Hydrocephalus as the initial presentation of a spinal cord astrocytoma associated with leptomeningeal spread.

abstract：:A 3-year-old boy with chronic papilledema, bilateral coronal synostosis and Pfeiffer syndrome underwent an orbitofrontal advancement. One month postoperatively, his papilledema had resolved, however, his vision progressively deteriorated over the ensuing 3 months to legal blindness. He had no symptoms or signs of incr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Campbell JW,Albright AL,Losken HW,Biglan AW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the head injury in children caused by an unusual projectile, a tear gas cartridge. The study is the only one on this subject which has been done in a teenage population. METHOD:This was a prospective study conducted over a period of 4 years in which all the patients aged ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Wani AA,Zargar J,Ramzan AU,Malik NK,Qayoom A,Kirmani AR,Nizami FA,Wani MA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tumours of the choroid plexus are rare tumours of neuro-ectodermal origin, accounting for less than 1% of all intracranial tumours. Most cases present in children less than 2 years of age. While choroid plexus carcinomas (CPC) are reported to have an extremely poor prognosis, choroid plexus papillomas (CPP) a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： McEvoy AW,Harding BN,Phipps KP,Ellison DW,Elsmore AJ,Thompson D,Harkness W,Hayward RD

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

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：:The computed tomographic (CT) scanning characteristics of a case of intra-fourth-ventricle mature teratoma in a 15-month-old child are described and correlated with intraoperative findings. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Srinivasan US,Joseph T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial hydatidosis is mainly a pediatric disease. Surgical evacuation of the mass in toto is the gold standard of therapy. No concise data related to the requirement of diversion procedures after uncomplicated hydatid cyst removal is encountered in the literature. The aim of this report is to focus on this idea ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Onal C,Erguvan-Onal R,Yakinci C,Karayol A,Atambay M,Daldal N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 60 years congenital kyphotic deformities of the spine have been categorized into two distinct groups, depending on the developmental defect. Those arising from a failure of formation of the vertebral bodies were classified as type 1, while those arising from a failure of segmentation were referred to as type ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Philips MF,Dormans J,Drummond D,Schut L,Sutton LN

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:Posterior plagiocephaly secondary to lambdoid suture stenosis requires surgical release and repair to prevent progressive deformational changes associated with a suture stenosis. A surgical technique is described for release of the stenosed lambdoid suture and asterion region, followed by occipital reconstruction. Thi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Jimenez DF,Barone CM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To induce experimental split cord malformations (SCMs) produced through the surgical induction of a dorsal midline fistula. METHODS:In addition, the theory of embryogenesis of SCMs was verified by examining the developmental process of this experimentally induced anomaly. In Cynopus pyrrhogaster (amphibian) ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Emura T,Asashima M,Furue M,Hashizume K

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：PURPOSE:Craniosynostosis patients treated with one-stage cranioplasty often have bleeding from the dura mater, fluid collection in the extradural space, and poor wound healing due to skin overstretching. To avoid these complications, we began using distraction osteogenesis. To determine the advantages and disadvantages...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Akai T,Iizuka H,Kawakami S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningeal melanocytoma is an infrequent neoplasm of the central nervous system (CNS), especially in childhood and infancy. It was first described as an entity different from pigmented meningiomas and schwannomas in 1972, and few cases have been published so far. In this article, a 5-month-old male patient with meninge...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Oruckaptan HH,Soylemezoglu F,Kutluk T,Akalan N

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the outcome and recurrence in supratentorial anaplastic ependymoma. METHODS:Sixteen cases of supratentorial anaplastic ependymoma were reviewed. The average age of presentation was 8.2 years ranging from 1 to 16 years of age. The mean duration between the onset of first symptoms to time of presentation wa...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kumar R,Singhal N,Jaiswal SK,Mahapatra AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The majority of the present distraction osteogenesis techniques involve local site expansion that only produces localized decompression and affords limited decompression and cosmetic results. We designed a new surgical procedure, total calvarial transsutural distraction osteogenesis (TSuDO). METHODS:We pe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Park DH,Yoon SH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pediatric low-grade gliomas comprise a diverse range of central nervous system tumors, sharing the usual course of a slow progression in growth. In individual cases however, the natural history can be variable, and rarely spontaneous regression has been described. This paper describes factors associated with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Rozen WM,Joseph S,Lo PA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Gorham-Stout disease is a rare entity characterized by vascular proliferation causing local destruction of bone tissue. Owing to its low incidence and variable clinical presentation, the diagnosis requires a high degree of awareness by the clinician. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:We present the case o...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Hernández-Marqués C,Serrano González A,Cordobés Ortega F,Alvarez-Coca J,Sirvent Cerda S,Carceller Lechón F,Azorín Cuadrillero D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior fossa syndrome (PFS), also known as cerebellar affective syndrome, is characterized by emotional lability and decreased speech production following injury or surgery to the cerebellum. Rarely, oculomotor dysfunction has been described in association with PFS. Here, we report a case of complete ocular paresis...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Afshar M,Link M,Edwards MS,Fisher PG,Fredrick D,Monje M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of the study are 126 children with internal hydrocephalus treated within the period 1978-1990. The children were preoperatively divided into six groups according to the etiology of the hydrocephalus. Disorders of the visual functions accompanying elevated intracranial pressure (setting sun 51, syndrome of t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Tzekov C,Cherninkova S,Gudeva T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cavum veli interpositi (CVI) usually is a small CSF-containing abnormality of septum pellucidum, asymptomatic and rare after the age of 3 years. When symptomatic, it is large and can be related to psychiatric disorders, syndromic association of mental retardation and seizures or to hydrocephalus. METHOD...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Giussani C,Fiori L,Trezza A,Riva M,Sganzerla EP

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:Osteoblastomas and aneurysmal bone cysts are uncommon benign tumors of the spine. Their presentation can vary between diffuse pain, restriction of neck movements, torticollis, radiculopathy, and myelopathy. Complete excision is the best treatment to achieve a cure, but recurrence is not uncommon. A combination of the ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Mishra A,Pruthi N,Nandeesh BN,Shukla D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We here describe the case of a boy with an atypical teratoid-rhabdoid tumor (ATRT) of the 4th ventricle at 1 year of age and a local tumor recurrence at 19 months of age. Due to brainstem infiltration, only incomplete tumor resection was possible each time. High-dose chemotherapy, stem cell transplantation and irradia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Beschorner R,Mittelbronn M,Koerbel A,Ernemann U,Thal DR,Scheel-Walter HG,Meyermann R,Tatagiba M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed 16 children with extradural spinal tumors, both benign and malignant, treated from 1998 to 2006 in Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. The duration of symptomatology, clinical signs, radiological investigations, surgical approach, outcome and histopathological var...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kumar R,Giri PJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts at radical excision of craniopharyngioma has been made increasingly possible by the advent of neuroradiological imaging and the use of microscopic technique. Between 1977 and 1993, 62 patients of The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, have undergone surgical excision of craniopharyngiom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Symon L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral sparganosis in childhood is very rare. Until 1996, 2 cases in children up to 15 years of age had been described. We report a case of cerebral sparganosis in a 6-year-old girl who presented with seizures. Sequential brain magnetic resonance imaging scans spaced over 4 months showed a lesion which migrated from...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kim CY,Cho BK,Kim IO,Hwang YS,Wang KC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young patient with a large left hemisphere porencephalic cyst underwent neuroimaging investigation (functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), EEG-fMRI, DTI tractography) during presurgical evaluation for intractable epilepsy. The functional workup showed that (a) the healthy hemisphere had undertaken language pr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Kokkinos V,Garganis K,Kontogiannis K,Zountsas B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniopharyngiomas can be divided into sellar, prechiasmatic, retrochiasmatic and giant tumors. The initial approach to a craniopharyngioma should be an attempt at its removal. Only if surgical therapy fails to deal with the tumor should more conservative approaches utilizing radiotherapy be used. The use of intracyst...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Hoffman HJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial capillary hemangiomas are very rare, though several spinal capillary hemangiomas have recently been reported. We report here a case of intracranial capillary hemangioma with multiple cysts and review the current literature of similar cases. A 4-month-old girl was referred to our hospital for treatment of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurosurgery

authors： Uyama A,Kawamura A,Akiyama H,Nakamizo S,Yamamoto K,Nagashima T,Uetani T,Takeda H,Yoshida M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00