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Neurosurgery — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed neurosurgery literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc. Indian-English narration.

  1. 1d ago

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Aug 19, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning operative technique and positioning, neurovascular decision-making from thrombectomy timing to flow diversion antiplatelets, and outcome prediction across traum… This week's papers: 1. Effect of Semisitting Versus Supine Positioning on Intraoperative Bleeding During Endoscopic Endonasal Pituitary Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial — Neurosurgery 2026 2. Amount and Burden of Brain Tissue Hypoxia to Determine Clinical Efficacy of Secondary Decompressive Craniectomy After Moderate/Severe Traumatic Brain Injury — Neurosurgery 2026 3. Endovascular treatment after stroke beyond 24 h vs 6-24 h: a propensity score-matched cohort study — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 4. Blood pressure management after endovascular thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke: association with symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage and functional outcome… — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 5. Ticagrelor Versus Clopidogrel as Dual Antiplatelet Agents After Flow Diversion With Surface-Modified Stents — Neurosurgery 2026 6. Postprocedural Residual Stenosis and 30-Day Outcomes After Angioplasty and Stenting for Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis in Perforator-Rich Ar… — World Neurosurgery 2026 7. Surgical outcomes after intracranial nidal arteriovenous malformation resection in children: the Hospital for Sick Children experience — Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 2026 8. Long-Term Nervus Intermedius Dysfunction After Retrosigmoid Vestibular Schwannoma Resection: Incidence, Independent Predictors, and Development of a Nomogram — Neurosurgery 2026 9. Mini-Craniotomy Neuroendoscopic Evacuation Versus Double Burr-Hole Drainage for Septated Chronic Subdural Hematoma: Preliminary Radiological and Short-Term Fun… — World Neurosurgery 2026 10. A Phase-Based Framework for Interpreting Intraoperative Lateral Spread Response During Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm — Operative Neurosurgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/mz5f9y86bd

  2. Aug 13

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Aug 12, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning cerebrovascular risk prediction and hemorrhage management, skull base and neuro-oncology decision-making, and spine, pain, and functional neurosurgery. Let's di… This week's papers: 1. Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting symptomatic hemorrhage risk in sporadic cerebral cavernous malformations. — Journal of Neurosurgery 2026 2. Catheter Angiogram-Negative Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Delayed Cerebral Ischemia, Shunt Dependency, and Diagnostic Yield of Serial Angiography. — Neurosurgery 2026 3. Intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas with perimedullary venous drainage: analysis of the multinational CONDOR registry. — Journal of Neurosurgery 2026 4. Functional Outcome and Procedure-Related Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Primary M2 Occlusion: Impact of Initial Thrombectomy Strategy and Procedural Factors. — World Neurosurgery 2026 5. The role of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of vestibular schwannoma in octogenarians: an international multi-institutional study. — Journal of Neurosurgery 2026 6. Incidence of and risk factors for revision surgery due to acute proximal junctional failure after anterior column realignment for adult spinal deformity. — Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 2026 7. Surgical management of facial nerve schwannomas: a contemporary series of 67 surgeries. — Journal of Neurosurgery 2026 8. Comparison of Ketamine and Pregabalin on Postoperative Opioid Usage and Pain Management in Spinal Fusion: Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis. — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 9. Role of Steroids in the Diagnosis of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas: A Single-Center Experience. — Neurosurgery 2026 10. Safety, feasibility, and outcomes of deep brain stimulation in young children excluded from the FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption: analysis of the CHILD-DBS re… — Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/czy5ybnvkt

  3. Aug 6

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Aug 6, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning haemorrhagic and vascular neurosurgery, skull base and neuro-oncology outcomes, and the systems-level question of who actually gets good care. Let's dive in. W… This week's papers: 1. Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapy in Chronic Subdural Hematoma: A Multicenter Evaluation — Neurosurgery 2026 2. Stereotactic radiosurgery offers long-term tumor control for craniopharyngioma: a multi-institutional analysis from the International Radiosurgery Research Fou… — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 3. Endoscopic Hematoma Evacuation for Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis of 136 Consecutive Cases — World Neurosurgery 2026 4. Pediatric ependymoma in the molecular era: real-world experience with diagnostic correlation and long-term clinical outcomes — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 5. Assessment of Facial Weakness After Microvascular Decompression: Morphology of Lateral Spread Responses and Sequential Changes in Compound Muscle Action Potent… — Operative Neurosurgery 2026 6. The risk of sinus vein thrombosis in patients treated with intraoperative radiotherapy for sinus adjacent tumours — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 7. Distal versus proximal radial access for diagnostic cerebral angiography: comparative outcomes and learning curve analysis — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 8. Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage care in a middle-income public healthcare system: A real-world neurocritical care cohort — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 9. Individual and community-level associations of social determinants with pituitary adenoma disparities in the US — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 10. Risk Stratification and Clinical Outcomes for Surgically Treated Brain Metastasis: A Single Institutional Experience from China — World Neurosurgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/baaedw9hfd

  4. Jul 31

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Jul 31, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning cranial skull base surgery, cerebrovascular intervention strategies, and postoperative optimization in spine and reconstructive surgery. Let's dive in. We begi… This week's papers: 1. Derivation and internal validation of a bedside risk-stratification score for complications after cranioplasty following decompressive craniectomy: A prospecti… — Journal of clinical neuroscience 2026 2. Anatomic Predictors of Occlusion After Flow Diversion for Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Aneurysms: A Single-Center Experience and Systematic Review. — Neurosurgery 2026 3. Who Remains Intubated After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery? A 5-Factor Scoring System With Dual Institution External Validation. — Operative neurosurgery 2026 4. Oxymetazoline hydrochloride nasal spray for nasal function recovery after endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary adenectomy: a propensity score-matched cohort st… — Journal of clinical neuroscience 2026 5. Prognostic value of the Island sign for hematoma expansion and functional outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis. — Journal of clinical neuroscience 2026 7. Is There a Risk of Clinical Consequences From Surgical Injury to the Superficial Middle Cerebral Vein? A Comparative Cohort Study. — Operative neurosurgery 2026 8. Continuous Intra-arterial Nimodipine Therapy in SAH patients with refractory DCI - Factors associated with Insufficient Response and Unfavorable Outcome. — World neurosurgery 2026 9. Feasibility and barriers to same-day physical therapy following lumbar fusion surgery. — Journal of clinical neuroscience 2026 10. Frameless gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for over two hundred vestibular schwannoma patients - a single institution experience. — Journal of neuro-oncology 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/95c92k5zsq

  5. Jul 23

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Jul 23, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning spinal reconstruction, neuro-oncology advances, and surgical complications. Let's dive in. Beginning with spinal cord injury and deformity management, regenera… This week's papers: 1. An iPSC-derived neural progenitor cell therapy for subacute spinal cord injury: a phase 1 trial with long-term follow-up — Nature Medicine 2026 2. Mechanical Thrombectomy in Ischemic Stroke With a Medium or Distal Arterial Occlusion: The DISCOUNT Randomized Clinical Trial — JAMA 2026 3. Is rhBMP-2 Worth the Risk? A Data-Driven Look at Fusion Outcomes and rhBMP-2-Related Complication Burden in High-Risk Adult Spinal Deformity Patients — Neurosurgery 2026 4. Preoperative Opioid Weaning in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Who Can Do It and Does It Predict Outcomes? — Neurosurgery 2026 5. A Tale of 2 Institutions: Differences in Sociodemographic Factors, Presenting Features, Treatment Characteristics, and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Surgery… — Neurosurgery 2026 6. Postoperative Motor Trajectories and Their Impact on Survival After Resection of Motor Region Metastases — Neurosurgery 2026 7. Declining age-adjusted surgical incidence of intracranial meningiomas: a 19-year retrospective analysis from an academic hospital — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 8. Survival, late toxicity and ability to return to work after proton radiotherapy for low-grade gliomas — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 9. The threefold value of surgery in previously irradiated brain metastases — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 10. Questioning the Question Mark for Decompressive Hemicraniectomy: A Modified Scalp Incision to Enhance Cranioplasty Outcomes-the Smart-C Incision — Operative Neurosurgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/b2ej9xdfqm

  6. Jul 16

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Jul 16, 2026

    Welcome to 'This Week in Neurosurgery'. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning neuro-oncology, functional neuromodulation, and neurovascular interventions. Let us dive in. We begin in the realm of cranial neuro-oncology and perioperat… This week's papers: 1. Modified BADDASS technique for acute anterior circulation large vessel occlusion: A single-centre, randomized controlled trial. — World Neurosurgery 2026 2. Short-course high-dose methylprednisolone reduces complications and shortens hospital stay after glioblastoma resection: a propensity score-matched cohort stud… — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 3. Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans. — Science Translational Medicine 2026 4. The Neuronal Reserve Capacity Defines the Neurological Outcome in Motor-Eloquent Glioma Patients. — Neurosurgery 2026 5. Motor mapping to enable resections of peri-rolandic diffuse gliomas. — Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2026 6. Comparison of Anatomical Landmarks and Atlas- and Automated Atlas Segmentation Application-Based Targeting in Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Focused Ultraso… — Operative Neurosurgery 2025 7. Integrating preoperative frailty into super-early and early perioperative assessment enhances prediction of delirium in patients undergoing elective craniotomy… — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 8. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of the DERIVO 2heal Embolization Device. — World Neurosurgery 2026 9. Outcomes of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in a working-age population (=50 years): a propensity score-matched cohort study. — Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2026 10. Using Multinodal Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Complex Movement Disorders: Initial Case Series. — Operative Neurosurgery 2025 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/372tgqj6ck

  7. Jul 9

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Jul 9, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning CSF dynamics and hydrocephalus surgery, advances in vascular neurosurgery and aneurysm management, and modern paradigms in neuro-oncology and spine surgery. L… This week's papers: 1. Intracranial hemorrhagic risk after cortical brain biopsy during shunt surgery for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a prospective comparative study. — Acta neurochirurgica 2026 2. Early Cognitive, Functional, and Behavioral Changes After Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Surgery in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Multicenter Prospec… — World neurosurgery 2026 3. Intratumoral hemorrhage in patients with brain metastasis from systemic tumors: risk factors and prognostic assessment. — Journal of neuro-oncology 2026 4. Divided care, diminished outcomes? The impact of care fragmentation on survival in glioblastoma. — Journal of neuro-oncology 2026 5. Prognostic Value of T2-FLAIR Hyperintense Vessel Sign for Cerebral Hyperperfusion Syndrome and Feasibility of Risk-Stratified Perioperative Management Followin… — World neurosurgery 2026 6. Association of smoking with high-risk characteristics for rupture of unruptured intracranial aneurysms. — Journal of clinical neuroscience 2026 7. Clinical-Radiological Heterogeneity Within Intermediate Spinal Instability Neoplastic Scores (7-12): Factors Associated with Instrumented Stabilization in a Su… — World neurosurgery 2026 8. Evaluating the Performance of Intraoperative Ultrasound in Treating Pituitary Adenomas Through the Endoscopic Endonasal Route. — Operative neurosurgery 2026 9. Surpass evolve flow diverter in intracranial aneurysms: results from a single-center cohort with extended follow-up. — Acta neurochirurgica 2026 10. Intraoperative technological advances and new frontiers in precision glioma surgery. — Journal of neuro-oncology 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/y6f8ucepxe

  8. Jul 2

    This Week in Neurosurgery — Jul 2, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning motion preservation in spine surgery, advanced intraoperative mapping and oncology, and critical updates in vascular and skull base interventions. Let's dive in… This week's papers: 1. Posterior lumbar facet arthroplasty versus fusion for the treatment of spondylolisthesis: 3-year results from the Total Posterior Spine System investigational… — Neurosurgical Focus 2026 2. Total disc replacement versus lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative disc disease: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. — Neurosurgical Focus 2026 3. Long-term reoperation risk after cervical disc arthroplasty versus fusion: a level-matched meta-analysis of FDA investigational device exemption studies and in… — Neurosurgical Focus 2026 4. Safety and Efficacy of 3-Month Versus 6-Month Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Pipeline Embolization Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms. — Neurosurgery 2026 5. Outcomes after cervical disc replacement compared with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at medium- to long-term follow-up: a propensity score-matched Tr… — Neurosurgical Focus 2026 6. Comparative analysis of the efficacy and safety of dural sealants in preventing complications after craniotomy: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-a… — Acta Neurochirurgica 2026 7. Multi-antigen-targeting T cells in pediatric central nervous system tumors: a phase 1 trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 8. Reoperation risks between 1-level and 2-level cervical disc arthroplasty: analysis of a cohort of patients from a national spine registry. — Neurosurgical Focus 2026 9. Survival After Surgery for Spinal Osteosarcoma and the Role of Chemotherapy and Treatment Sequencing: A National Cohort Multivariable Analysis. — Neurosurgery 2026 10. Isocitrate Dehydrogenase-1 Mutation Status and Dynamic Subcortical Motor Mapping Using Ultrasonic Aspirator Stimulation. — Operative Neurosurgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/xg4nvf2rfu

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Neurosurgery — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed neurosurgery literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc. Indian-English narration.