Outcome of myelomeningocoele repair in sub-Saharan Africa: the Nigerian experience.

abstract：:Twenty-three patients with atypical forms of spinal tuberculosis treated between 1975 and 1985, are described. All presented with signs and symptoms of compression of the spinal cord or cauda equina, ranging from paraesthesiae and increasing weakness of extremities to paraplegia and loss of sphincter control. None of ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Naim-Ur-Rahman,Al-Arabi KM,Khan FA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal cord injury (SCI) and the consecutive devastating neurological sequelae have an enormous individual and economic impact. Implantation of functionalized hydrogels is a promising approach, because they can serve as a matrix for the regenerating tissue, carry and release bioactive molecules and various c...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sitoci-Ficici KH,Matyash M,Uckermann O,Galli R,Leipnitz E,Later R,Ikonomidou C,Gelinsky M,Schackert G,Kirsch M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The present study investigated the incidence of acute rebleeding after successful coil embolization of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, including clinical outcomes, and possible mechanisms of the events other than coil compaction and/or incomplete embolization. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study included 591 consec...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kang DH,Kim YS,Baik SK,Park SH,Park J,Hamm IS

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Forty-three patients were operated on for ruptured intracranial aneurysms during a 12-month-period. Intraoperative evaluation of cortical blood flow by means of a thermal diffusion probe was performed in 23 out of the 41 patients who were operated on for aneurysms of the anterior circulation. The autoregulation index ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Viale GL,Cossu M,Cella F,Balestrero M,Rossi A,Masoni D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Glomus jugulare tumours represent a great therapeutic challenge. Previous papers have documented good results from Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) with these tumours. However, the relationship between clinical improvement and tumour shrinkage has never been assessed. MATERIALS AND METHODS:There were 14 patients...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ganz JC,Abdelkarim K

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroclival arachnoid cysts are rarely reported. A 40-year-old woman had a sudden onset of occipitocervical pain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a cystic mass lesion located in the retroclival region and complicated with intracystic haemorrhage. At operation, by a right lateral suboccipital approach, an old...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Akyuz M,Goksu E,Aralasmak A,Tuncer R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with brain metastasis from lung cancer, we have been able to control local recurrence in approximately 80% of cases. But many of them tend to show brain atrophy with mental deterioration developing a few months after whole brain radiation. To prevent brain atrophy, we have attempted treating patients, whos...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nakamura O,Matsutani M,Shitara N,Okamoto K,Kaneko M,Nakamura H,Asai A,Ueki K,Shimizu T,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively analysed 13 patients (pts.) treated at the University of Tübingen from 1985 to 1993 to evaluate the results of radiation therapy (XRT) given as an adjuvant to totally or subtotally resected meningiomas. The overall survival was 38% at five years with a probability of relapse of 50% at this time. Rec...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hoffmann W,Mühleisen H,Hess CF,Kortmann RD,Schmidt B,Grote EH,Bamberg M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An external ventricular drain (EVD) is used to measure intracranial pressure (ICP) and to drain cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The procedure is generally safe, but parenchymal sequelae are reported as a possible side effect, with variable incidence. We investigated the mechanical sequelae of EVD insertion and th...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ortolano F,Carbonara M,Stanco A,Civelli V,Carrabba G,Zoerle T,Stocchetti N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 64 patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) and 60 with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) treated by microvascular decompression (MVD), repeated MVD performed on 3 cases with HFS resulted in the absence of spasm in all cases. In 7 cases with TN, this technique resulted in complete remission in 2, recurrence in 3, and no pai...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Yamaki T,Hashi K,Niwa J,Tanabe S,Nakagawa T,Nakamura T,Uede T,Tsuruno T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective analysis of 357 cases of degenerative disc disease treated by interbody fusion with threaded titanium cages. OBJECTIVE:To determine the safety and efficiency of cervical and lumbar interbody fusions using threaded titanium cages and autogenous bone. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Stabilizing th...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Matgé G,Leclercq TA

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:We report management and outcome data on 118 patients that presented to our emergency room over a 4 year interval (1990-1994) in poor neurological condition after subarachnoid hemorrhage. All patients were treated following a strict protocol. After initial evaluation, patients underwent a head computerized tomography ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Rordorf G,Ogilvy CS,Gress DR,Crowell RM,Choi IS

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Leptomeningeal spread and hydrocephalus are increasingly recognized as late disease complications of glioblastoma with almost a quarter of patients requiring early cerebrospinal fluid shunting. The neurosurgeon is challenged with maintaining shunt patency when tumor disease progression is rapid and adjuvant oncologic ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Woo PYM,Zhuang JTF,Ho JMK,Seto A,Wong HT,Chan KY

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Accumulating results have disclosed that early brain injury (EBI) may play a major role in the determination of the outcome of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients. This study is of interest to examine the efficacy of pitavastatin, a 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA reductase (HMG-CoA reductase) ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Chang CZ,Wu SC,Kwan AL,Lin CL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term survival of patients with recurrent gliomas depends on the extent of resection. Thus, the desirability of an intra-operative imaging modality that can augment the resection extension without affecting vital surrounding structures is more than obvious. It was the aim of the present study to evaluate...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Enchev Y,Bozinov O,Miller D,Tirakotai W,Heinze S,Benes L,Bertalanffy H,Sure U

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex aneurysm shape is a predominant risk factor for aneurysm rupture but its impact on clinical outcome after clipping remains unclear. The objective of the present study was to compare complications and morbidity after clipping of unruptured single-sac aneurysms (SSAs) and aneurysms with multiple sacs (...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Goertz L,Kasuya H,Hamisch C,Kabbasch C,von Spreckelsen N,Ludyga D,Timmer M,Stavrinou P,Goldbrunner R,Brinker G,Krischek B

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case of a 66-year-old female who developed progressive pulsating exophthalmos, a bruit, and conjunctival chemosis 7 months after a head injury. These symptoms, though highly suspicious of carotid cavernous fistula, were caused by an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the inferolateral trunk (I...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Horie N,Morikawa M,So G,Hayashi K,Suyama K,Nagata I

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY DESIGN:Spinal subarachnoid hematomas are unusual and difficult to diagnose and the outcome of treatment is influenced by the lesions that frequently accompany them. OBJECTIVES:To clarify the neuroradiological diagnostic aspects of spinal subarachnoid hematoma as well as the results of treatment. BACKGROUND:Only...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Domenicucci M,Ramieri A,Paolini S,Russo N,Occhiogrosso G,Di Biasi C,Delfini R

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several models for the application of intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging (IMRI) have recently been reported, most of them unique. Two fundamental issues need to be addressed: optimal use of the scanner to ensure a wide base for research, development and clinical application, and an organisational mod...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Yrjänä SK,Katisko JP,Ojala RO,Tervonen O,Schiffbauer H,Koivukangas J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circumferential intradural spinal meningiomas are exceptionally rare. They pose several surgical challenges and a complete excision is not easy. The aim of this study is to provide surgical strategies to facilitate a full excision of such tumors. METHODS:A fully circumferential intradural meningioma at T9/1...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Vergara P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 39 patients suffering from clinical instability of the lumbar spine after microdiscectomy were evaluated for their long-term outcome. Included there were 21 (54%) male and 18 (46%) female patients with a mean age of 55 years. All had been operated on for a virgin single-level lumbar disc herniation between ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kotilainen E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lately, morphological parameters of the surrounding vasculature aside from aneurysm size, specific for the aneurysm location, e.g., posterior cerebral artery angle for basilar artery tip aneurysms, could be identified to correlate with the risk of rupture. We examined further image-based morphological paramet...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Li L,Hofmann BB,Fischer I,Donaldson DM,Engel A,Karadag C,Wetzel-Yalelis A,Piedade GS,Mijderwijk HJ,Bostelmann R,Kaschner MG,Muhammad S,Hänggi D,Cornelius JF,Petridis AK

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marshall computed tomographic (CT) classification is widely used as a predictor of outcome. However, this grading system lacks the following variables, which are found to be useful predictors: subarachnoid/intraventricular hemorrhage, extradural hematoma, and extent of basal cistern compression. A new classi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Deepika A,Prabhuraj AR,Saikia A,Shukla D

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Intraoperative MRI (iMRI) has been established as a routine imaging modality with a remarkable impact on specific neurosurgical procedures. The technological advancement continuously extends the spectrum of iMRI, leading to an increasing number of installations. Yet, procedures in which a semi-sitting posi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Gasser T,Senft C,Rathert J,Friedrich K,Hattingen E,Gerlach R,Seifert V

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterogenous cysts mostly locate in the spinal canal and have only rarely been reported in an intracranial site. We report a case of enterogenous cyst in the ventral to brainstem. The 45-year-old woman presented with paroxysmal headache and diplopia. A CT scan and MRI revealed a cystic clival mass from midbrain to med...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lin J,Feng H,Li F,Chen Z,Wu G

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:27 cases of cranioplasty with autogenous bone grafts stored in a deep-freezer and autoclaved before use are reported. The results of follow-up for an average period of one year were satisfactory from the standpoint of brain protection and cosmetic reconstruction. A small area of absorption of grafted bone was observed...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Osawa M,Hara H,Ichinose Y,Koyama T,Kobayashi S,Sugita Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00