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This Week in Neurosurgery — Jul 23, 2026
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Welcome to This Week in Neurosurgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning spinal reconstruction, neuro-oncology advances, and surgical complications. Let's dive in. Beginning with spinal cord injury and deformity management, regenerative and reconstructive frontiers are moving forward.
This week's papers:
An iPSC-derived neural progenitor cell therapy for subacute spinal cord injury: a phase 1 trial with long-term follow-up…
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