Pathophysiology of nonneoplastic obstruction of the foramen of Monro and progressive unilateral hydrocephalus.

abstract：:Three cases of osteomyelitis of the skull base with associated problems in diagnosis and therapy are discussed. Patients with atypical skull base osteomyelitis are difficult to diagnose as they have no ear abnormalities, but they often develop multiple cranial nerve deficits mimicking symptoms of a posterior fossa mas...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Malone DG,O'Boynick PL,Ziegler DK,Batnitzky S,Hubble JP,Holladay FP

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The supraorbital approach is well accepted for lesions in the anterior fossa, the sellar region, and the anterior circle of Willis. However, the usefulness of this approach has not yet been elucidated for lesions in the interpeduncular fossa. The technique of an endoscope-assisted, ipsi- and contralateral sup...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Menovsky T,Grotenhuis JA,de Vries J,Bartels RH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) images were reconstructed from axial computed tomographic scans using the new 3D83 (General Electric Co.) software. Images were reformatted as a movie in multiple frames, each consisting of a discrete 3D scene, and were rotated 360 degrees in 3D space. Improvement in shading and surface algorith...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Virapongse C,Shapiro M,Gmitro A,Sarwar M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-based functional neuronavigation in surgery of cerebral gliomas with pyramidal tract (PT) involvement with respect to both perioperative assessment and follow-up outcome. METHODS:A prospective, randomized controlled study was conducted between 2001 and 2005. A conse...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Wu JS,Zhou LF,Tang WJ,Mao Y,Hu J,Song YY,Hong XN,Du GH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rotational vertebral artery syndrome (RVAS) is a rare entity about which previously published studies are mostly limited to individual case reports. OBJECTIVE:To report our decade-long experience with this syndrome in 9 patients with compression ranging from the occiput to C6. METHODS:We utilized a posteri...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lu DC,Zador Z,Mummaneni PV,Lawton MT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical decision analysis is applied to the treatment decisions for four patients with unruptured familial aneurysms. The surgical treatment was uneventful in all patients except one with mild mixed aphasia and facial weakness postoperatively; these deficits disappeared in less than 2 years. In the decision analysis,...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： ter Berg HW,Dippel DW,Habbema JD,Bijlsma JB,van Gijn J,Tulleken CA,Willemse J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using rabbit cerebral arteries in an in vitro chamber, we examined the cerebral arterial contraction initiated by clotting whole blood. By using methysergide maleate and a novel thromboxane synthetase inhibitor, 1-carboxyheptylimidazole (1-CHI), we studied the contributions of both serotonin and the prostaglandin meta...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Schumacher MA,Alksne JF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 50 consecutive patients treated with chemonucleolysis and 50 treated with microlumbar discectomy was carried out. Similar clinical criteria for the diagnosis of "virgin" herniated lumbar discs were used. All patients had low back or radicular pain unrelieved by a minimum of 4 weeks of conse...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Maroon JC,Abla A

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resection of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) meningiomas may result in significant neurological morbidity. Radiosurgery offers a minimally invasive alternative to surgery. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate, in a multicenter cohort study, the outcomes of patients harboring CPA meningiomas who underwent Gamma Knife radiosur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ding D,Starke RM,Kano H,Nakaji P,Barnett GH,Mathieu D,Chiang V,Omay SB,Hess J,McBride HL,Honea N,Lee JY,Rahmathulla G,Evanoff WA,Alonso-Basanta M,Lunsford LD,Sheehan JP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's New Haven years were limited professionally to the completion of projects that had been previously started. These were the description of basophilism and the completion of the meningioma monograph and A Surgeon's Journal. His early years as a student at Yale led him to subsequent intense involvement in event...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Davey LM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the impairment of autoregulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and its effect on the electrical activity of the brain during the development of chronic cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage, using a vasospasm model in primates. Fourteen animals were divided into two groups: a clot group (8) and a ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Takeuchi H,Handa Y,Kobayashi H,Kawano H,Hayashi M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of a series of adults (> 16 years of age) with pineoblastomas who had their entire neuraxis staged at the time of diagnosis. Between 1975 and 1992, seven men and four women with histologically proven pineoblastomas were evaluated at the University of California, San Francisco. The median age a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chang SM,Lillis-Hearne PK,Larson DA,Wara WM,Bollen AW,Prados MD

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of choroid plexus papilloma of the cerebellopontine angle that was revealed by a subarachnoid hemorrhage in a 5-year-old boy is presented. Subarachnoid hemorrhage and choroid plexus papilloma in children are discussed. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Piguet V,de Tribolet N

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several decades, the clinical study of Parkinson's disease has driven an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the dopaminergic system and its complex role in modulating motor behavior. This article reviews salient areas of research in this field, commencing with the molecular biology of the development of t...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hodaie M,Neimat JS,Lozano AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although endoscopic perforation of the septum pellucidum in obstruction of the foramen of Monro is well known, detailed reports on endoscopic septostomy, including surgical technique and results are lacking in the literature. METHODS:All intracranial endoscopic procedures performed between February 1993 and ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Oertel JM,Schroeder HW,Gaab MR

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery was established in 1932. The institute's founders were Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko, the surgeon (his name was later conferred on the institute), and Vasily Vasilyevich Kramer, the neurologist. This article presents the institute's history and its activities in different periods, incl...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Konovalov AN,Yartsev VV,Likhterman LB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM) is postulated to be a result of incomplete dysjunction in primary neurulation. However, clinical experience of LDM located below the first-second sacral (S1-S2) vertebral level, which is formed from secondary neurulation (S2-coccyx), suggested that LDM may not be entirely ex...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kim JW,Wang KC,Chong S,Kim SK,Lee JY

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical presentation, radiological features, and results of surgical treatment were analyzed in 17 cases of hydrosyringomyelia associated with a Chiari malformation, in children and adolescents younger than 20 years of age. The initial symptoms were a skeletal abnormality (71%), such as scoliosis (11 patients) or...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Isu T,Iwasaki Y,Akino M,Abe H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of lymphocytic hypophysitis are reported, in which hypothalamic involvement causing diabetes insipidus was a prominent clinical feature. In one case, a man had clinical and radiological evidence of the involvement of the cavernous sinus. This represents the second reported case of a man with lymphocytic hypo...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Nussbaum CE,Okawara SH,Jacobs LS

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Interstitial infusion, a form of local delivery that bypasses the blood-brain barrier, has been shown to afford high regional concentrations of a therapeutic molecule while avoiding systemic exposure. The distribution of monoclonal antibodies administered via interstitial infusion has not been characterized, ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Luther N,Cheung NK,Dunkel IJ,Fraser JF,Edgar MA,Gutin PH,Souweidane MM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:We present three cases of endolymphatic sac tumors and review the previously published cases. Despite frequent extension to the cerebellopontine angle, these rare tumors have only recently been recognized by neurosurgeons. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 26-year-old man developed a progressive hearing...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Roche PH,Dufour H,Figarella-Branger D,Pellet W

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though neurosurgeons exercise these enormous and versatile skills, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the fabrics of the global neurosurgical family, jeopardizing human lives, and forcing the entire world to be locked down. We stand on the shoulders of the giants and will not forget their examples and their teachin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chaurasia B,Deora H,El-Ghandour NMF,Oyesiku NM,Chaurasia RK,Schulder M,Soriano Sanchez JA,Teo M,Hernesniemi J,Linzey JR,Schwartz TH,Cohen-Gadol AA,Lawton M,Umana G,Mura J,Grotenhuis A,Sinha AK,Schroeder HWS,Natarajan

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a benign, chronic, involuntary movement of the muscles involved in facial expressions that typically begins in the orbicularis oculi and spreads to the other expression muscles over several years. OBJECTIVE:To clarify the effectiveness of intraoperative electromyogram during microv...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kim CH,Kong DS,Lee JA,Park K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is commonly used in the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson disease (PD), dystonia, and other tremors. OBJECTIVE:To examine systematic errors in image-guided DBS electrode placement and to explore a calibration strategy for stereotactic targeting. METHODS:Pre- and...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Holl EM,Petersen EA,Foltynie T,Martinez-Torres I,Limousin P,Hariz MI,Zrinzo L

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:The contralateral approach to internal carotid-ophthalmic artery aneurysms has been used in selected cases but has rarely been described for a giant internal carotid artery aneurysm. We report a case of giant aneurysm that was successfully clipped via the contralateral pterional approach. CLIN...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hongo K,Watanabe N,Matsushima N,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Magnetic resonance with diffusion tensor image (DTI) may be able to estimate trajectories compatible with subcortical tracts close to brain lesions. A limit of DTI is brain shifting (movement of the brain after dural opening and tumor resection). OBJECTIVE:To calculate the brain shift of trajectories compat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Romano A,D'Andrea G,Calabria LF,Coppola V,Espagnet CR,Pierallini A,Ferrante L,Fantozzi L,Bozzao A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of treatment for the victims of gunshot wounds to the brain remains quite controversial, particularly when these patients present with extensive neurological dysfunction. We propose guidelines regarding the degree and aggressiveness of therapy. The factors that seem to have a significant impact on the patie...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Nagib MG,Rockswold GL,Sherman RS,Lagaard MW

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report the safety and feasibility of using convection-enhanced delivery to administer Cotara (Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tustin, CA), a novel radioimmunotherapeutic agent, to patients with malignant glioma. METHODS:Between April 1998 and November 2002, 51 patients with histologically confirmed malig...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Patel SJ,Shapiro WR,Laske DW,Jensen RL,Asher AL,Wessels BW,Carpenter SP,Shan JS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of spondylotic lumbar spinal stenosis in an infirm elderly patient successfully treated with multilevel laminotomies. This procedure is less stressful to patients than a full laminectomy. In a selected subgroup of patients with "hourglass" spondylotic stenosis, it may provide adequate decompression....

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Aryanpur J,Ducker T

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lower thoracic spine is a complicated area within the vertebral column because of its anatomic complexity and inaccessibility. A variety of surgical procedures have been applied to access lower thoracic spinal lesions. When hard compressive pathologies are located on the ventral side of the dura, existin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lee SE,Jahng TA,Chung CK,Kim HJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00