Stereotactic radiosurgery emerged as a neurosurgical discipline in order to utilize energy for the manipulation of brain or nerve tissue, with the goal of minimal access and safe and effective care of a spectrum of neurosurgical disorders. Perhaps no other branch of neurosurgery has been so disruptive across the entire discipline of brain tumor care, treatment of vascular disorders, and management of functional problems. Radiosurgery is mainstream, supported by thousands of peer-reviewed outcomes reports. This article reviews current practice with a focus on challenges, emerging trends, and areas of investigation.
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Toward the revaluation of radiosurgery
Douglas Kondziolka
Current and novel practice of stereotactic radiosurgery
JNSPG 75th Anniversary Invited Review Article
Douglas Kondziolka
Douglas S. Kondziolka
Douglas Kondziolka
Zane Schnurman and Douglas Kondziolka
Understanding how the relevant medical community accepts new therapies is vital to patients, physicians, and society. Increasingly, focus is placed on how medical innovations are evaluated. But recognizing when a treatment has become accepted practice—essentially, acceptance by the scientific community—remains a challenge and a barrierto investigating treatment development. This report aims to demonstrate the theory, method, and limitations of a model for measuring a new metric that the authors term “progressive scholarly acceptance.”
A model was developed to identify when the scientific community has accepted an innovation, by observing when researchers have moved beyond the initial study of efficacy.
This model could enable further investigations into the methods and influences of treatment development.
Zane Schnurman and Douglas Kondziolka
OBJECT
Patients, practitioners, payers, and regulators are advocating for reform in how medical advances are evaluated. Because surgery does not adhere to a standardized developmental pathway, how the medical community accepts a procedure remains unclear. The authors developed a new model, using publication data and patterns, that quantifies this process. Using this technique, the authors identified common archetypes and influences on neurosurgical progress from idea inception to acceptance.
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Seven neurosurgical procedures developed in the past 15–25 years were used as developmental case studies (endovascular coil, deep brain stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-l-nitrosourea wafer, and 3 radiosurgery procedures), and the literature on each topic was evaluated. A new metric the authors termed “progressive scholarly acceptance” (PSA) was used as an end point for community acceptance. PSA was reached when the number of investigations that refine or improve a procedure eclipsed the total number of reports assessing initial efficacy. Report characteristics, including the number of patients studied, study design, and number of authoring groups from the first report to the point of PSA, were assessed.
RESULTS
Publication data implicated factors that had an outsized influence on acceptance. First, procedural accessibility to investigators was found to influence the number of reports, number of patients studied, and number of authoring groups contributing. Barriers to accessibility included target disease rarity, regulatory restrictions, and cost. Second, the ease or difficulty in applying a randomized controlled trial had an impact on study design. Based on these 2 factors, 3 developmental archetypes were characterized to generally describe the development of surgery.
CONCLUSIONS
Common surgical development archetypes can be described based on factors that impact investigative methods, data accumulation, and ultimate acceptance by society. The approach and proposed terminologies in this report could inform future procedural development as well as any attempts to regulate surgical innovation.
Christopher P. Deibert and Douglas Kondziolka
Intrinsic meningiomas of the superior sagittal sinus pose a significant technical challenge, particularly in the posterior two-thirds of the sinus. Resection is curative but frequently is not possible because of the involvement of critical vascular structures. Here, the authors present the case of a 49-year-old woman with a recurrent meningioma located exclusively in the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal sinus. The patient was treated with a margin dose of 12 Gy and a maximum dose of 24 Gy to the length of the tumor, which measured 16 cm. Five years after treatment, the tumor remains stable and the patient is symptom free. This case demonstrates the unique role that stereotactic radiosurgery can play in the management of meningiomas that are surgically unresectable and have no accepted form of treatment. To the authors' knowledge, 16 cm also represents the longest segment of tumor treated using stereotactic radiosurgery.
