This 33-year-old, right-handed, Caucasian woman presented with headache and dizziness that started postpartum in 2006. An MRI revealed a colloid cyst without hydrocephalus. Surgical options were discussed but patient did not want any surgical intervention. Hence, the lesion was followed with serial MRI scans and reported to be stable. A careful perusal of the images suggested a possible 1-2 mm growth over nine years. She reported anxiety and a recent increase in dizziness, blurry vision
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Frameless radiosurgery is:
- Minimally invasive neurosurgery, and I practice it. (74%, 28 Votes)
- A form of radiation oncology, and I don’t practice it. (26%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 38
When it comes to the performance of spine surgery in the United States, is it your personal view that:
- Too much is performed. (184%, 35 Votes)
- More could be performed to help patients. (47%, 9 Votes)
- The appropriate amount is conducted. (0%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 47
Before performing surgery for pain relief, it is important to ask the patient to describe the minimum level of pain improvement after surgery that he or she would consider acceptable.
- Strongly Agree (61%, 20 Votes)
- Agree (33%, 11 Votes)
- Disagree (6%, 2 Votes)
- Strongly Disagree (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 33
I would recommend that medical students choose neurosurgery as their profession because over the course of a career it offers (please select all that apply):
- Continual intellectual challenge. (24%, 69 Votes)
- Opportunities to improve the lives of patients. (20%, 57 Votes)
- High degree of personal satisfaction. (17%, 49 Votes)
- High degree of decision-making control. (11%, 33 Votes)
- Opportunities for professional growth. (11%, 32 Votes)
- Financial security. (10%, 30 Votes)
- I wouldn't recommend neurosurgery. (5%, 15 Votes)
- Favorable life-work balance. (2%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 94
My own or my practice's use of social networking software in the next 12 months will include the following areas (please select all that apply):
- None (31%, 46 Votes)
- Facebook (22%, 33 Votes)
- YouTube (15%, 22 Votes)
- Blogs (text or video) (13%, 19 Votes)
- Twitter (11%, 16 Votes)
- Sermo (6%, 9 Votes)
- Other (2%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 95