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• September 23, 2009
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• November 30, 2009
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IML: Clinical Science
Each session involves a pre-meeting survey to assess baseline knowledge, individual practice patterns and treatment biases, as well as a series of pre-meeting literature and articles for review. To begin the survey, please click on the link in the desired session. At the completion of the survey, you may return to this screen to review the pre-meeting literature and articles.

Learning Objective
Participants in IML: Clinical Science will review the most relevant scientific literature, answer pre-meeting surveys, and use digital interactivity to help define the content and direction of faculty presentations in the IML: Clinical Science sessions. Participants will define knowledge gaps, shape the content of expert presentations, and identify important topics for future scientific sessions.

CME Certification and Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The CNS is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The CNS designates this educational activity up to a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Creditsper IML thread (pre-meeting survey, pre-meeting reading, discussion and onsite section session ). Each full track of IML: Clinical Science counts for up to 1 hour of CME. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

In order to obtain CME for an IML: Clinical Session, you must participate in all three parts of the track:
  1. Answer the online survey. It will take you only approximately 10 minutes. The confidential survey will measure your existing knowledge, attitudes and practice, and correlate these with your training, specialty and other demographics.
  2. Read the key articles summarizing the evidence in the literature. Select articles have been provided for your convenience. The articles will provide a background for the afternoon IML meeting sessions in New Orleans.
  3. Attend the session at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans. At the session, interactive handheld technology will be in use, allowing you to answer and view the results of instant polls; query the expert discussants; and see in real time what your colleagues from around the world think about the most challenging current topics.
Section on Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=u6t2yOcExd_2falglPZsuujA_3d_3d
Pre-meeting Literature and Articles Source
Long-term seizure outcome after mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: corticalamygdalohippocampectomy versus selective amygdalohippocampectomy J. Neurosurg
Volume 108
March 2008
pp 517 - 524
The seizure outcome after amygdalohippocampectomy and temporal lobectomy European Journal of Neurosurgery 2007
14: 90-94
doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2006.01565.x
Neuropsychological Outcome after Select Amygdalohippocampectomy with Transsylvian versus Transcortical Approach: A Randomized Prospective Clinical Trial of Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Epilepsia, 45(7); 809-816, 2004
Blackwell Publishing
Seizure and memory outcome following temporal lobe surgery: selective compared with nonselective approaches for hippocampal sclerosis J. Neurosurg
Volume 104
January 2006
pp 70-78

Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ANOI8hAHkcKFjOwgJZwlnA_3d_3d
Pre-meeting Literature and Articles Source
Radiculopathy and Myelopathy at Segments Adjacent to the Site of a Previous Anterior Cervical Arthrodesis The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Vol 81-A, No. 4, April 1999
pp 519 - 528
Clinical and radiographic analysis of cervical disc arthroplasty compared with allograph fusion: a randomized controlled clinical trial J. Neurosurg: Spine
Volume 6
March, 2007
pp 198 - 209
Posterior-Lateral Foraminotomy as an Exclusive Operative Technique for Cervical Radiculopathy: A Review of 846 Consecutively Operated Cases Neurosurgery
Vol. 13, No, 5, 1983
pp 504 - 512
Cervical Radiculopathy: Pathophysiology, Presentation, and Clinical Evaluation Neurosurgery
Volume 60, No. 1
January 2007 Supplement
pp SI-28 - SI-34

Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery
Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OVvnnrTYAOUPa8Vft9YtrA_3d_3d
Pre-meeting Literature and Articles Source
Natural History of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations: A Long-term Follow-up Study of Risk of Hemorrhage in 238 Patients Neurosurgery
Volume 63, No. 5
November 2008
pp 823 - 831
Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations Should be Treated Conservatively: Yes
Full Text Available Free Online
Stroke 2007; 38;3308-3309
Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations Should be Treated Conservatively: No
Full Text Available Free Online
Stroke 2007; 38;3310-3311
Arteriovenous Malformations of the Brain The New England Journal of Medicine 2007
N Engl J Med 2007; 356;2704-12

Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery
Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bh7ma4EnYVOmT0Mv_2fGt0wA_3d_3d
Pre-meeting Literature and Articles Source
Surgical experience in 130 pediatric patients with Chiari I malformations J. Neurosurg
Volume 99
August 2003
pp 291 - 296
The role of limited posterior fossa craniectomy in the surgical treatment of Chiari malformation Type I: experience with a pediatric series J. Neurosurg: Pediatrics
Volume 106
March, 2007
pp 187 - 195
Intraoperative ultrasonography as a guide to patient selection for duraplasty after suboccipital decompression in children with Chiari malformation Type I J. Neurosurg: Pediatrics
Volume 2
July, 2008
pp 52 - 57
Effects of Posterior Fossa Decompression with and without Duraplasty on Chiari Malformation-associated Hydromyelia Neurosurgery
Volume 46(6)
June 2000
pp 1384-1390

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