Integration of stereoscopic DSA with three-dimensional image reconstruction for stereotactic planning.

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：: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

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：:We examined the direct effect of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) on levodopa-induced peak-dose dyskinesia in 45 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) without reducing the levodopa dosage during the early period after surgery. In 8 patients (18%), the dyskinesia was quickly attenuated by bi...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Katayama Y,Oshima H,Kano T,Kobayashi K,Fukaya C,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Interpreting the postoperative electroencephalographic (EEG) driving response (DR) as an indicator of electrode placement within the thalamic nucleus in deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) for refractory epilepsy is controversial. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We retrospective...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Son BC,Shon YM,Kim SH,Choi JG,Kim J

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To perform a preliminary study on the effects and safety of bilateral cingulotomy and anterior capsulotomy in patients with aggressive behavior. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Twenty-three psychiatric patients showing aggressive behavior refractory to conventional treatment were initially evaluated. The subjects were ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Jiménez F,Soto JE,Velasco F,Andrade P,Bustamante JJ,Gómez P,Ramírez Y,Carrillo-Ruiz JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this case report is to demonstrate that a benign tumour arising solely from the olfactory bulb can act as a primary epileptic focus and to illustrate the difficulty in making a preoperative diagnosis of pathological lesions in this area. The case of a 29-year-old male with intractable epilepsy is pres...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： McEvoy AW,Bartolucci M,Revesz T,Harkness W

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial hyperthermia of malignant brain tumors has been produced by a heated ferromagnetic implant with a low Curie point. Induction heating of the implant, which is stereotactically implanted in a tumor, is obtained by eddy currents in a high-frequency magnetic field. Safe, repeated and long-term treatment of 35...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kobayashi T,Kida Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Evidence has been provided that the subiculum may play an important role in the generation of seizures. Electrical stimulation at this target has been reported to have anticonvulsive effects in kindling and pilocarpine rat models, while in a clinical study of hippocampal deep brain stimulation (DBS), conta...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Vázquez-Barrón D,Cuéllar-Herrera M,Velasco F,Velasco AL

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) lesioning is still used as a choice of treatment for some painful conditions as well as spasticity in selected patients. The most commonly used techniques to perform DREZotomy are the microsurgical one and DREZ radiofrequency (RF) coagulation. The technical difficulties using punctures to...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Monaco BA,Lopes AJM,Teixeira MJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimum target in surgery for Parkinson's disease (PD) is still controversial, especially in patients with tremor-dominant PD. We aim to compare results in tremor-dominant patients undergoing pallidotomy vs. those undergoing simultaneous posteroventral pallidotomy (PVP) and ventral intermediate nucleus (...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fayed ZY,Radwan H,Aziz M,Eid M,Mansour AH,Nosseir M,Anwer H,Elserry T,Abdel Ghany WA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient postoperative confusion (POC) occurs in 5-25% of patients following bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation. We retrospectively reviewed data on 96 patients who underwent bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Nine percent of patients developed POC. There was no signi...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Pilitsis JG,Rezai AR,Boulis NM,Henderson JM,Busch RM,Kubu CS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Stimulation parameters are crucial for the efficacy and safety of motor cortex stimulation (MCS). Motor threshold (MT) can be defined as the lowest voltage that produces motor contraction. The final stimulation parameters are always a smaller percentage of MT in order to avoid seizures. We determined how p...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Chang S,Ranjan M,Slotty PJ,Honey CR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A patient controller (PC) is an optional device for patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS) to have limited control of their stimulator system. OBJECTIVES:We investigated the impact of a PC on DBS safety, most notably the handling/prevention of unexpected DBS failure in patients with Parkinson's disease ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Allert N,Mehnert C,Lehrke R,Maarouf M,Sturm V

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi) is an alternative therapy in ameliorating the clinical symptoms of primary Meige syndrome. Nevertheless, proof of its efficacy and safety is insufficient due to several case reports and small-sample clinical studies. This study ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Tian H,Yu Y,Zhen X,Zhang L,Yuan Y,Zhang B,Wang L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the KUL University of Leuven a workstation for the planning of neurosurgical stereotactic procedures has been developed. Its benefits are illustrated in three exemplary cases. The CT and/or MR images, acquired under stereotactic conditions, are transmitted via a PACS network (picture archiving and communication sys...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Nuttin B,Knauth M,Gybels J,Verbeeck R,Vandermeulen D,Michiels J,Suetens P,Marchal G

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Applications in clinical medicine can benefit from fusion of spectroscopy data with anatomical imagery. For example, new 3-dimensional (3D) spectroscopy techniques allow for improved correlation of metabolite profiles with specific regions of interest in anatomical tumor images, which can be useful in charac...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kanberoglu B,Moore NZ,Frakes D,Karam LJ,Debbins JP,Preul MC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current neuronavigational systems face two primary challenges: (1) automatic and robust registration between preoperative images and the operating room space, and (2) compensation for brain deformations that compromise the accuracy of the initial registration. To contend with these difficulties, we firstly estimate th...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Sun H,Farid H,Roberts DW,Rick K,Hartov A,Paulsen KD

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:The primary goal of stereotactic systems in deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery is accurate delivery of a DBS lead to a target identified on imaging. Thus, it is critical to understand the accuracy of the stereotactic systems and the factors which may be associated with a decrease in accuracy. METHODS:Ni...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kelman C,Ramakrishnan V,Davies A,Holloway K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) implantation under general anesthesia (GA) is of great importance for patients with disabling off-medication symptoms or medical comorbidities. However, the relative advantages/disadvantages of routine local anesthesia (LA) surgery versus GA regarding clinical outcomes are contro...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Liu Z,He S,Li L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic radiosurgery under local anesthesia with the Leksell Gamma Knife can effectively treat some patients with recurrent tic douloureux after unsuccessful medical/surgical procedures. Seven of 12 patients have shown complete relief or improvement of their trigeminal neuralgia. No complications have been observ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Rand RW,Jacques DB,Melbye RW,Copcutt BG,Levenick MN,Fisher MR

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Microrecordings were performed during pallidotomy and thalamotomy for Parkinson's disease (PD). Neuronal activity in globus pallidus (GP) was in general agreement with previous studies of human and primate models of PD. Neuronal activity, where frequency of tremor appeared to oscillate independently from peripheral in...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hayase N,Miyashita N,Endo K,Narabayashi H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, no consensus has been reached regarding validated and practical tools to quantify the severity of hemifacial spasm (HFS) before and after surgery. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study has been to establish objective parameters for determining the preoperative severity of HFS and to assess the correlatio...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lee JA,Jo KW,Kong DS,Park K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corpus callosotomy is a viable treatment for patients with refractory generalized or multifocal epilepsy, particularly those who have drop attacks. Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive surgical option for various intracranial lesions. In this report, we present a 2-trajectory thermal ablat...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Ball T,Sharma M,White AC,Neimat JS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00