OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurochirurgie is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Definition and epidemiology of mild traumatic brain injury	87
Current state of benefits of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in spinal surgeries: A systematic review of the literature	35
Late effects of craniospinal irradiation for medulloblastomas in paediatric patients	22
Brain metastases: An update on the multi-disciplinary approach of clinical management	21
Management of high-risk medulloblastoma	20
Imaging features of medulloblastoma: Conventional imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging, perfusion-weighted imaging, and spectroscopy: From general features to subtypes and characteristics	19
How similar are whiplash and mild traumatic brain injury? A systematic review	19
Blood biomarkers of mild traumatic brain injury: State of art	19
Pathogenesis, etiology and treatment of failed back surgery syndrome	19
Sports career-related concussion and mental health symptoms in former elite athletes	18
Change in opioid and analgesic use for headaches after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage over time	15
Second Impact Syndrome. Myth or reality?	14
Relationship of lumbar disc degeneration with hemoglobin value and smoking	14
Nutritional factors in sport-related concussion	14
Efficacy of Intravenous Paracetamol and Ibuprofen on Postoperative Pain and Morphine Consumption in Lumbar Disc Surgery: Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial	12
Medulloblastoma: Clinical presentation	12
Neuropsychological consequences of childhood medulloblastoma and possible interventions: A review	12
Meningiomas in patients with long-term exposition to progestins: Characteristics and outcome	11
High accuracy of external ventricular drainage placement using anatomical landmarks	11
Investigating the real impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the daily neurosurgical practice?	10
Inter–rater reliability of the simplified Modified Rankin Scale as an outcome measure for treated cerebral aneurysm patients	10
Surgery versus conservative care for Rathke's cleft cyst	10
Understanding intent to treat analyses: An important lesson from the international cooperative study on the timing of aneurysm surgery	9
Patients may be right: Clinical research should be designed in their best medical interest	9
Thalamic deep brain stimulation for post-traumatic neuropathic limb pain: Efficacy at five years’ follow-up and effective volume of activated brain tissue	9

Vestibular-ocular reflex dysfunction following mild traumatic brain injury: A narrative review	9
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy	9
Double crush syndrome: Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment results	9
Evaluation of neurosurgical training of French military surgeons prior to their deployment	9
Diffuse infiltrative pontine glioma biopsy in children with neuronavigation, frameless procedure: A single center experience of 10 cases	9
Patient-related risk factors and lifestyle factors for lumbar degenerative disc disease: a systematic review	8
Intraoperative cerebral blood flow monitoring in neurosurgery: A review of contemporary technologies and emerging perspectives	8
Management of unfavorable outcome after mild traumatic brain injury: Review of physical and cognitive rehabilitation and of psychological care in post-concussive syndrome	8
Surgical treatment of hourglass-like radial nerve constrictions	8
The presigmoid retrolabyrinthine approach: Technical note	8
Medulloblastomas in adolescents and adults – Can the pediatric experience be extrapolated?	8
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in an infant with vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation treated by endovascular occlusion: Case report and a review of literature	8
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) for craniotomies in the treatment of brain tumors: A systematic review	8
MRI-based whole-tumor radiomics to classify the types of pediatric posterior fossa brain tumor	8
Optic pathway tumor in children: Toward a new classification for neurosurgical use	8
Ideal bone landmarks for optimization of the bone flap in supratentorial unilateral decompressive craniectomy	7
Unruptured aneurysms: Why observational studies fall short no matter how “Big” the Data	7
Signaling pathway deregulation and molecular alterations across pediatric medulloblastomas	7
Neural correlates of consciousness and related disorders: From phenotypic descriptors of behavioral and relative consciousness to cortico-subcortical circuitry	7
A rare condition: Spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage due to spinal hemangioblastoma: Report of 2 cases and review of the literature	7
WHO classification of meningiomas–A single institutional experience	7
Nocardia farcinica cerebral abscess: A systematic review of treatment strategies	7
Retreatment of previously treated intracranial aneurysm: Procedural complications and risk factors for complications	7
Surgical site infection following surgery for spinal deformity: About 102 patients	6
Chiari Type 1 malformation: CSF flow dynamics and morphology in the posterior fossa and craniocervical junction and correlation of these findings with syrinx formation	6
Risk factors of postoperative spinal epidural hematoma after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion surgery	6
Osteocutaneous radial forearm free flap for anterior cranial base reconstruction: Technical note	6
Prognostic factors for unfavorable outcome after mild traumatic brain injury. A review of literature	6
Surgery for recurrent medulloblastoma: A review	6
Ophthalmological lesions in shaken baby syndrome: A retrospective analysis of 133 consecutive cases (1992–2018)	6
Minimally invasive surgery for intradural spinal meningioma: A new standard? A comparative study between minimally invasive and open approaches	6
The efficacy of dendritic cell vaccine for newly diagnosed glioblastoma: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies	6
Pediatric cranial osteoblastoma: Technical note of surgical treatment and review of the literature	6
Management of patients suffering from hemorrhagic intracranial metastases: Propositions to help the neurosurgeon in emergency situations based on a literature review	6
3D Slicer and Sina appilication for surgical planning of giant invasive spinal schwannoma with scoliosis: A case report and literature review	6
Experience using pragmatic care trials to guide neurovascular practice under uncertainty	6
Surgery for spinal deformity in Parkinson's disease patients: What are we missing?	6
Surgical approach to the posterior fossa in children, including anesthetic considerations and complications: The prone and the sitting position. Technical note	6
Five-year cause-specific survival after meningioma surgery. A nationwide population-based study	6
Short review of SEC, a potential dexamethasone-sparing regimen for glioblastoma: Spironolactone, ecallantide, clotrimazole	5
Is malignant edema and hemorrhage after occlusion of high-flow arteriovenous malformation related to the size of feeding arteries and draining veins?	5
Basilar apex aneurysm systematic review: Microsurgical versus endovascular treatment	5
A2B5-positive oligodendrocyte precursor cell transplantation improves neurological deficits in rats following spinal cord contusion associated with changes in expression of factors involved in the Not	5
Understanding burden of proof and equipoise in the design of pragmatic clinical trials: An example from a trial on brain arteriovenous malformations	5
Intracranial primary synovial sarcoma mimicking a spontaneous cerebral hematoma–a case report and review of the literature	5
Xanthotoxol alleviates secondary brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage by inhibiting microglia-mediated neuroinflammation and oxidative stress	5
Surgical management of posterior fossa medulloblastoma in children: The Lyon experience	5
Onyiuke Grading Scale: A clinical classification system for the diagnosis and management of Bertolotti syndrome	5
New methods for determination of the keyhole position in the lateral suboccipital approach to avoid transverse-sigmoid sinus injury: Proposition of the groove line as a new surgical landmark	5
Glibenclamide attenuates brain edema associated with microglia activation after intracerebral hemorrhage	5

The Cryo-immunologic effect: A therapeutic advance in the treatment of glioblastomas?	5
Demographic and socioeconomic disparities of benign and malignant spinal meningiomas in the United States	5
Subependymal giant-cell astrocytoma: A surgical review in the modern era of mTOR inhibitors	5
Pituitary metastasis of malignant melanoma misdiagnosed as pituitary adenoma: A case report and systematic review of the literature	5
Incidence of sacroiliac joint pain after lumbosacral spine fusion: A systematic review	4
A new approach of crenellated fronto-orbital advancement for the management of trigonocephaly: Technical note	4
Microsurgical anatomy of the fourth ventricle	4
Application of targeted genome sequencing to brain metastasis from non-small cell lung carcinoma: Case report	4
A combined single-stage procedure to treat brain AVM	4
MicroRNAs miR-629-3p, miR-1202 and miR-1225-5p as potential diagnostic and surgery outcome biomarkers for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis	4
Understanding how to move from dogmatic to outcome-based neurosurgical care: Lessons from past surgical studies on ruptured aneurysm patients	4
Neurosurgical management of penetrating brain injury during World War I: A historical cohort	4
Long-term outcome of surgical treatment for idiopathic spinal arachnoid web: A case series	4
Awake spinal anesthesia facilitates spine surgery in poor surgical candidates: A case series	4
Spontaneous disappearance of brain arteriovenous malformation: A case series	4
Multimodal management of ruptured cerebral micro-arteriovenous malformations: A retrospective series of 19 cases and a review of the literature	4
Angiographic vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage: Moving from theoretical to practical research pertinent to neurosurgical care	4
Diagnosis clinical criteria of sport related concussion: Toward an operational criteria definition in France	4
Repeat resection in recurrent glioblastoma (3rGBM) Trial: A randomized care trial	4
Understanding categories or subgroups and a common clinical reasoning error: the example of aneurysm size and neck width	4
Understanding the choice of control group: A systematic review of vertebroplasty trials for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures	4
The evaluation of intracranial bypass patency in neurosurgical practice	4
Oculomotor nerve palsy due to posterior communicating artery aneurysm: Clipping vs coiling	4
Early dynamics of glial fibrillary acidic protein and extracellular DNA in plasma of mice after closed head traumatic brain injury	4
Massive non-aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage after cervical carotid angioplasty and stenting: A case report and review of the literature	4
Association between Changes in Sagittal X-ray Measurements and Neck Extensor Muscle Atrophy after Cervical Laminoplasty	4
A review of external lumbar drainage for the management of intracranial hypertension in traumatic brain injury	4
Douglas Altman's 2009 Grand Lecture: Can we trust our literature?	4
Endoscopic endonasal resection of coexisting pituitary adenoma and meningioma: Two cases’ report and literature review	4
Metastasis of the choroid plexuses: A systematic review of the literature and case illustration	4
Cervical myelopathy caused by ventrally located atlanto-axial synovial cysts: An open quest for the safest and most effective surgical management. Case series and systematic review of the literature	4
Relapsing-Remitting Hepatic Pseudo-Cyst: A great simulator of malfunctioning ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Case report and proposal of a new classification	4
Primary intracranial pure endodermal sinus tumor: A retrospective series of 6 cases in a single center and a systematic review of overall survival	4
Can fifth nerve mapping guide rhizotomy for recurrent trigeminal neuralgia? Case report	3
Impact of obesity on complications and surgical outcomes of adult degenerative scoliosis with long-segment spinal fusion	3
Current evidence on where to end a fusion within the thoracolumbar junction most preferably – A systematic literature review	3
Side effects of continuous intra-arterial infusion of nimodipine for management of resistant cerebral vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage patients: A systematic review	3
Arteriovenous malformation drained into a developmental venous anomaly: A case report and up-dated literature review	3
Spinal Arachnoid Web: A didactic report of two cases with clinical, radiological, surgical and pathological correlations	3
Minimally invasive cerebral revascularization in moyamoya disease in adult patients	3
Interest of awake surgery for ruptured cerebral arteriovenous malformations close to speech areas – Surgical note	3
Regarding: Management of unfavorable outcome after mild traumatic brain injury: Review of physical and cognitive rehabilitation and of psychological care in post-concussive syndrome	3
Safety and efficacy of extra-ventricular drainage combined with urokinase administration in the management of intraventricular hemorrhage	3
Lumbar discectomy with annulus fibrosus closure: A retrospective series of 53 consecutive patients	3
New research directions in medulloblastoma	3
Common fibular nerve palsy due to fabella compression: An illustrative case report	3
Delayed cerebral ischemia after meningioma resection: Literature review and illustrative case	3
First case of cyproterone acetate induced multiple meningiomas in identical female twins: A case report	3
Time to dispense with antiepileptic drug prophylaxis in brain tumor surgery?	3
Use of hypnosis preoperatively for surgery of the spine: Pilot study	3
Security and reliability of CUSTOMBONE cranioplasties: A prospective multicentric study	3
The ventriculo-ureteral shunt: An underused, valuable neurosurgical approach	3
Unruptured cerebral arteriovenous malformation in children: Outcome in treated and untreated patients	3
Ganglioglioma revealed by spontaneous intracerebral hematoma: A cohort study	3
Neuroablative surgical treatments for pain due to cancer	3
A case of intramuscular lumbar myxoma: Uncertainty in the preoperative diagnosis of a spinal soft tissue tumour	3
The Dural Dark-Side Approach for falcine and tentorial meningioma: A surgical series of five patients	3
Lateral ventricular liponeurocytoma: Review of literature and case illustration	3
The relationship between staying up late and risk of intracranial aneurysm rupture: A single-center study	3
Application of offset Dingo instruments in Anterior to Psoas (ATP)/Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion (OLIF) procedure: A retrospective study of 80 patients	3
Intracranial hemorrhage related to brain vascular disease and COVID-19 containment: Where are the patients?	3
Minimally invasive puncture versus conventional craniotomy for spontaneous supratentorial hemorrhage: A meta-analysis	3
Understanding the research-care demarcation and why it must be revised	3
Postoperative empyema following chronic subdural hematoma surgery: Clinically based medicine	3