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Spinal Cord Mature Cystic Teratoma in Adult: A Rare Entity with Characteristic Imaging Findings and Literature Review Open

Asma Al Hatmi, Elinor Wilson, Daipayan Guha · 2025

AO Spine Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Surgical Management of Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Contemporary Concepts Open

Vanessa Hubertus, Jetan H. Badhiwala, Nader Hejrati, Aria Nouri, Paula Valerie ter Wengel , et al. · 2025

Study Design Review of the literature with critical appraisal and clinical recommendations. Objective To highlight contemporary concepts relating to surgical care for acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) based on recent evidence that m…

Percutaneous cryoablation in the management of spinal metastases: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis Open

Mohammad Sadegh Fallahi, Seyed Farzad Maroufi, Seyede Parmis Maroufi, MirHojjat Khorasanizadeh, Leonardo de Macêdo Filho , et al. · 2025

AO Spine Clinical Practice Recommendations for Diagnosis and Management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Evidence Based Decision Making - A Review of Cutting Edge Recent Literature Related to Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Open

Michael G. Fehlings, Nathan Evaniew, Paula Valerie ter Wengel, Aditya Vedantam, Daipayan Guha , et al. · 2025

Study Design Literature review of key topics related to degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) with critical appraisal and clinical recommendations. Objective This article summarizes several key current topics related to the management of …

The legal and socioeconomic considerations of spine telemedicine in Canada Open

Youngkyung Jung, Shawn Baldeo, Markian Pahuta, Sunjay Sharma, Daipayan Guha · 2025

Telemedicine, or virtual care offers a platform for remote assessments, for either initial consultations or follow-up care. Telemedicine is a broad term and may refer to video conferences/assessments, telephone visits, messages through onl…

A Canadian national survey of the medical management of acute traumatic spinal cord injury Open

Mohamed Alhantoobi, Nadeen Alkhoori, Amanda Martyniuk, Markian Pahuta, Desmond Kwok , et al. · 2025

This survey highlights the significant variability in the management of acute traumatic SCI, particularly regarding MAP, SCPP, and Hb transfusion thresholds among Canadian healthcare providers. The findings underscore the need for the deve…

Treatment decision-making factors among patients with cervical myelopathy: a discrete-choice experiment Open

Mohamed Sarraj, Meerab Majeed, Mohammad Zarrabian, Jason W. Busse, Mohit Bhandari , et al. · 2024

Background Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy is a debilitating condition and current recommendations encourage shared decision-making between surgeons and patients. However, there is limited data on patients’ values and preferences for surg…

Nonoperative Care Versus Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Open

Markian Pahuta, Mohamed Sarraj, Jason W. Busse, Daipayan Guha, Mohit Bhandari · 2024

Background: Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) occurs when spondylotic changes compress the spinal cord and cause neurologic dysfunction. Because of a lack of comparative data on nonoperative care versus surgery for DCM, it has been di…

P.148 Consult and kyphoplasty delay impacts on geriatric vertebral compression fracture outcomes Open

Vathani Surendran, V Shi, Desmond Kwok, A Martinyuk, Markian Pahuta , et al. · 2024

Background: Vertebral compression fractures (VCF) lead to both considerable morbidity and increased mortality. Kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive surgery, treats VCFs providing significant pain relief, preserving vertebral height, and reduc…

CJN volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open

Tejas Sankar, S. Tucker, Mimma Anello, Aleksandra Pikula, Esther Bui , et al. · 2024

Traumatic penetrating head injury by crossbow projectiles: A case report and literature review Open

Moath Abdullah Khayat, Hassan A. Khayat, Mohamed Alhantoobi, Majid Aljoghaiman, Doron D. Sommer , et al. · 2024

Background: Low-energy penetrating head injuries caused by arrows are relatively uncommon. The objective of this report is to describe a case presentation and management of self-inflicted intracranial injury using a crossbow and to provide…

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Tej Azad, Anmol Warman, Jovanna Ba, Liam Tracz, Brendan Hughes , et al. · 2023

P.117 Quantitative evaluation in competency-based medical education – a nationwide survey of the spinal surgical training landscape Open

Rami Hatoum, Varun Muddaluru, Amanda Martyniuk, Blake Yarascavitch, Myroslav Pahuta , et al. · 2023

Background: The competency-based medical education (CBME) model has been recently implemented in spinal neurosurgical and orthopedic residencies. This model is grounded on entrustable professional activities (EPAs) that allow the assessmen…

P.120 Traumatic penetrating head injury by crossbow projectiles: a case report and literature review Open

M Khayat, Hassan A. Khayat, M Aljoghaiman, Mohamed Alhantoobi, Doron D. Sommer , et al. · 2023

Background: Penetrating head injury secondary to crossbows is a rare encounter in neurosurgical practice with only few cases reported in the literature. Methods: Chart review and literature review. Results: A 31-year-old man with a previou…

Presurgical rehabilitation program for patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis: A pilot randomized controlled trial protocol Open

Nora Bakaa, Douglas P. Gross, Lisa C. Carlesso, Joy C. MacDermid, Kenneth Thomas , et al. · 2022

Background Symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis (SLSS) is the most common diagnosis associated with spine surgery for those over the age of 55 years. There is a lack of quality research on the effectiveness of prehabilitation on pain, functi…

Long-Term Survivorship of Cervical Spine Procedures; A Survivorship Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression Open

Mohamed Sarraj, Philip Hache, Farid Foroutan, Colby Oitment, Travis Marion , et al. · 2022

Study Design Systematic Review Objectives To conduct a meta-analysis on the survivorship of commonly performed cervical spine procedures to develop survival function curves for (i) second surgery at any cervical level, and (ii) adjacent le…

Subsidence after lateral lumbar interbody fusion using a 3D-printed porous titanium interbody cage: single-institution case series Open

Nima Alan, Lena Vodovotz, Nallammai Muthiah, Hansen Deng, Daipayan Guha , et al. · 2022

OBJECTIVE Cage subsidence is a well-known phenomenon after lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF), occurring in 10%–20% of cases. A 3D-printed porous titanium (pTi) cage has a stiffness that mimics the modulus of elasticity of native verte…

Machine-vision image guided C4-C5 unilateral cervical pedicle screw insertion: case report and review of literature Open

Tiffany Yeretsian, Carolyn Lai, Daipayan Guha, Joel Ramjist, Victor X. D. Yang · 2021

Computer-assistance for pedicle screw insertion is becoming increasingly common. As in the case presented below, image guided neuronavigation can be used to improve the accuracy and safety of subaxial cervical pedicle screw placement, give…

Multi-modality imaging assisted fluorescence-guided resection of glioblastoma: Case report Open

Shaurya Gupta, Daipayan Guha, Shervin Taslimi, Stefano M. Priola, Ghouth Waggass , et al. · 2019

Glioblastoma is a highly malignant and infiltrative brain tumor, with a median overall survival of about 15 months. Gross-total resection using 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) assisted fluorescence-guided tumor resection has been shown to pr…

Quantification of computational geometric congruence in surface-based registration for spinal intra-operative three-dimensional navigation Open

Daipayan Guha, Raphael Jakubovic, Michael K. K. Leung, Howard J. Ginsberg, Michael G. Fehlings , et al. · 2019

Geometric congruence is most evident at C1 and the subaxial cervical spine, warranting greater vigilance in navigation accuracy verification. At all levels, inclusion of the base of the spinous process in unilateral registration decreases …

Optical Topographic Imaging for Spinal Intraoperative 3-Dimensional Navigation in the Cervical Spine Open

Daipayan Guha, Raphael Jakubovic, Naif M. Alotaibi, Ryan Deorajh, Shaurya Gupta , et al. · 2019

Summary of Background Data: Computer-assisted 3-dimensional navigation may guide spinal instrumentation. Optical topographic imaging (OTI) is a novel navigation technique offering comparable accuracy and significantly faster registration w…

Utilization of Spinal Intra-operative Three-dimensional Navigation by Canadian Surgeons and Trainees: A Population-based Time Trend Study Open

Daipayan Guha, Ali Moghaddamjou, Zaneen Jiwani, Naif M. Alotaibi, Michael G. Fehlings , et al. · 2019

Background Computer-assisted navigation (CAN) improves the accuracy of spinal instrumentation in vertebral fractures and degenerative spine disease; however, it is not widely adopted because of lack of training, high capital costs, workflo…

Feasibility of Spinal Neuronavigation and Evaluation of Registration and Application Error Modalities Using Optical Topographic Imaging Open

Daipayan Guha · 2018

Intra-operative navigation began with the localization of subsurface structures in cranial neurosurgery using frame-based stereotaxy. Advances in imaging and computing power have led to the development of modern frameless three-dimensional…

Intraoperative Error Propagation in 3-Dimensional Spinal Navigation From Nonsegmental Registration: A Prospective Cadaveric and Clinical Study Open

Daipayan Guha, Raphael Jakubovic, Shaurya Gupta, Michael G. Fehlings, Todd G. Mainprize , et al. · 2018

Study Design: Prospective pre-clinical and clinical cohort study. Objectives: Current spinal navigation systems rely on a dynamic reference frame (DRF) for image-to-patient registration and tool tracking. Working distant to a DRF may gener…

High Speed, High Density Intraoperative 3D Optical Topographical Imaging with Efficient Registration to MRI and CT for Craniospinal Surgical Navigation Open

Raphael Jakubovic, Daipayan Guha, Shaurya Gupta, Michael T. Lu, Jamil Jivraj , et al. · 2018

2018 Canadian Spine Society Abstracts Open

Doug Hill, Hasan Zuhudi Abdullah, Alejandro Peiró‐García, Jennifer A. Dermott, Malik Alanazi , et al. · 2018

# Experiences in implementing the EOS radiographic system and SterEOS three-dimensional module {#article-title-2} The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Scoliosis Research Society, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America and …

Perspective review on applications of optics in spinal surgery Open

Daipayan Guha, Victor X. D. Yang · 2018

Optical technologies may be applied to multiple facets of spinal surgery from diagnostics to intraoperative image guidance to therapeutics. In diagnostics, the current standard remains cross-sectional static imaging. Optical surface scanni…

P.126 A nation-wide prospective multi-centre study of external ventricular drainage accuracy, safety, and related complications: Interim analysis Open

Ayoub Dakson, M Kameda-Smith, M Staudt, A Althagafi, S Ahmed , et al. · 2018

Background: External ventricular drain (EVD) insertion is a common neurosurgical procedure performed in patients with life-threatening conditions, but can be associated with complications. The objectives of this study are to evaluate data …

CJN volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open

Pamela Jarrett, Alexander S. Easton, Kenneth Rockwood, Sarah Dyack, Andrea M. McCollum , et al. · 2018

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Demographics, Interests, and Quality of Life of Canadian Neurosurgery Residents Open

Christian Iorio‐Morin, Syed Uzair Ahmed, Mark Bigder, Ayoub Dakson, Cameron Elliott , et al. · 2017

Background: Neurosurgical residents face a unique combination of challenges, including long duty hours, technically challenging cases, and uncertain employment prospects. We sought to assess the demographics, interests, career goals, self-…

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