Arachnoid cyst rupture with concurrent subdural hygroma.

abstract：:The authors present aspects of the skull base in trigonocephalic children. Different patterns on clinical anthropometric investigation, bidimensional computer tomography (CT) scan and three-dimensional (3D) CT scan were studied. We present a series of 27 cases of trigonocephaly operated on in the department of pediatr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Genitori L,Cavalheiro S,Lena G,Dollo C,Choux M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associated cranial abnormalities with spinal dysraphism are not uncommon. We came across an unusual case of a 1-year-old male child with spinal dysraphism having lumbar meningomyelocele, who also had split cord malformation (hemicord with intervening bony spur) with lipoma of one of the hemicord and filum terminale. T...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Nayak PK,Mahapatra AK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven patients with Dandy-Walker malformation were treated between 1959 and 1989. Eighty percent of patients became symptomatic by 3 years of age, with 70% presenting within the 1st year of life. Hydrocephalus was present in 91% of patients at the time of diagnosis. Clinical presentation was most often heralded...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Osenbach RK,Menezes AH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal malignancy metastatic to the fetus is a rare event, with most neoplasms being either melanocytic or hematopoietic in origin. This report is the first known case of a maternal lung adenocarcinoma metastatic to a fetus. At 2 months of age, this male infant developed multiple scalp masses that were locally resec...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Harpold TL,Wang MY,McComb JG,Monforte HL,Levy ML,Reinisch JF

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to compare the effects of continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion (CIBI) and selective posterior rhizotomy (SPR) on upper extremity (UE) spasticity and range of motion in children with cerebral palsy. Spasticity was assessed with the Ashworth scale of muscle tone and range of motion was evalu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Albright AL,Barry MJ,Fasick MP,Janosky J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skull defects in children may be congenital or acquired after trauma, infection or tumor. For defects that do not close spontaneously a variety of repair (cranioplasty) materials are available including bone, metals and acrylic. Where possible calvarial autogenous bone is preferred, particularly in younger infants, bu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Hockley AD,Goldin JH,Wake MJ,Iqbal J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and pattern of cervical spinal fusions have been assessed in 59 cases of Apert syndrome (acrocephalosyndactyly type 1). Radiological evidence of vertebral fusion either in progress or completed was observed in 37 (63%) of the cases. Fusion was limited to a single vertebral level in 18 cases and multiple...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Thompson DN,Slaney SF,Hall CM,Shaw D,Jones BM,Hayward RD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem gliomas (BSG) with intrinsic and extensive brainstem involvement continue to have a poor outlook despite current treatment approaches. Neuroimaging studies have aided in the differentiation of malignant brainstem tumors from more 'benign' subgroups. A Children's Cancer Group protocol evaluating outcome in ch...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kaplan AM,Albright AL,Zimmerman RA,Rorke LB,Li H,Boyett JM,Finlay JL,Wara WM,Packer RJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten children with a tethered cord and also an anorectal malformation are reported in this document. The anorectal malformations comprised 5 vesicointestinal fissures, 2 cloacal exstrophies, 2 rectovesical fistulas and 1 rectobulbar fistula. All of the patients underwent colostomy in advance of surgery for untethering ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Morimoto K,Takemoto O,Wakayama A

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Complications arising from the placement of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts are well documented. A case of infertility is presented that was thought to result from factors related to the distal end of a VP shunt residing within a patient's abdomen. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 30-year-old female w...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： White JB,Raffel C,Blackwell RE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous infection of the cavernous sinus and Meckel's cave is extremely rare. In this report, we describe a patient with tuberculoma of the cavernous sinus and Meckel's cave, extending to the petrous apex. The patient underwent microsurgical excision of the lesion and antitubercular chemotherapy resulting in a goo...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kumar VR,Madhugiri VS,Verma SK,Barathi SD,Yadav AK,Bidkar P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight myelodysplastic children developed isolated lateral ventriculomegaly following shunt insertion for progressive hydrocephalus after closure of a myelomeningocele. In all patients a low-pressure distal slit valve (Uni-shunt) system preceded development of an isolated contralateral ventricle. Six of 8 children requ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Berger MS,Sundsten J,Lemire RJ,Silbergeld D,Newell D,Shurtleff D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case involving multiple intracranial aneurysms with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in a child, accompanied by unilateral fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) of the renal artery, is reported. A 12-year-old girl presented with secondary hypertension and fourth-ventricle IVH. Cerebral angiography showed multiple aneu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Park DH,Kang SH,Lim DJ,Kwon TH,Park JY,Chung YG,Lee HK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of a patient with Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome associated with hypothalamic hamartoma is described. The English-language literature contains no cases of patients with this association. The clinical manifestations of this syndrome, those of hypothalamic hamartomas, and the appearance of the tumors on magnet...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Diaz LL,Grech KF,Prados MD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomies in children less than 1 year old is reported. Twenty-seven patients underwent the procedure with 21 (77%) failing within a mean of 1.36 months of the procedure. Nineteen were subsequently shunted. The presence or absence of flow through the ventriculostomy and the si...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Buxton N,Macarthur D,Mallucci C,Punt J,Vloeberghs M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal treatment for hydrocephalus related to Dandy-Walker syndrome (DWS) remains elusive. Patients with DWS-related hydrocephalus often require combinations of shunting systems to effectively drain both the supratentorial ventricles and posterior fossa cyst. We describe an endoscopic technique, whereby a frontally p...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Sikorski CW,Curry DJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, hemispherectomy is a well-established procedure for the treatment of some sorts of catastrophic epilepsies. This, however, has not always been the case. The technique was developed to deal with brain tumors; however, the initial results were not remarkable. Moreover, when its morbidity became evident, it was al...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： de Almeida AN,Marino R Jr

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a child with Apert syndrome is presented in which the development and rupture of an intracranial mycotic aneurysm occurred secondary to multiple infectious complications following craniofacial surgery. An endovascular procedure was utilized in an attempt to embolize the aneurysm and parent vessel. The pati...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Uchiyama CM,Brockmeyer DL,Cherny WB,Jacobs JJ,Walker ML

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The failure rate following endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) in infants younger than 2 years of age has been reported to be higher compared with that of older children, and it is unclear whether ETV might be superior to shunt placement in this age group. METHODS:Between 2003 and 2009, 23 patients young...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Gallo P,Szathmari A,De Biasi S,Mottolese C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case report of a 21-month-old female patient to highlight magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings associated with papilledema in a pediatric patient with an intracranial tumor. The MR findings included optic disc elevation, dilated perioptic subarachnoid spaces, optic nerve tortuosity and restricted diff...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Pakzad-Vaezi K,Cochrane D,Sargent M,Singhal A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary spinal primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PSPNET) is extremely rare and only 25 cases have been reported in the world literature so far. Three patients of 8, 9 and 18 years of age, who presented with variable grades of neurological deficit were diagnosed as having a dorsal intramedullary lesion, a holocord lesio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kumar R,Reddy SJ,Wani AA,Pal L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to neoplasia, lesions of focal cerebral dysplasia are thought to be completed developmental processes of abnormal neuronal migration. We present three children with seizures resulting from brain lesions which pathologically demonstrate regions of both clearcut focal cortical dysplasia and also hypercellula...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Madsen JR,Vallat AV,Poussaint TY,Scott RM,De Girolami U,Anthony DC

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been numerous reported cases of diffuse intravascular coagulation (DIC) or defibrination syndrome associated with head trauma, but very few reported cases associated with primary brain tumor. This report concerns the findings in a case of DIC associated with brain tumor surgery in an infant. The patient die...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Huang PS,Koo KE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflicted traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a frequent consequence of physical child abuse in infants and children. Twenty-eight children who were 2-42 months of age when hospitalized for moderate to severe TBI were enrolled in a prospective, longitudinal study of neurobehavioral outcome following acquired brain injury....

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Ewing-Cobbs L,Prasad M,Kramer L,Landry S

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the functional development of the fourth ventricular outlet in the myeloschisis-Chiari malformation complex with that of a normal brain, the chronological development of the outlet in C57BL/6J non-neural-tube defect mouse embryos was examined as the first step. Then we compared the results with those of hom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Wang KC,Higbee R,Knepper PA,McLone DG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18th century report of a device for repeated extracranial drainage of cerebrospinal fluid in the treatment of congenital hydrocephalus is reviewed. On 15th October 1744, the French surgeon Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) introduced a specially invented canula into the lateral ventricle of a newborn boy with hydro...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kompanje EJ,Delwel EJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though detected with increasing frequency, intracranial carotid artery dissection remains less common in infancy. We report on 3 otherwise healthy children aged 8, 12 and 15 years who presented with focal headache and stroke secondary to intracranial carotid occlusive disease consistent with arterial dissection. In 2 ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Pozzati E,Galassi E,Godano U,Cordella L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We report a special type of skull fracture in children - internal open brain injury (IOBI). We summarize its clinical characteristics and propose a treatment strategy based on our experience. METHODS:Eight patients between 2 and 5 years old were identified to have IOBI. Preoperative computed tomography (CT) scann...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Yang CH,Li Q,Li GP,You C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Myxopapillary ependymomas (MPEs) in children are rarely reported low-grade glial tumors; however, MPEs sometimes possess malignant characteristics such as spinal seeding/drop metastasis (SSM). We aimed to present 3 pediatric MPE cases that experienced SSM at 2 neurosurgical centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Abdallah A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Osteolytic lesions of the skull in children have a broad differential diagnosis including congenital, inflammatory and neoplastic lesions. Progressive osteolysis of the skull secondary to head trauma is rare and has been poorly characterized. METHODS:The pediatric database at our hospital was screened for ch...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Hermann EJ,Hong B,Brandis A,Krauss JK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00