students: study w/u of refractory epilepsy, surgery indications, anatomy, use of stereo-EEG, ECOG, & grids, temporal lobectomy variants, & know selective-AH, LITT, SRS, transections, & lesionectomy. Common ?’s: visual deficit & cm of temp lobe you can take.

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students: know everything CSF flow… locations of choroid plexus, detailed ventricular anatomy, how & where it exits the system, production of 20cc qhour (important for LD/EVD), normal pressure range, & finally specifics of Endoscopic 3rd Ventriculostomy (ETV).

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Students of Before doing fetoscopic repair spina bifida, know open surgery details: timing closure <24-48 hrs, preop care/planning, positioning, surgery steps/nuances, bailouts for large defects w/ muscle/flaps & bone removal, & postop care/mgmt of hydrocephalus.

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Students of Your hx, exam, & rads testing for cervical stenosis is vital, but be great at examining the brachial plexus, peripheral nerves, shoulder/rotator, & thoracic outlet. Start reading on Parsonage Turner, be a star, & save patients from unnecessary ACDFs.

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Students of : When looking at a spine tumor on imaging, 1st step is to identify whether it’s Epidural, Intradural-Extramedullary, or Intramedullary. Next, the differential is smaller, so know your specific tumor characteristics to make dx, & start tx planning.

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Students of know your presentation by location, histologies and WHO grades, most common sites of origin, Simpson grade of resection, NF2 & multiplicity, and be equipped to educate the team about genetics.

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Students of & learn about the different spinal osteotomies like posterior column (PCO, Ponte & Smith-Petersen) vs. pedicle subtraction (PSO) vs. vertebral column resection (VCR). Know indications, surgery details incl what’s removed, & risks/ outcomes.

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students: before you get to map language during an awake you should know a lot more about language functioning & dysfunction than just wernicke and broca. Let these basic references inspire you to delve deeper.

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students: study up on the blood supply to all levels of the spinal cord. It’s not a simple topic, but time spent will pay off well for maintaining perfusion for your patients.

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What lobe is your lobe? What brain structure fascinates you? I’ve got the Entorhinal cortex.

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Friendly reminder that isolated OCF's without joint space widening are stable injuries that do NOT require cervical (and that includes "avulsion" fractures 😉!)



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Start out your week with this article from on “dome laminectomies” and their advantages in cervical laminoplasty, only on this issue of https://t.co/hsft1zTnxO.

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