The use of e-consent in surgery and application to neurosurgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: The integration of novel electronic informed consent platforms in healthcare has undergone significant growth over the last decade. Adoption of uniform, accessible, and robust electronic online consenting applications is likely to enhance the informed consent process and improve the patient experience and has the potential to reduce medico-legal ramifications of inadequate consent. A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the utility of novel electronic means of informed consent in surgical patients and discuss its application to neurosurgical cohorts.

Intradural extramedullary meningeal melanocytoma: a case report and literature review.

Primary meningeal melanocytomas are extremely rare, benign tumours arising from the leptomeninges. While they are considered to be benign lesions, there is potential for their growth and transformation into malignant melanomas. They are commonly found in the cervical spine, with a decreased incidence in the thoracic and lumbar regions.

Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging is associated with baseline neurological status and can predict postoperative recovery in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.

Study Design: A blinded observational study of consecutive patients, prospectively enrolled and followed up to 1 year postoperatively.

Objective: To assess whether quantitative assessment of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) predicts baseline patient status and postoperative neurological recovery.

Summary Of Background Data: Factors that can predict neurological recovery in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) postoperatively are of great interest.

Postoperative magnetic resonance imaging can predict neurological recovery after surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy: a prospective study with blinded assessments.

Background: Factors that can predict the recovery of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) patients postoperatively are of significant interest to physicians and patients and their families. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are a common method of examination after surgery, and thus of interest as a predictor of outcome.

Objective: To investigate whether findings on MRI at 6 months postoperatively could predict recovery at 1 year in CSM patients.

Os odontoideum: etiology and surgical management.

Objective: Os odontoideum is an independent ossicle of variable size with smooth circumferential cortical margins separated from the foreshortened odontoid peg. The etiology of os odontoideum remains controversial, but there is now emerging consensus on the traumatic etiology of os odontoideum rather than a congenital source.

Results: We reviewed the literature of os odontoideum.

Surgical management of cervical degenerative disease: the evidence related to indications, impact, and outcome.

In this special edition of Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, a series of systematic reviews sponsored by the Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons is presented. This collection of comprehensive reviews summarizes the medical evidence related to the surgical management of cervical degenerative disc disease. Several of the key conclusions are discussed in this introduction to the issue: There is Class II evidence to suggest that the clinical condition remains stable when observed over a 3-year period in patients with mild-to-moderate cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and age younger than 75 years.

Intramedullary cervical teratoma in an adult.

Background And Context: Mature teratomas are extremely rare spinal tumors, and in the cervical spine presentation in an adult it is even more infrequent. To the best of our knowledge, only five previous intramedullary teratomas in an adult cervical spine have been reported.

Purpose: Here, we present another case of a cervical intramedullary mature teratoma in an adult and review the literature.

Cervical C2 osteoma, unusual presentation and transoral approach for complete excision.

Background Context: Osteoid osteomas are benign tumors of the bone with 10% occurring in the spine. The authors discuss a case of a 70-year-old lady with an unusual presentation of a cervical C2 osteoma. The presentation was with mild dysphagia and pressure symptoms behind the left ear similar to earache experienced on an aircraft at high altitude with no hearing loss.