The biportal transorbital approach: quantitative comparison of the anterior subfrontal craniotomy, bilateral transorbital endoscopic, and microscopic approaches.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the surgical use and applicability of a biportal bitransorbital approach. Single-portal transorbital and combined transorbital transnasal approaches have been used in clinical practice, but no study has assessed the surgical use and applicability of a biportal bitransorbital approach.

Methods: Ten cadaver specimens underwent midline anterior subfrontal (ASub), bilateral transorbital microsurgery (bTMS), and bilateral transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery (bTONES) approaches.

Analyzing international medical graduate research productivity for application to US neurosurgery residency and beyond: A survey of applicants, program directors, and institutional experience.

Background: The authors investigated perceived discrepancies between the neurosurgical research productivity of international medical graduates (IMGs) and US medical graduates (USMGs) through the perspective of program directors (PDs) and successfully matched IMGs.

Methods: Responses to 2 separate surveys on neurosurgical applicant research productivity in 115 neurosurgical programs and their PDs were analyzed. Neurosurgical research participation was analyzed using an IMG survey of residents who matched into neurosurgical residency within the previous 8 years.

Volumetric 3-Dimensional Analysis of the Supraorbital vs Pterional Approach to Paramedian Vascular Structures: Comprehensive Assessment of Surgical Maneuverability.

Background: Both the pterional and supraorbital approaches have been proposed as optimal access corridors to deep and paramedian anatomy.

Objective: To assess key intracranial structures accessed through the surgical approaches using the angle of attack (AOA) and the volume of surgical freedom (VSF) methodologies.

Methods: Ten pterional and 10 supraorbital craniotomies were completed.

No woman alone: Dorothy Russell's legacy to neurosurgery.

Dorothy Russell's contributions to neuropathology are pivotal in the evolution of modern neurosurgery. In an era preferential to men in medicine, she entered the second medical school class to include women at the London Hospital Medical College in 1919. In the laboratory of Hubert Turnbull, she met Hugh Cairns, who would become her professional neurosurgeon-neuropathologist partner.

Nancy Davis Reagan, First Lady with a Neurosurgical Legacy.

Various well-known people associated with the history of the presidency of the United States have experienced neurologic disease or injury, especially trauma to the head or spine. Nancy Reagan, however, as the wife of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady, would leave a significant and lasting mark on the progress of neurosurgical science and education. Recognized for endeavors against drug abuse, Alzheimer disease, and polio, her interest in neurosurgical research is less well known.

Transorbital Neuroendoscopic Surgery as a Mainstream Neurosurgical Corridor: A Systematic Review.

Background: Transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery (TONES) offers a new level of minimally invasive, minimally disfiguring skull base surgery with maximal surgical visualization.

Methods: This review systematically assesses the body of published anatomic (cadaveric) and clinical evidence for the approach. PubMed, Cochrane Library, Ovid MEDLINE, and Embase were systematically searched for articles in which the TONES surgical technique was used in an anatomic, clinical, or combined study.