Computerized brain atlas in functional neurosurgery.

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：BACKGROUND:Pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) has recently been suggested for treatment of medication-unresponsive gait and axial symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Patients with the rare primary progressive freezing gait disorder (PPFG) have similar disabling symptoms and few therapeutic options...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Ostrem JL,Christine CW,Glass GA,Schrock LE,Starr PA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic techniques were used to transplant adrenal medullary tissue to the head of the right caudate nucleus in 12 patients with Parkinson's disease. No significant lasting complications were seen. All patients had an initial improvement. 11 of the 12 patients remain improved over their preoperative condition aft...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Gildenberg PL,Pettigrew LC,Merrell R,Butler I,Conklin R,Katz J,DeFrance J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paresthesia-producing (PP), but not periventricular grey (PVG) deep brain stimulation (DBS) proved effective in steady neuropathic pain in 25 patients receiving both, regardless of the PP site stimulated, but PVG-DBS suppressed allodynia or hyperpathia in 3 cases of stroke-induced pain. In patients with stroke-induced...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Tasker RR,Vilela Filho O

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：:During percutaneous microcompression of the gasserian ganglion for the relief of trigeminal neuralgia, a computerized technique for monitoring the pressure inside Meckel's cave was employed in 22 patients. A dedicated transducer connected to a computer records the balloon inflation pressure. Its variations are discern...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Zanusso M,Curri D,Landi A,Colombo F,Volpin L,Cervellini P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rostral areas of the brainstem have been extensively studied in higher mammals and to a lesser extent in humans in the last two decades, looking for anatomical, electrophysiological and neurochemical evidence of involvement in the initiation and control of voluntary movement. This has come with the realisation tha...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Nandi D,Stein JF,Aziz TZ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) using external beam radiation therapy (XRT) alone results in significant local recurrence. To improve local control, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) was used to boost radiation to the primary tumor site following XRT in 23 patients with NPC. SRS was delivered u...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Chang SD,Tate DJ,Goffinet DR,Martin DP,Adler JR Jr

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to 60% of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients suffer from low back pain (LBP) during the course of their disease. How LBP affects daily functional status and how to manage this aspect of PD has not been adequately explored. METHODS:We examined 16 patients undergoing bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Smith H,Gee L,Kumar V,Ramirez-Zamora A,Durphy J,Hanspal E,Barba A,Molho E,Shin D,Pilitsis JG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed a series of 225 patients with intracranial metastases (343 lesions), treated in our department by Gamma Knife radiosurgery over a 30-month period. We have used a modified Pittsburgh protocol and performed 242 procedures on 164 single/78 multiple lesions. Primary tumors were mostly carcinomas of the lu...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Gerosa M,Nicolato A,Severi F,Ferraresi P,Masotto B,Barone G,Foroni R,Piovan E,Pasoli A,Bricolo A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great advances in imaging technology allows the surgeon to visualize the entire brain surface during surgery. However, the cerebral convolutions are extremely complex, so that it is often difficult to define the central area precisely. Using the curvilinear reconstruction technique (Gyroview) and MRI, we have analyzed...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Lee U,Bastos AC,Alonso-Vanegas MA,Morris R,Olivier A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic radiosurgery under local anesthesia with the Leksell Gamma Knife can effectively treat some patients with recurrent tic douloureux after unsuccessful medical/surgical procedures. Seven of 12 patients have shown complete relief or improvement of their trigeminal neuralgia. No complications have been observ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Rand RW,Jacques DB,Melbye RW,Copcutt BG,Levenick MN,Fisher MR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) lesioning is still used as a choice of treatment for some painful conditions as well as spasticity in selected patients. The most commonly used techniques to perform DREZotomy are the microsurgical one and DREZ radiofrequency (RF) coagulation. The technical difficulties using punctures to...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Monaco BA,Lopes AJM,Teixeira MJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, simulations based on phantom models have become increasingly popular in the medical field. In the field of functional and stereotactic neurosurgery, a cranial phantom would be useful to train operative techniques, such as stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG), to establish new methods as well...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Krüger MT,Coenen VA,Egger K,Shah M,Reinacher PC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between February 1993 and March 1994, 75 metastases, 16 gliomas and 2 AIDS-related malignant lymphomas were treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Metastatic brain tumors (54% lung cancer, 14% breast cancer, 13.5% melanoma) were the most frequent and clinically rewarding cases. So-called local control was achieved in ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Gerosa MA,Nicolato A,Berlucchi S,Piovan E,Zampieri PG,Pasoli A,Foroni R,Giri MG,Marchini G,Babighian S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Stereotactic postoperative imaging is essential for verification of the position of electrodes implanted for deep brain stimulation (DBS). MRI offers superior visualisation of the DBS targets relative to CT, but previous adverse incidents have heightened concerns about risks of postoperative MRI. Preope...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： O'Gorman RL,Jarosz JM,Samuel M,Clough C,Selway RP,Ashkan K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous transplantation of the superior cervical ganglion (SCG) into the caudate nuclei of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-induced parkinsonian monkey was studied in regard to animal behavior and catecholamine (CA) metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid. Monkeys which had undergone autotransplantation of t...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Nakai M,Itakura T,Komai N

更新日期：1990-01-01 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 true accuracy of MRI scanners utilized for target acquisition in functional stereotaxis remains undefined. We have performed pallidotomies at the Loma Linda University Medical Center using both MRI and MRI concomitant with positive contrast ventriculography. A retrospective study of 33 cases revealed significant d...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Mandybur G,Morenski J,Kuniyoshi S,Iacono RP

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:To elucidate the radiobiological effect of Gamma Knife radiosurgery on brain tumors, we performed a histological study on nine cases. In two, the material was obtained at autopsy and in seven following surgery. In the central region of the radiation field, destructive changes occurred both in tumor cells and in vessel...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hirato M,Hirato J,Zama A,Inoue H,Ohye C,Shibazaki T,Andou Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic bilateral electrode implantation in the medial portion of the posterior hypothalamus was performed on a 22-year-old male with drug-resistant aggressiveness. To localize the targets during implantation, microrecording was performed, and the clinical and electroencephalographic responses to intraoperative s...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hernando V,Pastor J,Pedrosa M,Peña E,Sola RG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Postoperative cerebral edema around a deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrode is an uncommon reported complication. The goal of this study was to identify instances of postoperative edema based on clinical presentation, and to remark on their management. METHODS:A retrospective chart review was performe...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Fenoy AJ,Villarreal SJ,Schiess MC

更新日期：2017-01-01 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:Directional leads are increasingly used in deep brain stimulation. They allow shaping the electrical field in the axial plane. These new possibilities increase the complexity of programming. Thus, optimized programming approaches are needed to assist clinical testing and to obtain full clinical benefit. OBJ...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Kramme J,Dembek TA,Treuer H,Dafsari HS,Barbe MT,Wirths J,Visser-Vandewalle V

更新日期：2020-10-20 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：:During a 16 years' period, a total of 79 dorsal root entry zone coagulations were performed in 68 patients for deafferentation pain. Of the 23 patients who underwent surgery for pain due to cervical root avulsion, 18 (82%) had a good (12) or fair (6) pain relief (mean follow-up period 51 months). Twelve (57%) patients...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Rath SA,Seitz K,Soliman N,Kahamba JF,Antoniadis G,Richter HP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internal neurolysis (IN) is an effective surgical treatment for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) without neurovascular compression (NVC) or postoperative recurrence. However, the trigeminal nerve is directly manipulated during the procedure, and there is a high incidence of trigeminocardiac reflex (TCR). The aim of...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Wu M,Jiang X,Niu C,Fu X

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:During the placement of electrodes for deep brain stimulation (DBS), patients are commonly in a seated position, awake, and spontaneously breathing. Air may be entrained through bone or dural veins causing venous air emboli (VAE) and this phenomenon can result in significant hemodynamic changes. Althoug...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Hooper AK,Okun MS,Foote KD,Haq IU,Fernandez HH,Hegland D,Robicsek SA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying electrophysiologic abnormality in patients with chronic pain syndrome is demonstrated in 2 patients whose pain and associated symptoms were incapacitating. Mechanical perturbation evoked discharges most easily at the mesodiencephalic junction. Discharging tissue at that level appears to be oriented in b...

journal_title：Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

authors： Andy OJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00