Successful treatment of amoebic meningoencephalitis in a Chinese living in Hong Kong.

abstract：:As the prevalence of cancer in the general population increases, a greater proportion of patients will present with symptomatic metastatic lesions to the spine. While surgery has been historically considered the treatment of choice for spinal cord/nerve root compression, mechanical instability and intractable pain, ra...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bydon M,De la Garza-Ramos R,Bettagowda C,Gokaslan ZL,Sciubba DM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) in octogenarians and beyond has a significant impact on quality of life requiring surgical decompression and hence impact on health care utilization. Risk of surgical failure and impact on health care resources is always a concern in this patient population (more so in nonagenaria...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Sharma M,Dietz N,Ugiliweneza B,Wang D,Drazin D,Boakye M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is an often devastating form of stroke. Aside from the initial hemorrhage, cardiac complications can occur resulting in neurogenic stress cardiomyopathy (NCM), leading to impaired cardiac function. We investigated whether aSAH patients with NCM had poorer long term f...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Kilbourn KJ,Levy S,Staff I,Kureshi I,McCullough L

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to translate new evidence about management of spinal metastases in a practical and reliable score for surgeons, radiation oncologists and oncologists, able to establish the need for surgery regardless the available technology and settings. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Three main items were ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Cofano F,Di Perna G,Zenga F,Ducati A,Baldassarre B,Ajello M,Marengo N,Ceroni L,Lanotte M,Garbossa D

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of beat-to-beat variations was employed in a group of 14 chronic alcoholics and compared with a group of normal individuals. A significant increase in the number of runs was found in the alcoholics reflecting impaired neurogenic control of the heart. It is concluded that cardiac neuropathy should be consid...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Melgaard B,Somnier F

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under an operative view, an aneurysm of the vertebral artery is located behind the lower cranial nerves. To prevent neurological deficits we employed electrophysiological monitoring while clipping an aneurysm of the vertebral artery. A 64-year-old woman had suffered a sudden severe headache in the morning. Computed to...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Ishikawa M,Kusaka G,Takashima K,Kamochi H,Shinoda S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We performed a retrospective study to identify factors associated with preoperative and late postoperative seizures in primary supratentorial meningiomas. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between July 2003 and December 2014, we extracted 303 consecutive patients who underwent primary resection for supratentorial meningi...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Hwang K,Joo JD,Kim YH,Han JH,Oh CW,Yun CH,Park SH,Kim CY

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ventriculostomy is one of the most common neurosurgical procedures and an important tool in the treatment and monitoring of elevated intracranial pressure. Low accuracy has frequently been reported in the literature with risk of drain misplacement over 20% and with a need for reinsertion in up to 40%. As an ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bergdal O,Springborg JB,Holst AV,Hauerberg J,Way S,Breum P,Romner B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Information on the nature and relative frequency of diagnoses made in referrals to neurology outpatient clinics is an important guide to priorities in services, teaching and research. Previous studies of this topic have been limited by being of only single centres or lacking in detail. We aimed to describe th...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Stone J,Carson A,Duncan R,Roberts R,Warlow C,Hibberd C,Coleman R,Cull R,Murray G,Pelosi A,Cavanagh J,Matthews K,Goldbeck R,Smyth R,Walker J,Sharpe M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The frequency of suboccipital injections to treat headaches has increased. The third segment of the vertebral artery is located in the suboccipital triangle and its main muscular branch, the suboccipital artery of Salmon (SAS), supplies blood to the suboccipital muscles. The purpose of this study was to radi...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Macchi V,Porzionato A,Morra A,D'Antoni AV,Tubbs RS,De Caro R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Language is an important human function, and is a determinant of the quality of life. In conditions such as brain lesions, disruption of the language function may occur, and lesion resection is a solution for that. Presurgical planning to determine the language-related brain areas would enhance the chances o...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Alemi R,Batouli SAH,Behzad E,Ebrahimpoor M,Oghabian MA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological criteria for diffuse gliomatosis are clearly demarcated but its clinical diagnosis has always been hampered by the imaging techniques used. Although with the advent of CT scanning clinical possibilities were improved, isodense brain lesions are difficult to detect and in these cases the diagnosis gliomato...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Troost D,Kuiper H,Valk J,Fleury P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True and false positive rates of auditory and visual evoked potentials, as well as multi-modal evoked potentials, were assessed in groups of 30 multiple sclerosis patients and 19 healthy age-matched subjects. Sensitivity (true positive rate) generally proved to be high confirming published reports. False positive rate...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： van Dijk JG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past year huge advances have been made in our ability to determine the genetic aetiology of many neurological diseases through the utilisation of next generation sequencing platforms. This technology is, on a daily basis, providing new breakthroughs in neurological disease. The aim of this article is to clear...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Keogh MJ,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is presented suffering a hemiparesis. Megadolicho-vascular malformation of the intracranial part of the internal carotid arteries and some of its branches and of the basilar artery was suggested by CT and confirmed by angiography. The value of CT compared with angiography in relation to intracranial megadoli...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lodder J,Janevski B,van der Lugt PJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient presented with selective paralysis of the arms after having sustained a fall. X-ray of the cervical spine showed a type II odontoid fracture with posterior atlantoaxial dislocation. The diagnosis in the emergency room was cruciate paralysis, which is frequently associated with fractures of axis and/or atlas....

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Inamasu J,Hori S,Ohsuga F,Aikawa N

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ruptured middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms are one of the causes of subarachnoid (SAH) or intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) but the factors associated with the bleeding type are unknown. The aim of the study was to analyze the association of the morphological variations of the Sylvian fissure (SF) and vascu...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Neyazi B,Siblini A,Frantsev R,Özkan N,Sandalcioglu IE,Sure U,Maslehaty H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Device subsidence is a well-known complication following cervical disc arthroplasty. Its occurrence has been closely tied with the endplate-implant contact interface. But current literature on the geometry of cervical endplate is very scarce. The aim of this anatomical investigation was to analyze geometry o...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lou J,Liu H,Rong X,Li H,Wang B,Gong Q

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1990 to December 1995, a total of nine cases of Moyamoya disease were treated at the National Taiwan University Hospital with combined encephalo-arterio-synangiosis (EAS) and encephalo-myo-synangiosis (EMS). There were five males and four females and their ages ranged from 6 months to 31 years. Of these, ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Tu YK,Liu HM,Kuo MF,Wang PJ,Hung CC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECT:Ligation and division of anterior third (AT) of superior sagittal sinus (SSS) is presumed to be safe and is commonly used for approaching anterior skull base tumors and distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms (DACA). Contrary to this belief we found complications secondary to this procedure more oft...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Salunke P,Sodhi HB,Aggarwal A,Ahuja CK,Dhandapani SS,Chhabra R,Gupta SK

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship of axial diffusivity (AD) and radial diffusivity (RD) in peritumoral edema of high grade glioma, metastasis, and meningioma, and to differentiate tumor-infiltrated edema from pure vasogenic edema. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty patients with high-grade gli...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Min ZG,Niu C,Rana N,Ji HM,Zhang M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Schwannomas of the sciatic nerve, which is the largest nerve of the human body, are very rare accounting for ≤ 1% of all schwannomas. They often may raise confusion with other more common causes of sciatica, such as lumbar degenerative and inflammatory diseases or spinal tumors, which may often lead to a late...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Telera S,Raus L,Vietti V,Pace A,Villani V,Galié E,Freda N,Carosi M,Costantini M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Until recently, post-radiotherapy brain abscess was considered rare, but it has become an increasingly important aetiology. Discussions of the relationship between bacterial brain abscess and radiotherapy (RT) are rare in the literature. Our clinical study was conducted to analyse the role of RT in the patho...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Chuang JM,Lin WC,Fang FM,Huang YJ,Ho JT,Lu CH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to concurrently examine the specific motor, cognitive and affective contributions to self-reported FOG symptoms. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Ninety-six patients with Parkinson's disease completed the validated freezing of gait questionnaire and had their motor function scored on section three of the Unif...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Shine JM,Naismith SL,Lewis SJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven cases are presented of recurrent ventricular catheter obstruction, an infrequent but serious problem in the management of hydrocephalus. Plugging of the catheter was caused by detritus rather than by choroid plexus. A retrospective analysis of 214 shunt revisions indicated that obstruction both by detritus and b...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Go KG,Ebels EJ,van Woerden H

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with epilepsy of unknown origin, starting after the age of 50 years, and without clear evidence of cognitive decline were studied with positron emission tomography, using the steady state technique with 15O. Cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism were significantly decreased in all cortical areas. No f...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： De Reuck J,Santens P,Decoo D,Crevits L,Van Maele G,Lemahieu I,Strijckmans K,Goethals P

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome is a disorder of the central nervous system in patients on dialysis. The underlying etiology is thought to be primarily due to cerebral edema; however, neuroradiologic findings have not been described previously. We describe a patient who presented with new onset headaches and status e...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Sheth KN,Wu GF,Messé SR,Wolf RL,Kasner SE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the assumed advantages of pure endoscopic and endoscope-assisted methods for the supraorbital keyhole approach. The aim is to demonstrate visibility and accessibility of the pure endoscope approach as a possible standard approach for the supraorbital keyhole approach. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We perfor...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Arnaout MM,Luzzi S,Galzio R,Aziz K

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor location, which serves as a prognostic factor for high-grade gliomas, may reflect the molecular and genetic phenotype of tumor initiate cells and thus predict tumor origin. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to combine radiographic atlases and tumor biomarkers through a voxel-based neuroimaging a...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Yuan Y,Yunhe M,Xiang W,Yanhui L,Ruofei L,Jiewen L,Qing M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Blinded, placebo-controlled, prospective clinical trial. PURPOSE:To examine the effects of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injections into plantar flexor muscles in stroke patients with equinovarus gait. SUBJECTS:15 post-stroke and 10 matched neurologically intact subjects. METHODS:Modified Ashworth Scal...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Tang SF,Hong JP,McKay WB,Tang CW,Wu PH,Chu NK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00