Background High frequency optical coherence tomography (HF-OCT) is a novel intravascular imaging technology developed for use in the cerebral vasculature. We hypothesize that HF-OCT characterization ...

Correspondence to Dr Aditya Durgam, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; adurgam{at}gmail.com Objective In view of recent literature suggesting that ...

Background It is thought that aneurysms evolve as the result of progressive degradation of the wall in response to abnormal hemodynamics characterized by either high or low wall shear stress (WSS).

Correspondence to Dr Robert M Starke, Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA; RStarke{at}med.miami.edu Background Currently, there are no large-scale ...

Correspondence to Dr Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Neuroloy, Neurosurgery and Radiology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; santy-ortega{at}uiowa.edu Background There is ...

Rush University Medical Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Dr D K Lopes, Rush University Medical Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, 1725 W ...

Objectives To describe a new technique to obtain minimally invasive but efficient vertebral body (VB) reconstruction, augmentation, and stabilization in severe osteoporotic and neoplastic fractures, ...

Background Vascular remodeling in response to implantation of a tissue engineering scaffold such as a flow diverter (FD) leads to the cure of intracranial aneurysms. We hypothesize that the vascular ...

1 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany 2 Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany 3 Department of ...

1 Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 2 Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Medical University of ...

Correspondence to Dr Lukas Goertz, Center for Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne 50937, Germany; lukas.goertz{at}uk-koeln.de Background The Derivo Embolization Device (DED) is a ...

2 Department of Neurological Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 3 Division of Neurological Surgery, St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Barrow Neurological ...