Robot guidance for percutaneous minimally invasive placement of pedicle screws for pyogenic spondylodiscitis is associated with lower rates of wound breakdown compared to conventional fluoroscopy-guided instrumentation.

abstract：:Many immune responses are controlled by genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). In humans these include the loci encoding the HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens, and many diseases have been linked with these. However, little information is available about any connection between malignant tumors and...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Nitta T,Ebato M,Sato K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This short paper summarizes the basic concept and the technology of a new computed radiographic system which uses an energy-storage phosphorus panel called "Imaging Plate" as an image sensor. The "Imaging Plate" can be used to obtain radiographs in exactly the same way as the screen-film combination is used in convent...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Kato H,Miyahara J,Takano M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of posterior cranial fossa meningioma [PCFM] is challenging and many neurosurgeons advise gamma knife radiosurgery [GKRS] as a modality for its upfront or adjuvant treatment. Due to the varying radiosurgical response based on lesion location, tumor biology, and radiation dosage, we performed a pioneer a...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Jumah F,Narayan V,Samara A,Quinoa TR,Dossani RH,Gupta G,Nanda A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is increasingly used as a noninvasive means to assess internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. When used alone, however, MRA may not be sufficiently accurate in certain settings to determine whether ICA disease meets surgical criteria. Although MRA has been recognized to overestimat...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Gluf WM,O'Neill B,Couldwell WT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iopMRI) actually has an important role in the surgery of brain tumors, especially gliomas and pituitary adenomas. The aim of our work was to describe the advantages and drawbacks of this tool for the surgical treatment of cervical intramedullary gliomas. We describe two expli...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Giordano M,Gerganov VM,Metwali H,Fahlbusch R,Samii A,Samii M,Bertalanffy H

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In neurosurgical operations, proper craniotomy using retractors is necessary. Various surgical instruments are used for this purpose, including standard retractors and multipurpose head frame retractor systems. However, the conventional multipurpose head frame system is often not optimal for use in some craniotomies a...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Ryu B,Sato S,Inoue T,Kawamata T,Okada Y

更新日期：2020-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to describe and evaluate any relationship between D-dimer values and progressive hemorrhagic injury (PHI) after traumatic brain injury (TBI). In patients with TBI, plasma D-dimer was measured while a computed tomography (CT) scan was conducted as soon as the patient was admitted to the emergency depa...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Tian HL,Chen H,Wu BS,Cao HL,Xu T,Hu J,Wang G,Gao WW,Lin ZK,Chen SW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate the current literature regarding treatment of intracranial atherosclerotic disease, with particular emphasis on emerging medical, surgical, and endovascular trials. A MEDLINE and PubMed search of the literature related to intracranial atherosclerotic disease was performed. Articles which discussed medical,...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Patel TR,Bulsara KR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermoid cysts constitute less than 1% of intracranial tumors with the majority of them involving cerebellopontine angle (CPA). Although several mechanisms for cranial nerve dysfunction due to these tumors have been proposed, no direct evaluation for hyper- or hypoactive dysfunction has been done. In this case serie...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Hasegawa M,Nouri M,Nagahisa S,Yoshida K,Adachi K,Inamasu J,Hirose Y,Fujisawa H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary brain affection is rare in echinococcosis. We report the case of a 35-year-old woman presenting with symptomatic grand-mal epilepsy due to a right frontal, partially cystic space-occupying lesion. Pre-operative computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suggested a cystic astrocytoma. However, h...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Nanassis K,Alexiadou-Rudolf C,Tsitsopoulos P,Tzioufa V,Petsas G,Grigoriou K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radical excision of meningioma is suggested to provide for the best tumor control rates. However, aggressive surgery for meningiomas located at the posterior cranial fossa may lead to elevated postoperative morbidity of adjacent cranial nerves which in turn worsens patients' postoperative quality of life. Therefore, w...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Schneider M,Schuss P,Güresir Á,Borger V,Vatter H,Güresir E

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with oculomotor nerve palsy due to cerebral aneurysms were examined. There were six males and twenty females with a mean age of 55 years. 25 of the 26 aneurysms were located at the junction of the internal carotid and the posterior communicating artery and one was at the junction of the basilar art...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Fujiwara S,Fujii K,Nishio S,Matsushima T,Fukui M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and radiological features that help predict the growth potential of meningioma would be beneficial. The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics related to proliferating potential using the MIB-1 staining index. We analyzed the relationship of MIB-1 staining indices to characteristics of 342 co...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Kasuya H,Kubo O,Tanaka M,Amano K,Kato K,Hori T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on congenital sphenoorbital encephalocele which could not be disclosed by computed tomography including contrast medium application or by orbital sonography. Surgery and histological examination were necessary to establish correct the diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Bornemann A,Schwarz M,Brühl K,Goebel HH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the efficacy of various treatment modalities for intracranial aneurysms (IA) in patients with moyamoya disease (MMD) based on anatomical location of IA. A comprehensive review of studies documenting single cases or series of MMD patients with concomitant I...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Larson AS,Rinaldo L,Brinjikji W,Lanzino G

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cysticercosis is the result of infestation of the brain with the larval stage of the intestinal tape worm Taenia Solium. The disease, endemic in some parts of the world, especially Mexico, South America, India, Eastern Europe, is still encountered practically all over the world. There appear to be distinct ge...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Tandon PN

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilevel discectomy and inter-vertebral body fusion combined with anterior plate-screw fixation is the common procedure in cervical spine surgery. The correct placement of the screws is an important factor for the outcome of these operations. Yet no systematic approach has been undertaken to optimize the geometry of...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Kantelhardt SR,Oberle J,Derakhshani S,Kast E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1986 and 1988 100 patients in whom MRI had been used to diagnose prolapses of lumbar intervertebral discs were admitted to the neurosurgical department of the Munich Technical University. MRI proved to be a valuable diagnostic technique, even if one has to concede certain limitations to the usefulness of the r...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Trappe AE,Frank AM,Weinzierl FX,Obletter N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemodynamic parameters play a significant role in the development of cerebral aneurysms. Parameters such as wall shear stress (WSS) or velocity could change in time and may contribute to aneurysm growth and rupture. However, the hemodynamic changes at the rupture location remain unclear because it is difficult to obta...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Sejkorová A,Dennis KD,Švihlová H,Petr O,Lanzino G,Hejčl A,Dragomir-Daescu D

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unruptured intracranial aneurysms represent a decisional challenge. Treatment risks have to be balanced against an unknown probability of rupture. A better understanding of the physiopathology is the basis for a better prediction of the natural history of an individual patient. Knowledge about the possible determining...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Bacigaluppi S,Piccinelli M,Antiga L,Veneziani A,Passerini T,Rampini P,Zavanone M,Severi P,Tredici G,Zona G,Krings T,Boccardi E,Penco S,Fontanella M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generally speaking, the term "ophthalmic aneurysms" refers to carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms, which arise from the internal carotid artery (ICA) wall at or around the origin of the ophthalmic artery (OA). In contrast, aneurysms arising from the OA stem or its branches, separate from the ICA are called peripheral OA aneu...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Qiao L,Wang H,Mao L,Chen S,Xie W,Wu Q

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuroendoscopic biopsy is a minimally invasive and useful procedure for the diagnosis and initial management of tumor-associated hydrocephalus. We describe the nationwide investigation of the current status of neuroendoscopic biopsy for intra- and paraventricular tumors in children, as well as the treatment of tumor...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Miwa T,Hayashi N,Endo S,Ohira T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MR imaging of the brain has made tremendous progress during the last years. This technique is generally superior to computed tomography (CT) in brain tumors, due to its capability for direct imagining in various planes and its high tissue contrast. Moreover, the detectability and differentiation of extraaxial tumors, ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Higer HP,Pedrosa P,Schuth M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We collected data to provide evidence that orbital cavernous malformations (CMs) are histopathologically, neuroradiologically, and clinically different from cerebral CMs and may represent a distinct entity. In this study, the main clinical, histopathological and radiological characteristics of 19 patients (11 females ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Hejazi N,Hassler W,Offner F,Schuster A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optic pathway glioma (OPG) encompasses a spectrum of findings ranging from lesions confined to the optic nerve only, lesions affecting the optic chiasm and hypothalamus, and lesions with diffuse involvement of a large part of the optic pathway and neighboring structures. The majority of pediatric low-grade astrocytoma...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Borghei-Razavi H,Shibao S,Schick U

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological improvement in patients with spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae (SDAVF) is often partial even after adequate treatment. While treatment outcomes have been evaluated primarily on the basis of the postoperative changes in neurological deficits, outcome measures should also reflect the patient-reported outc...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Sasamori T,Hida K,Osanai T,Yano S,Seki T,Houkin K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, operative decompression of cord and cauda, internal fixation with rods, bony fusion and early ambulation, have become more popular in the management of thoracolumbar injuries with neurological deficit. Computer-tomography, CT myelography and peroperative ultrasonography provided direct evidence, th...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Braakman R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck paragangliomas (HNPs) are rare, usually benign hyper vascularized neuroendocrine tumors that traditionally have been treated by surgery, with or without endovascular embolization, or, more recently stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). The aim of our study is to determine the clinical and radiographic effecti...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Fatima N,Pollom E,Soltys S,Chang SD,Meola A

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although abundant in nature, fungi are infrequently pathogenic in humans. CNS fungal infections in non-immunocompromised individuals are uncommon. We discuss here the case of an otherwise healthy black woman with an isolated mass of the cerebellopontine angle identified as Blastomyces dermatitidis, successfully treate...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Wylen EL,Nanda A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to describe our series of nine unclippable and uncoilable ruptured aneurysms in eight patients treated by microsurgical wrapping with autologous muscle. Records were retrospectively reviewed for rebleeding rate, morbidity and mortality, changes in size or the aneurysm's configurations, and...

journal_title：Neurosurgical review

authors： Germanò A,Priola S,Angileri FF,Conti A,La Torre D,Cardali S,Raffa G,Merlo L,Granata F,Longo M,Tomasello F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00