Less is more: adaptation of voltage after battery replacement in deep brain stimulation for dystonia.

abstract：:A computerized method of determining the focal point of electrical activity in the pallidum of parkinsonian patients was developed using on-line quantitative physiological data analysis. Thirty patients in a series of 70 were studied in depth. Neuronal activity was recorded from the pallidum using a semi-microelectrod...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lehman RM,Micheli-Tzanakou E,Medl A,Hamilton JL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

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：:We present a system for surgical navigation using stereo overlays in the operating microscope aligned to the operative scene. This augmented reality system provides 3D information about nearby structures and offers a significant advancement over pointer-based guidance, which provides only the location of one point and...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： King AP,Edwards PJ,Maurer CR Jr,de Cunha DA,Hawkes DJ,Hill DL,Gaston RP,Fenlon MR,Strong AJ,Chandler CL,Richards A,Gleeson MJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of obtaining a selective effect on different trigeminal branches by glycerol rhizotomy was studied in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. Transcutaneous electrical stimulation was used to quantify sensory impairment. An attempt was made to direct the neurotoxic effect by maintaining the patient's he...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Bergenheim AT,Hariz MI,Laitinen LV

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：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：:Six cases of acoustic neurinomas with macrocystic components are presented. In three cases the cystic portion was within the tumor, while in the other three, the cyst was peritumoral, in the form of a cul-de-sac within the arachnoid, in other words it was not a true tumor cyst. The six tumors are from a series of 74 a...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Pendl G,Ganz JC,Kitz K,Eustacchio S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight patients, 36 with essential tremor (ET) and 22 with Parkinson's disease (PD), received deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the thalamic ventral intermediate (Vim) nucleus. The mean follow-up was 17 months for ET and 21 months for PD patients. Stimulation parameters were adjusted as needed, at various intervals...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hariz MI,Shamsgovara P,Johansson F,Hariz G,Fodstad H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The learned helplessness paradigm was used to test the notion that lesions of a theatrical depression system in the rat will produce antidepression similar to antidepressive medication. Lateral brain stem lesions were effective in producing antidepression and unilateral lesions were as effective as bilateral lesions. ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Richardson DE,Dempsey CW,Song JH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of basal ganglia functional lesions illustrates the accuracy of preoperative target localization. The technique of perioperative MRI and CT localization for pallidotomy will be discussed and correlated with the center of the lesion on postoperative standard MRI as well as...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lehman RM,Mezrich R,Sage J,Goldbe L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese stereotactic and functional neurosurgery started in 1963. Dr. Jian-Ping Xu did stereotactic surgery for Parkinson's disease with a small Cartesian coordinate stereotactic device which he designed. In 1983, the first Chinese Institute of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery was established by Dr. Jian-Ping ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Sun B,Lang LQ,Cong PY,Liu KY,Pan L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Writer's cramp is a specific movement disorder with hand muscle cramps in writing, being classified into focal and action-specific dystonia. Stereotactic surgery, such as thalamotomy and deep brain stimulation (DBS), has been reported for writer's cramp; however, the number of reported cases is still scarce ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Asahi T,Koh M,Kashiwazaki D,Kuroda S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic pituitary surgery is a minimally invasive method which allows simple transnasal transphenoidal surgical access without retractors, and has been used by our team in 536 patients from 1993 to 1999. In 326 of these patients, computer-aided image-guided techniques (CAN) were used in conjunction with endoscopy. ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Pillay PK,Leo CW,Sethi DS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Leksell Gamma Unit was commissioned and a Lars Leksell Center for Radiosurgery was established at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in March 1989. At that time a formal quality assurance program designed for the Leksell Gamma Unit was put into effect. This paper will review the components of suggeste...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Berk HW,Agarwal SK

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified 35 patients who had undergone stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for their biochemically proven Cushing's disease in order to assess the efficacy of SRS with regard to control of hypercortisolism, improvement of clinical features and prevention of tumor progression, and subsequent incidence of hypopituitari...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Devin JK,Allen GS,Cmelak AJ,Duggan DM,Blevins LS

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:Stereotactic operations have long been used to relieve agitation and muscle rigidity in Parkinson disease. Because of its high-density resolution, CT is quite effective to portray the location, size, shape and density of the thermocoagulative focus. The foci were classified into different types according to their chan...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Zhang G,Guo Q,Wu S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its introduction to neurosurgery in 2008, laser ablative techniques have been largely confined to the management of unresectable tumors. Application of this technology for the management of focal epilepsy in the adult population has not been fully explored. Given that nearly 1,000,000 Americans live with medical...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hawasli AH,Bandt SK,Hogan RE,Werner N,Leuthardt EC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic stimulation of the thalamus is a surgical option in the management of intractable Holmes tremor. Patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS) can encounter infection as a postoperative complication, necessitating explantation of the hardware. Some studies have reported on the technique and the resultin...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Razmkon A,Yousefi O,Vaidyanathan J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The results from thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) for atypical tremor syndromes including tremor from multiple sclerosis (MS) and stroke are often disappointing. Three recent case reports have suggested that simultaneous stimulation of multiple thalamic targets can result in sustained improvement in suc...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lim DA,Khandhar SM,Heath S,Ostrem JL,Ringel N,Starr P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In selected patients with recurrent malignant glioma, interstitial brachytherapy has been advocated as an effective method for tumor control and prolonged survival. We are presenting our results with brachytherapy in patients with recurrent glioma, and comparing this technique with cytoreductive surgery. Twenty patien...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Ryken TC,Hitchon PW,VanGilder JC,Wen BC,Jani S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying electrophysiologic abnormality in patients with chronic pain syndrome is demonstrated in 2 patients whose pain and associated symptoms were incapacitating. Mechanical perturbation evoked discharges most easily at the mesodiencephalic junction. Discharging tissue at that level appears to be oriented in b...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Andy OJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniotomy using stereotactic techniques has the potential to improve the extent of tumor resection and to reduce wound and neurologic morbidity. Most reports of stereotaxy-assisted craniotomy (SC) for tumor resection have focused on techniques using sophisticated computer hardware and volumetric software. Results of ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Barnett GH,McKenzie RL,Ramos L,Palmer J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In nonresectable glioblastoma (GBM), stereotactic biopsies are performed to retrieve tissue for diagnostic purposes. The analysis of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation adds prognostic and predictive information. OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study was to detect confounding factor...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Weise LM,Harter PN,Eibach S,Braczynski AK,Dunst M,Rieger J,Bähr O,Hattingen E,Steinbach JP,Plate KH,Seifert V,Mittelbronn M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first Gamma Knife was installed in Stockholm in 1968 after nearly two decades of development. Following the opening of the Gamma Knife facility in Pittsburgh in 1987, radiosurgery has seen an explosive expansion. Along with this expansion there has been a development of alternative technologies, of which the most ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Leksell DG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author has performed 108 stereotactic thalamotomies using MRI (MGSTs) without ventriculography in 77 cerebral palsy (CP) patients with dyskinesia(s) from January 1992 to January 1997. The clinical results were verified in terms of improvement of major preoperative symptom and patient's (or relative's) satisfaction...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lee KH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paresthesia-producing (PP), but not periventricular grey (PVG) deep brain stimulation (DBS) proved effective in steady neuropathic pain in 25 patients receiving both, regardless of the PP site stimulated, but PVG-DBS suppressed allodynia or hyperpathia in 3 cases of stroke-induced pain. In patients with stroke-induced...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Tasker RR,Vilela Filho O

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Out of 57 patients operated for intractable epilepsy of the central region, 8 harbored an indolent glioma (7 dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors, 1 ganglioglioma). Mapping of the sensorimotor area with depth electrodes implanted for stereoelectroencephalographic exploration demonstrated no or abnormal motor respon...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Devaux B,Chassoux F,Landré E,Turak B,Daumas-Duport C,Chagot D,Gagnepain JP,Chodkiewicz JP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00