Metal plate fixation after anterior fusion of unstable fracture dislocations of the cervical spine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:To present the combined treatment of fusiform basilar artery aneurysms consisting of a surgical posterior fossa decompressive craniectomy and ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt operation at the same sitting, before the endovascular procedure with telescopic stenting of the aneurysmatic vessel segment in four ca...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kizilkilic O,Kayadibi Y,Sanus GZ,Koçer N,Islak C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study is to evaluate retrospectively the effects of several intra-operative manipulations on the results of foramen magnum decompression (FMD) in patients having syringomyelia associated with type I Chiari malformation. Seventy-five patients having syringomyelia associated with Chiari I malf...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Guyotat J,Bret P,Jouanneau E,Ricci AC,Lapras C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to investigate the usefulness of intracranial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume measurement using MR-based methods in the management of patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). METHODS:The study group comprised 19 patients with NPH who showed a favorable outcome after ventr...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Tsunoda A,Mitsuoka H,Bandai H,Arai H,Sato K,Makita J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful deep brain stimulation is mostly dependent on accurate positioning of the leads at the optimal target points. We investigated whether the identification of the subthalamic nucleus in T2-weighted 3-T MRI, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery 3-T MRI and susceptibility-weighted 3-T MRI is confirmed b...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Polanski WH,Martin KD,Engellandt K,von Kummer R,Klingelhoefer L,Fauser M,Storch A,Schackert G,Sobottka SB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateral approaches to the brain stem for the resection of the cavernous malformations are preferred in order to avoid the structures within the floor of the fourth ventricle. The entry behind the pyramidal tract (PT) is usually carried out through the posterolateral surface of the brain stem. The more straig...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Steňo J,Bízik I,Steňová J,Timárová G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two patients with petroclival meningioma were operated upon by the middle fossa transpetrosal-transtentorial approaches since 1977. Half of those showed tumour extension into the middle fossa and one-third in the cavernous sinus. Seventeen (40%) had a large tumour of 40 mm in diameter or larger, and 8 of those h...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kawase T,Shiobara R,Toya S

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Microvascular decompression (MVD) for hemifacial spasm (HFS) has been popular, but it may take enough time to master this special operative technique and procedure. This may induce uneven distribution of the number of MVD operations in each institute, possibly resulting in an overall unsatisfactory quality o...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Fukunaga A,Shimizu K,Yazaki T,Ochiai M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimens of the anterior pituitary lobe were investigated histologically in 28 craniopharyngioma patients operated on trans-sphenoidally. The pituitary glands in 3 patients revealed lymphocytic invasion giving a histological appearance typical of lymphocytic hypophysitis (incidence: 11%). At follow-up examination all...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Puchner MJ,Lüdecke DK,Saeger W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a brief information on factors taking role in intracranial air formation and tension pneumocephalus because of two cases epidural air formation and tension pneumocephalus following transsphenoidal operation is presented. Two cases were treated conservatively. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Yüceer N,Cakíroğlu K,Erdoğan A,Gökalp HZ,Bağdatoğlu C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anterior spinal decompression and fusion was used as the primary treatment for thoracolumbar fractures in eleven patients with neurological deficits. Each patient achieved stability by interbody fusion. Significant progressive kyphosis did not occur. No patients with a complete neurological deficit was improved by ope...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Young B,Brooks WH,Tibbs PA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of cavernous angioma, a remote gyrus, which was found to contain an epileptogenic focus by intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG), was resected simultaneously with lesionectomy. The patient was a 27-year-old male who was referred to our hospital because of frequent systemic tonic-clonic convulsions. ECoG...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kamada K,Isu T,Takahashi T,Tanaka T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple technique of stereotactic craniotomy and intraoperative lesion localisation that uses the Brown-Robert-Wells (BRW) stereotactic frame is presented. The method optimises craniotomy placement and facilitates localisation of small intracerebral lesions. Using the system, 16 patients have had resection of intracr...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sabin HI,Whittle IR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the anatomical three-dimensional (3D) positional relationship around the anterior clinoid process (ACP) is complex, experience of many surgeries is necessary to understand anterior clinoidectomy (AC). We prepared a 3D synthetic image from computed tomographic angiography (CTA) and magnetic resonance imagi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Okonogi S,Kondo K,Harada N,Masuda H,Nemoto M,Sugo N

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review of the literature on Cheyne-Stokes respiratory periods reveals enormous variation of the opinions expressed. The original description concerned periodicity characterized by rhythmic changes of respiratory phases and respiratory pauses in a relation of 60 : 15 seconds. In the respiratory phase there were 30 ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lorenz R,Ito A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative isotope ventriculography (QIV) has been suggested as a method for diagnosing hydrocephalus and predicting the results of CSF shunt insertion. However, the physiological significance of this and other tracer clearance studies is questionable. Using a simplified mathematical model for tracer clearance follo...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Stein SC

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peripheral nerve lesions usually are associated with neuropathic pain. In the present paper, we describe a simple scale to quantify pain after brachial plexus injuries and apply this scale to a series of patients to determine initial outcomes after reconstructive surgery. METHODS:Fifty-one patients with tra...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Bonilla G,Di Masi G,Battaglia D,Otero JM,Socolovsky M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-hundred seven patients who were operated on consecutively between January 1983 and December 1990 to relieve disabling positional vertigo (DPV) using the microvascular decompression (MVD) procedure were studied. Selection of the patients for MVD operations was based on both case history and the results of otoneurol...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Møller MB,Møller AR,Jannetta PJ,Jho HD,Sekhar LN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in vestibulospinal evoked potentials (VsEP) and motor evoked potentials (MEP) were examined in 10 cats before and after two different weight-dropping spinal cord injuries. In six animals somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) were also monitored. The recordings were done from epidural spinal cord electrodes. Be...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Zileli M,Taniguchi M,Cedzich C,Schramm J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intra-operative monitoring of the position of the central sulcus (CS) is indispensable to properly treat a peri-motor cortex lesion. Noninvasive preoperative studies for identification of CS are also needed for choosing the optimal operative procedure. Magneto-encephalography (MEG) has recently been introduc...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Shimamura N,Ohkuma H,Ogane K,Manabe H,Yagihashi A,Kikkawa T,Suzuki S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adjuvant systemic chemotherapy increases survival of primary malignant glioma patients beyond 12-18 months. The only interstitial chemotherapy treatment approved for malignant glioma is Gliadel wafer containing carmustine (BCNU) placed in the resection cavity at surgery. Analysis of a large trial by Westphal ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Westphal M,Ram Z,Riddle V,Hilt D,Bortey E,Executive Committee of the Gliadel Study Group.

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG) combined with dopamine on intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral arteriovenous oxygen difference (AVDO2) were studied in 11 patients with acute subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). The study was performed on Days 1 to 3 of SAH after aneurysmal clipping. Treatment consisted o...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Iwanaga H,Okuchi K,Koshimae N,Goda K,Imanishi M,Tokunaga H,Aoki H,Boku E,Sakaki T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and sixty-four patients who suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage from an aneurysm at either the anterior (ACA) or posterior (PCA) communicating artery location and who were not surgically treated have been followed for up to 21 years in order to study the late morbidity and mortality. For the 213 patients...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Winn HR,Richardson AE,Jane JA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper deals with the possibility of applying linear control theory and the theory of statistical dynamics to the complex and quantitative analysis of electroencephalographic records. The aim is to specify signals in the brain environment, in particular sources, speed and direction of signals, and the determination...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Neuschl S,Hluchy L,Nádvornik P,Sramka M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a young woman operated for a ganglioglioma involving the right auditory cortex (AC), presenting with auditory seizures. Despite a normal pre-operative examination, a specific post-operative disorder affecting the perception of a human voice occurred. The patient was unable to recognise the tone of familia...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Benzagmout M,Chaoui Mel F,Duffau H

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One case of a pontine haematoma with clinical symptoms of cerebellopontine angle tumour is described. The haematoma was successfully evacuated, and preoperative neurological deficits disappeared except for minimal right fifth nerve palsy. The pathological specimen was diagnosed as arteriovenous malformation. Lateropon...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Inoue Y,Sato O

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelium synthesizes mediators which either cause vasorelaxation or vasoconstriction. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of these mediators in the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm. An inhibitor of endothelium-derived relaxing factor is haemoglobin; endothelium removal by triton X-100 an...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Baykaner MK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eloquent area surgery has become safer with the development of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and brain mapping techniques. However, the usefulness of intraoperative electric brain stimulation techniques applied to the management and surgical treatment of cavernous malformations in supratentori...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sanmillan JL,Lopez-Ojeda P,Fernández-Conejero I,Fernández-Coello A,Plans G,Ali-Ciurana Y,Gabarrós A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative facial nerve monitoring (IFNM) is a suitable technique for intraoperative facial nerve identification and dissection, especially in large vestibular schwannomas (VS) (acoustic neuroma). To evaluate its feasibility for estimating functional nerve outcome after VS resection 60 patients underwent surgery u...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sobottka SB,Schackert G,May SA,Wiegleb M,Reiss G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Torcular meningioma is a rare type of brain tumor with few reports regarding the appropriate resection approach for this disease. In cases without sinus occlusion, surgeons are advised to spare the sinus; however, the sinus may interfere with the visual field. METHOD:Endoscopic supracerebellar infratentoria...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ishikawa T,Watanabe T,Seki Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00