08 November 2015
Winner of new book - Neurovascular Surgery
We congratulate Dr. Fernando Oviedo Pitti, Panamá, who is the winner of a free copy of the new book from Thieme Publishers titled Neurovascular Surgery by Spetzler et al.
Read more about the book here.
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08 November 2015
Impact factors of neurosurgical journals updated
The impact factor (IF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is used to measure the relative importance of a journal within its field. We have updated our list of neurosurgical journals with their new impact factors. The order of the ...
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23 August 2015
Chronic Subdural Hematoma - use of Kehr drainage for evacuation
One of our members, Dr Edgar M. Carrasco, Bolivia, has written a Blog and uploaded a video clip where he describes an easy, non-expensive use of a Kehr drainage and urine collection bag for the evacuation of chronic subdural hepatoma.
Find the Blog Entry and the video clip here.
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03 April 2015
Video clips about Ventriculocisternostomy
When discussing ventriculocisternostomy with our neurosurgery residents we found some educational video clips. We have published the links in a Blog entry which can be found here.
Do you have links to more educational video clips about VCS please contact us.
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02 March 2015
Neurosurgical Journal Scan Mar -15
In the latest neurosurgical journal scan we found a number of interesting paper. E.g., we found papers about:
A paper about bleeding and infection with external ventricular drainage.
A paper demonstrating that specialist surgical neurooncologists improve survival times for patients with malign...
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01 March 2015
How to publish a paper in Journal of Neurosurgery
We found this very interesting and educational video clip. It is a presentation Dr. James T. Rutka gave at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, California. Dr. Rutka discusses recommendations for writing a quality scientific paper, as well as...
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01 March 2015
NeuroSurgical Internet TV Show
We have earlier written about Dr. John Bennett of InternetMedicine.com, and Dr. Julio Pereira, neurosurgeon from Sao Paolo, Brazil, who have started Neurosurgeon Internet TV Channel. The aim is to bring the worldwide neurosurgical community together live on the computer.
See some examples of the Ne...
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01 March 2015
Impact factors of neurosurgical journals updated
The impact factor (IF) is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is used to measure the relative importance of a journal within its field. We have updated our list of neurosurgical journals with their new impact factors. The order of the ...
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12 January 2015
Paper about a new syndrome in L5-S1 disc herniation
One of our members has published a paper about L5-S1 disc herniation and sexual and sphincter dysfunction without pain and muscle weakness.
Akca N, Ozdemir B, Kanat A, Batcik OE, Yazar U, Zorba OU. Describing a new syndrome in L5-S1 disc herniation: Sexual and sphincter dysfunction without pain and...
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