Neurosurgery Study

Information on the adjuvant therapy of gliomas.

Review of the INDIGO trial; vorasidenib for LGGs

A look at the literature and evidence behind cervical arthroplasty versus cervical fusion.

Review of gastrulation, neurulation and neuronal migration. Discussion of arterial supply to the brain and spinal cord. Linked developmental variants and pathologies.

Covering supratentorial, infratentorial and spinal ependymomas + subependymoma.

Review of the common LEATs. - Ganglioglioma - PXA - DNET - Angiocentric glioma - MVNT

Anatomy of the medulla. Wallenberg's and Déjerine syndromes.

Information on grading systems, ARUBA and TOBAS.

Review of pontine anatomy and the pontine syndromes. INO, one and a half syndrome, Millard-Gubler and Marie-Foix syndrome covered.

Information on the anatomy of the midbrain and how this relates to the midbrain syndomes. Weber, Benedikt and Parinaud syndome covered.

Information on the third ventricle anatomy and the pathophysiology of colloid cysts.

Information for the neurosurgery fellowship exam on Li-Fraumeni, Gorlin and Turcot syndrome - the medulloblastoma syndomes

Information for the neurosurgery fellowship exam on tuberous sclerosis, von Hippel Lindau & Sturge Weber - Neurocutaneous syndromes.

Information on NF1, Nf2 and schwannomatosis for fellowship examination

Overview of spinal vertebral anatomy

Anatomy of the basal ganglia and their relationship to Parkinson's disease

Information of post cranial sugery infection, post spinal surgery infection and shunt infection

Information on idiopathic hypertension

Overview of hippocampal anatomy, pathophysiology of seizures, epilepsy, epilepsy surgery.

Information on pathophysiology and management of cranial neuralgias.

Discussion on the September 2024 paper by the RANO resect group on an algorithm for extent of glioma resection.

Information on spina bifida.

Information on the evidence behind management of spinal cord injury.

Information on the anatomy of pain pathways, common analgaesics and pain procedures in neurosurgery.

Information about the brachial plexus and nerves of the upper limb.

Information on peripheral nerve compression syndromes and NCS/EMG

Lumbar disc disease. Information for fellowship exam.

Information on the evidence behind spinal decompression vs fusion

NF2 information

Information on neurofibromatosis type 1.

Information on development of the spine and spinal dysraphism.

Information on tethered cord syndrome

Information on intracerebral haematomas

Information on Brain Death Testing

Information on chronic subdural haematoma.

Information on concussion for the neurosurgery fellowship exam

Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumours

Information on cerebral metastases for neurosurgeons

Information on low grade gliomas from the WHO CNS tumours book

Information on intramedullary spinal tumours

Information on craniopharyngiomas from the WHO CNS tumours book.

Information on glioneuronal tumors derived from the WHO CNS tumors book (2021).

Review of extradural haematomas.

Review of neurotrauma literature.

Anatomy review of the cerebral hemispheres

Information on aneurysm and aSAH from text books and landmark papers.

Podcast on arteriovenous malformations

Information on medulloblastomas from the CNS WHO book (2021).

Information on adult diffuse gliomas from the CNS WHO book (2021)

Meningiomas. Information from the WHO CNS tumors book (2021).