Acute median nerve compression at the distal forearm caused by a thrombosed aneurysm of an epineural vessel: case report.

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:To quantitate the relief of intractable cancer pain by the use of intraventricular morphine administration. METHODS:Intraventricular morphine administration was performed through an Ommaya reservoir. An initial dose of 0.25 mg of morphine sulfate per 24 hours was administered to all of the patients. This dos...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Karavelis A,Foroglou G,Selviaridis P,Fountzilas G

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A common finding of computed tomography in a case of normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is periventricular radiolucency (PVL). We analyzed PVL for patients with hydrocephalus, using dynamic computed tomographic and xenon-computed tomographic techniques to differentiate NPH from similar diseases. METHODS:Dyn...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Nakano H,Bandoh K,Miyaoka M,Sato K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The pineal region is a rare intracranial site for metastasis. We report three patients initially considered to have metastatic papillary adenocarcinoma to the pineal region. On review, these papillary, keratin-positive neoplasms meet the criteria for papillary tumor of the pineal region (PTPR). CLINICAL PRES...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dagnew E,Langford LA,Lang FF,DeMonte F

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Examining the costs of single- and multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is important for the identification of cost drivers and potentially reducing patient costs. A novel tool at our institution provides direct costs for the identification of potential drivers. OBJECTIVE:To assess peri...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Reese JC,Karsy M,Twitchell S,Bisson EF

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spontaneous intraparenchymal hemorrhage is extremely rare in full-term newborns. Reports to date have been limited to descriptions of individual cases, small groups within larger studies of intracranial hemorrhage, and one series of four patients. Structural lesions are rarely identified, and the majority of ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sandberg DI,Lamberti-Pasculli M,Drake JM,Humphreys RP,Rutka JT

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:To describe the use of a new imaging tool, angiographic computed tomography, for visualization of cell opening and strut prolapse of a Neuroform 2 stent (Boston Scientific/Target, Fremont, CA) placed in curved vasculature for treatment of a basilar tip aneurysm. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 46-year...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Benndorf G,Claus B,Strother CM,Chang L,Klucznik RP

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obtaining a watertight reconstruction with a fat graft with wide sellar exposures can be challenging, including the risk of reinstating mass effect with the fat graft. The alternative, a vascularized pedicle nasoseptal flap, may require several days to heal and still has a > 5% cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bergsneider M,Xue K,Suh JD,Wang MB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define and discuss elements of the escalation in scientific data availability and their importance to neurosurgery. METHODS:This multifactorial essay describes the evolution of communication methodologies, the information revolution, and the advent and effect of Internet communication with its potential e...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Apuzzo ML,Hodge CJ Jr

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Five cases of cerebellar hemorrhagic infarction complicating pterional craniotomy are presented. Recognition of this rare complication may be delayed, with catastrophic consequences, because clinicians are unaware of the possibility. We suggest that the mechanism of this complication is disloca...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Papanastassiou V,Kerr R,Adams C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the use of a specific shape and a navigating method of microcatheters are suitable for placement at paraclinoid aneurysms. METHODS:The clinical data from 122 patients with 132 paraclinoid aneurysms that underwent endovascular treatments during a 2.5-year period were retrospectively revie...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kwon BJ,Im SH,Park JC,Cho YD,Kang HS,Kim JE,Han MH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments were done to develop techniques to expose and manipulate the spinal cord in fetal rats, techniques that could be used to study spinal cord regeneration and transplantation. Adequate maternal anesthesia required a mixture of acepromazine-ketamine supplemented by thiopental. Fetal rats were operated on...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Albright L

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the impairment of autoregulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and its effect on the electrical activity of the brain during the development of chronic cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage, using a vasospasm model in primates. Fourteen animals were divided into two groups: a clot group (8) and a ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Takeuchi H,Handa Y,Kobayashi H,Kawano H,Hayashi M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure of most available treatment modalities to improve the survival time and the quality of survival in patients with gliomas calls for the intense biological analysis of glial neoplasia. The untimely activation of cellular protooncogenes is often related to the process of neoplasia. Several protein growth fact...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Westphal M,Herrmann HD

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is an effective means of stroke prevention among appropriately selected patients; however, neuropsychometric testing has revealed subtle cognitive injuries in the early postoperative period. The purpose of this study was to establish whether serum levels of two biochemical markers...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Connolly ES Jr,Winfree CJ,Rampersad A,Sharma R,Mack WJ,Mocco J,Solomon RA,Todd G,Quest DO,Stern Y,Heyer EJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the effects and the direction of pressure transmitted from a mass lesion through various brain structures, miniature strain gauges were inserted in different brain locations in eight anesthetized monkeys. Mass lesions were created by inflating a balloon in either of two locations--subcortical in...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kuchiwaki H,Misu N,Takada S,Ishiguri H,Inao S,Sugita K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of meningioangiomatosis unassociated with von Recklinghausen's disease. The patient was a 30-year-old woman with a 25-year history of seizures. The lesion was confined to the right temporal cortex and consisted of a proliferation of angiomatous blood vessels and meningocytic cells. Her seizures h...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sakaki S,Nakagawa K,Nakamura K,Takeda S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical exposure of intrinsic brainstem lesions through the floor of the 4th ventricle requires precise identification of facial nerve (CN VII) fibers to avoid damage. OBJECTIVE:To assess the shape, size, and variability of the area where the facial nerve can be stimulated electrophysiologically on the sur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bertalanffy H,Tissira N,Krayenbühl N,Bozinov O,Sarnthein J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Herein we describe two cases of extracranial-intracranial vein graft bypasses for the treatment of giant intracranial aneurysms in prepubertal pediatric patients. One patient is, we think, the youngest patient reported in the literature to have been successfully treated in such a manner, with a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Zhang YJ,Barrow DL,Day AL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, only presumptive diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) can be made in living patients. We present a modality that may be instrumental to the definitive diagnosis of CTE in living patients based on brain autopsy confirmation of [F-18]FDDNP-PET findings in an American football player with CTE. [...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Omalu B,Small GW,Bailes J,Ercoli LM,Merrill DA,Wong KP,Huang SC,Satyamurthy N,Hammers JL,Lee J,Fitzsimmons RP,Barrio JR

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms is less invasive than surgical repair but poses a higher risk for aneurysm recurrence, which may necessitate retreatment, thus adding to the long-term risk. Cerebrovascular neurosurgeons from 8 institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico collaborated to a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ringer AJ,Rodriguez-Mercado R,Veznedaroglu E,Levy EI,Hanel RA,Mericle RA,Lopes DK,Lanzino G,Boulos AS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of cryptococcal osteomyelitis of the skull is presented. The patient was an immunocompetent host with skull and skin involvement without central nervous system or pulmonary extension. The radiographic findings are reviewed to include skull films, bone scan, and computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imagin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Armonda RA,Fleckenstein JM,Brandvold B,Ondra SL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a 2 g/kg intravenous bolus of mannitol on intracranial pressure (ICP) and white matter water content was determined by following the time course of ICP and spatial white matter water content after administration of mannitol in a hemispheric cold lesion model of vasogenic edema in the cat. After mannitol ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hartwell RC,Sutton LN

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The treatment of residual and/or recurrent pituitary tumors, initially operated on through transsphenoidal and/or transcranial approaches, required a new single approach that would make it possible to excise the tumor from the sella and from the neighboring regions. Surgical complications, such as pneumatocep...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dolenc VV

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although endovascular technique and related devices continue to improve, recanalization of embolized aneurysm remains a pitfall of this approach. The problem of how to treat the recanalized aneurysm needs to be addressed. OBJECTIVE:To determine the outcomes of patients undergoing repeat embolization for rec...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Cho YD,Lee JY,Seo JH,Lee SJ,Kang HS,Kim JE,Son YJ,Jung KH,Kwon OK,Han MH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We evaluated the feasibility, usefulness, and limitations of near-infrared indocyanine green (ICG) videoangiography during procedures involving the extracranial vertebral artery (VA). METHODS:Nine patients (2 women, 7 men; mean age, 55 years) were evaluated at 2 neurosurgical centers. Near-infrared ICG vi...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bruneau M,Sauvageau E,Nakaji P,Vandesteene A,Lubicz B,Chang SW,Balériaux D,Brotchi J,De Witte O,Spetzler RF

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Fetal visualization in utero can be routinely accomplished using noninvasive ultrasound techniques that do not administer ionizing radiation. Image resolution with real time sonography is sufficient to demonstrate details of possible congenital central nervous system malformations before delivery. The case reported il...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Weinstein P,Weinstein L,Dotters D,Bedrick A,Anderson C

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skull base osteosarcomas are aggressive neoplasms characterized by bony invasion and extracompartmental/extra-osseous soft tissue extension that pose obstacles to achieving complete resection. Management is further complicated by the paucity of data regarding the efficacy of surgery within the treatment para...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Raza SM,Habib A,Wang WL,Gildey PW,Conley AP,Nader ME,Hanna EY,Su SY,DeMonte F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00