Growth hormone-producing pituitary adenomas: MR characteristics and pre- and postoperative evaluation.

abstract：:Sixty-two patients with radiographically proven intracranial arteriovenous malformations underwent preoperative regional cerebral blood flow measurement with 133Xe single-photon emission computed tomography. Contralateral regions of hypoperfusion were detected in all cases. Steal severity was assessed according to the...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Batjer HH,Devous MD Sr,Seibert GB,Purdy PD,Ajmani AK,Delarosa M,Bonte FJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforaminal full-endoscopic lumbar discectomy (TELD) can be performed under local anesthesia. However, there have been no reports on risk factors for a change in vital signs or the need for additional medications to maintain adequate analgesia during this procedure. The purpose of this study was to identify risk fa...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yamaya S,Tezuka F,Sugiura K,Takeuchi M,Manabe H,Morimoto M,Yamashita K,Takata Y,Sakai T,Maeda T,Sairyo K

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A 79-year-old man with a cardiac pacemaker for bradycardia fell down and presented with sudden onset of right hemiplegia and aphasia. Initial computed tomography (CT) showed no cerebral infarction but angiography revealed occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA). Local intra-arterial thrombolysis with tissue...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Meguro T,Higashi H,Nishimoto K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD) expression in tumor tissues was investigated in 10 cases of medulloblastoma by immunohistochemistry, using a monoclonal antibody against human copper and zinc-superoxide dismutase. Abundant SOD was expressed in tumors from patients with poor outcomes and little SOD in patients with good outc...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kurisaka M,Mori K

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:A strategy for surgical management, including the approach and preoperative evaluation, of pituitary adenoma invading the skull base is described. Preoperative evaluation requires a balloon occlusion test of the internal carotid artery (ICA) to determine tolerance to occlusion. Failure to tolerate occlusion indicates ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Nakase H,Ohnishi H,Touho H,Takaoka M,Karasawa J,Kawaguchi M,Sakamoto T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radiation-induced cerebellar glioma is extremely rare, and the etiology of such a tumor is unknown. We report a rare case of hemorrhagic cerebellar anaplastic glioma occurring 12 years after prophylactic cranial radiotherapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia. We discuss the etiologies of the radiation-induced hemorrhag...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Miyazawa T,Aida S,Shima K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old male presented with a brain abscess manifesting as high fever and generalized convulsion attacks. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging disclosed a ring-like enhanced lesion in the parietal lobe. Thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography (201Tl SPECT) images demonstrated a high uptake lesion with...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Sato S,Ogasawara K,Kinouchi H,Kohsyu K,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old woman presented with photophobia without visual loss associated with chiasmal compression by an unruptured anterior communicating artery (AcomA) aneurysm. She had suffered progressive photophobia for one year. Neuroimaging indicated an AcomA aneurysm attached to the chiasm. Photophobia was resolved follo...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hagihara N,Abe T,Yoshioka F,Watanabe M,Tabuchi K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the causes of ventricular shunt catheter retention, 42 shunt removals in 28 patients in our neurosurgical clinic from 1982 to 1991 were analyzed. The mean patient age was 13.8 years (2 mos-78 yrs), and mean shunt duration was 20.1 months (0.5-94 mos). There were nine retained ventricular catheters, includi...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Koga H,Mukawa J,Nakata M,Sakuta O,Higa Y

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year-old woman with severe mitral valve regurgitation due to infectious endocarditis was transferred to our institute in a deep coma with intracerebral hemorrhage and acute subdural hematoma. She had no history of head injury. Brain computed tomography revealed left frontoparietal intracerebral hematoma and adjac...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yamakawa H,Hattori T,Tanigawara T,Enomoto Y,Ohkuma A

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:The effect of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) secreted by glioblastoma (T98G) cells on the secretion of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) by lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells stimulated with tumor cells was investigated in cocultures of LAK and Daudi cells supplemented with T98G culture supernatant, T98G c...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Naganuma H,Sasaki A,Satoh E,Nagasaka M,Nakano S,Isoe S,Tasaka K,Nukui H

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 77-year-old man with a 9-year history of prostate cancer presented with high fever and dysphagia. The initial diagnosis was aspiration pneumonia, but the patient became comatose 2 days after admission, and neuroradiological workup revealed cerebellar hemorrhage, obstructive hydrocephalus, and extensive destruction o...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

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

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old man presented with a hyperplastic anomalous anterior choroidal artery (AChA) associated with a ruptured internal carotid artery aneurysm at the origin of a perforating artery manifesting as sudden onset of headache and vomiting. The aneurysm was too small for endovascular embolization, so we performed op...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Misaki K,Uchiyama N,Nitta H,Hamada J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic computed tomographic (DCT) scans with iodine contrast enhancement were compared with simultaneously obtained xenon CT studies of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 15 patients with subacute or chronic cerebrovascular ischemic disease. Specifically, the width and corrected first moment (cMT1), as demonstrated by DCT,...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Terada T,Kikuchi H,Kuriyama Y,Nagata I,Yamagata S,Naruo Y,Minamikawa J,Kaneko T,Sawada T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical spinal neurinomas are benign tumors that arise from nerve roots. Based on their location, these tumors can also take the form of a dumbbell-shaped mass. Treatment strategies for these tumors have raised several controversial issues such as appropriate surgical indications and selection of surgical approaches ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Ito K,Aoyama T,Miyaoka Y,Horiuchi T,Hongo K

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Patients with diffuse axonal injury (DAI) may initially present with prominent physical impairments, but their cognitive dysfunctions are more persistent and are attributable to later unemployment. In this study, we analyzed how the findings of early and delayed neuropsychological assessments correlated with employmen...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hirota S,Inaji M,Nariai T,Hara M,Tamaki M,Maehara T,Tomita H,Tone O

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old male was admitted because of severe headache, vertigo, and vomiting. A computed tomographic scan showed heterogeneously enhanced tumors in the supra- and the infratentorial regions, apparently attached to the cerebellar tentorium. He died 2 months after the onset despite external decompression and a vent...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kudo H,Tanaka M,Urui S,Suzuki H,Tamaki N,Matsumoto S

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 30-year-old male case of an enlarged cerebellar arteriovenous malformation (AVM) associated with fenestration of the vertebral artery. Hemodynamic stress resulting from fenestration of the feeding system of AVM was probably an important factor in the enlargement of the small cerebellar AVM. ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yoshimoto H,Maeda H,Aoyama H,Kanazawa J,Kitaoka T,Uozumi T

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between hyperperfusion and temporary clipping was evaluated to determine the safe limit for the duration of temporary clipping in aneurysm surgery. Twenty-one patients surgically treated for a ruptured aneurysm were examined using xenon-enhanced computed tomography on postoperative days 4 to 13. Eight...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Araki Y,Andoh H,Yamada M,Nakatani K,Andoh T,Sakai N

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mouse was investigated as a model system to study the growth and immunogenicity of human gliomas. Human glioma cell lines U-251MG, KNS-42, SF-188, A-172, and T-98G were injected subcutaneously into SCID mice. The cell lines U-251MG and KNS-42 grew as large, subcutaneous mass...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Sawa H,Tamaki N,Kokunai T

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study retrospectively reviewed 227 patients with ruptured solitary cerebral aneurysm who underwent endovascular embolization with detachable coils between March 1997 and March 2006 to establish the incidence of rebleeding after endovascular treatment for ruptured cerebral aneurysm and identify the risk factors. T...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Aikawa H,Kazekawa K,Nagata S,Onizuka M,Iko M,Tsutsumi M,Kodama T,Nii K,Matsubara S,Etou H,Tanaka A

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:A 41-year-old man presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Initial digital subtraction angiography showed occlusion of the right vertebral artery (VA), which recanalized immediately, and dissecting aneurysm on the distal part of the right VA. Basiparallel anatomic scanning (BPAS)-magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Yoshida M,Ezura M,Mino M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old male presented with a rare association of a ruptured orbitofrontal artery aneurysm and a dural arteriovenous malformation (DAVM) fed by both ethmoidal arteries, manifestation as severe headache, nausea, and vomiting. Computed tomography revealed a hematoma within the right frontal lobe and diffuse subara...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Murai Y,Yamashita Y,Ikeda Y,Node Y,Teramoto A

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate cerebral reactions to cognitive rehabilitation tasks, oxyhemoglobin changes were compared in 9 patients with cognitive impairments after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 47 healthy controls using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during nine cognitive rehabilitation tasks employed at Nagoya ...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Hibino S,Mase M,Shirataki T,Nagano Y,Fukagawa K,Abe A,Nishide Y,Aizawa A,Iida A,Ogawa T,Abe J,Hatta T,Yamada K,Kabasawa H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly and low Karnofsky performance status (KPS) patients have been excluded from most prospective trials. This retrospective study investigated glioblastoma treatment outcomes, including those of elderly and low KPS patients, and analyzed the prognostic factors using the medical records of 107 consecutive patients,...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Uzuka T,Aoki H,Natsumeda M,Takahashi H,Fujii Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is easily overlooked in patients with central nervous system (CNS) lesions. Our clinical experience of three patients with CNS lesions associated with HHT stresses the importance of considering HHT. A 23-year-old male presented with consciousness disturbance and right hemipa...

journal_title：Neurologia medico-chirurgica

authors： Kuwayama K,Takase K,Kashihara M,Hondo H,Shigekiyo T,Takimoto O,Matsubara S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00