Misc.
MRI shows an extra-axial mass with CSF cleft, dural tail, and homogeneous enhancement.
What is a meningioma?
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What is the Vidian Canal?
This fictional neurosurgeon operated at the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and was often referred to by this nickname for his attractiveness
Who is “McDreamy”?
This British surgeon is credited with removing the first spinal tumor
Who was Victor Horsley?
This attending has said this unique quote "Better to be lucky than good"
Who is Dr. Shin?
This Netflix docuseries follows Dr. David Langer and Dr. John Boockvar as they perform brain surgeries at a famous New York hospital.
What is “Lenox Hill”?
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What is the Labyrinthine Artery?
A practicing neurosurgeon, this CNN chief medical correspondent famously stepped behind the lectern in 2021 to serve as a guest host for Jeopardy!
Who is Dr. Sanjay Gupta?
Dr. Peter Janetta first devised this novel procedure while completing his Neurosurgery residency at UCLA
What is Microvascular Decompression (MVD)?
These two attendings are known for playing classic rock in the OR
Who is Dr. Cole and Dr. Ricks?
This cortical syndrome caused by a lesion in the dominant inferior parietal lobule is classically defined by a tetrad of agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, and right-left disorientation.
What is Gerstmann syndrome?
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What is the Glossopharyngeal Nerve?
This film features the fictional “Coagula” procedure, where a patient’s consciousness is placed into another person’s body — a nightmare scenario for any neurosurgeon.
What is Get Out?
This prominent Neuropathologist and colleague of Harvey Cushing was the founding editor of JNS
Who was Dr. Louise Eisenhardt?
These two residents lost personal items on the rafting trip
Who is Rodeania and Josh?
What medieval sport described in the first chapter of "The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons" led to one of the earliest document discoveries about traumatic brain injury?
What is jousting?
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What is the Septal Vein?
This neurosurgeon became famous for his journey from migrant farm worker to internationally recognized brain surgeon and researcher featured in an episode of the Netflix Show "The Surgeons Cut"
Who is Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa?
This book, written by Cushing about his professor and mentor at Johns Hopkins, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
What is “The Life of Sir William Osler”?
This faculty member showed up with gold cowboy boots to the holiday party
Who is Dr. Robinson?
Tumors with sharply demarcated homogeneous masses comprising a cyst with non-enhancing walls and a mural nodule which vividly enhances, often with prominent serpentine flow voids are often associated with this genetic disease.
What is Von Hippel Lindau Disease?
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What is the mammillothalamic tract?
In the 2016 Marvel Film Dr. Strange proposes to remove a bullet from near his patient’s medulla because this metal could be leaching into the CSF mimicking brain death
What is Antimony?
Wilder Penfield and Edwin Boldrey’s 1937 paper entitled, “Somatic motor and sensory representation in the cerebral cortex of man as studied by electrical stimulation” introduced this famous visual map of the brain
What is the Cortical Homunculus?
This coffee order is a go to for Dr. Cole.
What is White Mocha?