January 10, 2012, 17:42

Neurocirugía Hoy, Vol. 3, Numero 11 View more presentations from Surgical Neurology International.

January 9, 2012, 18:05

December 29, 2011, 8:30

Android users, we have not forgotten you! Our SNI Mobile app is running on iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones, but not on Android tablets…. yet. Take a look at these screenshots…. we are working on it! Click the image for a full size version. Pretty neat… There is no release date planned at the moment, … Continue reading SNI Mobile on Android tablet →

December 24, 2011, 13:58

Step 1: create a XML file like this (or duplicate exising file and change parameters): SNI Video with pre-roll ad Advertisement Main video Step 2: change the url in the “media:content” tag of the “Main video” to the appropriate value by looking this up at our Vimeo account: Take for example this video Go to … Continue reading Private: How I Do It: adding pre-roll ad to video →

December 20, 2011, 23:16

Russian Neurosurgical Journal; Vol 3, No 3 View more documents from Surgical Neurology International

December 16, 2011, 18:00

While you have been reading our previous post on the work we are currently doing on videos, we have upgraded our Vimeo Plus account to Vimeo Pro. This gives us now the opportunity to combine the flexibility of JW Player with streaming media, which -in turn- allows the large files we are using to be … Continue reading Streaming media →

December 15, 2011, 19:26

Soon you’ll see a lot more of videos on Surgical Neurology International. For that reason we are currently exploring better ways of displaying the videos. This post is about JW Player, and below you see an embedded video that is displayed using the JW Player WordPress plugin. The video fragment is taken from the “How … Continue reading Improving video experience →

December 15, 2011, 19:22

Russian Neurosurgical Journal; Volume 3, No. 2, 2011 View more documents from Surgical Neurology International.

December 15, 2011, 19:13

Russian Neurosurgical Journal; Volume 3, No. 1, 2011 View more documents from Surgical Neurology International.

December 13, 2011, 0:00

Martin Dobes, Vini G Khurana, Bruce Shadbolt, Sanjiv Jain, Sarah F Smith, Robert Smee, Mark Dexter, Raymond Cook

Surgical Neurology International 2011 2(1):176-176

Background: The incidence of primary brain tumors by subtype is currently unknown in Australia. We report an analysis of incidence by tumor subtype in a retrospective multicenter study in the state of New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), with a combined population of >7 million with >97% retention rate for medical care. Methods: Data from histologically confirmed primary brain tumors diagnosed from January 2000 through December 2008 were weighted for patient outflow and data completeness, and age standardized and analyzed using joinpoint analysis. Results: A significant increasing incidence in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) was observed in the study period (annual percentage change [APC], 2.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.4-4.6, n = 2275), particularly after 2006. In GBM patients in the ≥65-year group, a significantly increasing incidence for men and women combined (APC, 3.0; 95% CI, 0.5-5.6) and men only (APC, 2.9; 95% CI, 0.1-5.8) was seen. Rising trends in incidence were also seen for meningioma in the total male population (APC, 5.3; 95% CI, 2.6-8.1, n = 515) and males aged 20-64 years (APC, 6.3; 95% CI, 3.8-8.8). Significantly decreasing incidence trends were observed for Schwannoma for the total study population (APC, −3.5; 95% CI, −7.2 to −0.2, n = 492), significant in women (APC, −5.3; 95% CI, −9.9 to −0.5) but not men. Conclusion: This collection is the most contemporary data on primary brain tumor incidence in Australia. Our registries may observe an increase in malignant tumors in the next few years that they are not detecting now due to late ascertainment. We recommend a direct, uniform, and centralized approach to monitoring primary brain tumor incidence by subtype, including the introduction of nonmalignant data collection.