Recovery of nerve root function after complete quadriplegia from cervical spine fractures.

abstract：:Combining the power of stereotactic precision with open craniotomy in a stereotactic craniotomy technique decreases surgical time, morbidity, and postoperative hospitalization. Indications for its use are deep intrinsic masses 3.5 cm or less in diameter; small, superficial lesions otherwise difficult to localize; and ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Moore MR,Black PM,Ellenbogen R,Gall CM,Eldredge E

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiari malformations without myelodysplasia are rarely diagnosed in the pediatric age group. With current neurodiagnostic techniques, however, they are being seen more frequently. Unfortunately, the prognosis is not clear because publications have included a number of different entities, used a variety of surgical app...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dyste GN,Menezes AH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The complement system is thought to play a major role in initiating some of the inflammatory events that occur during reperfusion injury. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of C1 esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) on ischemic injury in the rat model of middle cerebral artery suture occlusion and reperfu...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Akita N,Nakase H,Kaido T,Kanemoto Y,Sakaki T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:171 patients with intramedullary spinal cord tumors were operated on, of which 25 patients (15%), mostly children, developed symptomatic hydrocephalus. Twenty patients (12%) had malignant tumors, with 13 of the 20 cases (63%) complicated by increased intracranial pressure and ventriculomegaly. Of the remaining 151 pat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rifkinson-Mann S,Wisoff JH,Epstein F

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:: The US health care system is struggling with rising costs, poor outcomes, waste, and inefficiency. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act represents a substantial effort to improve access and emphasizes value-based care. Value in health care has been defined as health outcomes for the patient per dollar spen...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Smith TR,Rambachan A,Cote D,Cybulski G,Laws ER

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight patients received surgical treatment for a paranasal sinus mucocele with intracranial and/or intraorbital extension. The lesions were classified by site and extension: anterior without intracranial extension (Type 1), 7 patients; anterior with intracranial extension (Type 2), 11 patients; posterior midlin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Delfini R,Missori P,Iannetti G,Ciappetta P,Cantore G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a unique case of thalamic dementia caused by tentorial dural arteriovenous malformation (AVM), which was successfully treated by surgical occlusion of the straight sinus after attempts to occlude the dural AVM by endovascular procedures had failed. The tentorial dural AVM was fed by bilateral posterior menin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ito M,Sonokawa T,Mishina H,Sato K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Because more women with cerebrospinal fluid shunts are surviving to child-bearing age, neurosurgeons, obstetricians, and other health care professionals require information about the care of these patients, especially during pregnancy and delivery. The purpose of this study was to gather comprehensive data fr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bradley NK,Liakos AM,McAllister JP 2nd,Magram G,Kinsman S,Bradley MK

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Delayed cerebral ischemia resulting from vasospasm is a major cause of morbidity and death in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Milrinone, because it inhibits Type IV cyclic adenosine monophosphate-specific phosphodiesterase enzyme in both cardiac and vascular smooth muscle, is a powerful inot...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Khajavi K,Ayzman I,Shearer D,Jones SC,Levy JH,Prayson RA,Skibinski CI,Hahn JF,Chyatte D

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myelomeningocele (MM) is an open neural tube defect treated by pediatric neurosurgeons with prenatal or postnatal closure. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this systematic review was to answer the question: What is the evidence for the effectiveness of prenatal vs postnatal closure of MM regarding short and long-...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bauer DF,Beier AD,Nikas DC,Assassi N,Blount J,Durham SR,Flannery AM,Klimo P Jr,McClung-Smith C,Rehring P,Tamber MS,Tyagi R,Mazzola CA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe extensively the multilevel oblique corpectomy technique with its advantages, disadvantages, indications, and biomechanical effects. This procedure is an alternative to the anterior corpectomy. METHODS:Multilevel oblique corpectomy can be indicated in spondylotic myelopathy, whether or not it is a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bruneau M,Cornelius JF,George B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded the intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials directly from the upper cervical cord and medulla in a patient with an intrinsic tumor at the region of the cervicomedullary junction. The killed end potential, a large positive potential, was obtained at the caudal end of the tumor. This type of potential...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Morioka T,Fujii K,Mitani M,Fukui M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STANDARDS:Prophylactic treatment of thromboembolism in patients with severe motor deficits due to spinal cord injury is recommended. The use of low-molecular-weight heparins, rotating beds, adjusted dose heparin, or a combination of modalities is recommended as a prophylactic treatment strategy. Low-dose heparin in com...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hadley MN,Walters BC,Grabb PA,Oyesiku NM,Przybylski GJ,Resnick DK,Ryken TC

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The most important treatment options for meningiomas are microsurgery, radiotherapy, and gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS). The efficacy of GKRS in terms of local tumor control and tumor volume (TV) reduction can best be determined by accurate analysis of changes in tumor size in pre- and post-GKRS images. In t...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Feigl GC,Samii M,Horstmann GA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Intracranial giant optic nerve gliomas, usually presumed as optic chiasmatic gliomas, are much less common. The architectural tumor form of optic nerve glioma without neurofibromatosis type 1 is usually the expansile-intraneural pattern. The exophytic optic nerve gliomas without neurofibromatos...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Tong Z,Wanibuchi M,Uede T,Tanabe S,Hashi K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Herein we describe two cases of extracranial-intracranial vein graft bypasses for the treatment of giant intracranial aneurysms in prepubertal pediatric patients. One patient is, we think, the youngest patient reported in the literature to have been successfully treated in such a manner, with a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Zhang YJ,Barrow DL,Day AL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of meningioangiomatosis unassociated with von Recklinghausen's disease. The patient was a 30-year-old woman with a 25-year history of seizures. The lesion was confined to the right temporal cortex and consisted of a proliferation of angiomatous blood vessels and meningocytic cells. Her seizures h...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sakaki S,Nakagawa K,Nakamura K,Takeda S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three of 538 patients undergoing elective craniotomy had a seizure within 24 hours after operation. The lesion had been located extra-axially in 15 patients and intra-axially in 8 patients. Except for 1 patient who had a parietal craniotomy for an arteriovenous malformation, all patients had a frontal or tempor...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kvam DA,Loftus CM,Copeland B,Quest DO

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The success of subthalamic nucleus (STN) surgery for Parkinson's disease depends on accuracy in target determination. The objective of this study was to determine which of the following techniques was most accurate and precise in identifying the location for stimulation in STN deep brain stimulation surgery t...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Andrade-Souza YM,Schwalb JM,Hamani C,Eltahawy H,Hoque T,Saint-Cyr J,Lozano AM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/vascular permeability factor (VPF) is a potent angiogenic growth factor implicated in the tumor angiogenesis/metastasis of a number of human cancers. Activation of receptors for VEGF/VPF is specifically mitogenic to endothelial cells and increases their permeability. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Provias J,Claffey K,delAguila L,Lau N,Feldkamp M,Guha A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraoperative measurements of cerebral blood flow are of interest during vascular neurosurgery. Near-infrared indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence angiography was introduced for visualizing vessel patency intraoperatively. However, quantitative information has not been available. OBJECTIVE:To report our ex...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kamp MA,Slotty P,Turowski B,Etminan N,Steiger HJ,Hänggi D,Stummer W

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old boy presented in coma and was found to have a massive posterior fossa hemorrhage on computed tomographic scan. Autopsy disclosed a large cerebellar hematoma within a mixed glioma containing both juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma. It is postulated that the hemorrhage originated from the...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Specht CS,Pinto-Lord C,Smith TW,DeGirolami U,Suran E,Marshall PC,Davidson RI

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) is elevated in some models of traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, it is unclear how TNFalpha messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression and protein levels are affected by injury severity and posttraumatic temperature modification. This study determined the regional ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Vitarbo EA,Chatzipanteli K,Kinoshita K,Truettner JS,Alonso OF,Dietrich WD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The decision for surgical intervention in hydrocephalic patients presenting with symptoms suggesting raised intracranial pressure (ICP) is challenging because radiographic ventricular size often lacks the specificity to predict abnormal ICP. An early assessment of the potential clinical usefulness of a noninv...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Glick RP,Niebruegge J,Lee SH,Egibor O,Lichtor T,Alperin N

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who sustained a gunshot wound to the neck and subsequent blunt trauma is presented. No angiogram was performed after the initial injury. Subsequently, the patient developed a cerebral embolus from a thrombus dislodged from a pseudoaneurysm of the cervical carotid artery, resulting in complete occlusion of th...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Applegate LJ,Pritz MB,Pribram HF

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current neurosurgical goal for patients with malignant gliomas is maximal safe resection of the contrast-enhancing tumor. However, a complete resection of the contrast-enhancing tumor is achieved only in a minority of patients. One reason for this limitation is the difficulty in distinguishing viable tumor from no...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hadjipanayis CG,Widhalm G,Stummer W

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenomatous tumors of the middle ear are rare, with only approximately 100 cases reported. A distinct subclass of this tumor demonstrates microscopic papillary architecture and has a propensity to erode the petrous bone and extend intracranially. The term "aggressive papillary middle ear tumor" has recently been propo...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Polinsky MN,Brunberg JA,McKeever PE,Sandler HM,Telian S,Ross D

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that structural details that have not been described previously would be revealed in cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) through the use of high-field magnetic resonance and confocal microscopy. The structural details of CCMs excised from patients were sought by examination with high-field ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shenkar R,Venkatasubramanian PN,Zhao JC,Batjer HH,Wyrwicz AM,Awad IA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unexplained intraoperative or postoperative hemorrhage occurs in certain cases in the surgery of large arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), which are defined as those with maximal diameter of the nidus larger than 5 cm. Immediate postoperative angiograms were evaluated with reference to whether such hemorrhage could be...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Takemae T,Kobayashi S,Sugita K

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study on the effect of shunting, 22 patients diagnosed as suffering from normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) were investigated by means of temporary external lumbar drainage (ELD). Five patients had to be excluded from the study because of complications of ELD or definitive shunting. ELD correctly pre...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Haan J,Thomeer RT

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00