A biomechanical comparison of three different posterior fixation constructs used for c6-c7 cervical spine immobilization: a finite element study.

abstract：:A 26-year-old female, the elder of monozygotic twins, presented with slow progressive numbness and pain in her left arm. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed syringomyelia with Chiari malformation. The patient's birth had been difficult with prolonged delivery time, breech delivery, and neonatal asphyxia. MR imaging...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Iwasaki Y,Hida K,Onishi K,Nanba R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correlation between various clinical parameters and MIB-1 (Ki-67) staining indices was evaluated in 58 acoustic neurinomas. The index ranged from 0.37% to 6.61% (mean 1.70%), and did not correlate with age, sex, or initial tumor volume. Sixteen of the 18 tumors removed subtotally or partially showed regrowth, and ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yokoyama M,Matsuda M,Nakasu S,Nakajima M,Handa J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers of the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity are the most common malignant tumors of the anterior and anterolateral skull base. The treatment of these tumors affecting the skull base is complex due to the significant anatomical features. We examined 25 patients, 17 males and 8 females with mean age 61 +/- 2 years...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Jimbo H,Kamata S,Miura K,Asamoto S,Tada S,Endo T,Masubuchi T,Nakamura N,Fushimi C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gravimetric method to determine the tissue water content is widely used for studying brain edema because the tissue water content can be calculated from only the density of the wet tissue using a gradient column. This method has been used in only a few studies of cerebellar water content. We estimated the water co...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hayazaki K,Matsuoka Y,Kan M,Hakuba A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 41-year-old female suffered transient ischemic attack. Cerebral angiography revealed occlusion of the left internal carotid artery at the cervical portion and collateral pathways consisting of transpial anastomosis and parenchymal anastomosis from the posterior circulation. Five years later, the second angiography w...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Abumiya T,Kamiyama H,Kobayashi N,Mabuchi S,Abe H

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-month-old boy presented with a rare case of intramedullary teratoma extending from T1 to S5 and associated with a lumbosacral lipoma. Magnetic resonance imaging showed the tumor extended over the lipoma. Since the tumor could not be clearly demarcated from the spinal cord, surgery was performed under a preoperativ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ishiguro S,Nagashima T,Yamamoto K,Kanekawa K,Yoshida M,Kondoh T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reappearance of symptoms of cranial nerve dysfunction is not uncommon after successful microvascular decompression (MVD). The purpose of this study was to report two quite unusual cases of recurrent and newly developed hemifacial spasm (HFS) caused by a new conflicting artery more than 20 years after the first success...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Inoue H,Kondo A,Shimano H,Yasuda S,Murao K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restenosis following carotid endarterectomy is not a rare condition. Among 122 endarterectomies we experienced, five restenoses (4.1%) were encountered and treated by the second surgery. The present report clarifies the clinical profiles and pathological findings of restenosis following carotid endarterectomy. Mean ag...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yamada K,Kishiguchi T,Ito M,Otsuki H,Kohmura E,Taneda M,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increased risk of stroke during pregnancy and the puerperium. Decisions should be made immediately upon transfer to each institution, particularly with respect to when and how to treat the patient. This review highlights the feasibility of endovascular treatment in pregnancy. Most of the pharmaceutical age...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ishii A,Miyamoto S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old male presented with pure hypoglossal nerve paresis. Angiography and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed the characteristic findings of left internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection. He received aspirin and his symptoms gradually disappeared. Repeat angiography and MR imaging showed that the lesion had...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Mizumaki Y,Endo S,Yamatani K,Takaku A,Tsukamoto E

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical effects of two different types of antiplatelet drugs, cilostazol and thienopyridine drugs, were compared in patients treated by carotid artery stenting (CAS). Two hundred patients scheduled for CAS were randomized to either cilostazol or a thienopyridine drug (ticlopidine or clopidogrel). The study was co...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tsutsumi M,Aikawa H,Nii K,Etou H,Sakamoto K,Kureshima M,Inoue R,Yoshida H,Matsumoto Y,Narita S,Kazekawa K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since computed tomography (CT)-guided stereotactic surgery is essentially blind surgery, it always involves the risk of injuring viable brain tissue and vessels, and it is difficult to obtain a sufficient amount of biopsy specimen from cystic or necrotic lesions. Moreover, the direct observation of the lesion would pr...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ebina K,Andoh A,Takahashi T,Iwabuchi T

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) is essentially a lineage-oriented classification based on a presumable developmental tree of CNS. A four-tiered WHO grading scheme has been successfully applied to a spectrum of diffusely infiltrative astrocytomas,...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Komori T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term survival probability, causes of delayed mortality, and relationship between short-term outcome and long-term survival after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage were retrospectively studied in 106 patients followed up for longer than 5 years. The Kaplan-Meier cumulative survival probabilities at 1 month, 6...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Mori T,Mori K,Kurisaka M,Morimoto M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old woman and a 55-year-old woman were treated with gamma knife surgery (GKS) for occipital arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Angiography confirmed complete nidus obliterations 2 years after GKS. However, both patients complained of chronic headache and visual symptoms from around 7 years after GKS. Magnetic...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Oyoshi T,Hirahara K,Uetsuhara K,Yatsushiro K,Arita K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old female with a 3-year history of left trigeminal neuralgia presented with an unusual left cerebellopontine angle meningioma associated with asymptomatic syringomyelia at the C2 to C4 levels diagnosed by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Two months after total tumor removal, the syringomyelia had diminished...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Fukui K,Kito A,Iguchi I

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old boy presented with medulloblastoma occurring in the cerebellar vermis. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed numerous cysts and calcifications in the tumor. The tumor was subtotally removed and cellular synchronization radiation therapy given. He was discharged without neurological...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tsunoda S,Kurokawa S,Sakaki T,Yabuno T,Tsuzuki T,Kawaguchi S,Kiriishi R,Morimoto T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive functions are frequently impaired in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). Two patients with NPH initially had dysfunctional constructional skill but exhibited improvements after shunt surgery. Dysfunction of constructional skill should be added to the important clinical features of NPH. The geo...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Takeuchi M,Hayashi N,Takaiwa A,Hamada H,Kuwayama N,Hirashima Y,Matsui M,Endo S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study conducted risk-adjusted analyses to investigate the impacts of hospital and surgeon volumes on postoperative complications and the modified Rankin scale (mRS) after intracranial clipping of unruptured aneurysms, and to discuss the efficacy of relevant policy changes. Among 107 Japanese institutions, ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yasunaga H,Matsuyama Y,Ohe K,Japan Neurosurgical Society.

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old male presented with a rare association of a ruptured orbitofrontal artery aneurysm and a dural arteriovenous malformation (DAVM) fed by both ethmoidal arteries, manifestation as severe headache, nausea, and vomiting. Computed tomography revealed a hematoma within the right frontal lobe and diffuse subara...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Murai Y,Yamashita Y,Ikeda Y,Node Y,Teramoto A

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old female was stabbed by her husband with a chopstick made of wood in the left temporal region during a quarrel. She suffered laceration of the left temporal scalp. At initial examination, she concealed the assault with a chopstick. Radiography showed no abnormality, so the wound was sutured. One month afte...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ochiai H,Yamakawa Y,Fukushima T,Yamada H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42-year-old man presented with a ruptured fusiform aneurysm of the proximal anterior cerebral artery (A(1) segment) manifesting as sudden onset of severe headache. Brain computed tomography revealed subarachnoid hemorrhage in the basal cisterns, and left carotid angiography demonstrated a fusiform aneurysm of the le...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Aoki Y,Nemoto M,Yokota K,Kano T,Goto S,Sugo N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of approaches have been proposed for the treatment of intracavernous giant aneurysms. In the present study, we have analyzed long-term surgical outcome of 27 consecutive cases of our experience. All the cases were unruptured and symptomatic, showing symptoms such as extraocular movement disorder or visual dis...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Date I,Ohmoto T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital due to a sudden loss of consciousness. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a thick subarachnoid hemorrhage in almost all of the parachiasmatic cisterns, including the sylvian cisterns, with mild hydrocephalus. Three dimensional (3D)-CT angiography showed an irregularly sh...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Minami N,Kimura T,Ichikawa Y,Morita A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial siderosis is a rare condition caused by hemosiderin deposits in the central nervous system (CNS) due to prolonged or recurrent low-grade bleeding into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). CNS tumor could be one of the sources of bleeding, both pre- and postoperatively. We report an extremely rare case of superfi...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tosaka M,Sato K,Amanuma M,Higuchi T,Arai M,Aishima K,Shimizu T,Horiguchi K,Sugawara K,Yoshimoto Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old male presented with a recurrent solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) arising from the falx cerebri with intraventricular extension manifesting as nausea and vomiting. Magnetic resonance imaging showed the heterogeneously enhanced tumor in the falx, which extended to the bilateral lateral ventricles and the third...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Teranishi K,Yamamoto T,Nakao Y,Osada H,Wada R,Mori K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial tumors. Since the adhesions in the plane of dissection are of interest in surgical planning, we suggest that digital image subtraction of FLAIR data from the T2 sequence of MRI may represent better the CSF spaces in the brain-tumor interface and may be a predictor o...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Thenier-Villa JL,Alejandro Galárraga Campoverde R,Ramón DE LA Lama Zaragoza A,Conde Alonso C

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old female developed hyperperfusion syndrome following carotid endarterectomy for severe stenosis of the left internal carotid artery. Transcranial Doppler monitoring showed a sharp increase in flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery (MCA). Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging demonstrated ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Shinno K,Ueda S,Uno M,Nishitani K,Nagahiro S,Harada M

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Invasive evaluations play important roles in identifying epileptogenic zones and functional areas in patients with intractable focal epilepsy. This article reviews the usefulness, methods, and limitations of invasive evaluations for epilepsy surgery. Invasive evaluations include various types of intracranial electrode...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Enatsu R,Mikuni N

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00