Neuronal activity in GP and Vim of parkinsonian patients and clinical changes of tremor through surgical interventions.

abstract：:The authors present a series of 47 patients with craniopharyngiomas treated by stereotaxy in the past 15 years. There was no mortality nor immediate postoperative morbidity in the treatment of the cystic portion of the neoplasm. Intracavitary colloidal yttrium (90Y) was extremely effective in obtaining long-lasting di...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Frank F,Fabrizi AP,Frank G,Fioravanti A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient postoperative confusion (POC) occurs in 5-25% of patients following bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation. We retrospectively reviewed data on 96 patients who underwent bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Nine percent of patients developed POC. There was no signi...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Pilitsis JG,Rezai AR,Boulis NM,Henderson JM,Busch RM,Kubu CS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a rare progressive encephalitis that results in intractable seizures, cognitive decline and hemiparesis. Surgery seems to be the only effective way to control seizures in RE patients. OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical, electrophysiological, neuroradiological and histological ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Guan Y,Zhou J,Luan G,Liu X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-year-old woman with a large acoustic schwannoma underwent surgical excision 18 months after Gamma Knife radiosurgery because of transient expansion of the tumor causing ataxia. Histopathologial investigation by the TUNEL method revealed the presence of some apoptotic cells. The findings were compared with finding...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fukuoka S,Oka K,Seo Y,Tokanoshi M,Sumi Y,Nakamura H,Nakamura J,Ikawa F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Postoperative cerebral edema around a deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrode is an uncommon reported complication. The goal of this study was to identify instances of postoperative edema based on clinical presentation, and to remark on their management. METHODS:A retrospective chart review was performe...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fenoy AJ,Villarreal SJ,Schiess MC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) has recently been suggested for treatment of medication-unresponsive gait and axial symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Patients with the rare primary progressive freezing gait disorder (PPFG) have similar disabling symptoms and few therapeutic options...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Ostrem JL,Christine CW,Glass GA,Schrock LE,Starr PA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We compared bilateral globus pallidus internus (GPi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) with bilateral GPi DBS plus ventralis oralis (Vo) thalamotomy to analyze the effect of the combined Vo thalamotomy. METHODS:Between March 2003 and December 2008, 10 patients underwent DBS and/or Vo thalamotomy for treatment of ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kim JP,Chang WS,Cho SR,Chang JW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial hyperthermia of malignant brain tumors has been produced by a heated ferromagnetic implant with a low Curie point. Induction heating of the implant, which is stereotactically implanted in a tumor, is obtained by eddy currents in a high-frequency magnetic field. Safe, repeated and long-term treatment of 35...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kobayashi T,Kida Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Balloon compression of the gasserian ganglion has been a well-established percutaneous treatment of trigeminal neuralgia since the 1980s. However, puncture of the foramen ovale by conventional single-plane fluoroscopy can be difficult in cases of local anatomic abnormalities. CASE PRESENTATION:We present th...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Mendes PD,Martins da Cunha PH,Monteiro KKO,Quites LV,Fonseca Filho GA

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, simulations based on phantom models have become increasingly popular in the medical field. In the field of functional and stereotactic neurosurgery, a cranial phantom would be useful to train operative techniques, such as stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG), to establish new methods as well...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Krüger MT,Coenen VA,Egger K,Shah M,Reinacher PC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute and chronic continuous electrical stimulation at the epileptic focus in the hippocampus or parahippocampal cortex at 130 Hz, 0.21-1.0 ms, 2.5-3.5 V (about 200-300 microA) induces a decrease in focal EEG epileptic interictal activity and also in the occurrence of clinical seizures. This may represent an altern...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Velasco F,Velasco M,Velasco AL,Menez D,Rocha L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his keynote address, the author reviews early work in the surgical management of the epilepsies and presents a state-of-the-art review of current basic science and clinical indications for and results from corpus callosotomy for the treatment of seizure disorders. ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Marino R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 16 years' period, a total of 79 dorsal root entry zone coagulations were performed in 68 patients for deafferentation pain. Of the 23 patients who underwent surgery for pain due to cervical root avulsion, 18 (82%) had a good (12) or fair (6) pain relief (mean follow-up period 51 months). Twelve (57%) patients...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Rath SA,Seitz K,Soliman N,Kahamba JF,Antoniadis G,Richter HP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A therapeutic radiosurgery procedure usually follows a separate diagnostic stereotactic procedure after days or weeks. OBJECTIVES:To define the clinical reliability, safety, and cost implications of same-day diagnostic stereotactic biopsy and therapeutic radiosurgery. METHODS:During an 8-year interval, 26 ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Park KJ,Niranjan A,Kondziolka D,Kano H,Castillo P,Matchett JC,Flickinger JC,Lunsford LD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomographic (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), MR angiographic and angiographic images, obtained after complete nidus obliteration had been angiographically confirmed, were reviewed in 9 patients who had undergone Gamma Knife treatment for cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). The period between angiograph...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Yamamoto M,Jimbo M,Ide M,Lindquist C,Steiner L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internal neurolysis (IN) is an effective surgical treatment for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) without neurovascular compression (NVC) or postoperative recurrence. However, the trigeminal nerve is directly manipulated during the procedure, and there is a high incidence of trigeminocardiac reflex (TCR). The aim of...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Wu M,Jiang X,Niu C,Fu X

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, no consensus has been reached regarding validated and practical tools to quantify the severity of hemifacial spasm (HFS) before and after surgery. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study has been to establish objective parameters for determining the preoperative severity of HFS and to assess the correlatio...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lee JA,Jo KW,Kong DS,Park K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Experimental data and case reports of patients with intractable epilepsy treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) suggest a considerable anticonvulsant effect. However, no satisfactory mechanisms of action have yet been elucidated. We investigated the putative therapeutic me...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Shon YM,Lee KJ,Kim HJ,Chung YA,Ahn KJ,Kim YI,Yang DW,Kim BS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peacock is a 3-D conformal treatment planning and delivery system for conformal radiation therapy which delivers intensity-modulated fields. A group of 13 patients were treated between March and February, 1995. Patient age ranged from 10 to 74. Six of the patients had previously received radiation therapy. Target volu...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Carol M,Grant WH 3rd,Pavord D,Eddy P,Targovnik HS,Butler B,Woo S,Figura J,Onufrey V,Grossman R,Selkar R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed whether gamma knife radiosurgery is effective for patients with acromegaly where the pituitary tumors invaded the cavernous sinus. Radiosurgery was performed on 9 patients (average of 20 Gy to the tumor margin), 8 of whom had already undergone transsphenoidal surgery and/or craniotomy with occasio...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fukuoka S,Ito T,Takanashi M,Hojo A,Nakamura H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several subcortical structures have been targeted for surgical treatment of dystonia, including motor thalamus, internal segment of globus pallidus (GPi), and more recently, the subthalamic nucleus (STN). Deep brain stimulation of GPi is currently the preferred surgical treatment, but it is unclear if target...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Novak KE,Nenonene EK,Bernstein LP,Vergenz S,Cozzens JW,Rezak M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to shed light on the first application of human functional stereotactic neurosurgery, whether it was in the realm of movement disorders, as has been claimed repeatedly, or in the realm of psychiatry, a review of the original scholarly literature was conducted. Tracking and scrutinising original publications b...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Rzesnitzek L,Hariz M,Krauss JK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative functional analysis of firing patterns has made it possible to classify human VL neurons into two basic types: (1), units with irregular unitary 3-to 20-imp/s activity (A type) and (2) units with short (10-30 ms) rhythmic (3-6 Hz) burst discharges (B type). These two basic types of VL neurons, determi...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Raeva SN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is mostly caused by vascular compression of the nerve's root entry zone due to an ectatic artery. Rarer causes include compression from tumors, vascular malformations or multiple sclerosis plaques. Developmental venous anomalies (DVAs) are benign, aberrantly appearing venous struc...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Harrison G,Lunsford LD,Monaco Iii EA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) lesions are effective in treating specific pain syndromes, most notably post-brachial plexus avulsion. There is limited experience, however, with lesions in the conus medullaris. We review the case of a patient having pelvic pain and urinary retention who failed to improve despite multipl...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Gorecki JP,Burt T,Wee A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correct explanation of the term 'stereotaxy' is linguistically not self-evident because the Greek term stereon means not spatial but 'hard' or 'solid'. The aim of our study was to clarify the term stereotaxy historically and linguistically. We carried out our study by reviewing the neurosurgical and ancient Greek ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Grunert P Sr,Keiner D,Oertel J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical experience with the use of pergolide is presented in 55 patients with Parkinson's disease. Fifty to 900 micrograms/day (mean 242.73, SD 217.51) of pergolide and 0.64-17.05 micrograms/kg/day (mean 4.58, SD 4.25) pergolide was given together with L-carbidopa to 29 males and 26 females for a period of up to 2 ye...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Amano K,Takakura K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate dose conformity and mean target dose in light of previous comparative studies and state-of-the-art radiosurgery delivery modalities. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Seven patients with acoustic neuromas deemed clinically suitable for linear accelerator or Gamma Knife radiosurgery were planned such that the m...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Perks JR,El-Hamri K,Blackburn TP,Plowman PN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is possible to judge the impact of scientific research by the number of citations a publication has received. We identified the most cited works in the field of stereotactic radiosurgery to study the evolution of this field from the perspective of publication. METHODS:A Web of Science search was performed...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kondziolka D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the radiobiological effect of Gamma Knife radiosurgery on brain tumors, we performed a histological study on nine cases. In two, the material was obtained at autopsy and in seven following surgery. In the central region of the radiation field, destructive changes occurred both in tumor cells and in vessel...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hirato M,Hirato J,Zama A,Inoue H,Ohye C,Shibazaki T,Andou Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00