Idiopathic cranial pachymeningoencephalitis focally affecting the parietal dura mater and adjacent brain parenchyma: case report.

abstract：:Intravenously enhanced computed tomography (CT) was used in patients in whom the differential diagnosis between recurrent herniated disc and postoperative scar was considered. Enhanced CT images demonstrated postoperative herniated discs more accurately than clinical criteria, myelography, or plain or postmetrizamide ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Schell GR,Modesti LM,Cacayorin ED

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A single-stage combined craniofacial-transfacial approach that exposes the midline cranial base without visible facial incisions is described. METHODS:Between 1992 and 1998, eight patients underwent surgery for five different anterior cranial base pathological findings: four angiofibromas, one mesenchymal ch...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Feiz-Erfan I,Han PP,Spetzler RF,Porter RW,Klopfenstein JD,Ferreira MA,Beals SP,Joganic EF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The left middle cerebral artery and both carotid arteries of 17 cats were occluded to evaluate the effects of oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion on brain ischemia. Carotid and middle cerebral arteries were occluded concurrently for 2 hours, followed by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery only for another 24 hours. S...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bose B,Osterholm JL,Payne JB,Chambers K

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain tumors are highly angiogenic, and their growth and spread depend on the generation of new blood vessels. We examined the effect of the cyclic peptide antagonist pentapeptide EMD 121974, an antiangiogenic agent, on orthotopic and heterotopic brain tumor growth. METHODS:The human brain tumor cell lines D...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： MacDonald TJ,Taga T,Shimada H,Tabrizi P,Zlokovic BV,Cheresh DA,Laug WE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report our experience in treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) using a new liquid embolic agent, Onyx (Micro Therapeutics, Inc., Irvine, CA). METHODS:Between January 1998 and May 1999, 23 patients (8 men and 15 women) were treated. The patients' average age was 40 years, with seizure being the m...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Jahan R,Murayama Y,Gobin YP,Duckwiler GR,Vinters HV,Viñuela F

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The current treatment of hydrocephalus using ventriculoperitoneal shunts and third ventriculostomies remains problematic. We revisited the concept of destruction of the choroid plexus for the treatment of hydrocephalus by using an immunotoxin-based technique to specifically destroy this tissue. This approach ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Timothy J,Chumas P,Chakrabarty A,Drake JM,Morrison E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blister aneurysms of the internal carotid artery (ICA) are uncommon. There is a paucity of data on the long-term outcomes of patients. OBJECTIVE:To review our experience with the treatment of these lesions. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed all aneurysms treated at our institution between 1994 and 2005. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kalani MY,Zabramski JM,Kim LJ,Chowdhry SA,Mendes GA,Nakaji P,McDougall CG,Albuquerque FC,Spetzler RF

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the incidence and causes of pediatric head, spinal cord, and peripheral nerve injuries in an urban setting and to assess the implications of these data for injury prevention programs. METHODS:Pediatric deaths and hospital admissions secondary to neurological trauma included in the Northern Manhat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Durkin MS,Olsen S,Barlow B,Virella A,Connolly ES Jr

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Because of the wide dissemination of malignant glioma cells by the time that malignant glioma is diagnosed, anti-invasive strategies that are designed to limit their further spread may be of little value unless mechanisms of the invasive cascade can be used to render invasive cells susceptible to cytoreductiv...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Yoshizato K,Zapf S,Westphal M,Berens ME,Giese A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were to investigate the early changes in the mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) after severe subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), as a marker of ischemic damage, and to examine the effects of moderate hypothermia, induced at various time points, on ADC changes. METHODS:ADC maps were c...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Piepgras A,Elste V,Frietsch T,Schmiedek P,Reith W,Schilling L

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harvey Cushing developed an illness in the last months of World War I that made it impossible for him to operate and forced him to bed for over a month. The features of Cushing's malady included symmetrical weakness, numbness, and paresthesias of the hands and feet, areflexia, bilateral facial paresis, diplopia, and f...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Reich SG

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frontotemporal craniotomies are commonly performed for a variety of neurosurgical pathologies. Infections related to craniotomies cause significant morbidity. We hypothesized that the risk of cranial surgical site infections (SSIs) may be increased in patients whose frontal sinuses are breached during cranio...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Linzey JR,Wilson TJ,Sullivan SE,Thompson BG,Pandey AS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic columns (T1-L1 levels) from 15 fresh human cadavers were used to quantify alterations in the biomechanical response after laminectomy. Eight specimens were tested intact (Group I); the remaining seven preparations were tested after two-level laminectomy (Group II) at the midheight of the column. All specimens...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Yoganandan N,Maiman DJ,Pintar FA,Bennett GJ,Larson SJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Conflicting reports have been published with regard to the relationship between the efficacy of p53 gene therapy and the p53 status of gliomas. In this study, we evaluated whether U-87MG glioma cells harboring wild-type p53 and U251 and U-373MG glioma cells harboring mutated p53 demonstrate different sensitiv...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shinoura N,Sakurai S,Asai A,Kirino T,Hamada H

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial epidermoid and dermoid tumors are unusual benign lesions that are potentially curable. Subtotal removal carries a high incidence of recurrence, plus the rare possibility of carcinomatous degeneration of the remnants. Aseptic meningitis from spillage of cyst contents into the subarachnoid space is frequent...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Abramson RC,Morawetz RB,Schlitt M

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:Injuries in professional football players are common because of the nature of the collisions and the frequency of axial loading to the cervical spine. These injuries should be thoroughly evaluated because they can put the player at risk of future injury and even paralysis. The focus of this re...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Drakos MC,Feeley BT,Barnes R,Muller M,Burruss TP,Warren RF

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old boy presented with a 7-month history of headache and projectile vomiting. Computerized axial tomography revealed a large, high density lesion involving the entire left frontal lobe. At operation a 330-g, apparently encapsulated, mildly cystic neoplasm was removed from the region of the left frontal opercu...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： DiTullio MV Jr,Fried H

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current surgical management guidelines for pediatric spondylolisthesis (PS) are reliant on data from single-center cohorts. OBJECTIVE:To analyze national trends and predictors of short-term outcomes in spinal fusion surgery for PS by performing a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the Kids' Inpatient...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rumalla K,Yarbrough CK,Pugely AJ,Dorward IG

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE: In the treatment of patients with cranial base tumors, unclippable aneurysms, or medically intractable ischemia, it may be necessary to use high-flow bypass grafts. The indications, surgical techniques and complications are discussed. METHODS: During a 10-year period, 99 saphenous vein grafts and 3 radial a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sekhar LN,Bucur SD,Bank WO,Wright DC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Magnetic resonance with diffusion tensor image (DTI) may be able to estimate trajectories compatible with subcortical tracts close to brain lesions. A limit of DTI is brain shifting (movement of the brain after dural opening and tumor resection). OBJECTIVE:To calculate the brain shift of trajectories compat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Romano A,D'Andrea G,Calabria LF,Coppola V,Espagnet CR,Pierallini A,Ferrante L,Fantozzi L,Bozzao A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case involving giant and multiple aneurysms of the distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is presented. Of the 130 reported cases of peripheral aneurysms of the PICA, 6 have been described as giant aneurysms and 5 have involved multiple aneurysms located on a single PICA. The occurrence of multiple aneur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dernbach PD,Sila CA,Little JR

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, stereotactic surgical intervention for Parkinson's disease was considered indicated only in those patients with active motor manifestations that were refractory to pharmacological therapy, manifestations such as tremor, rigidity, dystonia, and dyskinesia. With the reintroduction and refinement of Leksell'...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Iacono RP,Shima F,Lonser RR,Kuniyoshi S,Maeda G,Yamada S

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Interhemisperic lipomas are almost always associated with hypogenesis or agenesis of the corpus callosum. These lesions are stable. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:We report a case of an interhemispheric lipoma in a 72-year-old man who had undergone myelolipomatous differentiation. INTERVENTION:Gross total excision o...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Suri V,Sharma MC,Suri A,Karak AK,Garg A,Sarkar C,Jain D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Gliomatosis cerebri is an enigmatic diffuse brain neoplasm whose prognosis is grim. We reviewed data for patients with gliomatosis who were treated at the University of California, San Francisco, during a 10-year period. Our focus was on presentation, radiological and pathological features, and outcomes. MET...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Vates GE,Chang S,Lamborn KR,Prados M,Berger MS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Deep-seated supratentorial intraparenchymal and intraventricular brain lesions can be difficult to access without causing significant trauma to the overlying cortex and intervening white matter tracts. Traditional brain retractors use multiple blades, which do not exert pressure in an equally distributed fash...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Greenfield JP,Cobb WS,Tsouris AJ,Schwartz TH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We have developed a telemetric intracranial pressure sensor (OSAKA telesensor; Nagano Keiki Seisakusyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and investigated the clinical usefulness of new ventriculoperitoneal shunting with an OSAKA telesensor, an on-off valve, and a programmable valve. METHODS:The OSAKA telesensor was ap...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Miyake H,Ohta T,Kajimoto Y,Matsukawa M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that certain prostanoids are mediators of the pathological features of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and that a reduced synthesis of prostacyclin in the vessel wall might also contribute to the cerebral vasospasm associated with this malady. The present study was performed, therefore, t...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： White RP,Robertson JT

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sodium butyrate (SB), a differentiation-inducing agent, has been demonstrated to inhibit cellular proliferation in a number of human cell lines. Its precise mechanisms remain to be clarified, however. We investigated molecular mechanisms of SB-induced growth suppression as well as the effects of SB on the inv...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ito N,Sawa H,Nagane M,Noguchi A,Hara M,Saito I

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that seizures induce significant and sustained elevations of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in specific extrahypothalamic rat brain regions associated with epileptic foci including amygdala, hippocampus, pyriform cortex, and anterior cortex. Seizures were induced in dogs to further study th...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shapiro S,Kubek M,Sanders S,Durbin S,Goodwin S,Javed T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carotid blowout syndrome (CBS) is a life-threatening emergency resulting from compromise of the carotid artery caused by malignancy in the head and neck. OBJECTIVE:To report our experience with covered stents for the prevention or treatment of carotid blowout syndrome secondary to head and neck cancer to as...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gaynor BG,Haussen DC,Ambekar S,Peterson EC,Yavagal DR,Elhammady MS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00