The 2017 World Health Organization classification of tumors of the pituitary gland 1).
Carney N, Totten AM, O'Reilly C, Ullman JS, Hawryluk GW, Bell MJ, Bratton SL, Chesnut R, Harris OA, Kissoon N, Rubiano AM, Shutter L, Tasker RC, Vavilala MS, Wilberger J, Wright DW, Ghajar J. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition. Neurosurgery. 2017 Jan 1;80(1):6-15. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000001432. PMID: 27654000.
In 2017, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) published guidelines for healthcare-associated ventriculitis treatment and meningitis treatment 2).
International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) 2017 classification
In 2010, the RANO criteria for high-grade gliomas was developed by a consensus of experts to update the original Macdonald criteria and account for challenges to response assessment such as pseudoprogression and pseudoresponse. Subsequent studies have suggested a limited benefit of incorporating T2/FLAIR evaluation on the correlation of PFS with OS. Moreover, some new therapies, particularly immunotherapy and viral therapies, are more likely to induce transient worsening of contrast enhancement that might lead to erroneous determination of radiographic disease progression. As a result, the modified RANO criteria were proposed in 2017 and differed from RANO by use of the post-radiation scan as the baseline scan, omission of FLAIR evaluation, and requirement of a confirmation scan to determine progressive disease.
The SEOM published clinical guidelines for glioblastoma diagnosis and glioblastoma treatment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5785619/
ORBEYE launched to the healthcare community at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in Boston, October 7-11, 2017.
World Congress of Neurosurgery August 20-25, 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Christopher R. Honey et al., from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada described a condition, hemilaryngopharyngeal spasm (HELPS), which can cause severe episodic stridor leading to unconsciousness in association with cough. The first recognized and surgically cured patient with HELPS was reported in 2017 3).