Nexus About - Congress of Neurological Surgeons comprehensive online library of neurosurgical cases

About Nexus
Nexus is a unique and comprehensive online library of neurosurgical cases to better prepare trainees for the operating room. Nexus is accessible for free and has the potential to significantly improve trainee preparation, knowledge, and surgical skills.
Volunteer Information

Thank you for your interest in Nexus! Nexus is the largest online library of neurosurgical cases available for free. The site includes cases from multiple surgeons to demonstrate differences in technique, for users to have a strong grasp for indications for surgery, and understanding when medical management is a good alternative. Anyone with a CNS account may contribute.

You will need to collect the patient's history, imaging, relevant intraoperative pictures and videos. Each case submission should also discuss pearls, pitfalls, alternatives and have a shortlist of references. The majority of images from CNS publications (red journal) can be utilized for Nexus cases. Images from other sources will require obtaining permission from the publisher. Once you create your Nexus case, your case will be reviewed and published by Editors. Your name will be included in the volunteer list and of course, you can include this on your CV. Thank you!
Nexus Committee

Advisor Nicholas Bambakidis

Advisor Khoi Than

Chair Joseph Osorio

Editor David Dornbos

Editor Peter Nakaji

Endovascular Co-Editor Nicholas Borg

Endovascular Co-Editor Abhishek Ray

Functional Editor Rushna Ali

Functional Editor Sharona Ben-Haim

Managing Editor Marte Close - van Keulen

Pediatric Editor Jason Hauptman

Pediatric Editor Brett Whittemore

Peripheral Nerve Editor Megan Jack

Planner Lara Massie

Resident Planner Justin Davanzo

Resident Planner Keenan Boulnemour

Resident Planner Daniel Kreatsoulas

Resident Planner Dorian Kusyk

Resident Planner Varun Shah

Resident Planner Ibrahim Hussain

Spine Co-Editor Benjamin Elder

Spine Co-Editor Michael Galgano

Trauma & Neurocritical Care Editor Ryan Kitagawa

Tumor Co-Editor Jonathan Sherman

Tumor Co-Editor James Elder

Vascular Editor Anthony Wang

Vascular Editor Daniel Raper

Nexus Authors

Aaron Palmer, MD

Aaron Yengo-Kahn, MD

Abhishek Ray, MD

Abigail York

Adam Nowlan

Adam Polifka, MD, FAANS

Adam Robin, MD

Adib Abla, MD

Adnan Siddiqui, MD PhD

Adrienne Moraff, MD

Ahmed Raslan, MBBS MCh

Akash Patel, MD

Alan Hoffer, MD

Alan Wang, MD

Alankrita Raghavan, BS

Alejandro Berenstein MD, MD

Alejandro Bugarini

Alejandro Carrasquilla, MD

Alex Corlin

Alex D. Sweeney

Alex Hoang, MD

Alex Nguyen Hoang

Alexa Semonche, MD

Alexander Dru, MD

Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA

Alexander Ropper, MD, FAANS

Alexander Schupper, MD

Alexander Tenorio

Alexander Whiting, MD

Alexandra Bonnell

Alexandria Marino

Alexis Lo

Alfred Ogden, MD FAANS

Alfredo Guiroy

Ali Baaj, MD

Allan Levi, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS

Allen Ho, MD

Allen Sills, MD

Alp Ozpinar, MD

Alysa Almojuela, MD

Amgad Hanna, MD, FAANS

Amit Patel

Amna Hussein

Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD, MBA, FAANS

Anand Veeravagu, MD

Andrea Brock, MD

Andrew Carlson, MD MS-CR

Andrew Donovan, MD

Andrew Koo, MD

Andrew Little, MD

Andrew Ronald

Anil Roy, MD

Anish Sen, MD, MPH

Anisha Garg

Ankit Mehta, MD, FAANS

Anshit Goyal, MD

Anthony Mikula, MD

Anthony Sin, MD, FAANS

Areeba Basit

Arjun Pendharkar, MD

Arnau Benet-Cabero, MD

Asdrubal Falavigna, MD, PhD, IFAANS

Ashish Shah, MD

Ashley Ghiaseddin

Ashley Kern

Ashwin Viswanathan, MD

Ashwini Sharan, MD

Asimina Dominari

Bao Sciscent

Beata Durcanova

Ben Shofty, MD

Ben Waldau, MD, MAS

Benjamin Elder, MD, PhD

Benjamin Hendricks, MD

Benjamin Kennedy, MD

Benjamin Yim, MD

Benjamin Zussman, MD

Benji Kitagawa

Berje Shammassian, MD

Bhuvic Patel, MD

Bornali Kundu, MD

Brad Zacharia, MD, MS

Bradley Gross, MD

Bradley Jacobs, MD, FAANS

Bradley Schmidt, MD

Brandon Liebelt, MD BS

Brandon Philbrick

Brandon Root, MD

Brandon Smith, MD MSCR

Brennen Sadowski

Brett Whittemore, MD

Brian Hirshman, MD

Brian Hoh, MBA, MD, FACS, FAHA

Brian Nahed, MD

Brian Williams, MD

Bryan Choi, MD

Bryan Lee, MD

Byron Hills, MD

Cameron Brimley, MD

Cameron McDougall, MD, FRCS(C)

Cameron Sadegh, MD PhD

Camilo Molina, MD

Carl Snyderman, MD

Carlos Bagley, MD

Carlos Goulart, MD

Carolyn Quinsey, MD

Casey Ryan

Celene Mulholland, MD MPH

Charles Miller, MD

Charles Sansur, MD, MHSc

Chengyuan Wu, MD MSBmE

Chester Griffiths MD, MD

Chris Zacko, MD, MS

Christian Bowers, MD

Christina Sarris, MD

Christina Wright, MD

Christine Mau, MD

Christoph Griessenauer, MD

Christoph Hofstetter, MD, PhD, FAANS

Christopher Chin

Christopher Dibble, MD PhD

Christopher Kellner, MD

Christopher Miller, MD

Christopher Sarkiss, MD

Christopher Wang, B.A.

Christopher Winfree, MD, FAANS

Christopher Young, MD, PhD

Clare Grady

Claudio Tatsui, MD, IFAANS

Clemens Schirmer, MD, PhD, MBA

Collin Labak, MD

Collin Liu, MD

Constantinos (Costas) Hadjipanayis, MD PhD

Corey Walker, MD

Coulter Small

Cynthia Chin, MD

Cyril Tankam

D. Jay McCracken

Daniel Faden

Daniel Hafez, MD, PhD

Daniel Hoh, MD

Daniel Kelly, MD

Daniel Lu, MD, PhD, FAANS

Daniel Orringer, MD

Daniel R. Cleary

Daniel Raper, MBBS

Daniel Sciubba, MD, FAANS

Daniel Silbergeld, MD

Daniel Surdell, MD

Daniel Toscano, MD

Danyas Sarathy

David Asuzu, MD PhD MPH

David Fusco, MD, FAANS

David Gonda, MD

David Hallan, MD

David Hamilton

David Hart, MD, FAANS

David Harter, MD, FACS, FAAP, FAANS

David Hersh, MD

David McCarthy, MD

David Ormond, MD

David Penn, MD, MS

Deanna Sasaki-Adams, MD MBA

Debraj Mukherjee, MD MPH

Debraj Mukherjee, MD, MPH

Dennis Lockney, BS MD

Dennis Rivet

Desmond Brown, MD PhD

Devan Patel, BS

Devon Mitchell

Dimitri Laurent, MD

Domagoj Coric, MD

Dominic Julian

Dominic Nistal, BA

Donald Ye, MD

Douglas Hardesty, MD

Edward Fox

Edward Smith, MD

Ehsan Dowlati, MD

Elad Levy, MD FACS FAHA MBA

Elias Rizk, MD, MSc, FAANS, FAAP

Elisha Peregino

Eliza Hersh

Elliot Crooks

Elyne Kahn, MD MPH

Emily Sieg, MD

Emma Earl

Emmanuel Emovon

Emmanuel Omosor

Eric Arias, MD

Eric Fu

Eric Storch

Eric Wang

Eric Zager, MD

Erin Dunbar

Erin Rowell

Esteban Quiceno

Ethan Carmichael

Ethan Srinivasan

Evan Bander, MD

Faisal Aziz

Faiz Ahmad, MD, FAANS

Felipe Albuquerque, MD

Francis Jareczek, MD

Frank Yuk, MD

Fraz Zia

Fred Nichols

Gabriel Smith, MD, FAANS

Ganesh Rao, MD

Garni Barkhoudarian, MD

George Ibrahim, MD

George Koutsouras, MPH, DO

George Rymarczuk, MD, FAANS

Georgios Maragkos, MD

Giovanni Barbagli

Grace Magee

Greg Chamberlin

Greg Vogt

Guilherme Barros, MD

Gursant Atwal, MD

Gustavo Luzardo, MD

Haejoe Park, MD

Hakeem Shakir

Han Yan

Hani Chanbour

Hanna Algattas, MD

Hannah Goldstein, MD

Haring Nauta, MD PhD

Hasan Zaidi, MD, FAANS

Haydn Hoffman, MD

Hayyan Yousuf

Hermes Garcia-Marrero, MD

Hernan Gonzalez, PhD

Himanshu Sharma, MD, PhD

Hoon Choi, MD, PhD, FAANS

Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, MD

Huy Dang

Ian Lee, MD

Ibrahim Hussain, MD

Ilya Laufer, MD, FAANS

Inamullah Khan, MD

Isabel Bauer, BS

Islam Fayed

Islam Fayed, MD

Iyan Younus, MD

J. Bradley Elder

Jacob Baranoski, MD

Jacob Cherian, MD

Jacob Januszewski, DO, EMBA

Jahangir Asghar

James Botros, MD

James Evans, MD

James Harrop, MD, FAANS

James Kelbert

James Liu, MD

James Wright, MD

Jamie Toms, MD

Jang Yoon, MD MS

Jason Hauptman, MD PhD

Jason Liounakos, MD

Jay McCracken, MD

Jayson Nelson

Jean Cibula

Jeffrey Beecher, DO

Jeffrey Mai, MD, PhD

Jeffrey Nelson, MD

Jeffrey Raskin

Jennifer Ronecker, MD

Jennifer Sokolowski, MD PhD

Jennifer Sweet, MD

Jeremy Steinberger, MD

Jeremy Stone, MD

Jeremy Wetzel, MD

Jessica Lane, MD

Jesus Emiliano Sanchez-Garavito

Jeyan Kumar, MD

Jillian Plonsker, MD

Joanna Papadakis

Joao Paulo Almeida

JOAQUIN HIDALGO

John Caridi, MD, FAANS

John Chi, MD, FAANS

John Gillick, MD, FAANS

John Knightly, MD FAANS

John Nerva, MD, FAANS

John O'Toole, MD, FAANS

John Pollina, MD, FAANS

John Reavey-Cantwell, MD

John Rolston, MD PhD

John Sheehy, MD

John Shin, MD, FAANS

Jonathan Pace

Jonathan Pace, MD

Jonathan Rasouli, MD

Jonathan Scoville

Jonathan Sellin, MD, FAANS

Jonathan Sherman, MD, FAANS

Jorge González-Martínez, MD, PhD

Jorge Urquiaga, MD

Joseph Antonios, MD

Joseph Neimat, MD MS

Joshua Bederson, MD

Joshua Meyers, MD

Joshua Osbun, MD

Juan Fernandez-Miranda, MD

Juan Pablo Navarro Garcia de Llano

Juan Rodriguez, MD

Juan Uribe, MD, FAANS

Julia Grabowski

Justin Brown, MD

Justin Clark, MD

Justin Davanzo

Justin Hilliard, MD

Kaan Yagmurlu

Kai-Ming Fu, MD, PhD, FAANS

Kaitlyn Melnick, MD

Kalil Abdullah, MD

Kamran Urgun, M.D.

Karam Moon

Karl Balsara, MD

Katharine Cronk, MD PhD

Kathleen Knudson, MD

Kathryn Wagner, MD

Katie Fehnel

Katie Krause, MD PhD

Kealan Hoblemann

Kelly Bridges, MD

Kelly Chamberlin, MD

Kenan Alkhalili

Kendall Lee, MD PhD

Kendall Snyder, MD

Kenneth Sack, MD

Kent Richter

Kevin Hines, MD

Kevin Huang, MD

Kevin Lillehei, MD

Kevin Pierce

Kevin Potts

Kevin Yoo, MD

Kevin Zhao, DO

Khoi Than, MD

Kimberly Harbaugh, MD, FAANS

Kimberly Kray, MD

Konstantinos Margetis, MD

Kris Smith, MD

Kristen Scheitler, MD

Kristin Huntoon, PhD DO

Kristin Nosova, MD, MBA

Krystal Tomei, MD, MPH

Kunal Gupta, MD PhD

Laila Mohammad, MD

Laura Ngwenya, MD PhD

Laura Snyder, MD

Laura Zima, MD

Lauren Simpson, MD MPH

Lauren Stone, MD

Laurence Rhines, MD, FAANS

Leah Shabo, BS

Lekhaj Daggubati, MD

Leyzeane Marques do Nascimento

Line Jacques, MD, MSc, FRCS(C), DABNS

Lola Chambless, MD

Lorenzo Rinaldo, MD

Louis Kim, MD

Luis Carrete

Luis Savastano, MD

Lukasz Bogdan

Lynda Yang, MD, PhD, FAANS

Lynn McGrath, MD

Madeline Karsten

Magalie Cadieux, MD

Mallory Peterson

Manish Kasliwal, MD, MCh, FAANS

Marcus Gates, MD

Marcus Stephens, MD

Mark Bilsky, MD, FAANS

Mark Iantosca, MD

Mark Mahan, MD, FAANS

Mark Oppenlander, MD

Mark Souweidane, MD

Marte Close - van Keulen, MD

Martin Gagliardi

Martin Pham, MD

Martina Stippler, MD

Maryam Rahman, MD

Matt Findlay

Matthew Carr, MD

Matthew Decker

Matthew Moser

Mayur Sharma, MD MCh

Megan Jack, MD PhD

Megan Still, BS

Meghan Murphy, MD

Mehrnoush Gorjian, MD

Meic Schmidt, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS, FCNS

Melissa LoPresti, MD

Michael Brandel, MD

Michael DeCuypere, MD, PhD

Michael Galgano, MD

Michael Gigliotti, DO MS

Michael Goutnik

Michael Karsy, MD, PhD, MSc

Michael Larkin, MD, PharmD

Michael Lee

Michael Levitt, MD

Michael Levy, MD PhD

Michael McDowell, MD

Michael Mooney, MD

Michael Sather, MD

Michael Smith, MD

Michael Steinmetz, MD

Michael Strong, M.D., Ph.D.

Michael Tawil

Michaela Lee, MD

Michelle Paff, MD

Mickey Abraham, BA MS

Mickey Ellis Abraham, MD

Mickey Smith, MD

Mikayla Borusiewicz

Min Park, MD

Mindy Rabinowitz

Mir Ali, BS

Mohamad Bydon, MD

Mohammed Alvi

Mohammed Elghareeb

Mohanad Alazzeh, BS

Monika Freiser

Morteza Sadeh

Mykhaylo Krushelnytskyy, BS

Nader Delavari, MD

Nathan Quig

Nathan Simmons, MD

Nathaniel Brooks, MD, FAANS

Naweed Chowdhury

Neel Patel, MD

Nelson Sofoluke, MD

Nestor Tomycz, MD

Nicholas Bambakidis, MD

Nicholas Borg

Nicole Provenza

Nicole Villalba

Nihal Satyadev

Nikita Das, B.A. Neuroscience and Behavior

Nikita Lakomkin

Nikita Lakomkin, MD

Nikolaos Mouchtouris, MD

Nikolay Martirosyan, MD

Nisha Giridharan, MD

Norberto Andaluz, MD

Olivia Gilbert

Omar Akbik, MD

Omar Tanweer

Ori Barzilai, MD

Osama Kashlan, MD

Osmond Wu, MD

P. David Adelson, MD, FACS, FAAP

Panagiotis Kerezoudis, MD

Panagiotis Mastorakos, MD PhD

Paramita Das, MS MD

Patrick Brown

Patrick Kelly, MD, MSCI

Patrick Opperman

Paul Camarata, MD FACS

Paul Gardner, BA, MD

Paul Park, MD, FAANS

Paul Schmitt, MD

Pegah Ghamasaee

Pemla Jagtiani

Peter Kan, MD MPH FAANS FRCSC

Peter Morgenstern, MD

Peter Morone, MD MSCI

Peter Nakaji, MD

Peter Palmer

Peter Sylvester, MD

Peter Theiss, MD

Philippe Lavigne

Pratheek Makineni

Praveen Mummaneni, MD, MBA, FAANS

Priscilla Pang, MD MS

Priya Ramaiah

Purushotham Ramanathan

Quang Nguyen, MD

Rachel Moor, MD

Rafael Vega, MD, PhD

Rahul Chaliparambil

Raissa Mathura

Rajeev Sen, MD

Rajiv Saigal, MD, PhD, FAANS

Raleigh Ems

Ramesh Grandhi, MD, MS

Rami Almefty, MD BA

Ramin Morshed, MD

Ramin Morshed, MD

Ran Xu, MD

Ranbir Ahluwalia, MD

Randall Hlubek, MD

Raymund Yong, MD MS FRCS(C)

Rebecca Baron

Reid Colliander

Ricardo Komotar, MD, FAANS

Richard Berkman, MD

Richard Bucholz, MD, FACS

Richard Dowd, MD

Richard Price, MD, PhD

Richard Williamson, MD

Ritika Peddamallu

Robert Bina, MD MS

Robert Graham, MD

Robert James, MD FAANS FACS

Robert Mason, MD, FACS

Robert Maurer, MD

Robert Morrison

Robert North, MD, PhD

Robert Starling

Robert Whitmore, MD

Robert Wicks, MD

Robin Bowman, MD

Rocco Armonda, MD

Rohan Ramakrishna, MD

Rohit Kesarwani, MD

Ron Riesenburger, MD, FAANS

Rosanna Wustrack

Ross Green, MD

Rouzbeh Motiei-Langroudi

Rushna Ali, MD

Russell Cerejo

Russell Payne, MD

Russell Rothrock

Ryan Kellogg, MD

Ryan Kitagawa

Ryan Kitagawa, MD

S. Harrison Farber

Saadi Ghatan, MD

Sacit Bulent Omay, MD

Saeed Alqahtani

Salazar Jones, MD

Sameah Haider, MD

Sameer Sheth, MD PhD

Samer Zammar, MD MPH

Samiksha Komatireddy

Sananthan Sivakanthan, MD

Sandi Lam, MD MBA

Sandi Lam

Sandip Savaliya, MD

Sanjay Konakondla, MD

Sanjeet Grewal, MD

Sarah Mowry

Sarah Travers

Sasha Vaziri, MD

Sawyer Bauer

Scott Meyer, MD, FAANS

Scott Rudkin

Scott Zuckerman, MD

SD, MD PhD

Seamus Bartlett

Sean Ferris

Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA

Seth Oliveria, MD PhD

Seung Jeong

Shahed Elhamdani, MD

Shaheryar Ansari, MD

Shaina Sedighim

Shamsher Dalal, MD

Sharad Rajpal, MD

Sharon Webb, MD

Sharona Ben-Haim, MD

Sharona Ben-Haim, MD, FAANS

Shawn Rai, MD

Shaye Busse

Sheri Palejwala, MD

Shivani Pahwa

Sigita Burneikiene, MD

Soliman Oushy, MD

Sonia Majid, MPH, MD

Stephen Burks, MD

Steven Cook, MD

Su Kim

Sumeet Vadera, MD

Sungho Lee, MD, PhD

Sunil Kukreja

Syed Faraz Kazim

Syed Hassan A. Akbari, MD

Tarek El Ahmadieh, MD

Theodore Schwartz, MD FACS

Theresa Elder

Thomas Ostergard, MD MS

Thomas Oxley

Thomas Samson

Tiffany Hodges, MD

Timothy H. Ung

Ting Lei

Travis Ladner, MD

Troy Woodard, MD

Tsinsue Chen, MD

Tudor Jovin, MD

Usman Khan, MD

Varina Boerwinkle

Varun Kshettry, MD

Varun Padmanaban

Vernard Fennell, MD

Vikram Mehta, MD

Vin Shen Ban, MD

Vincent Cheung, MD

Vincent Rossi, MD

Visish Srinivasan, MD

Waleed Brinjikji, BS

Walter Jean, MD

Warren Selman, MD

Wayne Goodman

Wendy Chang, MD

Weston Northam, MD

William Ares, MD

William Fox

Wilson Ray, MD

Wittstatt Whitaker-Lea, MD

Won Hyung Ryu

Xiaochun Zhao, MD

Xiaofei (Sophie) Zhou, MD

Yagiz Yolcu

Yakov Gologorsky, MD, FAANS

Yamaan Saadeh, MD

Yashar Kalani

Yasoda Satpathy

Yaw Tachie-Baffour, B.S.

Yevgeniy Freyvert, MD

Yi Lu, MD, PhD FAANS

Yifei Duan, MD

Yin Hu, MD

Yusuf Mehkri

Yusuf Mehkri

Zach Pennington, MD

Zachary Hickman, MD, FAANS

Zachary Jensen

Zachary Litvack, MD, MCR

Zaid Aljuboori, MD

Zarina Ali, MD

Zayed Almadidy, MD

Zoya Voronovich, MD

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