Clinical features and management of brain arteriovenous malformations in elderly patients.

abstract：:The authors report on four unusual cases of chronic adult hydrocephalus extracted from a large personal series of patients with hydrocephalic dementia. A syndrome resembling that of normal pressure hydrocephalus was due to the following aetiologies in these patients: Paget's disease of the skull, unruptured cerebral a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lobato RD,Lamas E,Cordobés F,Muñoz MJ,Roger R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We used [F-18] FDG microPET imaging as part of a longitudinal study to investigate changes in the brain. METHODS:Glucose metabolism during the development of neuropathic pain after tibial and sural nerve transection (TST) model rats. MicroPET images were obtained 1 week before operation and then weekly for ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kim J,Shin J,Oh JH,Jung HH,Kim YB,Cho ZH,Chang JW

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyse the intraoperative complications of a single neurosurgeon, with emphasis on devastating intraoperative incidents, and how they possibly could have been avoided. METHODS:All the patients operated upon by the author between 1986 and 2002, i.e. 252 patients with 270 craniotomies for 294 aneurysms, were...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Wester K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 17 primary transnasal operations on Nelson tumours long-term results are assessed measuring ACTH plasma levels and performing regular neuroradiological controls. In small intrasellar adenomas only one recurrent ACTH elevation near to pretreatment levels without symptoms from tumour growth was observed after 10 year...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lüdecke DK,Breustedt HJ,Brämswig J,Köbberling J,Saeger W

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the risk of recurrence in patients with chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) on antithrombotic treatment (AT, i.e., antiplatelets and anticoagulants). Secondary end points were perioperative morbidity and mortality between groups (AT vs. no-AT group) and exploration if timing of resumption of AT trea...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Fornebo I,Sjåvik K,Alibeck M,Kristiansson H,Ståhl F,Förander P,Jakola AS,Bartek J Jr

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic targeting of the postero-ventral pallidum (PVP) presents special challenges to the surgeon 1) The target is in intimate relation to the optic tract and the internal capsule. 2) Proper angulation of the trajectory is crucial to achieve optimal effects given the long craniocaudal extension of the PVP. 3) Th...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Spiegelmann R,Gofman J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we discuss the results of a study by light microscope of the effect of permanent clipping or ligation on the intracranial arteries of 38 operation dogs and 7 control dogs. The findings obtained are: 1. In the cerebral arterial circle, necrosis could easily result from ordinary clipping or ligation becau...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ebina K,Iwabuchi T,Suzuki S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on prognostic variables and the intensive care of head injuries enabled us to select 64 patients and administer a standard treatment protocol to prevent secondary brain injury. All the patients were in coma with a flexor motor pattern as the best response between 6 and 24 hours after the accident and/or...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nordby HK,Gunnerød N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dystonia has been treated well using deep brain stimulation at the globus pallidus internus (GPi DBS). Dystonia can be categorized as two basic types of movement, phasic-type and tonic-type. Cervical dystonia is the most common type of focal dystonia, and sequential differences in clinical outcomes between p...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Chung M,Huh R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incomplete cerebral ischaemia of 10 to 60 minutes duration was performed by reducing the perfusion pressure of completely isolated canine heads at brain temperatures of 37 and 32 degrees C. Complete cerebral ischaemia of the same duration was performed by complete stopping of the perfusion. The latency of recovery of ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hirsch H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monostotic manifestation of fibrous dysplasia in the spine is exceedingly rare. We report the case of a 30 year-old woman suffering from slowly increasing low back pain. Radiologically a polycyclic, slightly gadolinium-enhancing, solitary lesion within the first lumbar vertebral body was detected. The lesion was remov...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hertel F,Hopf T,Feiden W,Bettag M,Walter C,Delling G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being motor nerves neurinomas originating from ocular nerves are very rare, unless associated with neurofibromatosis. Authors describe two cases of oculomotor nerve i.e. third nerve, Schwann cell tumours. One of them presented as a cavernous sinus mass in a middle aged lady while the other was a middle aged man with a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kachhara R,Nair S,Radhakrishnan VV

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cavernous malformations (CM) occur very rarely in the ventricular system. We report a patient with a rare location in the third ventricle who had intermittent headaches as the initial symptom. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Milenkovic Z

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated 76 patients with known subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) in order to compare the results of angiography and non-invasive Doppler recordings of cerebral artery blood velocity in the diagnosis of cerebral vasospasm. One radiologist and one neurovascular surgeon assessed angiographic spasm visually on a four...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lindegaard KF,Nornes H,Bakke SJ,Sorteberg W,Nakstad P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superficial middle cerebral veins (SMCVs) are large veins to drain the brain and therefore anatomical knowledge of them is important for neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists. In a patient with a ruptured blister aneurysm, we incidentally found during angiography an aberrant drainage of the SMCVs, which penetrated t...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mizutani K,Consoli A,Di Maria F,Coskun O,Rodesch G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the clinical presentation, diagnostic and therapeutic management and outcome of 27 cases of post-traumatic thoracic outlet syndrome (PT TOS). METHODS:Retrospective chart analysis. RESULTS:Nineteen women and eight men were included in this study. Involvement in a traffic accident was the most co...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Dubuisson A,Lamotte C,Foidart-Dessalle M,Nguyen Khac M,Racaru T,Scholtes F,Kaschten B,Lénelle J,Martin D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A number of different image-guided surgical techniques have been developed during the past decade. None of these methods can provide the surgeon with information about the dynamic changes that occur intra-operatively. MATERIAL AND METHOD:The first vertical open 0.5T MRI-scanner for intra-operative MRI-guide...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Seifert V,Zimmermann M,Trantakis C,Vitzthum HE,Kühnel K,Raabe A,Bootz F,Schneider JP,Schmidt F,Dietrich J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intensive experimental spinal cord impact trauma in rabbits led, after 90 minutes, to a significant increase of serotonin content in the segments of spinal cord at the injury epicentres. Adjacent segments showed normal values. It is suggested that the existing contradictory published data concerning the serotonin c...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nĕmecek S,Suba P,Cerman J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one cases of posterior fossa haemangioblastoma have been seen in our department over a period of 23 years. Seven cases were associated with spinal cord lesions and one with a supratentorial lesion. There were 22 cases of Lindau's disease (43%). The onset was earlier and recurrences commoner than in isolated case...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Symon L,Murota T,Pell M,Bordi L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between external ventricular drainage (EVD) and aneurysm rerupture is still a controversial issue. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published series reporting data of EVD placement in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with the aim to evaluate the relationship betwe...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cagnazzo F,Gambacciani C,Morganti R,Perrini P

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical treatment of giant clinoidal meningiomas remains a challenging task for neurosurgeons. Here, we present details of the surgical techniques for the dissection of encased perforators. METHODS:The dissection of encased perforators is summarized as follows: (1) split the tumor above the encased arterie...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Yoshimoto K,Nakamizo A,Sasaki T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors analyzed the cases of 163 patients with syringomyelia to assess the appropriate surgical procedure. METHODS:Depending on the aetiological factors and treatment considerations the series was classified into three groups. Group I were cases where there was no definite demonstrable aetiological factor;...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Goel A,Desai K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of surgically treated non-neoplastic diseases of the sella (two arachnoid cysts and one empty sella) are reported. All three patients had visual deficits but no gross endocrine disturbances. The study of these three clinical cases and an analysis of the relevant literature suggest a possible unitary hypoth...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Benedetti A,Carbonin C,Colombo F

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feline infusion model of brain edema was used to evaluate the pathophysiological effects of 0.6 ml infusions of autologous serum protein (66%), human serum protein (66%), human glioma cyst fluid and a tissue culture medium (TCM) on the structure and function of the forebrain white matter. These infusions increased...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Whittle IR,Ironside JW,Piper IR,Miller JD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First described on pre-B leukemia cells, the common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (cALLa) is also expressed on glioma cells in vitro. Its identity to neutral endopeptidase (NEP) (E.C.3.24.11) was corroborated by our finding that cALLa positive glioma cells had NEP activity. To study cALLa/NEP distribution on gl...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Monod L,Hamou MF,Ronco P,Verroust P,de Tribolet N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of a small arteriovenous angioma over a period of almost 18 years in a 20 year old patient has been proved by arteriography. This case is added to 29 cases previously published in the literature. The authors do not readily accept the theory of autochthonous growth, but prefer secondary or "pseudo-growth". I...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Szepan B

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In case of suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus, MRI is performed systematically and can sometimes highlight an obstruction of the flow pathways of the CSF (aqueductal stenosis or other downstream obstruction). It seems legitimate for these patients to ask the question of a treatment with endoscopic third...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Baroncini M,Kuchcinski G,Le Thuc V,Bourgeois P,Leroy HA,Baille G,Lebouvier T,Defebvre L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasingly, biomarkers have been identified that correlate with improved overall and progression-free survival (OS and PFS) in glioblastoma, including MGMT methylation status and mutations in the IDH1 gene. In this study, we investigated the clinical and biological factors associated with long-term surviva...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Millward CP,Brodbelt AR,Haylock B,Zakaria R,Baborie A,Crooks D,Husband D,Shenoy A,Wong H,Jenkinson MD

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNT1) is a rare congenital pigmented neoplasm of neural crest origin, locally aggressive, and rapidly growing that develops during the first year of life. It most commonly arises from the maxilla, the cranial vault, and the mandible. Early diagnosis and radical s...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lambropoulos V,Neofytou A,Sfougaris D,Mouravas V,Petropoulos A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 2.5-year-old boy with Saudi variant of multiple sulfatase deficiency (MSD or Austin's disease). He presented with the features of cervical cord compression and a severe form of hydrocephalus. The former was due to a thickened posterior arch of the atlas and the latter from a narrow foramen magnum and menin...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： al-Moutaery KR,Choudhury AR,Hassanen MO

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00