What are you asterion at?
Pearls In the retrosigmoid approach, the transverse sinus, sigmoid sinus, and transverse-sigmoid junction are identified to prevent...
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The Edematous Brain
You get asked a lot of questions when training in neurosurgery. Some of them are easy (why this makes it harder to answer is unclear to me) and some of them are actually hard. You're probably familiar with the fluttering, nauseous sensation when the attending says something barely audible that may or may not be directed in the medical student's direction. This site is meant to aggregate the learnings from those moments.
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A recipe for bone growth
Pearls: The perfect storm for arthrodesis is a combination of osteoinductive, osteogenic, and osteoconductive components. Recombinant...
The eponym that isn't: meet the Hook Effect.
Setup: A 43 year old male presents to clinic with several months of headaches, decreased libido, and erectile dysfunction. He also says...
Sagittal balance, a first pass.
Setup: a 59F smoker is undergoing surgery for correction of decompensated sagittal imbalance. Because you are Genius/Greenberg savant you...
No ifs, ands, or buts. Keeping aphasias straight.
This mnemonic comes from a neuropsychiatrist that I met during clerkships and is useful for remembering aphasia syndromes. In reality,...
Resection vs. biopsy for a temporal lobe lesion
Setup: a right handed 32M presents with headaches and staring spells with automatisms of the mouth that have been noted by family. The...
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