Correlation of absorption coefficients with intracranial fluid protein concentrations and specific gravities.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors tested the hypothesis that among Grade II astrocytomas with a particularly long seizure history, a subgroup is hidden with a different prognosis and possibly histological characteristics. To do so, clinical and histological characteristics of two groups of World Health Organization Grade II astroc...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Schramm J,Luyken C,Urbach H,Fimmers R,Blümcke I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Hypertrophic neuropathy of the cauda equina (HNCE) is a rare form of peripheral neuropathy. The diagnosis is complicated by an insidious clinical presentation and complex radiographic images. We present a case of HNCE caused by chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy with symptomatic ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kretzer RM,Burger PC,Tamargo RJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two intracranial tumor volume variables have been shown to prognosticate survival of stereotactic-radiosurgery-treated brain metastasis patients: the largest intracranial tumor volume (LITV) and the cumulative intracranial tumor volume (CITV). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the prognostic value of the Score...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hirshman BR,Wilson B,Ali MA,Proudfoot JA,Koiso T,Nagano O,Carter BS,Serizawa T,Yamamoto M,Chen CC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboembolic and ischemic complications frequently occur during and after endovascular procedures, because of associated arterial injury and the thrombogenic characteristics of arterial catheters, contrast agents, and implanted devices such as coils and stents. Platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation occurrin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Qureshi AI,Luft AR,Sharma M,Guterman LR,Hopkins LN

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory function could be examined in 101 of 138 patients with anterior communicating artery aneurysms, whom we treated during a recent 6-year period. Among them, 49 patients underwent surgery by the anterior interhemispheric approach and 52 underwent surgery by the basal interhemispheric approach. Fifteen patie...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Fujiwara H,Yasui N,Nathal-Vera E,Suzuki A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIPPOCRATIC WORKS LEND themselves still today to the modern physician for further analysis of his approach to the diagnosis and treatment of various pathological conditions. We present an attempt to systematize his methodology regarding the management of head trauma and present it in the format of a modern-era algorit...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dimopoulos VG,Machinis TG,Fountas KN,Robinson JS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of imaging strategies may be used to derive reliable stereotactic coordinates when performing deep brain stimulation lead implants. No single technique has yet proved optimal. OBJECTIVE:To compare the relative accuracy of stereotactic coordinates for the subthalamic nucleus (STN) derived either fr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ben-Haim S,Gologorsky Y,Monahan A,Weisz D,Alterman RL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harvey Cushing developed an illness in the last months of World War I that made it impossible for him to operate and forced him to bed for over a month. The features of Cushing's malady included symmetrical weakness, numbness, and paresthesias of the hands and feet, areflexia, bilateral facial paresis, diplopia, and f...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Reich SG

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Cranial pachymeningitis is a typically diffuse granulomatous disease, which often affects the tentorium and falx. We report a rare case of idiopathic cranial pachymeningoencephalitis focally affecting only the left parietal dura mater and adjacent inferior parietal lobule. CLINICAL PRESENTATIO...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Nishizaki T,Iwamoto F,Uesugi S,Akimura T,Yamashita K,Ito H

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Currently, because of the precision of stereotactic radiosurgery, radiation can now be delivered by techniques that shape the radiation beam to the tissue target for a variety of clinical applications. This avoids unnecessary and potentially damaging irradiation of surrounding tissues inherent in conventional...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Zeman RJ,Wen X,Ouyang N,Rocchio R,Shih L,Alfieri A,Moorthy C,Etlinger JD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative ultrasound can aid the biopsy of deep intracranial lesions. It is, perhaps, less clear whether ultrasound could be useful in functional neurosurgery, where the target is not abnormal in echogenicity. As an example, we chose to investigate in a dog model the periventricular gray target, which is frequent...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Brown FD,Rachlin JR,Rubin JM,Fessler RG,Smith LJ,Schaible KL

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral vasospasm is an independent predictor of poor outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The nitric oxide-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (NO-cGMP) vasodilatory pathway is strongly implicated in its pathophysiology. Preliminary studies suggest that phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5), an enzyme that degrade...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Han BH,Vellimana AK,Zhou ML,Milner E,Zipfel GJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal form of brucellosis is still a disabling disease in many countries outside North America and northern and central Europe. Fifteen consecutive cases of spinal brucellosis diagnosed and treated over a 20-year period were reviewed retrospectively. Six patients were farmers, while 10 patients had a history of i...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Tekkök IH,Berker M,Ozcan OE,Ozgen T,Akalin E

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This is the first report of the direct integration of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) data into cranial neuronavigation. METHODS:In a patient with a left precentral oligodendroglioma (World Health Organization Grade III), the Zeiss MKM system (Carl Zeiss Co...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Braun V,Dempf S,Tomczak R,Wunderlich A,Weller R,Richter HP

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Resection of intracranial tumors in the posterior hippocampus and the parahippocampal gyrus can be associated with significant morbidity because of the parenchymal resection and the cortical retraction often required in gaining access to this infrequently explored region. With the use of image guidance, the o...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Russell SM,Kelly PJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External ventricular drainage (EVD) was used before and after posterior fossa operations in 62 children and adolescents. In all cases, the removal of the tumor (midline in 47 and laternal in 15) was attempted; total removal was achieved in 41. The overall mortality was 6.5% (4 patients). Only 25% of the survivors need...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Papo I,Caruselli G,Luongo A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classification of middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms is sometimes difficult because the identification of the main MCA bifurcation, the key for accurate classification of MCA aneurysms, is inconsistent and somewhat subjective. OBJECTIVE:To use the meeting point of the M1 and M2 trunks as an objective, g...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Elsharkawy A,Lehečka M,Niemelä M,Billon-Grand R,Lehto H,Kivisaari R,Hernesniemi J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of the telovelar approach with tonsillar manipulation for approaching the recesses of the fourth ventricle. METHODS:A telovelar approach was performed in 8 injected cadaveric heads. Areas of exposure were measured for the superolateral and lateral recesses. Horizontal angles were...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Jittapiromsak P,Sabuncuoglu H,Deshmukh P,Spetzler RF,Preul MC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing number of neurosurgical procedures for elderly patients and the development of skull base neurosurgery have increased interest in cerebral venous injury that might occur in a neurosurgical setting. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) may have neuroprotective effects against cerebral venou...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Takeshima Y,Nakamura M,Miyake H,Tamaki R,Inui T,Horiuchi K,Wajima D,Nakase H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography has proven useful in children with craniosynostosis for the evaluation of deformity of the skull base, calvarium, and parenchymal brain structures. A retrospective analysis of 24 children seen during a 4-year period who had adequate preoperative, postoperative, and follow-up scans was carried out. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Carmel PW,Luken MG 3rd,Ascherl GF Jr

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of subdural hematoma, one acute and the other chronic, associated with cancer metastatic to the dura are reported. Various mechanisms of the association of hematomas with cancer are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： McKenzie CR,Rengachary SS,McGregor DH,Dixon AY,Suskind DL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess acute and chronic histopathological changes observed in a swine arteriovenous malformation model after endovascular delivery of Embolyx E (Micro Therapeutics Inc., San Clemente, CA) and its organic solvent dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). To develop standard endovascular delivery techniques of Embolyx thr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Murayama Y,Viñuela F,Ulhoa A,Akiba Y,Duckwiler GR,Gobin YP,Vinters HV,Greff RJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Carotid endarterectomy with a patch graft (Patch CEA) has been our standard treatment for patients with carotid artery stenosis, but carotid artery stenting (CAS) has emerged as an alternative. The purpose of this study was to compare the postoperative changes in the configurations and the flow velocities of ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Tokunaga K,Sugiu K,Hayase H,Nishida A,Date I

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Radical resection of facial nerve schwannomas classically implies a high risk of severe facial palsy. Owing to the rarity of facial palsy after gamma knife surgery (GKS) of vestibular schwannomas, functional evaluation after GKS seems rational in this specific group of patients. To our knowledge, no previous ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Litre CF,Gourg GP,Tamura M,Mdarhri D,Touzani A,Roche PH,Régis J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the neurosurgical literature have surged in popularity over the last decade. It is our concern that, without a renewed effort to critically interpret and appraise these studies as high or low quality, we run the risk of the quality and value of evidence-based medicine in neurosu...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lu VM,Graffeo CS,Perry A,Link MJ,Meyer FB,Dawood HY,Mekary RA,Smith TR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When confronted with a patient with a brachial plexus injury, how often as neurosurgeons do we consult an atlas to confirm the anatomy of the brachial plexus and then attempt to establish the location of the lesion? Similar difficulties are encountered with lumbar and sacral plexus lesions. In a project organized to a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Fisher WS 3rd

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this study, information about the localization of the central sulcus obtained by magnetic source imaging (MSI) was intraoperatively translated to the brain, using frameless image-guided stereotaxy. In the past, the MSI results could be translated to the surgical space only by indirect methods (e.g., the co...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ganslandt O,Steinmeier R,Kober H,Vieth J,Kassubek J,Romstöck J,Strauss C,Fahlbusch R

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local steroid injections for symptomatic relief of carpal tunnel syndrome have become common in the evaluation and treatment of this disorder; yet reports of median nerve injection injury from this practice are rare. We present a case of nerve injury from a steroid injection in a 24-year-old man with carpal tunnel syn...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Linskey ME,Segal R

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tuberculum sellae meningiomas are classically removed through several different surgical transcranial approaches, including the pterional transsylvian route. Recently, the indications for the transsphenoidal technique, traditionally proposed only for the treatment of intrasellar lesions, have been extended to...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： de Divitiis E,Cavallo LM,Esposito F,Stella L,Messina A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of thrombosis of the vertebral artery and an associated bursting fracture of the lower cervical spine is reported. Computed tomography revealed both the location and the spreading of the fractures of the injured spine. We recognized that the vertebral artery thrombosis was caused by an injury to the arterial wa...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Handa Y,Hayashi M,Kawano H,Kobayashi H,Hirose S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00