Acoustic neurinomas with macrocysts treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We prospectively investigated the efficacy of corticosteroid medication in salvaging acute hearing deterioration after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma (VS) and analyzed prognostic factors for hearing preservation. METHODS:Forty-one patients with serviceable hearing treated with gamma knife radiosurge...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kim JW,Kim DG,Paek SH,Chung HT,Kim YH,Han JH,Park CK,Jung HW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The results from thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) for atypical tremor syndromes including tremor from multiple sclerosis (MS) and stroke are often disappointing. Three recent case reports have suggested that simultaneous stimulation of multiple thalamic targets can result in sustained improvement in suc...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lim DA,Khandhar SM,Heath S,Ostrem JL,Ringel N,Starr P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the recent approval of reimbursement for positron emission tomography (PET), it has become important to clarify the utility of this diagnostic study. We evaluated the utility of PET to distinguish radiation necrosis from recurrent tumor in a retrospective review of patients with primary glial neoplasms. Fifteen p...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Thompson TP,Lunsford LD,Kondziolka D

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among the neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, hallucination can result from the disease itself or medical treatment. Hallucination associated with subthalamic nucleus stimulation (STN-DBS) has been reported; however, it is still unclear whether PD patients with a history of halluc...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Yoshida F,Miyagi Y,Kishimoto J,Morioka T,Murakami N,Hashiguchi K,Samura K,Sakae N,Yamasaki R,Kawaguchi M,Sasaki T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous trigeminal rhizotomy or balloon compression for trigeminal neuralgia carries a potential risk for the brainstem, the carotid artery, and the basilar artery. OBJECTIVE:To detail the relation of critical neural and vascular structures to expanded balloons used for percutaneous compression of the ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Sandwell S,Montoya S,Towner JE,Markman JD,Schell MC,Bhalla T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stiff limb syndrome (SLS) is a rare chronic condition which can result in significant debility. We report the case of a 44-year-old man suffering from severe painful spasms in his right leg with a diagnosis of SLS. He had been initially treated for his pain with a spinal cord stimulator but presented with exacerbation...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Ughratdar I,Sivakumar G,Basu S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correct explanation of the term 'stereotaxy' is linguistically not self-evident because the Greek term stereon means not spatial but 'hard' or 'solid'. The aim of our study was to clarify the term stereotaxy historically and linguistically. We carried out our study by reviewing the neurosurgical and ancient Greek ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Grunert P Sr,Keiner D,Oertel J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimum target in surgery for Parkinson's disease (PD) is still controversial, especially in patients with tremor-dominant PD. We aim to compare results in tremor-dominant patients undergoing pallidotomy vs. those undergoing simultaneous posteroventral pallidotomy (PVP) and ventral intermediate nucleus (...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fayed ZY,Radwan H,Aziz M,Eid M,Mansour AH,Nosseir M,Anwer H,Elserry T,Abdel Ghany WA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is widely used to treat advanced Parkinson's disease, other movement and psychiatric disorders. DBS implantation requires application of a stereotactic frame throughout a lengthy procedure, making it uncomfortable and tiring. We designed a stereotactic cube to stage the operation...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Eljamel MS,Tulley M,Spillane K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author has performed 108 stereotactic thalamotomies using MRI (MGSTs) without ventriculography in 77 cerebral palsy (CP) patients with dyskinesia(s) from January 1992 to January 1997. The clinical results were verified in terms of improvement of major preoperative symptom and patient's (or relative's) satisfaction...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lee KH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the many reasons why lesional surgery for movement disorders has been more or less abandoned may have been the difficulty in predicting the shape and size of the stereotactic radiofrequency (RF) lesion. OBJECTIVES:To analyse the contribution of various RF coagulation parameters towards the volume of ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hirabayashi H,Hariz MI,Wårdell K,Blomstedt P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several subcortical structures have been targeted for surgical treatment of dystonia, including motor thalamus, internal segment of globus pallidus (GPi), and more recently, the subthalamic nucleus (STN). Deep brain stimulation of GPi is currently the preferred surgical treatment, but it is unclear if target...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Novak KE,Nenonene EK,Bernstein LP,Vergenz S,Cozzens JW,Rezak M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In well-designed multicenter studies, the protocol of continuing motor cortex stimulation (MCS) temporarily for 3-6 weeks was employed with rehabilitation therapy, and these studies showed some recovery of motor weakness in post-stroke patients. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to clarify the effects of long-term MCS an...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Yamamoto T,Katayama Y,Watanabe M,Sumi K,Obuchi T,Kobayashi K,Oshima H,Fukaya C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report on a patient with intractable 'primary' generalized seizures and typical spike-wave EEG patterns, in whom an unexpected temporal lobe astrocytoma was detected by MRI studies. Clinical and electrophysiological studies were performed before and after surgical excision of the tumor and apical temporal lo...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Velasco M,Velasco F,Boleaga B,Ondarza R,Velasco AL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In nonresectable glioblastoma (GBM), stereotactic biopsies are performed to retrieve tissue for diagnostic purposes. The analysis of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation adds prognostic and predictive information. OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study was to detect confounding factor...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Weise LM,Harter PN,Eibach S,Braczynski AK,Dunst M,Rieger J,Bähr O,Hattingen E,Steinbach JP,Plate KH,Seifert V,Mittelbronn M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ablation of the globus pallidus internus (GPi) and thalamotomy have been extensively used in the past. Posteroventral GPi deep brain stimulation has been considered as a treatment for dystonia. However, to date, there is no report in the literature of any dystonia patient who underwent GPi deep brain stimulation who h...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kim JP,Chang WS,Park YS,Chang JW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the imaging and pathological correlates of successful or risk-related stereotactic radiosurgery (SR). Methods and Materials. The ten-year Gamma Knife experience in 2,344 patients at the University of Pittsburgh was reviewed. In addition, the results or radiosurgery primate, rat, and mouse models wer...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lunsford LD,Kondziolka D,Maitz A,Flickinger JC

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent and highly disabling psychiatric disorder that is notoriously difficult to treat. At some point in their lifetimes, 5-8% of men, 10-14% of women, and up to a quarter of combat veterans carry this diagnosis. Despite pharmacological and behavioral therapies, up to 30% ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Taghva A,Oluigbo C,Corrigan J,Rezai AR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The intersection of Bejjani's line with the well-delineated medial subthalamic nucleus (STN) border on MRI has recently been proposed as an individualized reference in subthalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson's disease (PD). We, therefore, aimed to investigate the applicability across...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Bolier E,Bot M,van den Munckhof P,Pal G,Sani S,Verhagen Metman L

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of induced oscillopsia caused by deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN). Recent reports have described involuntary oscillopsia during DBS of the PPN that patients have described as trembling vision. Here we substantiate this observation using infra-red eye tracking. It has ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Jenkinson N,Brittain JS,Hicks SL,Kennard C,Aziz TZ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic subcaudate capsulotomy (SC) is used to treat medically intractable obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD). Although clinical improvement has been observed, post-SC structural correlates are lacking in this biological disorder. Our study provides imaging evidence for local and distant alterations in structur...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Taren JA,Curtis GC,Gebarski SS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic interventions at thalamic/subthalamic levels for parkinsonian tremor give the chance to investigate the influence of the supraspinal proprioceptive loops on the tonic component of motor tasks. Studies demonstrate not only a normalization of the late stretch reflex component and a decrease of the pre-refle...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Struppler A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive and emotional outcomes were assessed after unilateral posteroventral pallidotomy (PVP) and ventral intermediate nucleus thalamotomy (Vim-Th) in patients suffering from idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). PVP was performed on 12 PD patients (8 men and 4 women, mean age 56.4 years, 6 left lesions and 6 right ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fukuda M,Kameyama S,Yoshino M,Tanaka R,Narabayashi H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of Gamma Knife radiosurgery as the first surgical therapy in the management of medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia, we reviewed outcomes on our first 23 patients who had radiosurgery as primary surgical therapy. These patients represented 19% of our overall series. Mean patient age was 66 ye...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kondziolka D,Lunsford LD,Flickinger JC

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the initial experience with 331 consecutive patients treated during the first 2 years of operation of the University of Pittsburgh Gamma Unit. Among 178 patients with vascular malformations, 161 had angiographically demonstrable arteriovenous malformations, and 17 had angiographically occult malformations....

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Coffey RJ,Lunsford LD,Bissonette D,Flickinger JC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute and chronic continuous electrical stimulation at the epileptic focus in the hippocampus or parahippocampal cortex at 130 Hz, 0.21-1.0 ms, 2.5-3.5 V (about 200-300 microA) induces a decrease in focal EEG epileptic interictal activity and also in the occurrence of clinical seizures. This may represent an altern...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Velasco F,Velasco M,Velasco AL,Menez D,Rocha L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To maintain the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) on dystonic symptoms, slight incremental increase in voltage may be necessary over years after a steady state has been reached following the initial programming of optimal settings. So far however, no data are available regarding the adjustment of volt...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Blahak C,Capelle HH,Bäzner H,Kinfe T,Hennerici MG,Krauss JK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microvascular decompression (MVD) has been the right choice for glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) patients. However, whether glossopharyngeal/vagal nerve root rhizotomy should be combined with MVD is still controversial. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether glossopharyngeal/vagal nerve root rhizotomy during MVD is ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Zheng X,Wei XY,Zhu J,Yuan Y,Ying TT,Li ST

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beneficial effects of ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) stimulation were evaluated in 20 patients with tremor refractory to medical therapy. Thalamic stimulation is a non-ablative procedure which has the advantage of a reversible, non-destructive lesion. Eleven patients [7 with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 4 with...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kumar K,Kelly M,Toth C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twiddler's syndrome describes the intentional external manipulation or spontaneous rotation of implanted devices such as cardiac pacemakers. Here we report the same phenomenon occurring in a patient with an implanted deep brain stimulator generator. The clinical syndrome is described and potential technical nuances to...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Israel Z,Spivak A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00