Megavoltage therapy of glioblastoma multiforme.

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with oligodendrogliomas with allelic loss of chromosomal arm 1p and 19q have been shown, especially with anaplastic oligodendrogliomas, to have both a better initial and long-term response to chemotherapy as well as an improved overall survival. Effective treatment of patients with brain tumors require...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sherman JH,Prevedello DM,Shah L,Raghavan P,Pouratian N,Starke RM,Lopes MB,Shaffrey ME,Schiff D

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) are known to be highly epileptogenic lesions. A number of studies on CCM surgery deal with CCM-associated seizures and/or epilepsy. In order to counsel patients with CCM-associated epilepsy, clear results from such studies would be highly useful. This study reviews the ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： von der Brelie C,Schramm J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze prospectively the frequency and the risk of symptomatic and asymptomatic haemorrhage after image guided stereotactic biopsy of intra-axial brain tumours. METHODS:The study was conducted within a time frame of 24 months (April 1998-April 2000). 326 patients (150 males, 176 females; mean age 56.8 ye...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kreth FW,Muacevic A,Medele R,Bise K,Meyer T,Reulen HJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 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: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：:The authors report two unusual cases in which a malignant astrocytoma developed at the site of the excision of an earlier medulloblastoma. While the precise etiology of these astrocytic tumours was unproven, theories of the origins of the second tumours, particularly in relation to the basic nature of medulloblastomas...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nakamizo A,Nishio S,Inamura T,Koga H,Yamabe K,Kuba H,Matsushima T,Fukui M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aneurysms associated with brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) influence the natural history of these lesions and pose important therapeutic challenges. However, the epidemiology, natural history, and appropriate management of the aneurysms associated with bAVMs are not completely understood due to the ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cagnazzo F,Brinjikji W,Lanzino G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The suprameatal tubercle (SMT) may obscure the neurovascular compression (NVC) in microvascular decompression (MVD) for trigeminal neuralgia (TGN). The aim of this study is to address the necessity of resecting SMT in MVD for TGN. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed radiological findings of 461 MVDs in pati...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Inoue T,Goto Y,Prasetya M,Fukushima T

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The retrolabyrinthine and transcrusal approaches (RLA and TCA, respectively) are the two most often used posterior transpetrosal approaches that are used to treat lesions in the retrochiasmatic region. Endoscopes are increasingly used in neurosurgical practice. To determine whether a difference exists betwee...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Yang J,Zhang F,Xu A,Li H,Ding Z

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstable fracture dislocations due to torn ligaments, fractures of both articular processes, or detachments of entire vertebral arches from vertebral bodies still pose the problem of fixation after anterior fusion. The application of internal metal plate fixation--using the small AO (ASFI) fragment equipment--is descr...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Herrmann HD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and intracranial aneurysms (IAs) in the same patient and in the same family was studied among 89 patients with AAAs and 485 patients with IAs. Among the AAA-patients two had IAs themselves and five had IAs in the family, whereas three IA-patients had AAAs themselves ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Norrgård O,Angqvist KA,Fodstad H,Forssell A,Lindberg M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical intervention for unruptured intracranial aneurysms (IAs) carries inherent health risks. The analysis of "patient-specific" IA geometric and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulated wall shear stress (WSS) data has been investigated to differentiate IAs at high and low risk of rupture to help cli...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sunderland K,Wang M,Pandey AS,Gemmete J,Huang Q,Goudge A,Jiang J

更新日期：2020-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, reliable and cheap device for intra-operative monitoring of the facial nerve during surgery for cerebellopontine angle tumours is presented. It consists of a single use tracheostomy tube with a low pressure air inflatable cuff placed in the mouth of the patient on the side of the tumour, connected by a press...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mourier KL,Raggueneau JL,George B,Boissonnet H,Hodes JE,Cophignon J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impairment of cerebral autoregulation is known to adversely affect outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The phase shift (PS) method of cerebral autoregulation (CA) assessment describes the time lag between fluctuations in arterial blood pressure (ABP) and cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) in the...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lewis PM,Rosenfeld JV,Diehl RR,Mehdorn HM,Lang EW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/PURPOSE:Increased slow-wave activity in intracranial pressure (ICP) signifies an exhausted cerebrospinal compensatory reserve across a range of conditions. In this study, we attempted to describe synchronisation between slow waves of ICP and of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) variables during controlled el...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Weerakkody RA,Czosnyka M,Zweifel C,Castellani G,Smielewski P,Keong N,Haubrich C,Pickard J,Czosnyka Z

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：: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：:Between 1984 and 1991 86 patients with single cerebral metastases underwent linear accelerator radiosurgery using the atraumatic and reproducible Greitz-Bergström head-fixation device. Routine one-month follow-up documented disappearance of the tumour in 16 patients, with resolution of the oedema and ventricular shift...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Valentino V,Mirri MA,Schinaia G,Dalle Ore G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The middle meningeal artery (MMA) is well known to function as an important collateral channel to the territory of the anterior cerebral artery in moyamoya disease. This study was aimed to evaluate whether indocyanine green (ICG) videoangiography could visualize the anterior branch of the MMA before cranioto...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Tanabe N,Yamamoto S,Kashiwazaki D,Akioka N,Kuwayama N,Noguchi K,Kuroda S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the results of a study designed to compare the effectiveness of two different types of radiation in patients with acromegaly where surgical therapy had failed to normalize growth hormone (GH). Longterm follow-up after conventional high voltage radiation in 17 patients and proton therapy in 13 patien...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lüdecke DK,Lutz BS,Niedworok G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ganglioglioma is a common seizure-associated tumor, and some factors that may influence the postoperative seizure outcome have not been discussed or are controversial. The goal of this study was to observe the postoperative seizure outcome and the prognostic factors in patients with epileptogenic ganglioglio...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hu WH,Ge M,Zhang K,Meng FG,Zhang JG

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The understanding of molecular alterations of tumors has severely changed the concept of classification in all fields of pathology. The availability of high-throughput technologies such as next-generation sequencing allows for a much more precise definition of tumor entities. Also in the field of brain tumor...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Banan R,Hartmann C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cavum septi pellucidi (CSP) and cavum Vergae (CV) are persistent, primitive, or acquired, midline structures of adult human brain. It is customary to distinguish between the non-communicating and the communicating cava, depending on whether the cavum communicates with the cerebral ventricular system or not. Only a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ronsin E,Grosskopf D,Perre J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with mass lesions near "eloquent" cortical areas different preoperative mapping techniques can be used. Two of the most widely used approaches include positron emission tomography (PET) and functional MRI (fMRI). We employed both methods in the same patients undergoing presurgical evaluation and ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Krings T,Schreckenberger M,Rohde V,Spetzger U,Sabri O,Reinges MH,Hans FJ,Meyer PT,Möller-Hartmann W,Gilsbach JM,Buell U,Thron A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does the absolute value of the stump pressure (post-occlusion back pressure) become a useful index of a good collateral circulation? The authors continuously monitored the mean arterial pressure before, during and after 20-minute balloon test occlusion in 24 patients. The stump pressure was then compared with the resu...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kurata A,Miyasaka Y,Tanaka C,Ohmomo T,Yada K,Kan S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolving of a single centre by means of different transsphenoidal approaches during the survey of methodological advances in pituitary surgery is presented. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ninety-three consecutive patients with pituitary adenomas underwent transphenoidal pituitary operations at Gulhane Military Medic...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Duz B,Harman F,Secer HI,Bolu E,Gonul E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present note, the cause of root compression in cases with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis is discussed in order to clarify the best method of surgery and to avoid iatrogenic damage of the cauda equina if a transpedicular fusion is going to be performed. The root compression is due to osteophytes growing o...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Plötz GM,Benini A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In dealing with cases of oedematous brain, relaxation during the transsylvian approach to supratentorial aneurysms has been accomplished by ventricular drainage by using the anatomic point defined by Dr. Paine. However, we have experienced patient complications when using this point. We propose a novel anatom...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hyun SJ,Suk JS,Kwon JT,Kim YB

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infratentorial supracerebellar approach via microscope still has some limitations in resection of pineal region tumors. METHODS:The authors describe a purely endoscopic infratentorial supracerebellar approach for resection of pineal region tumors with matched air-driven arm and navigation. The lateral obliq...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Gu Y,Hu F,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-11-01 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