Intraoperative cortical mapping has low sensitivity for the detection of motor function in proximity to a tumor in the primary motor area.

abstract：:Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been reported to be effective treatment for the failed back surgery syndrome in a number of retrospective case series. Its retrospectively reported results compare favorably with those of neurosurgical treatment alternatives, such as reoperation and ablative procedures. There has been...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： North RB,Kidd DH,Lee MS,Piantodosi S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neuropathological consequences of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GK) on hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) are unknown. OBJECTIVE:In a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for treatment-resistant epilepsy, we compared surgically resected HH tissue from patients without (group I; n = 19) and with (group II; n = 10)...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kerrigan JF,Parsons A,Rice SG,Simeone K,Shetter AG,Abla AA,Prenger E,Coons SW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great advances in imaging technology allows the surgeon to visualize the entire brain surface during surgery. However, the cerebral convolutions are extremely complex, so that it is often difficult to define the central area precisely. Using the curvilinear reconstruction technique (Gyroview) and MRI, we have analyzed...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lee U,Bastos AC,Alonso-Vanegas MA,Morris R,Olivier A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between February 1993 and March 1994, 75 metastases, 16 gliomas and 2 AIDS-related malignant lymphomas were treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Metastatic brain tumors (54% lung cancer, 14% breast cancer, 13.5% melanoma) were the most frequent and clinically rewarding cases. So-called local control was achieved in ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Gerosa MA,Nicolato A,Berlucchi S,Piovan E,Zampieri PG,Pasoli A,Foroni R,Giri MG,Marchini G,Babighian S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five gliomas of the cerebral hemisphere in children were examined. Most hemispheric gliomas in children have relatively clear margins and less infiltrative potential. Radiosurgery has a role in the treatment of these tumors in addition to reducing the risk of radiation injuries developing later. Fifteen patient...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

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

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During percutaneous microcompression of the gasserian ganglion for the relief of trigeminal neuralgia, a computerized technique for monitoring the pressure inside Meckel's cave was employed in 22 patients. A dedicated transducer connected to a computer records the balloon inflation pressure. Its variations are discern...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Zanusso M,Curri D,Landi A,Colombo F,Volpin L,Cervellini P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:To estimate the efficacy of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKR) especially as a primary surgical treatment for hypersecreting pituitary adenomas. METHODS:274 patients were treated with GKR. The mean tumor volume was 1.86 cm(3). The mean peripheral dose was 28.7 Gy. RESULTS:223 patients were followed up for an avera...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Zhang N,Pan L,Dai J,Wang B,Wang E,Zhang W,Cai P

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Functional neurosurgery usually requires physiological corroboration of the target site, particularly by eliciting characteristic responses to stimulation, or else by microelectrode recording of single cell responses to appropriate stimuli. Understanding pain physiology with both strategies has proven elusive, particu...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Tasker RR

更新日期：2001-01-01 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/AIMS:Our study aimed to evaluate the efficiency and morbidity of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKS) in the treatment of hemorrhagic brainstem cavernous malformations (CMs). METHODS:We included in this study all patients who underwent GKS for the treatment of a hemorrhagic brainstem CM(s) in our institution betw...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Aboukais R,Estrade L,Devos P,Blond S,Lejeune JP,Reyns N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To demonstrate that motor cortex stimulation (MCS) could improve motor function in patients with neuropathic pain. METHODS:In this prospective clinical study of 38 patients referred for MCS as treatment for their neuropathic pain, we collected any declaration of improvement in motor performance that could b...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Nuti C,Vassal F,Mertens P,Lemaire JJ,Magnin M,Peyron R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cases, the treatment of neuropathic pain by intrathecal opioids fails to meet expectations. In a trial involving 10 patients, the intrathecal administration of clonidine combined with opioids in the treatment of chronic pain was introduced in our department for the first time. Eight patients with neuropathic p...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Uhle EI,Becker R,Gatscher S,Bertalanffy H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple device is described to perform lateral orthogonal approaches using the Leksell stereotactic frame. This device is especially useful for simultaneous bilateral insertion of intracerebral electrodes without the need for attaching the stereotactic arc. It also allows for targeting of far lateral lesions that lie...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Rees Cosgrove G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive and emotional outcomes were assessed after unilateral posteroventral pallidotomy (PVP) and ventral intermediate nucleus thalamotomy (Vim-Th) in patients suffering from idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). PVP was performed on 12 PD patients (8 men and 4 women, mean age 56.4 years, 6 left lesions and 6 right ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fukuda M,Kameyama S,Yoshino M,Tanaka R,Narabayashi H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of induced oscillopsia caused by deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN). Recent reports have described involuntary oscillopsia during DBS of the PPN that patients have described as trembling vision. Here we substantiate this observation using infra-red eye tracking. It has ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Jenkinson N,Brittain JS,Hicks SL,Kennard C,Aziz TZ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study on the effects of bilateral anterior capsulotomy in patients with refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is presented. A total of 18 procedures were performed in 15 patients. The mean duration of the OCDs was 18.1 +/- 5.6 years (range 11-26 years). The mean total Yale-Brown Scale (Y-BOCS) s...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Oliver B,Gascón J,Aparicio A,Ayats E,Rodriguez R,Maestro De León JL,García-Bach M,Soler PA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stereotactic procedures are image guided, often using magnetic resonance (MR) images limited by image distortion, which may influence targets for stereotactic procedures. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this work was to assess methods of identifying target coordinates for stereotactic procedures with MR in multiple p...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kim M,Jung NY,Park CK,Chang WS,Jung HH,Chang JW

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple technique has been designed which identifies the gantry isocenter and aligns the laser beams to the isocenter of the gantry within 3-5 min with an error of less than 0.75 mm, depending upon the accuracy of gantry rotation. ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Heifetz MD,Rosemark PJ,Wexler MC,Greenberg SH,Thompson RW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate if laser Doppler perfusion monitoring (LDPM) can be used in order to differentiate between gray and white matter and to what extent microvascular perfusion can be recorded in the deep brain structures during stereotactic neurosurgery. An optical probe constructed to fit in the L...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Wårdell K,Blomstedt P,Richter J,Antonsson J,Eriksson O,Zsigmond P,Bergenheim AT,Hariz MI

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) lead implantation, it is still controversial whether it is more appropriate to employ indirect or direct methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based tentative targeting and to select single- or multiple-track recording in electrophysiologic...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Koike Y,Shima F,Nakamizo A,Miyagi Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the initial experience with 331 consecutive patients treated during the first 2 years of operation of the University of Pittsburgh Gamma Unit. Among 178 patients with vascular malformations, 161 had angiographically demonstrable arteriovenous malformations, and 17 had angiographically occult malformations....

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Coffey RJ,Lunsford LD,Bissonette D,Flickinger JC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the many reasons why lesional surgery for movement disorders has been more or less abandoned may have been the difficulty in predicting the shape and size of the stereotactic radiofrequency (RF) lesion. OBJECTIVES:To analyse the contribution of various RF coagulation parameters towards the volume of ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hirabayashi H,Hariz MI,Wårdell K,Blomstedt P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Abnormal neurogenesis in the hippocampus after status epilepticus (SE) has been suggested as a key pathogeny of temporal lobe epilepsy. This study aimed to investigate the effect of deep brain stimulation of the anterior thalamic nucleus (ANT-DBS) on hippocampal neurogenesis in LiCl-pilocarpine-induced epilepti...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Tang W,He X,Feng L,Liu D,Yang Z,Zhang J,Xiao B,Yang Z

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic techniques were used to transplant adrenal medullary tissue to the head of the right caudate nucleus in 12 patients with Parkinson's disease. No significant lasting complications were seen. All patients had an initial improvement. 11 of the 12 patients remain improved over their preoperative condition aft...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Gildenberg PL,Pettigrew LC,Merrell R,Butler I,Conklin R,Katz J,DeFrance J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microvascular decompression (MVD) has been the right choice for glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) patients. However, whether glossopharyngeal/vagal nerve root rhizotomy should be combined with MVD is still controversial. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether glossopharyngeal/vagal nerve root rhizotomy during MVD is ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Zheng X,Wei XY,Zhu J,Yuan Y,Ying TT,Li ST

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, a variety of potential mechanical or functional complications ranging from perioperative events to hardware malfunction may occur. We present 2 patients who developed a unique complication of cyst formation at the tip of the DBS electrode in the absence of infection. One...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Ramirez-Zamora A,Levine D,Sommer DB,Dalfino J,Novak P,Pilitsis JG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) using external beam radiation therapy (XRT) alone results in significant local recurrence. To improve local control, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) was used to boost radiation to the primary tumor site following XRT in 23 patients with NPC. SRS was delivered u...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Chang SD,Tate DJ,Goffinet DR,Martin DP,Adler JR Jr

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small pellets loaded with apomorphine, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, and bromocriptine were implanted into the right striatum of 6-hydroxydopamine-treated rotation rats, and the efficacy of this drug delivery system was examined. Pellets containing neuromodifying agents, when implanted into the brain, may be just as ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Yoshida M,Torigoe R,Ohtsuru K,Kuramoto S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gamma Knife is currently the only radiosurgical device which has been used in functional neurosurgery. This mode of utilization is possible because the instrument can make lesions in normal brains with a volume as small as 50 mm3. The experience of functional radiosurgery accumulated at the Karolinska Institute ov...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lindquist C,Kihlström L,Hellstrand E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00