murat; Sayacı, Emre Yağız; Ugur, Ugur; Attar, Ayhan; Kahilogullari, Gokmen; Bozkurt, Melih; Ünlü, Mustafa Ağahan; Özgüral, Onur; Doğan, İhsan; Seçinti, Kutsal Devrim; Abbasoğlu, Bilal; Erdoğan, Koral; Gökalp, Elif; Yakar, Fatih; Çağlar, Yusuf Şükrü; Cohen-Gadol, Aaron (Elsevier, 2021-09)

  Objective In this study, we investigated if and when dural tenting sutures are necessary during craniotomy. Methods Results from 437 patients aged 18 to 91 years (average, 43.5 years) who underwent supratentorial ...
• Comparison of Blister Aneurysm Treatment Techniques: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 

  Sanchez, Victoria E.; Haider, Ali S.; Rowe, Scott E.; Wahood, Waseem; Sagoo, Navraj S.; Ozair, Ahmad; El Ahmadieh, Tarek Y.; Kan, Peter; Johnson, Jeremiah N. (Elsevier, 2021-10)

  Objective Blood blister aneurysms are small, thin-walled, rapidly growing side-wall aneurysms that have proven particularly difficult to treat, and evidence-based guidance for treatment strategies is lacking. A systematic ...
• Intradural iatrogenic epidermoid cyst at cauda equina: A case report 

  Hernandez, Jose Javier Cuellar; Anokwute, Miracle; Martinez, Silvia Judith Hernandez; Olivas, Jose Ramon (Medknow Publications, 2020-09-18)

  Background: Spinal epidermoid accounts for <1% of all primary spinal cord tumors. They occur due to the invagination of epidermal elements into the neural tube during the embryonic period. Even more infrequent are spinal ...
• Magnetic separation of peripheral nerve-resident cells underscores key molecular features of human Schwann cells and fibroblasts: an immunochemical and transcriptomics approach 

  Peng, Kaiwen; Sant, David; Andersen, Natalia; Silvera, Risset; Camarena, Vladimir; Piñero, Gonzalo; Graham, Regina; Khan, Aisha; Xu, Xiao-Ming; Wang, Gaofeng; Monje, Paula V. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-10-28)

  Nerve-derived human Schwann cell (SC) cultures are irreplaceable models for basic and translational research but their use can be limited due to the risk of fibroblast overgrowth. Fibroblasts are an ill-defined population ...
• Standard work tools for dynamic stereoelectroencephalography using ROSA: naming convention and perioperative planning 

  Bakr, Salma M.; Patel, Ajay; Zaazoue, Mohamed A.; Wagner, Kathryn; Lam, Sandi K.; Curry, Daniel J.; Raskin, Jeffrey S. (JNS, 2021-04)

  OBJECTIVE The grid-based orthogonal placement of depth electrodes (DEs), initially defined by Jean Talairach and Jean Bancaud, is known as stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG). Although acceptance in the United States was ...
• Schwann Cell Cultures: Biology, Technology and Therapeutics 

  Monje, Paula V. (MDPI, 2020-08-06)

  Schwann cell (SC) cultures from experimental animals and human donors can be prepared using nearly any type of nerve at any stage of maturation to render stage- and patient-specific populations. Methods to isolate, purify, ...
• Brain metastases: An update on the multi-disciplinary approach of clinical management 

  Mitchell, D. K.; Kwon, H. J.; Kubica, P. A.; Huff, W. X.; O'Regan, R.; Dey, M. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Importance Brain metastasis (BM) is the most common malignant intracranial neoplasm in adults with over 100,000 new cases annually in the United States and outnumbering primary brain tumors 10:1. Observations The ...
• Bisperoxovanadium Mediates Neuronal Protection through Inhibition of PTEN and Activation of PI3K/AKT-mTOR Signaling after Traumatic Spinal Injuries 

  Walker, Chandler L.; Wu, Xiangbing; Liu, Nai-Kui; Xu, Xiao-Ming (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2019-08-30)

  Although mechanisms involved in progression of cell death in spinal cord injury (SCI) have been studied extensively, few are clear targets for translation to clinical application. One of the best-understood mechanisms of ...
• Thermomechanical data of polyurethane shape memory polymer: Considering varying compositions 

  Fisher, Hailey; Woolard, Payton; Ross, Colton; Kunkel, Robert; Bohnstedt, Bradley N.; Liu, Yingtao; Lee, Chung-Hao (Elsevier, 2020-09-09)

  This article presents data from the investigation of the thermal characteristics and mechanical behaviors of twelve different compositions of a polyurethane shape memory polymer (SMP). Each of the SMP compositions has a ...
• Trigeminal schwannoma presenting with malocclusion: A case report and review of the literature 

  Bertot, Brandon Emilio; Presti, Melissa Lo; Stormes, Katie; Raskin, Jeffrey S.; Jea, Andrew; Chelius, Daniel; Lam, Sandi (Medknow Publications, 2020-08-08)

  Background: Trigeminal schwannomas are rare tumors of the trigeminal nerve. Depending on the location, from which they arise along the trigeminal nerve, these tumors can present with a variety of symptoms that include, ...

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