NeurocirugiaPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1130-1473(25)00099-5
{"title":"HIDROCEFALIA Y TRASTORNOS DEL LCR (VÍDEOS)","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S1130-1473(25)00099-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1130-1473(25)00099-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51145,"journal":{"name":"Neurocirugia","volume":"36 ","pages":"Page S241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145216789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeurocirugiaPub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neucir.2024.10.005
Hrvoje Barić , Sara Komljenović , Helena Ljulj
{"title":"Lateralization in visualization among neurosurgeons","authors":"Hrvoje Barić , Sara Komljenović , Helena Ljulj","doi":"10.1016/j.neucir.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neucir.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Handedness is an epiphenomenon of brain lateralization which has been researched in the context of surgical performance, yet the same does not hold true for lateralization at a more fundamental level. We aimed to investigate whether neurosurgeons are biased in visualizing and depicting anatomy and pathology.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This was a two part study consisting of an online survey and image analysis. An online questionnaire was used to collect basic sociodemographic data and prompt subjects to visualize surgical approaches and pathological entities and report on the side of the visualized topics. Prominent neurosurgical literature was screened for depictions of the same entities and approaches and the depicted side was noted.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>There were 49 responses, most from Croatia (n = 26), men (n = 38), right-handed (n = 42), of average age 37 years, and with 9 years of neurosurgical experience. Ambidexterity was more prevalent than in the general population. The respondents imagined the right side more commonly in all cranial-related questions, and the left side in spine-related questions. Images in neurosurgical literature showed correspondingly biased laterality.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>There is a significant bias among neurosurgeons in laterality in processing topographical information on anatomy and pathology. Research is warranted to investigate the causes and real life implications of this phenomenon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51145,"journal":{"name":"Neurocirugia","volume":"36 2","pages":"Pages 93-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeurocirugiaPub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neucir.2024.10.008
Angel Jesús Lacerda-Gallardo , Daisy Abreu-Pérez , Miguel de Jesús Mazorra Pazo , Jose Antonio Galvez
{"title":"Marcadores metabolómicos electrolíticos, de gases y el medio interno en el hematoma subdural crónico","authors":"Angel Jesús Lacerda-Gallardo , Daisy Abreu-Pérez , Miguel de Jesús Mazorra Pazo , Jose Antonio Galvez","doi":"10.1016/j.neucir.2024.10.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neucir.2024.10.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objective</h3><div>Chronic subdural hematoma is one of the most common diseases in neurosurgical practice. The content of electrolytes and gases in the collection could participate in the growth and expansion mechanism, however, there is no evidence that they have been studied before. The objective has been to identify electrolyte, gas and internal metabolomic markers of the content of chronic subdural hematomas, with the possibility of participating in their growth and expansion and to substantiate a pathophysiological hypothesis that interacts with existing ones.</div></div><div><h3>Material and method</h3><div>A descriptive study was carried out with 53 patients operated on for chronic subdural hematoma at the «Roberto Rodríguez Fernández» General Teaching Hospital of Morón in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, in the period between January 2019 and December 2023. The diagnoses were obtained with computed axial tomography. The electrolyte and blood gas components of hematomas are correlated with clinical and neuroimaging variables.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Patients over 70<!--> <!-->years of age predominated (37 [69.81%]) and males (38 [71.70%]). The Markwalder scale upon admission showed a predominance of Grade<!--> <!-->III in 24 cases (45.28%). The Glasgow outcome scale showed a predominance of Grade<!--> <!-->V (31 cases [58.49%]).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Electrolyte and gasometric metabolomic markers of subdural blood can promote the phenomenon of progressive growth and expansion and have a synergistic effect with the rest of the pathophysiological mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51145,"journal":{"name":"Neurocirugia","volume":"36 2","pages":"Pages 104-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}