Evolution of malignant cerebellar astrocytoma at the site of a treated medulloblastoma: report of two cases.

abstract：:Cavernous malformations (CMs) of the midbrain and thalamus are relatively rare and particularly difficult to be resected given their location in eloquent tissues. Here, we report a case of a 14-year-old boy who experienced repeated and progressive right hemiparesis. Image examinations showed a gradually enlarged CM or...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Duan H,Hara Y,Goto T,Chiba A,Hongo K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Close relatives (CR) of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and high-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) suffer extraordinary distress during the treatment: Distress may lead to persisting mental illness symptoms within the spectrum of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders, a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Rueckriegel SM,Baron M,Domschke K,Neuderth S,Kunze E,Kessler AF,Nickl R,Westermaier T,Ernestus RI

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal cell carcinoma has a complex and variable natural history. We report a case underlining this who presented concomitant renal cell carcinoma metastasis with pituitary and adrenocortical adenomas. A 62-year-old woman presented with visual loss. Imaging revealed a large sellar mass with suprasellar extension. Four ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Weber J,Gassel AM,Hoch A,Spring A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vertebral artery injury (VAI) during foraminal decompression in cervical spine surgery in the absence of repositioning or screw stabilization is rare. Without immediate recognition and treatment, it may have disastrous consequences. We aimed to describe the incidence and management of iatrogenic VAI in low-r...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Obermüller T,Wostrack M,Shiban E,Pape H,Harmening K,Friedrich B,Prothmann S,Meyer B,Ringel F

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some intracranial aneurysms treated by stent-assisted coiling (SAC) with incomplete occlusion undergo progressive occlusion (PO) during follow-up period. We analyzed the predictors for the occurrence of PO. METHODS:Among 74 cerebral aneurysms treated by SAC using the Enterprise or Neuroform stents from 2010...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nakazaki M,Nonaka T,Nomura T,Onda T,Yonemasu Y,Takahashi A,Hashimoto Y,Honda O,Oka S,Sasaki M,Daibo M,Honmou O

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological developments in neuroendoscopy are leading to an expansion of applications into the realm of microneurosurgical procedures. The new dimension that using an endoscope provides requires insight into different neuroanatomical aspects and a new kind of strategy in planning a microneurosurgical procedure. To ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Matula C,Tschabitscher M,Day JD,Reinprecht A,Koos WT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External continuous ventricular drainage (CVD) in patients suffering from obstructive hydrocephalus is being used in many neurosurgical centers as a routine procedure for the temporary relief of intracranial pressure. The results of this treatment have been insufficiently evaluated. In the present study two groups of ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Shalit MN,Ben Ari Y,Eynan N

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with multiple intracranial aneurysms present a great challenge to neurosurgical practice. The presence of one or more additional aneurysms, whether recognized or unrecognized, along with the source of the haemorrhage profoundly changes the outcome. It also alters the timing and strategy of surgery. In this st...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Vajda J,Juhász J,Orosz E,Pásztor E,Tóth S,Horváth M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a retrospective study of 41 patients treated by simple decompression for ulnar neuropathy. Pre- and postoperatively, patients were evaluated clinically and electrophysiologically. The median follow-up was 2 years (minimum: 0.5 years, maximum: 5.1 years). The leading pre-operative sign was motor loss in the ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Steiner HH,von Haken MS,Steiner-Milz HG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a proportion of small acoustic neuroma patients, monitoring with magnetic resonance imaging shows no volumetric increase of tumour size over the years. The object of the study was to identify some indications for the clinical choice between immediate surgery (with the related risks) and watchful waiting. We perform...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Modugno GC,Pirodda A,Ferri GG,Fioravanti A,Calbucci F,Pezzi A,Ceroni AR,Pirodda E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case report here deals with an intracavernous arterial aneurysm spontaneously developing into a carotid-cavernous fistula. The etiopathology of these fistulas is discussed. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lesoin F,Rousseau M,Petit H,Jomin M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant cell tumors of the spine are uncommon. Usually they are benign and solitary, but locally very aggressive. Most of them occur at the sacral spine. There are only 26 reported cases in the literature involving this type of tumor in the lumbar spine, in particular exhibiting an intraperitoneal growth. We present the...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Munoz-Bendix C,Cornelius JF,Bostelmann R,Gierga K,Steiger HJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An intracranial in situ side to side posterior circulation procedure is performed infrequently. The scope of treatment modalities of vertebral artery-PICA aneurysms and vertebral dissections is limited due to the lack of many representations of this procedure's technical nuances. METHODS:To demonstrate the ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Dehdashti AR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of dogs, the transport routes of intrathecally administered 99Tcm-DTPA from an omental graft to the venous blood were studied by scintillation probes placed over the portal and external jugular veins and by blood samples from the inferior vena cava. It was found early in the course of investigation that a ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Levander B,Asard PE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trapped fourth ventricle (TFV) is a rare and difficult to treat condition. Most patients have a past inciting event (infection, IVH, trauma) and history of prior CSF diversion. The symptoms are due to the mass effect on brainstem and cerebellum. Rarely, TFV can also be associated with syrinx formation due to...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Tyagi G,Singh P,Bhat DI,Shukla D,Pruthi N,Devi BI

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Supratentorial intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) carries an excessive mortality and morbidity. Although surgical ICH treatment can be life-saving, the indications for surgery in larger cohorts of ICH patients are controversial and not well defined. We hypothesised that surgical indications vary substantially a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Fahlström A,Tobieson L,Redebrandt HN,Zeberg H,Bartek J Jr,Bartley A,Erkki M,Hessington A,Troberg E,Mirza S,Tsitsopoulos PP,Marklund N

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of circulating immune complexes (CIC) were assayed in the sera of 109 patients with intracranial space occupying lesions. The CIC levels were significantly increased in all the brain tumours. After treatment, the CIC levels were still significantly increased when compared to the controls but showed no chang...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Manjula S,Aroor AR,Raja A,Rao SN,Rao A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effectiveness of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has been shown in patients with one to four brain metastases. Work has been done to evaluate the role of SRS alone treatment without whole-brain radiation therapy in patients with more than four metastases. A recent multiinstitutional JLGK 0901 prospective study reveale...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hatiboglu MA,Tuzgen S,Akdur K,Chang EL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral primitive neuro-ectodermal tumour (PNET) occurring as a second primary malignancy in childhood is exceedingly rare. We present a 7-year-old boy who developed a proven supratentorial PNET five years after enucleation and radio-/chemotherapy for a sporadic, unilateral retinoblastoma with optic nerve invasion. T...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Dorfmüller G,Würtz FG,Kleinert R,Lanner G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study was carried out in 34 rabbits which were divided into three groups (A, B, C). In group A (10 animals), a mid-laminectomy of the first lumbar (L1) vertebra was performed and the circulation in the exposed spinal cord segment was examined using both procedures, the videomicroscopy as well as the r.S.C.B.F. mea...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Karoutas G,Tsitsopoulos P,Taskos N,Karacostas D,Tzotzoras T,Liapis J,Logothetis J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 812 patients with intracranial tumours treated by radiosurgery during the period 1984-1990, 129 had meningiomas. Of these latter, 72 had middle fossa meningiomas. Patients with meningiomas treated by us since March 1990 are not included in this report since we established the investigative principle of a minimum of...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Valentino V,Schinaia G,Raimondi AJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age is an important factor in determining prognosis following severe head injury (SHI), although mortality in patients > or =65 years is poorly reported. The aim of this study was to document mortality in patients with SHI > or =65 years. METHODS:A retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Patel HC,Bouamra O,Woodford M,Yates DW,Lecky FE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pure pineal germinomas have been rarely reported in girls. Gender incidence and differences of pure pineal germinomas are not well known. The authors report a series of pure pineal germinoma and its gender characteristic is reviewed. METHODS AND RESULTS:Of a total of 50 germ cell tumors operated on between 1...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cuccia V,Galarza M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As technical progress advances, telemonitoring has become an important part of patient care in many areas of medical treatment. However, distanced surveillance of intracranial pressure (ICP) could not be established so far. With the recent introduction of a telemetric ICP measurement probe, new possibilities...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Tschan CA,Velazquez Sanchez VF,Heckelmann M,Antes S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Specific microanatomical characteristics of the trigeminal nerve root (TNR) blood supply and close neurovascular relationships with surrounding vessels as well as their possible clinical significance were the main reasons for this study. METHOD:The vasculature of 25 adult and four fetal TNRs were microdisse...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cetković M,Antunović V,Marinković S,Todorović V,Vitošević Z,Milisavljević M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case with an ill-defined arteriovenous malformation in the parieto-occipital region is presented. Open surgery was unsuccessful in removing the AVM totally, and treatment with gamma knife radiosurgery was then attempted. At 14 months after this treatment the AVM was believed to be obliterated. The patient had a new ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Guo WY,Karlsson B,Ericson K,Lindqvist M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fifty patients with trigeminal neuralgia were treated by percutaneous compression of the Gasserian ganglion (PCGG) during the last 8 years. The technique is the one described by Mullan with the balloon inflated during 6 minutes with 0,7 cc of contrast medium. Over a follow-up period ranging from 6 mont...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Abdennebi B,Bouatta F,Chitti M,Bougatene B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 41 out of 130 encapsulated chronic subdural haematomas erythroblasts were found. As there were no skull fractures and no erythroblasts were found in peripheral blood smears, it is concluded, that these colonies of erythroblasts originate from the granulation tissue during the formation of membranes. The actual outp...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Müller W,Zimmermann E,Firsching R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of cauda equina paraparesis due to compression by tabetic osteo-arthropathy. Diagnosis was confirmed by the typical clinical picture of tabes and by the history of a chancre 53 years earlier. Radiography of the spine showed vertibral osteo-arthropathy. Opaque contrast myelography showed comp...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Steimlé R,Jacquet G,Wehbi M,Sauvageot M,Lecuyer F

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article presents an autosomal dominant Currarino syndrome with incomplete penetrance in three out of four members of the same family. The mother had only a bony sacral defect and no other signs. In the older daughter, the syndrome was completely developed with presacral cystic teratoma, a sacral defect and abdomin...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Bunc G,Ravnik J,Vorsic M,Ravnik M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00