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Neurosurgery Resident @ubcmedicine.bsky.social | MD, MSc | 🧠 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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Congrats to Dr Sekhon and team from UBC on their recent discovery on the physiology of dying!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.10.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kissing Vertebral Arteries Causing Myelopathy Treated With... : Operative Neurosurgery An abstract is unavailable.

Check out our recently published operative video of kissing vertebral arteries causing myelopathy treated with bilateral MVD using a sling technique.

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23.06.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Primary Central Nervous System Melanoma With Bilateral Vestibular Lesions Mimicking Neurofibromatosis Type 2 | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences | Cambridge Core Primary Central Nervous System Melanoma With Bilateral Vestibular Lesions Mimicking Neurofibromatosis Type 2

Read our interesting case report of a rare mimic of #NF2 with bilateral CPA lesions.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

16.06.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Molecular prognostication in grade 3 meningiomas and p16/MTAP immunohistochemistry for predicting CDKN2A/B status 

Kira Tosefsky,   Karina Chornenka Martin, Alexander D Rebchuk,   Justin Z Wang,   Farshad Nassiri, Amy Lum,   Gelareh Zadeh,   Serge Makarenko, Stephen Yip

Molecular prognostication in grade 3 meningiomas and p16/MTAP immunohistochemistry for predicting CDKN2A/B status Kira Tosefsky, Karina Chornenka Martin, Alexander D Rebchuk, Justin Z Wang, Farshad Nassiri, Amy Lum, Gelareh Zadeh, Serge Makarenko, Stephen Yip

Key points of this study include:

- TERT promoter mutations & CDKN2A/B homozygous deletion portend a worse prognosis for grade 3 #meningioma than elevated mitotic index
- p16/MTAP #immunohistochemistry is a promising surrogate marker for CDKN2A/B status

bit.ly/3uONcox

05.03.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CNO 2025 session 1: meningioma

CNO 2025 session 1: meningioma

The upcoming #CNO meeting includes a session on #meningiomas from two of our wonderful #ICOM members @FarshadNassiri and Dr. Serge Makarenko.

Read the full agenda here: bit.ly/4j3fDT6

11.04.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Current trends in the surgical management of spontaneous lobar intracerebral hemorrhage in Canada: A nationwide survey | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences | Cambridge Core Current trends in the surgical management of spontaneous lobar intracerebral hemorrhage in Canada: A nationwide survey

Recent publication in CJNS reporting the trends of ICH evacuation in Canada following the publication of ENRICH trial.

Always great to collaborate with other centers in Canada!

doi.org/10.1017/cjn....

04.04.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Chronic encapsulated intracerebral haematoma following stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformation Chronic encapsulated intracerebral haematoma (CEIH) is a rare, delayed complication of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for intracranial arteriovenous malformations. There are no evidence-based guideli...

Excited to share our recently published case report in @bmj.com Case Reports written by our incoming PGY-1 Dr. Yoojin Choi.

casereports.bmj.com/content/18/4...

04.04.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Early Malignant Transformation of Intracranial Epidermoid Cyst: A Case Report and Systematic Review | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences | Cambridge Core Early Malignant Transformation of Intracranial Epidermoid Cyst: A Case Report and Systematic Review

Congrats to our medical student Wendy Tsai on her publication in CJNS! We report a novel treatment paradigm for an epidermoid cyst malignantly transformed into a squamous cell carcinoma.

doi.org/10.1017/cjn.2025.45

14.03.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Molecular prognostication in grade 3 meningiomas and p16/MTAP immunohistochemistry for predicting CDKN2A/B status

Molecular prognostication in grade 3 meningiomas and p16/MTAP immunohistochemistry for predicting CDKN2A/B status

#MolecularAlterations of grade 3 #meningiomas stratify clinical outcomes more so than histologic features alone - this was one of the key findings from a recent investigation published by ICOM members.

Read full article and findings in #NeuroOncologyAdvances here: https://bit.ly/3CPORhQ

26.02.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This article evaluates the overall survival (OS) and local recurrence (LR) in patients with grade 2 #meningiomas treated with adjuvant #radiotherapy compared to surgery alone at time of diagnosis.

Read more about their research: https://buff.ly/3ZUe43k

@syip.bsky.social

31.01.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œDevelopment and validation of a molecular classifier of #meningiomas” by co-authors Drs. Alex Landry and Justin Wang, in partnership with #ICOM, has been published in #NeuroOncology.

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/40AgLX5

15.01.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Development and validation of a molecular classifier of meningiomas AbstractBackground. Meningiomas exhibit considerable clinical and biological heterogeneity. We previously identified four distinct molecular groups (immuno

Development and validation of a molecular classifier of meningiomas | Neuro-Oncology | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...

09.01.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just published an interesting case report in
@ahajournals.bsky.social of a polka dot ICH pattern

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

10.01.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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