Multicentric malignant glioma.

abstract：:Fifty-six patients with low back pain and sciatica following radiological investigation were found to have abnormalities at multiple levels, more than one of which could be responsible for the clinical picture or at a single level, which correlated poorly with the clinical findings. Thirty-four patients had a diagnost...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Porter DG,Valentine AR,Bradford R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, warfarin, clopidogrel and aspirin have provided the mainstay for prevention of thrombotic disease in cardiac patients. However, new classes of drugs have recently emerged that promise better clinical outcomes and lower risks. Use of such agents has increased, but increased risk and severity of intra-cr...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kimpton G,Dabbous B,Leach P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the rare and first documented case of concomitant microvascular decompression of trigeminal, facial and glossopharyngeal nerves for the management of intractable to medical therapy acute onset of trigeminal neuralgia, facial paresis and dysphagia after mild head injury. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gkekas N,Primikiris P,Georgakoulias N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the changes of a series of cytokines before and after percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty (PKP) and prognostic markers for response to PKP. METHODS:From 1 January 2019 to 31 May 2019, all single-level lumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF) patients diagnosed by MRI who matched the ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zhang J,Xu Y,Lu W,Sun F,Li H

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A true human tail is a rare occurrence and is defined as a caudal, vestigial, midline protrusion with skin covering connective tissue, muscle, vessels and nerves. We report a case of true human tail in a child, which is a very rare happening in humans. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chauhan SP,Gopal NN,Jain M,Gupta A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a 35-year-old man, who suffered intermittent hydrocephalic attacks due to a large subependymoma arising within the left lateral ventricle. The sparse literature on this rare tumour is reviewed. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Iqbal Z,Sutcliffe JC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a giant serpentine aneurysm of the right middle cerebral artery (MCA) that was treated by total excision of the aneurysm with cerebral blood flow control management. Four years later the patient presented with a three month history of headache and angiograms showed a new aneurysm on a different bra...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bakaç G,Gholkar A,Mendelow AD

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evidence suggests that reduction of nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability due to oxidative stress plays a central role in the pathophysiology of cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). To prevent SAH-induced cerebral vasospasm, therefore we used nebivolol hydrochloride as a NO-mediated vasodilato...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Aladag MA,Turkoz Y,Parlakpinar H,Gul M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-year old female patient presented with a left-sided superior temporal quadrantanopia due to a recurrent craniopharyngioma. The location of the recurrence was unusual. Imaging showed an enlarged left optic nerve, suggestive of a recurrent intra-optic craniopharyngioma. It was possible to remove the tumour without ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Banaama S,Temel Y

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the investigation was to report on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients diagnosed with skull base tumours using the Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36). Those patients suffering with vestibular schwannoma were examined to determine the effect facial nerve function had on t...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kelleher MO,Fernandes MF,Sim DW,O'Sullivan MG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The determination of language lateralisation is important for patients with medically intractable epilepsy or a brain tumour near the language areas to avoid the risk of post-surgical language deficits. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to ident...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ota T,Kamada K,Kawai K,Yumoto M,Aoki S,Saito N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Side-effects of iohexol myelography were compared after pre-treatment with oral dexamethasone (n = 42) or placebo (n = 44) in a prospective, randomized, double blind, controlled clinical trial. Although myelogram side-effects were commoner in the placebo group, the differences generally did not reach statistical signi...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ginsberg L,Caine SE,Valentine AR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing standardized methods to assess outcome is needed to measure the effectiveness of surgery in relieving symptoms and improving quality of life. We prospectively studied 203 patients undergoing primary lumbar discectomy. Data was collected before surgery, at 3 months postoperatively and at long-term follow-u...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Guilfoyle MR,Ganesan D,Seeley H,Laing RJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve endoscopic procedures more safely and less invasively, an operative strategy with ultrasound-assisted neuroendoscopic surgery is described. The improvement in the endoscope unit is that endoscopic viewing can be stopped on the display, anytime we choose and simultaneously visualize the ongoing view on the s...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yamasaki T,Moritake K,Akiyama Y,Oi S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomatosis cerebri (GC), which mainly consists of oligodendroglial tumour cells, is rare and six cases have been documented to date. We present a new case of oligodendroglial gliomatosis cerebri with a favourable response to combination treatment using surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fukushima Y,Nakagawa H,Tamura M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemangiopericytoma is a rare mesenchymal tumor originating from capillary pericytes, known as Zimmermann pericytes. The adult form is not uncommon and generally malignant but tumor is found rarely in children. Here we describe an intracranial hemangiopericytoma in a preterm newborn whose had the tumor resected success...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yilmaz Semerci S,Demirel G,Vatansever B,Gundogdu S,Bolukbasi F,Oran G,Hazar V,Tastekin A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wide-necked and non-saccular aneurysms are difficult to treat with coil embolization. The use of stents has expanded the role of endovascular treatment. METHODS:A retrospective study of 43 patients with wide-necked, fusiform or blister aneurysms treated with stent-assisted coiling or stent alone. The review...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Galal A,Bahrassa F,Dalfino JC,Boulos AS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a sciatic schwannoma spanning the sciatic notch in a 39-year-old woman with persistent pelvic pain after caesarean delivery. The tumour was detected by pelvic CT scan and MRI. Anterior transabdominal surgery allowed the en bloc removal of both the pelvic and the buttock component of the tumour. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Consales A,Poppi M,Stumpo M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Cerebral developmental venous anomalies (DVAs) very rarely cause massive haematoma, but should be included in the differential diagnosis of atypical massive intracerebral haematoma (ICH). We describe a case of massive ICH caused only by a DVA and successfully treated by haematoma evacuation with surgical rese...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nagatani K,Osada H,Takeuchi S,Otani N,Wada K,Mori K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case where the administration of intrathecal gentamycin, used to treat a ventriculitis consequent upon a ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection, with a persistent elevation of the CSF leucocyte count is described. In a situation where the number of white cells in the CSF is taken to indicate resolution of infection, i...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lee TK,Kerr RS,Adams CB

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of vertigo with subclavian artery stenosis are presented. In both cases, the angiograms revealed left subclavian artery stenosis at the middle portion of the clavicle as well as kinked origin of the vertebral artery. After resection of the anterior scalene muscle, the stenosis and the vertigo resolved. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nishijima M,Akai T,Kuwayama N,Nakada J,Furuichi S,Takaku A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the infraorbital nerve (ION) has been used to establish an animal mode of trigeminal neuralgia (TN), but key parameters of the model have not been quantified until now. Objective: The aim of the study was to quantify a standard of pain threshold to evaluate a succes...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Xia L,Liu MX,Zhong J,Dou NN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four cases of the use of peroperative cortical mapping during craniotomy under local anaesthesia to define the relationship between the glioma and speech and somatosensory cortex. This enabled a radical subtotal (two cases) or an apparent total (two cases) excision of the tumour close to the somatosensory an...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Walsh AR,Schmidt RH,Marsh HT

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic hypopituitarism has remained as an obscured cause of worsening morbidity and mortality in head injury patients. Researchers have for decades been puzzled by the mechanism of pituitary dysfunction in these cases. Amongst other causes like direct injury, vascular injury etc, an immunological basis of hypo...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Harsh V,Jha S,Kumar H,Kumar A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical evaluation of the lifetime probabilities of different outcomes in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UA) has been made using a life table method. The calculations were performed for aneurysm presenting ages from 20 to 70 years of age for men and women assuming an annual risk of aneurysm rup...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Eskesen V,Rosenørn J,Schmidt K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terms moyamoya disease, moyamoya syndrome and moyamoya phenomenon can be found dispersed throughout the literature. The diagnostic criteria for moyamoya disease are: (1) stenosis or occlusion of the anterior cerebral, middle cerebral and internal carotid arteries, (2) an abnormal vascular network near these arteri...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fodstad H,Bodosi M,Forssell A,Perricone D

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anterior sacral meningocele is a rare congenital condition. Among 177 individuals familial occurrence was reported only seven times. In this report a family in which five members had anterior sacral meningoceles is presented and an autosomal dominant inheritance is suggested. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Andersen C,Tange M,Bjerre P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we will discuss a rare complication after microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: peripheral facial palsy. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Oliveira LM,Peres CMA,Figueiredo EG

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the operative technique and our preliminary experience with use of the Renishaw neuromate(®) stereotactic robot to implant depth electrodes for investigation of focal epilepsy in the UK. Conventional electrocorticography involving a craniotomy and implantation of grids of electrodes directly onto the brain...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Abhinav K,Prakash S,Sandeman DR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of high field (3 Tesla) MR in target localization for stem cell transplantation. Three patients with Huntington's disease were imaged with a stereotactic frame in place for both MRI and CT. Quality assurance procedures and manual shimming were performed before each ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Donovan T,Fryer TD,Peña A,Watts C,Carpenter TA,Pickard JD

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00