Carole A. Miller, MD: Matriarch of the Ohio State University's Department of Neurosurgery.

Carole A. Miller, M.D.

Biographies of international women leaders in neurosurgery.

We received so many biographies of women neurosurgery leaders for this issue that only a selection could be condensed here. In all of them, the essence of a leader shines through. Many are included as "first" of their country or color or other achievement.

Neuromodulation as a last resort option in the treatment of chronic daily headaches in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Objective: To determine the feasibility and efficacy of occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) in patients with refractory headaches secondary to idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH).

Background: IIH is a syndrome characterized by elevated intracranial pressures in the absence of a mass lesion. These patients typically present with chronic and intractable headaches.

Infiltrative intramuscular myxoma of the cervical spine: a case report.

Background Context: Myxomas are benign tumors of mesenchymal cell origin that usually present as solitary lesions. They are infrequently associated with fibrous dysplasia, as in McCune-Albright or Mazabraud syndrome. Myxomas can develop in a variety of locations, although the most frequent sites are the thigh, buttocks, shoulder, and upper arm.

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection following uterine instrumentation for dysfunctional uterine bleeding.

Shunt infections are most common within the first 6 months following implantation. A shunt infection 19 years after implantation secondary to uterine ablation has not been reported to our knowledge. Office hysteroscopic procedures have become commonplace in gynecologic practice.

A streamlined protocol for the use of the semi-sitting position in neurosurgery: a report on 48 consecutive procedures.

The semi-sitting position has lost favor among neurosurgeons partly due to unproven assumptions of increased complications. Many complications have been associated with this position; the most feared: venous air embolism and paradoxical air embolism. We report on this retrospective study of the outcome over 4 years of 48 neurosurgical patients operated on consecutively using a standardized protocol: 41 (85%) in the semi-sitting position, and seven (15%) in the prone position.