Chronic encapsulated intracerebellar hematoma in infancy: case report.

abstract：:Intracranial cartilaginous tumors are unusual lesions, of which myxoid chondrosarcoma is the rarest. We describe this tumor arising from the falx in a 28-year-old woman treated at recurrence with a second operation and a radiation implant. The behavior of classic chondrosarcoma and mesenchymal chondrosarcoma is also r...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Salcman M,Scholtz H,Kristt D,Numaguchi Y

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the association between optic glioma and neurofibromatosis is well recognized, few studies have systematically compared the outcomes of patients with optic gliomas and neurofibromatosis and patients with optic gliomas without neurofibromatosis. In the present study, patients with optic gliomas and Type 1 neur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Deliganis AV,Geyer JR,Berger MS

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In recent years, stereotactic radiosurgery has been growing in popularity as a treatment modality for metastatic disease to the brain. The technique has advantages of reduced cost and low morbidity compared with open surgical treatment. Furthermore, it avoids the potential cognitive side effects of fractionat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chen JC,Petrovich Z,O'Day S,Morton D,Essner R,Giannotta SL,Yu C,Apuzzo ML

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral arterial vasospasm continues to be a major secondary medical complication of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Despite hypervolemic hemodilution, arterial hypertension, and pharmacological therapy, morbidity and mortality due to vasospasm remain high. The authors discuss a patient with vasospasm who did not...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Luer MS,Dujovny M,Slavin KV,Hernandez-Avila G,Ausman JI

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Asian populations, moyamoya disease has a well-defined phenotype including a bimodal age of presentation with children typically presenting with ischemic phenomena and adults presenting with hemorrhage. Studies have provided evidence that moyamoya disease in the United States may exhibit a different pheno...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Starke RM,Crowley RW,Maltenfort M,Jabbour PM,Gonzalez LF,Tjoumakaris SI,Randazzo CG,Rosenwasser RH,Dumont AS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who sustained an isolated transverse sacral fracture is presented. A large ventral sacral pseudomeningocele with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula developed. Eighteen previous cases of traumatic pseudomeningocele have been documented. A review of those cases leads these authors to conclude that: transverse s...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hadley MN,Carter LP

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:Safety and efficacy of the thrombolytic agent urokinase (URO) in the elimination of subarachnoid clot and prevention of chronic vasospasm was compared with tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) in a blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial. Twenty monkeys were randomly assigned to one of five groups of four. Eac...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hariton GB,Findlay JM,Weir BK,Kasuya H,Grace MG,Mielke BW

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term remission rates from endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for acromegaly and their relationship to prognostic indicators of disease aggressiveness are not well documented. OBJECTIVE:To investigate long-term remission rates in patients with acromegaly after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery, and cor...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Babu H,Ortega A,Nuno M,Dehghan A,Schweitzer A,Bonert HV,Carmichael JD,Cooper O,Melmed S,Mamelak AN

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A piezo actuator-driven pulsed water jet (ADPJ) system is a novel surgical instrument that enables dissection of tissue without thermal damage. It can potentially resect intra-axial lesions while preserving neurological function. OBJECTIVE:To report our first experience of applying an ADPJ system to brain a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Endo T,Takahashi Y,Nakagawa A,Niizuma K,Fujimura M,Tominaga T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zenker's solution is a tissue fixative containing mercuric chloride, potassium bichromate, sodium sulfate, and glacial acetic acid. In 1956, Anderson and Johnson reported its use in clinical neurosurgery. They applied the solution to the exposed dura after craniectomy. Delayed bone formation was thought to be due to t...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Marlin AE,Brown WE Jr,Huntington HW,Epstein F

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Lesions in the insula and basal ganglia can be risky to resect because of their depth and proximity to critical structures, particularly in the dominant hemisphere. Transsylvian approaches shorten the surgical distance to these lesions, preserve perisylvian temporal and frontal cortex, and minimize brain tra...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Potts MB,Chang EF,Young WL,Lawton MT,UCSF Brain AVM Study Project.

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized clinical trial of 15 patients with acute spinal cord injuries was performed to test the hypothesis that rotating treatment tables prevent deep venous thrombosis in this population. Four of 5 control (nonrotated) patients developed distal and proximal thrombi, assessed by 125I fibrinogen leg scans and impe...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Becker DM,Gonzalez M,Gentili A,Eismont F,Green BA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An alternative route must be used for atlantoaxial arthrodesis to avoid the risks of transoral route or when posterior approaches are contraindicated. OBJECTIVE:To assess relevant quantitative anatomic parameters for C1-C2 anterolateral transarticular fixation and to demonstrate the nuances of an anterolate...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Cavalcanti DD,Agrawal A,Garcia-Gonzalez U,Crawford NR,Tavares PL,Theodore N,Sonntag VK,Preul MC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:The safety of flow-diverting stents for the treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms is unknown. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 35-year-old woman with a ruptured dissecting aneurysm of the intradural right vertebral artery and incorporating the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery was trea...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： McTaggart RA,Santarelli JG,Marcellus ML,Steinberg GK,Dodd RL,Do HM,Marks MP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the acute and chronic response of brain tissue to injury by equal power density, focused argon (Ar) and carbon dioxide (CO2) laser beams. A cortical incision from 0.2-second laser pulses of 12.5 X 10(3) W/cm2 power density was made in the exposed cortex of 32 rats using either the CO2 or the Ar las...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Boggan JE,Edwards MS,Davis RL,Bolger CA,Martin N

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distal middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms frequently have nonsaccular morphology that necessitates trapping and bypass. Bypasses can be difficult because efferent arteries lie deep in the opercular cleft and may not be easily identifiable. OBJECTIVE:We introduce the "flash fluorescence" technique, which...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rodríguez-Hernández A,Lawton MT

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acromegaly is a disorder characterized by hypersecretion of growth hormone caused by a growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of repeat transsphenoidal surgery for persistent or recurrent acromegaly. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed records fo...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Yamada S,Fukuhara N,Oyama K,Takeshita A,Takeuchi Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Robot-assisted stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) may represent a simplified, precise, and safe alternative to the more traditional SEEG techniques. OBJECTIVE:To report our clinical experience with robotic SEEG implantation and to define its utility in the management of patients with medically refractory e...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： González-Martínez J,Bulacio J,Thompson S,Gale J,Smithason S,Najm I,Bingaman W

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Neurosurgery is experiencing a period of acute change driven by 2 forces: (1) the perception that the healthcare system in the United States is wasteful and that patients are receiving low "value" care, (2) the belief that quality and long-term outcomes can be measured accurately. We believe 3 important shifts will em...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kim DH,Dagi TF,Bean JR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minimum clinical important difference (MCID) has been adopted as the smallest improvement in patient-reported outcome needed to achieve a level of improvement thought to be meaningful to patients. OBJECTIVE:To use a common MCID calculation method with a cost-utility threshold anchor to introduce the concept...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Parker SL,McGirt MJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A critical concept in brachial plexus reconstruction is the accurate assessment of functional outcomes. The current standard for motor outcome assessment is clinician-elicited, outpatient clinic-based, serial evaluation of range of motion and muscle power. However, discrepancies exist between such clinical m...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Smith BW,Chang KW,Saake SJ,Yang LJ,Chung KC,Brown SH

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hemangioblastomas are the most common primary intra-axial tumors of the adult posterior fossa and the tumors most often associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease. Resection of cerebellar hemangioblastomas involves tumor excision and drainage of associated cysts. The cyst wall is considered devoid of tumor cel...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bishop FS,Liu JK,Chin SS,Fults DW

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial stenoses and/or occlusions in moyamoya disease are mainly localized intracranially, although some instances of stenotic lesions of the extracranial arteries have been reported in some autopsy cases. We have reviewed the angiograms of 66 patients with moyamoya disease to investigate whether stenotic lesions ar...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hoshimaru M,Kikuchi H

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few objective measures of functional impairment to support clinical decision making in lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). OBJECTIVE:We present the validation (and reliability measures) of the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test. METHODS:In a prospective, 2-center study, 253 consecutive patients were ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gautschi OP,Smoll NR,Corniola MV,Joswig H,Chau I,Hildebrandt G,Schaller K,Stienen MN

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The preoperative localization of superficial intracranial lesions is often necessary for accurate burr hole placement or craniotomy siting. It is not always easy, however, to localize the lesions over the scalp working only from computed tomographic images. We developed a simple method for such localization u...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kubo S,Nakata H,Sugauchi Y,Yokota N,Yoshimine T

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraventricular tension pneumocephalus is an unusual complication of surgically treated hydrocephalus. This is a life-threatening complication requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment. A case is presented wherein tension pneumocephalus developed as a result of cervicocranial subcutaneous emphysema in the presence of ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Horton DD,Pollay M,Reynolds AF Jr

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Traumatic fracture-dislocations of the lumbosacral junction are rare, with all previously reported cases involving fracture-dislocations at a single level. No cases of multiple fracture-dislocations of contiguous spinal segments in the lumbosacral spine have been reported. A case of traumatic a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kaplan SS,Wright NM,Yundt KD,Lauryssen C

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00