Effects of naloxone on prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas.

abstract：:A 61-year-old female with a past history of gastric cancer presented with altered mental status, a few seizures, and low-grade fever. Lumbar puncture revealed elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure, lymphocytic pleocytosis, elevated protein level, remarkably decreased glucose level, and presence of cryptococcal a...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kuwahara S,Kawada M,Uga S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the B-chain of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) was analyzed in 29 human brain tumors (4 astrocytomas, 7 glioblastomas, 3 medulloblastomas, 3 oligodendrogliomas, 7 meningiomas, and others) using monoclonal antibody after digestion with alkaline phosphatase, and compared with proliferative activi...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Nakamura T,Takeshita I,Inamura T,Tashima T,Fukui M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive moyamoya disease in pregnancy and puerperium has not been reported previously. Here, we present a 39-year-old woman who had been found to have moderate stenosis of right middle cerebral artery (MCA) 4 years prior to her pregnancy, finally suffering minor completed stroke due to progressive moyamoya disease...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Akamatsu Y,Fujimura M,Uenohara H,Shimizu H,Tominaga T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old woman, with a one-year history of headache, gait disturbance, and slight aphasia, was transferred to our hospital after head injury. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and computed tomography revealed a large meningioma with peripheral edema. However, priority was given to previously planned gynecological s...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kano T,Kobayashi M,Yoshida K,Kawase T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplification of L-myc oncogene was noticed in a malignant meningioma originating from the right sphenoidal wing of a 54-year-old female. The patient underwent three surgical resections plus radiotherapy over a period of 11 years and then the growth rate of the tumor became much greater with a severely invasive appear...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Jimbo T,Tsuboi K,Iwamura Y,Kaneko M,Nakagawa K,Nose T

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) were studied in 15 adults with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) before and after shunting. The patients were divided into Groups A (shunt-ineffective) and B (shunt-effective). The pre- and postoperative ABRs of each patient were compared with those of 20 normal voluntee...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hashimoto K,Shibasaki H,Tabuchi K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nonimmunosuppressed patients with primary intracranial malignant lymphoma demonstrated ring-enhanced lesion on postcontrast CT scans. One patient underwent total removal of the tumor and the other patient biopsy, both followed by whole brain irradiation. Histological examination revealed the tumors contained diffu...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tan EC,Wakabayashi S,Kanai H,Nagai H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old female was admitted because of nausea, vomiting, and cerebellar ataxia. Computed tomography scan revealed an enhanced mass accompanied with a cyst in the right cerebellar hemisphere. The mass situated in the subcortical region was removed. Histologically, highly vascular tumor cells lined the cavities. P...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Asoh Y,Nakamura M,Maeda T,Shiogai T,Ogashiwa M,Takeuchi K,Watanabe K,Tanaka U,Matsuo E

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical features of high risk brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVMs) are well characterized. However, pathological evidences about the differences that are possessed by high risk patients are still lacking. We reviewed archived routine hematoxylin-eosin specimens from a total of 54 surgical treated BAVMs. The hist...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hermanto Y,Takagi Y,Yoshida K,Ishii A,Kikuchi T,Funaki T,Mineharu Y,Miyamoto S

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal epidural cavernous hemangiomas are very rare; only 18 cases have been reported in the literature. The authors describe the case of a 38-year-old male whose first symptom was numbness of the foot, which, after 2 years, spread to the abdomen. On admission, he had no weakness but exhibited hyper-reflex of the lowe...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kurose K,Kishi H,Sadatoh T

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventricle-to-background ratio and clearance rate constant measured by indium-111 diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid single photon emission computed tomography ((111)In-DTPA SPECT) were evaluated for predicting hydrocephalus in 16 patients at 2 to 3 weeks after onset of subarachnoid hemorrhage. The activity in the...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kazumata K,Kamiyama H,Ishikawa T,Makino K,Nakamura T,Takizawa K,Komeichi T,Kubota T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between event-related potential (P300), higher brain functions, and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were examined in 31 neurosurgical patients. The P300 latency, evaluated by an acoustic "odd-ball" paradigm, was normal in 14 and prolonged in 17 patients. Fourteen of 17 prolonged P300 patients had...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kuwata T,Funahashi K,Maeshima S,Ogura M,Hyotani G,Terada T,Itakura T,Hayashi S,Komai N

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactive bio-feedback (iBF) was initially developed for the rehabilitation of motor function in patients with neurological disorders, and subsequently yielded the development of the hybrid assistive limb (HAL). Here, we provide a review of the theory underlying HAL treatment as well as our clinical experience and r...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Morishita T,Inoue T

更新日期：2016-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old male presented with progressive quadriparesis. Twelve years previously he had undergone anterior decompression with bone grafting for cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament associated with spinal trauma. Radiological examination showed ossification of the transverse ligament of the ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hayashi T,Hirose Y,Sagoh M,Murakami H

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old female with transient vertigo and a 51-year-old female with headache and numbness of the hand presented with four vessel occlusion of the cerebral arteries (bilateral internal carotid arteries and bilateral vertebral arteries). This is an extremely rare entity, and the clinicoradiological features are no...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Okada Y,Shima T,Nishida M,Kagawa R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is easily overlooked in patients with central nervous system (CNS) lesions. Our clinical experience of three patients with CNS lesions associated with HHT stresses the importance of considering HHT. A 23-year-old male presented with consciousness disturbance and right hemipa...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kuwayama K,Takase K,Kashihara M,Hondo H,Shigekiyo T,Takimoto O,Matsubara S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients with growth hormone-producing pituitary adenomas were investigated to evaluate correlations between magnetic resonance (MR) appearance and tissue characteristics, sellar expansion, suprasellar tumor extension, and tumor consistency. MR imaging could detect microadenomas with a characteristic enhancemen...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Chakrabortty S,Oi S,Yamaguchi M,Tamaki N,Matsumoto S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous microcompression of the trigeminal ganglion (PMTG) was performed in nine elderly patients (> 70 years) with trigeminal neuralgia and six patients with atypical neuralgia under short-acting anesthesia using propofol. Two patients had postherpetic neuralgia and two had postoperative neuralgia following remo...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Mizuno M,Saito K,Takayasu M,Yoshida J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old woman presented with multiple dissecting aneurysms of the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) manifesting as hemiparesis on the right with dominance in the lower extremity. Computed tomography revealed hematoma in the left frontal lobe, corresponding to the area perfused by the callosomarginal artery. Initial...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Sakamoto S,Inagawa T,Ikawa F,Kawamoto H,Ohbayashi N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) secreted by glioblastoma (T98G) cells on the secretion of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) by lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells stimulated with tumor cells was investigated in cocultures of LAK and Daudi cells supplemented with T98G culture supernatant, T98G c...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Naganuma H,Sasaki A,Satoh E,Nagasaka M,Nakano S,Isoe S,Tasaka K,Nukui H

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old female presented with a rare meningioma in the petrous bone. High resolution computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated that the tumor had developed in the jugular foramen and extended into the infralabyrinthine area of the petrous bone and intracranially into the cerebellopontine an...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ohta S,Yokoyama T,Uemura K,Nishizawa S,Yamamoto S,Hoshino T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients presented with sciatica-like pain caused by thoracic disk herniation. Sciatica-like pain was the initial and major symptom in both patients, but careful neurological examination showed vague signs of upper motor neuron disturbance, and thoracic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed disk herniations at ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Cho HL,Lee SH,Kim JS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old woman without diabetes or hypertension presented with a large posterior communicating artery aneurysm projecting beneath the oculomotor nerve manifesting as a 2-week history of progressive diplopia. Neurological examination revealed external ophthalmoplegia and blepharoptosis without pupil involvement. N...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Motoyama Y,Nonaka J,Hironaka Y,Park YS,Nakase H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-year-old male presented with a cystic lesion at the foramen magnum due to intracranial dissemination from a pituitary adenoma. The primary tumor had required reoperation for regrowth twice. The tumor at the foramen magnum was removed surgically. Two smaller solid tumors were located in the left parietal convexity...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Shimizu K,Takamiya Y,Furuhata S,Naritaka H,Kameya T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We classified the results of preoperative auditory brainstem response (ABR) in 121 patients with useful hearing and considered the utility of preoperative ABR as a preliminary assessment for intraoperative monitoring. Wave V was confirmed in 113 patients and was not confirmed in 8 patients. Intraoperative ABR could no...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Aihara N,Murakami S,Takahashi M,Yamada K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Japan Neurosurgical Database (JND) is a prospective observational study registry established in 2017 by the Japan Neurosurgical Society (JNS) to visualize real-world clinical practice, promote science, and improve the quality of care and neurosurgery board certification in Japan. We summarize JND's aims and method...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Iihara K,Tominaga T,Saito N,Suzuki M,Date I,Fujii Y,Hongo K,Houkin K,Kato A,Kato Y,Kawamata T,Kim P,Kinouchi H,Kohmura E,Kurisu K,Maruyama K,Mikuni N,Miyamoto S,Morita A,Nakase H,Narita Y,Nishikawa R,Nozaki K

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:C-stopper coil (CSC) which are available for 0.018-inch inner diameter microcenter have been used for neurointervention such as transarterial embolization (TAE) of feeding artery. Although various shapes of pushable microcoils have been developed, microcoils are usually short to embolize the lesion and require lots of...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hayashi K,Horie N,Morikawa M,Nagata I

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old male presented with an extremely unusual case of solitary clivus metastasis from gastric cancer manifesting as mild headache and diplopia 10 years after radical excision of the primary tumor. The patient underwent surgical resection using an endoscopic transsphenoidal approach. Histological examination r...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Fukushima M,Katayama Y,Shigemori Y,Miyake H,Hirayama T,Kotani A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of bilateral abducens nerve paralyses after rupture of an anterior communicating artery (AcoA) aneurysm occurred in a 56-year-old female after sudden onset of severe headache. Bilateral abducens nerve paralyses were present without additional neuro-ophthalmological signs. Computed tomography revealed subar...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Nathal E,Yasui N,Suzuki A,Hadeishi H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients with anterior clinoid meningiomas (mean age 48 years) were surgically treated. There was a slight female predominance. Headache and visual impairment were the commonest clinical symptoms at presentation. The patients were classified on the basis of extent of the visual impairment, size of the tumor, and...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Goel A,Gupta S,Desai K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00