Operational Neurosurgery: Clinical Features, Diagnosis and Prognosis
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 62
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuroscience; cervical spine; neurosurgery; spine surgery; intervertebral disk degeneration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Operative neurosurgery spans cranial, spinal, peripheral nerve and pediatric disorders. Despite advances in imaging, navigation and peri-operative care, variation persists in presentation, evaluation and outcome prediction. Heterogeneous features, co-morbidities and frailty drive uneven recovery and quality-of-life. This Special Issue brings together rigorous, practice-informing evidence to sharpen clinical characterization, standardize evaluation pathways and strengthen prognostic accuracy—supporting safer, more equitable care and better shared decision-making.
We welcome studies across tumor, vascular, functional, trauma and spine that delineate phenotypes and natural history; compare pre-operative work-ups (imaging, biomarkers, neuropsychology, frailty indices); develop or validate transparent risk and prognostic models—including AI/ML—with calibration and impact analysis; relate intra-operative strategies and peri-operative pathways to complications and outcomes; and report patient-centered measures, return to function and health-economic value, including perspectives from global neurosurgery.
Article types include original research, systematic or scoping reviews. Please follow CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA and TRIPOD where applicable; data transparency and reproducibility are encouraged.
Dr. Xiaoyu Yang
Prof. Mark Wilson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cranial
- spinel
- peripheral nerve
- pediatric
- pre-operative evaluation
- risk stratification
- prognostic models
- patient-reported outcomes
- peri-operative pathways
- equity
- AI
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