Spontaneous dissection in the common carotid artery--case report.

abstract：:Three cases of ruptured intracranial aneurysm associated with moyamoya disease are presented. Endovascular treatments were performed successfully in two patients with major artery aneurysms. One patient with a collateral aneurysm was managed conservatively and follow-up angiography 1 year later demonstrated spontaneou...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Arai Y,Matsuda K,Isozaki M,Nakajima T,Kikuta K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients presented with rare spinal subdural hematoma (SDH) occurring after intracranial aneurysm surgery and manifesting as postoperative back pain. Magnetic resonance imaging performed from 4 to 11 days after the operation showed acute or subacute thoracolumbar SDH. No patient had risk factors for bleeding at t...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kim MS,Lee CH,Lee SJ,Rhee JJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old female developed a massive hemorrhage in the left frontal lobe from a ruptured aneurysm on a distal branch of the left anterior cerebral artery. The aneurysm was associated with an astrocytoma. The histopathological findings suggested that the aneurysm may have been due to the destruction of the arterial...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kadota Y,Hatashita S,Sakakibara T,Takagi S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old woman and a 55-year-old woman were treated with gamma knife surgery (GKS) for occipital arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Angiography confirmed complete nidus obliterations 2 years after GKS. However, both patients complained of chronic headache and visual symptoms from around 7 years after GKS. Magnetic...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Oyoshi T,Hirahara K,Uetsuhara K,Yatsushiro K,Arita K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptomatic lumbar synovial cysts (LSCs) are a rare cause of degenerative narrowing of the spinal canal, with thecal sac or nerve root compression. True synovial cysts have a thick wall lined by synovial cells, containing granulation tissue, numerous histiocytes, and giant cells. In contrast, pseudo-cysts lack special...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ganau M,Ennas F,Bellisano G,Ganau L,Ambu R,Faa G,Maleci A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of chronic subdural hematoma has evolved from membranectomy through craniotomy to burr hole irrigation. The latter approach is based on utilization of the natural absorptive process that is thought to be part of the life cycle of the hematoma. To test this theory, the authors treated fifty-nine ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Iwadate Y,Ishige N,Hosoi Y

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional digital subtraction angiography (DSA) identified a right carotid-cavernous fistula (CCF). Three-dimensional DSA (3D-DSA) was used to evaluate the CCF before treatment. The 3D-DSA images showed the anatomical relationship of the parent artery and the veins, which was difficult to understand on conventional...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ishida F,Kojima T,Kawaguchi K,Hoshino T,Murao K,Taki W

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-year-old male who presented with trigeminal nerve paresis was found to have a cerebellopontine angle tumor. The tumor was subtotally removed. Multiple histological sections showed no malignant changes, and the diagnosis was typical epidermoid cyst. Tumor growth recurred twice and the diagnosis after the third ope...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Nishiura I,Koyama T,Handa J,Amano S

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery for deeply seated arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is controversial because stereotactic irradiation is applicable to the lesion. We have, however, experienced 30 deeply seated AVMs treated by direct surgery and/or endovascular treatment. The present study shows profiles of those patients and results of surger...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yamada K,Mase M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive functions are frequently impaired in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). Two patients with NPH initially had dysfunctional constructional skill but exhibited improvements after shunt surgery. Dysfunction of constructional skill should be added to the important clinical features of NPH. The geo...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Takeuchi M,Hayashi N,Takaiwa A,Hamada H,Kuwayama N,Hirashima Y,Matsui M,Endo S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old male was first treated for World Health Organization (WHO) grade II chondrosarcoma arising from the ring finger manifesting as painful swelling. Four years later, the patient presented with cerebral infarction. Echocardiography revealed a tumor occupying the left atrium. He underwent open heart surgery a...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tsutsumi S,Yasumoto Y,Oizumi H,Ito M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score was previously developed for neurological assessment, but has not been validated in neurosurgical patients, so was compared to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in practice. Four groups of raters, expert clinicians, novice clinicians, experienced nurses, and inexperienced n...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Akavipat P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old boy presented with an unusual case of a supratentorial, extraaxial small round blue cell tumor of the central nervous system, which was most likely a primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). Preoperative computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a large multistage hematoma in the left cent...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Burkhardt JK,Kockro RA,Dohmen-Scheufler H,Woernle CM,Bellut D,Kollias S,Bertalanffy H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor tissues obtained from two patients with growth hormone-producing pituitary adenomas were cultured and treated with bromocriptine, then examined for morphological changes. Untreated tumor cells (controls) were morphologically well preserved and in terms of growth hormone secretion. Tumor cells exposed to bromocri...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Inoue A,Saito S,Kitamura H,Nakai O

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 41-year-old man presented with progressive worsening of postural headache. Computed tomography (CT) showed bilateral subdural hematomas without prior history of trauma. The diagnosis was spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). Conservative treatment with oral steroids failed to prevent gradual deterioration of t...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Inamasu J,Nakamura Y,Orii M,Saito R,Kuroshima Y,Mayanagi K,Ichikizaki K,Doi H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old man with hemophilia type A presented with a huge intracerebral hematoma (ICH) in the left frontoparietal lobe due to rupture of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Angiography demonstrated the AVM in the frontoparietal lobe fed by the anterior cerebral arteries and the middle cerebral arteries, with a v...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Saito N,Yamazaki M,Kobayashi S,Teramoto A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of porencephaly in a 33-year-old male is presented. The patient exhibited right hemiparesis and generalized seizures. Computed tomography and, subsequently, craniotomy revealed a cerebral defect in the left parietal lobe, which communicated with the lateral ventricle. On angiography and at surgery, the cortical...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Matsumae M,Yoshioka M,Muraoka I,Morita A,Mannen T,Kaku S,Tsubai F

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old male patient presented with a rare dural supratentorial hemangioblastoma manifesting as severe headache persisting for 2 months. Neuroimaging revealed a tumoral mass localized in the right parietal lobe near the sagittal sinus. The tumor was totally excised successfully. The postoperative histological di...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Cosar M,Hatiboglu MA,Iplikcioglu AC,Ozcan D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise in the incidence of tuberculosis is generally related to human immunodeficiency virus infection. However, intracranial tuberculoma, a complication of tuberculosis considered to be a critical disease, can develop even in the absence of immunosuppressive state. Here, we describe 2 cases of intracranial tubercul...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Matsumoto Y,Aikawa H,Narita S,Tsutsumi M,Yoshida H,Etou H,Sakamoto K,Inoue R,Nii K,Kazekawa K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors retrospectively reviewed their cases of infectious intracranial aneurysms and discuss results and trends of current treatment modalities including medical, neurosurgical, and endovascular. Twenty patients (10 males and 10 females; mean age 46 years) with 23 infectious aneurysms were treated by various trea...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Matsubara N,Miyachi S,Izumi T,Yamanouchi T,Asai T,Ota K,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restenosis following carotid endarterectomy is not a rare condition. Among 122 endarterectomies we experienced, five restenoses (4.1%) were encountered and treated by the second surgery. The present report clarifies the clinical profiles and pathological findings of restenosis following carotid endarterectomy. Mean ag...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yamada K,Kishiguchi T,Ito M,Otsuki H,Kohmura E,Taneda M,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old man presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage from a small brainstem arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Cerebral angiography showed a small AVM in the lateral midbrain, which was fed by a basilar perforating artery, and drained into the right transverse pontine vein and superior petrous vein. Endovascular em...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Morihiro Y,Harada K,Kato S,Ishihara H,Shirao S,Nakayama H,Akimura T,Suzuki M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old male presented with a recurrent solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) arising from the falx cerebri with intraventricular extension manifesting as nausea and vomiting. Magnetic resonance imaging showed the heterogeneously enhanced tumor in the falx, which extended to the bilateral lateral ventricles and the third...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Teranishi K,Yamamoto T,Nakao Y,Osada H,Wada R,Mori K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old female presented with multiple dural arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) manifesting as dementia rapidly progressing over 2 months. The initial diagnosis was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease based on the acute clinical course. However, angiography eventually revealed multiple dural AVFs involving the bilateral convex...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Abe K,Okuda O,Ohishi H,Sonobe M,Arai H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old boy presented with medulloblastoma occurring in the cerebellar vermis. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed numerous cysts and calcifications in the tumor. The tumor was subtotally removed and cellular synchronization radiation therapy given. He was discharged without neurological...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tsunoda S,Kurokawa S,Sakaki T,Yabuno T,Tsuzuki T,Kawaguchi S,Kiriishi R,Morimoto T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial has shown that coil embolization achieves a better outcome for aneurysms treatable by either clipping or coil embolization. However, many ruptured aneurysms are hardly treatable by either clipping or coil embolization. Selection of either clipping or coil embolization will...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tenjin H,Takadou M,Ogawa T,Mandai A,Umebayashi D,Osaka Y,Nakahara Y,Kubo S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience with dissection of the cavernous sinus and the temporal bone is essential for training in skull base surgery, but the opportunities for cadaver dissection are very limited. A modification of a commercially available prototype three-dimensional (3D) skull base model, made by a selective laser sintering metho...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Mori K,Yamamoto T,Oyama K,Ueno H,Nakao Y,Honma K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bevacizumab has been reported to be effective for recurrent glioblastoma. In our hospital, ifosfamide, carboplatin, etoposide (ICE) is the second-line chemotherapy for first recurrence of glioblastoma after temozolomide failure. In the present analysis, we retrospectively investigated the feasibility and effectiveness...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Arakawa Y,Mizowaki T,Murata D,Fujimoto K,Kikuchi T,Kunieda T,Takahashi JC,Takagi Y,Miyamoto S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management, analysis, and integration of Big Data have received increasing attention in healthcare research as well as in medical bioinformatics. The J-ASPECT study is the first nationwide survey in Japan on the real-world setting of stroke care using data obtained from the diagnosis procedure combination-based pa...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Nishimura A,Nishimura K,Kada A,Iihara K,J-ASPECT Study GROUP.

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old male had suffered near-syncopal episodes for more than one year that occurred immediately on turning his head to the left. Cerebral magnetic resonance (MR) imaging did not detect any contributing lesions with well-developed posterior communicating arteries. Dynamic radiography of the cervical spine showe...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Tsutsumi S,Ito M,Yasumoto Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00