CHALLENGING CONCEPTS IN NEUROSURGERY

CASES WITH EXPERT COMMENTARY

 

Robin Bhatia & Ian Sabin

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A useful and engaging resource for consultants and trainees in neurosurgery

Includes summaries of evidence from neurosurgical literature, highlighting areas of interest and controversy.  Available at Amazon: https://amzn.to/379ilDx

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Kawsar KA, Bhatia R, Casey AC. Spinal cord herniation as a complication of en bloc, multilevel, anterior thoracic vertebrectomy for a giant cell tumor: success of posterior cord reduction and dural repair. J Neurosurg Spine. 2014 Dec;21(6):909-12. doi: 10.3171/2014.8.SPINE13933. Epub 2014 Sep 19. PMID:  25237844.

 

Bhatia R, Haliasos N, Vergara P, Anderson C, Casey A. The surgical management of the rheumatoid spine: Has the evolution of surgical intervention changed outcomes? J Craniovertebr Junction Spine. 2014 Jan;5(1):38-43. doi:10.4103/0974-8237.135221. PMID: 25013346; PMCID: PMC4085910.

 

Bhatia R, Beckles V, Fox Z, Tirabosco R, Rezajooi K, Casey AT. Osteosarcoma of the spine: dismal past, any hope for the future? Br J Neurosurg. 2014 Aug;28(4):495-502. doi: 10.3109/02688697.2013.869550. Epub 2013 Dec 20. PMID:24359410.

 

Bhatia R, Desouza RM, Bull J, Casey AT. Rigid occipitocervical fixation: indications, outcomes, and complications in the modern era. J Neurosurg Spine. 2013 Apr;18(4):333-9. doi: 10.3171/2013.1.SPINE12645. Epub 2013 Feb 22. PMID: 23432328.

 

Bhatia R, Jaunmuktane Z, Zrinzo A, Zrinzo L. Caught between a disc and a tumour: lumbar radiculopathy secondary to disc herniation and filum paraganglioma. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2013 Feb;155(2):315-7. doi: 10.1007/s00701-012-1537-4. Epub 2012 Nov 7. PMID: 23132372.

 

Haliasos N, Bhatia R, Hartley J, Thompson D. Ioban drapes against shunt infections? Childs Nerv Syst. 2012 Apr;28(4):509-10. doi:

10.1007/s00381-012-1724-x. Epub 2012 Feb 22. PMID: 22354120.

 

Bhatia R, Morley H, Singh J, Offiah C, Yeh J. Craniocervical stab injury: the importance of neurovascular and ligamentous imaging. Emerg Radiol. 2012 Jan;19(1):83-5. doi: 10.1007/s10140-011-1003-2. Epub 2011 Nov 29. PMID: 22124685.

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Bhatia R, Dalton A, Richards M, Hopkins C, Aziz T, Nandi D. The incidence of deep brain stimulator hardware infection: the effect of change in antibiotic prophylaxis regimen and review of the literature. Br J Neurosurg. 2011Oct;25(5):625-31. doi: 10.3109/02688697.2011.566384. Epub 2011 Apr 18. PMID: 21501065.

 

Nakamura H, Strong AJ, Dohmen C, Sakowitz OW, Vollmar S, Sué M, Kracht L,Hashemi P, Bhatia R, Yoshimine T, Dreier JP, Dunn AK, Graf R. Spreading depolarizations cycle around and enlarge focal ischaemic brain lesions. Brain. 2010 Jul;133(Pt 7):1994-2006. doi: 10.1093/brain/awq117. Epub 2010 May 26. PMID: 20504874; PMCID: PMC2892938.

 

Feuerstein D, Manning A, Hashemi P, Bhatia R, Fabricius M, Tolias C, Pahl C,Ervine M, Strong AJ, Boutelle MG. Dynamic metabolic response to multiple spreading depolarizations in patients with acute brain injury: an online microdialysis study. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2010 Jul;30(7):1343-55. doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2010.17. Epub 2010 Feb 10. PMID: 20145653; PMCID: PMC2949215.

 

Bhatia R, Roncaroli F, Thomas P, Cheah SL, Mehta A, Glaser M, Ulbricht C. A case of primary leptomeningeal gliomatosis confined to the spinal cord. J Neurooncol. 2010 May;98(1):125-9. doi: 10.1007/s11060-009-0050-y. Epub 2009 Nov 8. PMID: 19898776.

 

Hartings JA, Strong AJ, Fabricius M, Manning A, Bhatia R, Dreier JP, Mazzeo AT, Tortella FC, Bullock MR; Co-Operative Study of Brain Injury Depolarizations. Spreading depolarizations and late secondary insults after traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 2009 Nov;26(11):1857-66. doi: 10.1089/neu.2009.0961. PMID: 19508156; PMCID: PMC2865988.

 

Bhatia R, Tahir M, Chandler CL. The management of hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumours: the role of pre-resectional endoscopic third Ventriculostomy. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2009;45(3):186-91. doi: 10.1159/000222668. Epub 2009 Jun 3. PMID: 19494562.

 

Bhatia R, Anderson S, Bradley V, Akinwunmi JA. Neuropsychological profiling of ischemic deficit secondary to ruptured dermoid cyst: a case report. Appl Neuropsychol. 2008;15(4):293-7. doi: 10.1080/09084280802312478. PMID: 19023747.

 

Hashemi P, Bhatia R, Nakamura H, Dreier JP, Graf R, Strong AJ, Boutelle MG. Persisting depletion of brain glucose following cortical spreading depression, despite apparent hyperaemia: evidence for risk of an adverse effect of Leão's spreading depression. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2009 Jan;29(1):166-75. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2008.108. Epub 2008 Sep 24. PMID: 18813306.

 

Fabricius M, Fuhr S, Willumsen L, Dreier JP, Bhatia R, Boutelle MG, Hartings JA, Bullock R, Strong AJ, Lauritzen M. Association of seizures with cortical spreading depression and peri-infarct depolarisations in the acutely injured human brain. Clin Neurophysiol. 2008 Sep;119(9):1973-84. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.05.025. Epub 2008 Jul 14. PMID: 18621582; PMCID: PMC2573967.

 

Bhatia R Management principles of perioperative complications Surgery, 2011 29(2) 67-69

 

Bhatia R, Hampton T, Malde S, Kandala NB, Muammar M, Deasy N, Strong A. The application of near-infrared oximetry to cerebral monitoring during aneurysm embolization: a comparison with intraprocedural angiography. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2007 Apr;19(2):97-104. doi: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e318031376d. PMID: 17413995.

 

Dreier JP, Woitzik J, Fabricius M, Bhatia R, Major S, Drenckhahn C, Lehmann TN, Sarrafzadeh A, Willumsen L, Hartings JA, Sakowitz OW, Seemann JH, Thieme A, Lauritzen M, Strong AJ. Delayed ischaemic neurological deficits after subarachnoid haemorrhage are associated with clusters of spreading depolarizations. Brain. 2006 Dec;129(Pt 12):3224-37. doi: 10.1093/brain/awl297. Epub 2006 Oct 25. PMID: 17067993.

 

Bhatia R, Hashemi P, Razzaq A, Parkin MC, Hopwood SE, Boutelle MG, Strong AJ. Application of rapid-sampling, online microdialysis to the monitoring of brain metabolism during aneurysm surgery. Neurosurgery. 2006 Apr;58(4 Suppl2):ONS-313-20; discussion ONS-321. doi: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000208963.42378.83.PMID: 16582655.

 

Fabricius M, Fuhr S, Bhatia R, Boutelle M, Hashemi P, Strong AJ, Lauritzen M. Cortical spreading depression and peri-infarct depolarization in acutely injured human cerebral cortex. Brain. 2006 Mar;129(Pt 3):778-90. doi: 10.1093/brain/awh716. Epub 2005 Dec 19. PMID: 16364954.

 

Strong AJ, Boutelle MG, Vespa PM, Bullock MR, Bhatia R, Hashemi P. Treatment of critical care patients with substantial acute ischemic or traumatic brain injury. Crit Care Med. 2005 Sep;33(9):2147-9; author reply 2149. doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000179029.95415.51. PMID: 16148510.