Neurosurgical correction of upper brachial plexus birth injuries.

abstract：OBJECT:Atorvastatin, a beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, has pleiotropic effects, such as promoting angiogenesis, increasing fibrinolysis, and reducing inflammatory responses, and has shown promise in enhancing recovery in animals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke. The authors ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lu D,Mahmood A,Goussev A,Schallert T,Qu C,Zhang ZG,Li Y,Lu M,Chopp M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although posterior plates are increasingly used to manage cervical spinal instability, long-term follow-up evaluation of patients with a critical analysis of efficacy and complications has not been reported. The authors have retrospectively analyzed the outcome in 44 consecutive patients (37 males and seven females, a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fehlings MG,Cooper PR,Errico TJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven patients with acute cervical spine injuries and associated major neurological deficit were examined within 2 weeks of injury by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. All patients had abnormal scans, indicating intramedullary lesions. This study was undertaken to determine if the early MR imaging pattern had a p...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Schaefer DM,Flanders AE,Osterholm JL,Northrup BE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of implanted metals causing tissue damage by movement in patients exposed to MRI fields has produced a confusing welter of erroneous, pseudoscientific publications about magnetics, metals, medical equipment, and tissue compatibility. Quite simply, among the devices made for implantation, only those fabrica...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： McFadden JT

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's experience with the surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas and other lesions producing the chiasmal syndrome is reviewed. The conclusion is that his ultimate rejection of the transsphenoidal route was not due to his dissatisfaction with this procedure, but rather came about because of the transfrontal rout...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rosegay H

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation is considered to be of great importance in minimizing secondary hypoxic and ischemic brain damage following severe head injury. Although the threshold for cerebral hypoxia in jugular bulb oximetry (measurement of O2 saturation in the jugular vein (SjvO2)) is generally accepted to be ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kiening KL,Unterberg AW,Bardt TF,Schneider GH,Lanksch WR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors performed an analysis of retrospectively obtained data to compare the outcomes of pediatric patients admitted to their institution for traumatic injuries resulting from car, motorcycle, and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accidents. METHODS:The authors conducted a retrospective review of Columbus Children...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Miller B,Baig M,Hayes J,Elton S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematoporphyrin derivative (HPD) is a photosensitizing agent that has been used to locate and kill tumors. The distribution of tritiated (3H)-HPD was studied in a transplantable canine glioma model following intraperitoneal or direct intraneoplastic injection. Compared to intraperitoneal administration of 3H-HPD, dire...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Steichen JD,Dashner K,Martuza RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective analysis, the authors studied the pial and dural blood supplies in 74 intracranial meningiomas and quantified their associated peritumoral brain edema (PTBE). The extent and localization of pial blush in relation to the total tumor volume were determined angiographically. The amount of edema and tum...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bitzer M,Wöckel L,Luft AR,Wakhloo AK,Petersen D,Opitz H,Sievert T,Ernemann U,Voigt K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a case of nontraumatic atlantoaxial dislocation secondary to acute rheumatic fever, in which there appeared to be fibrous fusion between the axis and the atlas in the subluxed position. The dislocation was reduced by means of combined traction and steroid therapy. Fibrous fusion occurred in the re...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lucas JT,Hungerford GD,Perot PL Jr

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the time Harvey Cushing entered medical school, nerve reconstruction techniques had been developed, but peripheral nerve surgery was still in its infancy. As an assistant surgical resident influenced by Dr. William Halsted, Cushing wrote a series of reports on the use of cocaine for nerve blocks. Following his resi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tubbs RS,Patel N,Nahed BV,Cohen-Gadol AA,Spinner RJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) has been shown to provide considerable benefit to children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). The authors sought to evaluate the risks of postoperative spinal deformities in patients following SDR. METHODS:All patients who underwent SDR at McGill University between 1991 and 2001 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Golan JD,Hall JA,O'Gorman G,Poulin C,Benaroch TE,Cantin MA,Farmer JP

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical results of an extra-intracranial arterial bypass (EIAB) procedure for cerebral ischemia are assessed in 65 patients. The 5-year-study suggests that the EIAB procedure has a protective effect against further clinically significant cerebrovascular accidents in properly selected patients. Correlation with angiog...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gratzl O,Schmiedek P,Spetzler R,Steinhoff H,Marguth F

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A relationship has been found between peripheral thermal injury and cerebral complications leading to injury and death. In the present study, the authors examined whether tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) play a causative role in blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Reyes R,Guo M,Swann K,Shetgeri SU,Sprague SM,Jimenez DF,Barone CM,Ding Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case of a 78-year-old woman who developed right lower-extremity paralysis after a focal seizure. Neuroradiological studies revealed a small parasagittal meningioma, which at the time of resection was found to contain a bacterial intratumoral abscess secondary to Proteus mirabilis. This is only ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Eisenberg MB,Lopez R,Stanek AE

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate overcrowding in the posterior cranial fossa as the pathogenesis of adult-type Chiari malformation, the authors studied the morphology of the brainstem and cerebellum within the posterior cranial fossa (neural structures consisting of the midbrain, pons, cerebellum, and medulla oblongata) as well as the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nishikawa M,Sakamoto H,Hakuba A,Nakanishi N,Inoue Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The goal in this study was to review the effects of treatment plan quality on outcomes after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma (VS). METHODS:Between July 1988 and August 2005, 390 patients were treated. The results of this experience have been published recently. In this study the authors looked at dosimet...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Beegle RD,Friedman WA,Bova FJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traction injury to the optic nerve and vasa nervorum is the suggested etiology for monocular blindness following trivial frontal trauma. Holographic interferometry was used on human skulls to demonstrate orbital deformation in response to nondestructive frontal loading. The findings suggest an additional mechanism for...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gross CE,DeKock JR,Panje WR,Hershkowitz N,Newman J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:In this retrospective study conducted at Atkinson Morley's Hospital and Middlesbrough General Hospital, the authors analyzed 100 matched patients who had suffered subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) to determine whether the technical procedure by which aneurysms are treated affects the development of chronic hydroceph...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sethi H,Moore A,Dervin J,Clifton A,MacSweeney JE

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial occurrence of follicular dendritic cell (FDC) sarcoma, a rare tumor derived from dendritic cells of the lymphoid follicle, has not yet been described. Therefore, the case of a 53-year-old man presenting with an intracranial mass invading the clivus is reported. The diagnosis of FDC sarcoma was confirmed b...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hasselblatt M,Sepehrnia A,von Falkenhausen M,Paulus W

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful treatment of a civilian gunshot wound of the vermis and pons is described. A large missile fragment was removed from a depth of 2 cm within the pons at the level of the facial colliculus. Despite initial coma and subsequent irregular respiration with sleep apnea, the patient survived. Neurological, radi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kline DG,LeBlanc HJ

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Patients with trigeminal neuralgia due to multiple sclerosis (TN-MS) and idiopathic TN (ITN) who underwent glycerol rhizotomy (GR) and radiofrequency thermocoagulation with glycerol rhizotomy (RFTC-GR) were compared to investigate the effectiveness of these percutaneous ablative procedures in the TN-MS populatio...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bender MT,Pradilla G,Batra S,See AP,James C,Pardo CA,Carson BS,Lim M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of immune surveillance postulates that one function of the immune system is to eliminate small numbers of malignant cells that arise spontaneously within the organism. Although there has been a great deal of both clinical and experimental evidence in favor of thistheory as it applies to general oncology, th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Morantz RA,Shain W,Cravioto H

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of diagnosis and relative survival rates in individuals in whom a primary malignant brain tumor was diagnosed between 1973 and 1997; follow-up review of these patients continued through the end of 1999. METHODS:The study population was composed of 21,493 patient...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Barnholtz-Sloan JS,Sloan AE,Schwartz AG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The presence, extent, and distribution of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) have been associated with negative outcomes in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Several qualitative scores (Fisher grade, LeRoux score, and Graeb score) have been established for evaluating SAH and IVH. However, no study has...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nguyen HS,Li L,Patel M,Kurpad S,Mueller W

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:It remains unclear whether elderly patients with compressive cervical myelopathy can be expected to experience a promising surgery-related outcome after undergoing expansive laminoplasty. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of expansive laminoplasty in elderly patients with cervical myelopat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Handa Y,Kubota T,Ishii H,Sato K,Tsuchida A,Arai Y

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the cases of 60 children (aged 5 months to 18 years) with thalamic tumors who were seen at The Hospital for Sick Children between 1951 and 1983. The diagnosis of thalamic tumor was based on neuroradiological studies; 33 children were first seen in the pre-computerized tomography (CT) era and 27 sinc...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bernstein M,Hoffman HJ,Halliday WC,Hendrick EB,Humphreys RP

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:This study details the extent of resection and complications associated with endonasal endoscopic surgery for pituitary tumors invading the cavernous sinus (CS) using a moderately aggressive approach to maximize extent of resection through the medial CS wall while minimizing the risk of cranial neuropathy and bl...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Woodworth GF,Patel KS,Shin B,Burkhardt JK,Tsiouris AJ,McCoul ED,Anand VK,Schwartz TH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to assess long-term clinical outcomes in patients who underwent Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) with a low margin dose-14 Gy or less-to treat vestibular schwannoma (VS) unrelated to neurofibromatosis Type II. METHODS:Between December 1994 and December 2001, 200 patients with VSs underwent GK...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sun S,Liu A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an unusual case of a traumatic aneurysm of the right superior cerebellar artery (SCA). A 22-year-old woman presented with continuous headaches that appeared 15 days after she experienced closed head trauma as a result of a cycling accident. Computerized tomography scanning performed 3 months later s...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Proust F,Callonec F,Bellow F,Laquerriere A,Hannequin D,Fréger P

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00