Patient satisfaction after surgery for trigeminal neuralgia--development of a questionnaire.

abstract：:Tumour associated epilepsy (TAE) is a poorly understood manifestation of many gliomas, meningiomas and metastatic brain tumours that has important clinical and social implications. Etiological mechanisms underlying tumour associated epilepsy include theories invoking peritumoural amino acid disturbances, local metabol...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Beaumont A,Whittle IR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccination against tumour-associated antigens is one approach to elicit anti-tumour responses. We investigated the effect of polynucleotide (DNA) vaccination using a model antigen (E. coli lacZ) in a syngeneic gliosarcoma model (9L). METHODS:Fisher 344 rats were vaccinated thrice by intramuscular injection...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ginzkey C,Eicker S,Marget M,Krause J,Brecht S,Westphal M,Hugo HH,Mehdorn M,Steinmann J,Hamel W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgeons often rely on intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring to determine whether decompression is sufficient during microvascular decompression surgery for hemifacial spasms. A new monitoring method is needed when an abnormal muscle response is occasionally not available or is unreliable. This stud...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Zheng X,Hong W,Tang Y,Ying T,Wu Z,Shang M,Feng B,Zhang W,Hua X,Zhong J,Li S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although primary treatment of medulloblastoma is now successful in a high percentage of patients, its secondary manifestations still bear a poor prognosis. Thorough studies of secondary manifestations are therefore pivotal to plan therapeutic approaches for the long-term management of medulloblastoma. Here we describe...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sure U,Bertalanffy H,Isenmann S,Brandner S,Berghorn WJ,Seeger W,Aguzzi A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Operative skills are key to neurosurgical resident training. They should be acquired in a structured manner and preferably starting early in residency. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the outcome and complication rate of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with or without instrument...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Stienen MN,Joswig H,Jucker D,Hildebrandt G,Schaller K,Gautschi OP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wound healing impairment is a serious problem in surgical disciplines which may be associated with chronic morbidity, increased cost and patient discomfort. Here we aimed to investigate the relevance of bacterial colonisation on suture material using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect and taxonomicall...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hong B,Winkel A,Ertl P,Stumpp SN,Schwabe K,Stiesch M,Krauss JK

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred patients with a verified subarachnoid haemorrhage were studied in a double blind, placebo-controlled trial at a single centre to determine the value and relative risks of tranexamic acid (TXA) in the management of ruptured intracranial aneurysms. The incidence of recurrent haemorrhage between active and pl...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Tsementzis SA,Hitchcock ER,Meyer CH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the elderly have not received sufficient attention, given the increase in age of individuals in recent years. We therefore designed a retrospective study to clarify features of brain AVMs in this age group in comparison with their counterparts in the general popula...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hashimoto H,Iida J,Kawaguchi S,Sakaki T

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of distal filter protection alone is associated with a high risk of ischemic complications when vulnerable carotid stenosis is treated by carotid artery stenting (CAS). Double balloon protection, a combination of distal balloon protection and proximal balloon occlusion, can be utilized. We assessed t...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

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

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：:During intracranial tumor resection, the delayed kinking of a major encased vessel has never been described in literature. We present a case which required urgent endovascular treatment performed through a stent positioning. A patient was hospitalized with symptomatic sphenoid meningioma in the left middle cranial fos...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Simonato D,Gabrieli JD,Cester G,Della Puppa A,Causin F

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent modification of the occipital transtentorial approach to the pineal region and medial-posterior hemisphere is described. The patient is operated upon in a lateral reclining (park bench) position with the side to undergo occipitoparietal craniotomy, slightly dependant. Following dural opening to the margins of...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Stone JL,Cybulski GR,Crowell RM,Moody RA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is a genetic disorder characterized by mutations of the NF2 tumor suppressor gene that predisposes patients to develop multiple tumors in the peripheral and central nervous system. The most common neoplasms associated with the disease are schwannomas and meningiomas. Both have ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Pendleton C,Spinner RJ,Dyck PJB,Mauermann ML,Ladak A,Restrepo CE,Baheti S,Klein CJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:To study the in-vivo effects of direct Low-Energy Laser Irradiation (LELI) on the Peripheral Nervous System, the sciatic nerve in rats was surgically exposed, crushed and then subjected to the direct irradiation of either of two continuous-wave HeNe lasers--0.3 mW or 17 mW. We found that the 0.3 mW laser significantly...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Rochkind S,Nissan M,Lubart R,Avram J,Bartal A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite advances in laboratory diagnostics, antibiotic regimens, and neurosurgical techniques, brain abscess (BA) remains a potentially fatal infectious disease. This study analyzed clinical and epidemiological aspects of BA in Chinese patients treated at a single center during a 62-year period. METHOD:We r...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Zhang Z,Cai X,Li J,Kang X,Wang H,Zhang L,Yan R,Gao N,Liu S,Yue S,Zhang J,Yang S,Yang X

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent animal research has provided evidence that brain ischaemia is associated with a shift of energy related metabolites (lactate, adenosine, inosine, and hypoxanthine) and several transmitters from the intracellular to the extracellular fluid (ECF). These chemical changes of the ECF reflect the energy crisis of the...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hillered L,Persson L,Pontén U,Ungerstedt U

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CTX) of meningioma patients towards meningioma cells and fibroblasts was studied in vitro before and after surgery, using the 3H-proline microcytotoxicity test. When incubated with allogeneic target cells before surgery, lymphocytes from three out of seven donors showed a specific destructi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Pees HW

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：AIM:Numerous materials have been used to replace defects in the dura mater as result of neurosurgical and spinal procedures. Tissudura is a biomatrix made of cross-linked equine collagen fibrils, mainly of the interstitial type I. The specially engineered dura-like layered structure provides a non porous primary water ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Gazzeri R,Neroni M,Alfieri A,Galarza M,Faiola A,Esposito S,Giordano M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ependymomas and tuberculomas are common paediatric posterior fossa lesions in developing countries and may be confused with each other due to some overlapping features. The distinction is important as the treatment for each is entirely different. We have described three young children in whom clinical-radiological fea...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Futane S,Salunke P,Sahoo S,Mulinani N,Vyas S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary intraspinal melanoma is presented. This is a very rarely observed lesion, as only 37 cases have been described up to now. Patient presenting with signs and symptoms of spinal cord compression after MRI and spinal angiography was operated upon. Total removal of an intraspinal cervical tumour was perfo...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Bidziński J,Kroh H,Leszczyk C,Bojarski P

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：OBJECT:The object of surgical treatment for hemifacial spasm (HFS) is the exclusion of pulsatile neurovascular compression of the root exit zone (REZ). However, spasm persists transiently or permanently in some cases even after complete decompression. In particular, we mainly experience these results when the vertebral...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kim JP,Chung JC,Chang WS,Chung SS,Chang JW

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the significance of protein S-100b as a serum marker for the prediction of functional outcome in the event of symptomatic spinal cord compression due to epidural metastases. METHOD:34 patients with paresis due to metastatic spinal cord compression were included in this prospective study. Venous ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Marquardt G,Setzer M,Seifert V

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 160 patients suspected of having acquired hydrocephalus were studied either by quantitative isotope ventriculography (QIV) or by lumbar isotope cisternography (LIC). Of these patients, 56 had hydrocephalus. Mental deterioration, gait disturbances, ataxia, spasticity, and incontinence were most frequently pr...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Jensen F,Jensen FT

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Intraoperative fluorescence angiography with indocyanine green (ICG) as a tracer has recently been introduced as a novel technique for neurosurgery. We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of near-infrared (NIR) indocyanine green (ICG) videoangiography for patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA). ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Haga S,Nagata S,Uka A,Akagi Y,Hamada Y,Shono T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00