The General University Hospital of Alicante is a public hospital dependent on the Department of Universal Health and Public Health of the Generalitat Valenciana located in the Spanish city of Alicante.
Opened in 1957, it is one of the main reference hospitals in the Valencian Community.
Incidencias Guardia
Atención continuada Residente-Adjunto.
=/P/N/S y Listado de ingresados.
Intervenciones día siguiente.
Complicaciones.
Interconsultas pendientes.
Solicitud de traslados.
Discusión de casos particulares.
Problemas administrativos.
Publicaciones.
Editor de publicaciones y planning
Pediatric neurosurgery Fernández-Cornejo V Verdú-Martínez I
Skull Base Surgery- González-López P Abarca-Olivas J
Pituitary tumor surgery-Abarca-Olivas J Flores-Justa A
Complex Spine surgery JV Molla JJ Rodriguez Noguera
Stereotactic Neurosurgery and Functional Neurosurgery Caminero-Canas MÁ
Vascular neurosurgery Nieto E Baño
Innovation and Machine learning J.Sales-Llopis
Yearly Evaluation
1. Number of neurosurgical procedures
2. Activity Breakdown of neurosurgeons
3. Objectives
4. Education
5. NEEDS
6. MORBIDITY
7. MORTALITY
Paja M, Soto A, Hanzu FA, Guerrero-Pérez F, Cámara R, Moure D, Gálvez Á, Simó-Servat A, Villar-Taibo R, Calatayud M, Vicente A, Recio-Córdova JM, Serra G, Martín Rojas-Marcos P, Parra-Ramírez P, Araujo-Castro M, Librizzi S, Irigaray A, Ollero D, Aznar S, Muñoz F, Aulinas A, González-Fernández L, García-Centeno R, Egaña N, González-Vidal T, Menéndez E, Delgado AM, Abarca J, Sottile J, Picó AM, Novo C, Ortiz I, Tenorio C, de León R, de Pablos-Velasco P, Crespo C, Peñalver D, Díaz-Soto G, Puig-Domingo M, Biagetti B. Outcomes of transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenomas in Spain: a retrospective multicenter study. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2025 Feb 21;16:1529418. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2025.1529418. PMID: 40060376; PMCID: PMC11886961.
Ozoner B, Gurses ME, Ozturk M, Arslan S, Ergen A, Tubbs RS, Gonzalez-Lopez MP, Luzzi S, Gungor A. Tailored Callosotomy in Third Ventricle Colloid Cyst Resection via Anterior Interhemispheric Transcallosal Approach. World Neurosurg. 2025 Feb 12:123734. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2025.123734. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39952402.
Muñoz-Gualan AP, Gungor A, Romano-Albornoz M, Gurses ME, Elias C, Topcam A, Ramanov S, Ture U. The Supracerebellar Suprapineal Approach: A Novel Method to Separate Cadaveric Brain Hemispheres and Preserve the Midline Structures. Sisli Etfal Hastan Tip Bul. 2024 Dec 24;58(4):417-421. doi: 10.14744/SEMB.2024.92679. PMID: 39816423; PMCID: PMC11729829.
Otero-Fernández P, Abarca-Olivas J, González-López P, Martorell-Llobregat C, Flores-Justa A, Villena-Martín M, Nieto-Navarro J. Endoscopic approaches to the posterior wall of the third ventricle: An anatomical comparison. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2024 Oct;245:108511. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2024.108511. Epub 2024 Aug 19. PMID: 39180812.
González-López P, Kuptsov A, Gómez-Revuelta C, Fernández-Villa J, Abarca-Olivas J, Daniel RT, Meling TR, Nieto-Navarro J. The Integration of 3D Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Technology as Innovative Approaches to Preoperative Planning in Neuro-Oncology. J Pers Med. 2024 Feb 7;14(2):187. doi: 10.3390/jpm14020187. PMID: 38392620; PMCID: PMC10890029.
Cossu G, Aureli V, Roulet-Perez E, Thomas C, Marston JS, Pralong E, Messerer M, González-López P, Daniel RT. Central quadrantotomy for intractable childhood epilepsy: operative technique and functional neuroanatomy. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2023 Feb 10:1-9. doi: 10.3171/2022.11.PEDS22356. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36787130.
González-López P, Martorell-Llobregat C, Beneš V, Daniel RT. Middle fossa approach for a facial nerve schwannoma: how I do it. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2022 Apr 6. doi: 10.1007/s00701-022-05199-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35384500.
Ramos-Rincon JM, Monjas-Canovas I, Abarca-Olivas J, Gras-Albert JR, Bellinchón-Romero I, Gonzalez-Alcaide G. Research in Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak (Rhinorrhea and Otorrhea): A Bibliometric Analysis From 1945 to 2018. Cureus. 2022 Feb 3;14(2):e21888. doi: 10.7759/cureus.21888. PMID: 35265419; PMCID: PMC8898118.
González-López P, Cossu G, Thomas CM, Marston JS, Gómez C, Pralong E, Messerer M, Daniel RT. Cadaveric White Matter Dissection Study of the Telencephalic Flexure: Surgical Implications. Front Neurol. 2022 Feb 15;13:757757. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.757757. PMID: 35242095; PMCID: PMC8886146.
Baldoncini M, Luzzi S, Giotta Lucifero A, Flores-Justa A, González-López P, Campero A, Villalonga JF, Lawton MT. Optic Foraminotomy for Clipping of Superior Carotid-Ophthalmic Aneurysms. Front Surg. 2021 Dec 9;8:681115. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2021.681115. PMID: 34957196; PMCID: PMC8695686.
Starnoni D, Tuleasca C, Giammattei L, Cossu G, Bruneau M, Berhouma M, Cornelius JF, Cavallo L, Froelich S, Jouanneau E, Meling TR, Paraskevopoulos D, Schroeder H, Tatagiba M, Zazpe I, Sufianov A, Sughrue ME, Chacko AG, Benes V, González-Lopez P, Roche PH, Levivier M, Messerer M, Daniel RT. Surgical management of anterior clinoidal meningiomas: consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2021 Dec;163(12):3387-3400. doi: 10.1007/s00701-021-04964-3. Epub 2021 Aug 16. PMID: 34398339; PMCID: PMC8599327.
Flores-Justa A, Luzzi S, Giotta Lucifero A, Villalonga JF, Saenz A, Santin-Amo JM, Baldoncini M, Campero A. Use of Neuroanatomic Knowledge and Neuronavigation System for a Safe Anterior Petrosectomy. Brain Sci. 2021 Apr 12;11(4):488. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11040488. PMID: 33921434; PMCID: PMC8069204.
Ryba AS, Sales-Llopis J, Wolfsberger S, Laakso A, Daniel RT, González-López P. Utility of indocyanine green in the detection of radiologically silent hemangioblastomas: case report. J Neurosurg. 2021 Feb 12:1-7. doi: 10.3171/2020.8.JNS202176. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33578384.
Giammattei L, Starnoni D, Benes V, Froelich S, Cossu G, Borsotti F, Májovsky M, Sufianov AA, Fava A, di Russo P, Elbabaa SK, González-López P, Messerer M, Daniel RT. Extreme Lateral Supracerebellar Infratentorial Approach: Surgical Anatomy and Review of the Literature. World Neurosurg. 2021 Mar;147:89-104. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.12.042. Epub 2021 Jan 1. PMID: 33333288.
Silva-Ortega S, García-Martinez A, Niveiro de Jaime M, Torregrosa ME, Abarca J, Monjas I, Picó Alfonso A, Aranda López I. Proposal of a clinically relevant working classification of pituitary neuroendocrine tumors based on pituitary transcription factors. Hum Pathol. 2021 Apr;110:20-30. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2020.12.001. Epub 2020 Dec 13. PMID: 33321163.
El-Ghandour NMF, Ezzat AAM, Zaazoue MA, Gonzalez-Lopez P, Jhawar BS, Soliman MAR. Virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a turning point in neurosurgical education. Neurosurg Focus. 2020 Dec;49(6):E18. doi: 10.3171/2020.9.FOCUS20634. PMID: 33260124.
Cossu G, González-López P, Pralong E, Kalser J, Messerer M, Daniel RT. Unilateral prefrontal lobotomy for epilepsy: technique and surgical anatomy. Neurosurg Focus. 2020 Apr 1;48(4):E10. doi: 10.3171/2020.1.FOCUS19938. PMID: 32234977.
Arikan F, Errando N, Lagares A, Gándara D, Gabarros A, López-Ojeda P, Ibáñez J, Brell M, Gómez PA, Fernández-Alén JA, Morera J, Horcajadas A, Vanaclocha V, Llácer JL, Baño-Ruiz E, Gonçalves-Estella JM, Torné R, Hoyos JA, Sarabia R, Arrese I, Rodríguez-Boto G, de la Lama A, Domínguez J, Martín-Láez R, Santamarta-Gómez D, Delgado-López PD, Ley-Urzaiz L, Mateo O, Iza B, Orduna-Martínez J, de Asís Lorente-Muñoz F, Muñoz-Hernández F, Iglesias J, Vilalta J. Variability of Clinical and Angiographic Results Based on the Treatment Preference (Endovascular or Surgical) of Centers Participating in the Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Database of the Working Group of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery. World Neurosurg. 2020 Mar;135:e339-e349. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.11.163. Epub 2019 Dec 5. PMID: 31811967.
Gonzalez-Lopez P, Cossu G, Pralong E, Baldoncini M, Messerer M, Daniel RT. Anterior peri-insular quadrantotomy: a cadaveric white matter dissection study. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2019 Dec 20:1-9. doi: 10.3171/2019.10.PEDS19472. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 31860823.
Spina A, Gagliardi F, Abarca-Olivas J, Bailo M, Boari N, Gonzalez-Lopez P, Gragnaniello C, Caputy AJ, Mortini P. Endonasal Endoscopic and Transoral Approaches to the Craniovertebral Junction and the Clival Region: A Comparative Anatomical Study. World Neurosurg. 2019 Dec;132:e116-e123. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.08.243. Epub 2019 Sep 10. PMID: 31518738.
Flores-Justa A, Baldoncini M, Pérez Cruz JC, Sánchez Gonzalez F, Martínez OA, González-López P, Campero Á. White Matter Topographic Anatomy Applied to Temporal Lobe Surgery. World Neurosurg. 2019 Dec;132:e670-e679. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.08.050. Epub 2019 Aug 20. PMID: 31442654.
Cossu G, González-López P, Daniel RT. The transcallosal transchoroidal approach to the diencephalic-mesencephalic junction: how I do it. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2019 Nov;161(11):2329-2334. doi: 10.1007/s00701-019-04040-x. Epub 2019 Aug 15. PMID: 31418066.
Gunness VRN, Munoz I, González-López P, Alshafai N, Mikalkova A, Spears J. Intracranial angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma with Hodgkin lymphoma. Med J Malaysia. 2019 Jun;74(3):234-236. PMID: 31256181.
Gunness VRN, Munoz D, González-López P, Alshafai N, Mikhalkova A, Spears J. Ipsilateral brain cavernoma under scleroderma plaque: a case report. Pan Afr Med J. 2019 Jan 8;32:13. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2019.32.13.15288. PMID: 31143318; PMCID: PMC6522175.
Baldoncini M, Campero A, Pérez Cruz JC, Recalde R, Parraga R, Sanchez Gonzalez FJ, Fortte M, López PG. Microsurgical Anatomy and Approaches to the Cerebral Central Core. World Neurosurg. 2019 Sep;129:e23-e34. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.04.139. Epub 2019 May 17. PMID: 31103755.
Bärtschi P, Luna E, González-López P, Abarca J, Herrero J, Costa E, Paya A, Sales J, Moreno P. A very rare case of a right insular lobe Langerhans cell histiocytosis (CD1a +) mimicking glioblastoma multiforme in a young adult. World Neurosurg. 2018 Sep 24. pii: S1878-8750(18)32139-9. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.09.093. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30261373.
Elbabaa SK, Gonzalez-Lopez P. Management of Challenging Hydrocephalus Scenarios: Clinical Perspective. World Neurosurg. 2016 Dec;96:599-601. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.08.119. Epub 2016 Sep 5. PMID: 27609445.
Innovative Therapeutic Strategies in the Treatment of Meningioma
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Three-dimensional endoscopic endonasal study of skull base anatomy
Caspani EM, Crossley PH, Redondo-Garcia C, Martinez S. Glioblastoma: a pathogenic crosstalk between tumor cells and pericytes. PLoS One. 2014 Jul 17;9(7):e101402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101402. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 25032689; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4102477.
Perforating brain injury from a speargun. A case report
Volumetric measurement of the posterior fossa and its components using magnetic resonance imaging in idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia
Influence of the atmospheric pressure and other variable weather on the incidence of the subarachnoid hemorrhage
The role of platybasia in trigeminal neuralgia
Two cases of brain haemorrhage secondary to developmental venous anomaly thrombosis. Bibliographic review
The use of intravenous levetiracetam in a general hospital