King’s Neurosurgery Skills Lab

Our mission: To provide free and repetitive opportunities to hone neurosurgical skills that are directly transferrable to theatre.

Grateful for the opportunity to present at the 19th World Congress of Neurosurgery @wfns_neurosurg (#WFNS2025) in Dubai! 🧠

KNL co-lead and TPD Mr @AhilanKVasan speaking at the #Kings30 meeting on the @KingsNeuro way and the importance of training future neurovascular surgeons

@KingsNeuroLab @OCTWW @JungJosephine @NidaKalyal @sebmigueltoescu @hugo_lh @M_El_Sheikh @jon_funnell @KingsNeuro Excellent day with engaged trainees from the London rotation and also as far afield as Scotland and Liverpool. Plenty of chat today about how much condyle is enough #ifyouknowyouknow - no doubt one piece vs two piece will generate the same debate in May.

Another great day in the mock OR for the third installment of KNL, focusing on the Far Lateral approach, with great weather welcoming our delegates from near and far! Next installment - the OZ...

2 Petrous part of ICA 3 Superior semicircular canal corresponds to the arcuate eminence, a landmark used to help identify the porus acoustics during the middle temporal approach for intracanalicular VS.

Facial nerve parasympathetic supply to the submandibular gland is via the chorda tympani which merges with the lingual nerve to synapse in the submandibular ganglion. Parasympathetic supply to the parotid travels with the glossopharyngeal nerve via the otic ganglion.

Quiz 4 1What is the structure highlighted in yellow, how does it leave the cranium and what is its function? 2Which segment of which blood vessel is underlying it? 3What is the structure marked with the number 1 and its bony landmark

Early morning coffee on the balcony ahead of the pterional masterclass by @AhilanKVasan @JonathanShapey

This is a different eponymous stroke syndrome to Dejerine-Roussy which describes a contralateral hemibody pain syndrome developing after unilateral thalamic injury.

This the continuation of the ascending dorsal column which crosses after synapsing with second order neurones in the nuclei cuneatus and gracili.

Neuroanatomy quiz 3 1What is the yellow structures and where does it originate? 2How does a supranuclear lesion affecting it manifest and how is this different from a nuclear/infranuclear lesion?

3What is the name of the clinical syndrome in which a nuclear/infranuclear lesion to this nerve is accompanied by contralateral hemiplegia and hemisensory loss?

4.      Optic radiation, contalateral  homonymous hemianopia

Bilateral LGB lesions can result in hourglass field defects, typically this can result from extrapontine myelinolysis because of rapid overcorrection of hyponatraemia.

Neuroanatomy quiz 2 1What is the structure highlighted in yellow? 2What is its blood supply? 3How can disruption to the vascular supply manifest clinically? 4What is the structure labelled 1 and the consequence of damage to it?

We are very excited to announce that we have found our new permanent home in the mock OR in KCL's SIE, with an exciting programme of free human tissue dissection courses. Please see details here: kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-neu…