Ganglioglioma presenting as a vascular lesion in a 10-year-old boy. Case report.

abstract：OBJECT:This study was designed to evaluate the clinical and histopathological effects of long-term (3-month) intraventricular baclofen (IVB) infusion in beagle dogs. METHODS:Catheters were inserted stereotactically into the lateral ventricles of nine dogs and were connected to implanted Synchromed II pumps. Saline sol...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Albright AL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral sinus thrombosis, although uncommon, can be lethal if not recognized and treated quickly. Systemic heparin has become the treatment standard of care; however, some patients' conditions continue to deteriorate even while taking heparin. Endovascular techniques for thrombolysis have continued to evolve. The aut...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rickert KL,Purdy PD,Welch BG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe their minimally invasive technique for performing a superficial temporal artery (STA) to middle cerebral artery (MCA) bypass, which relies on an enlarged bur hole (2-2.5 cm) rather than the standard craniotomy. They perform this procedure in a minimally invasive fashion, using CT angiography for i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Coppens JR,Cantando JD,Abdulrauf SI

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Disposable supplies constitute a large portion of operating room (OR) costs and are often left over at the end of a surgical case. Despite financial and environmental implications of such waste, there has been little evaluation of OR supply utilization. The goal of this study was to quantify the utilization ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zygourakis CC,Yoon S,Valencia V,Boscardin C,Moriates C,Gonzales R,Lawton MT

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anatomical study of three microsurgical intraorbital routes to the optic nerve and orbital apex, which can be reached through a fronto-orbital craniotomy, was conducted on cadaver specimens. The structures that could be exposed via the medial, central, or lateral approaches directed through the orbital roof were de...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Natori Y,Rhoton AL Jr

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study of 110 cranial cavities from adult cadavers, the superior sagittal sinus was found to divide into two channels. In most cases, the division was associated with a dural partition. Essentially, the variations as observed in this study could be grouped into three types: Type 1 includes those specimens in wh...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bisaria KK

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Delayed vasospasm is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Proteomic therapeutics offers a new modality in which biologically active proteins or peptides are transduced into cells via covalent linkage to cell permeant peptides (CPPs). The hypothesis of this study was...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Furnish EJ,Brophy CM,Harris VA,Macomson S,Winger J,Head GA,Shaver EG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:This study was conducted to evaluate the value of postoperative CT scans in determining the probability of return to the operating room (OR) and the optimal time to obtain such scans to determine the effects of surgery. METHODS:Between January and December 2006 (12 months), all postoperative head CT scans obtai...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Khaldi A,Prabhu VC,Anderson DE,Origitano TC

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of prostatic carcinoma metastasis to the pituitary gland is reported. The presentation and rarity of such a lesion is addressed. The literature review yielded only isolated case reports of symptomatic brain metastases unassociated with bone disease from adenocarcinoma of the prostate. The management options of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Couldwell WT,Chandrasoma PT,Weiss MH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied 31 comatose head-injured patients to assess the clinical usefulness of laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) in continuous autoregulation monitoring. The LDF probes were placed on the surface of the cerebral cortex. Data on LDF, intracranial pressure (ICP), and arterial blood pressure (ABP) were recorded a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lam JM,Hsiang JN,Poon WS

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Emergency access to the ventricular system is sometimes necessary for the treatment of raised intracranial pressure with ensuing herniation. One procedure described in the literature is a transorbital approach performed using a spinal needle. Because past publications have been case reports with minimal definiti...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tubbs RS,Loukas M,Shoja MM,Cohen-Gadol AA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute cerebellar hemorrhages, treated medically with subsequent complete recovery, have been designated "benign cerebellar hemorrhages." Ordinarily, acute cerebellar hemorrhage does require early surgical intervention and reported surgical mortality is relatively low (17%) in awake patients with this lesion. Clinical ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Brillman J

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigate whether there are any permeability changes in the endoneurial blood-nerve barrier and the perineurium-nerve barrier of surviving nerve allografts. In a normal nerve, the blood-nerve barrier regulates the passage of substances from endoneurial blood vessels into the endoneurium, whereas the peri...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zalewski AA,Kadota Y,Azzam NA,Azzam RN

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary intracerebral squamous cell carcinoma is a rare sequela of benign cerebral epidermoid cysts. A case of presumed malignant transformation in a lateral ventricular epidermoid cyst is described, in which squamous cell carcinoma arose 33 years after the surgical resection of a benign epidermoid cyst. Three years a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Goldman SA,Gandy SE

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECT The human area postrema (AP) is a circumventricular organ that has only been described in cadaveric specimens and animals. Because of its position in the calamus scriptorius and the absence of surface markers on the floor of the fourth ventricle, the AP cannot be clearly localized during surgical procedures. ME...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Longatti P,Porzionato A,Basaldella L,Fiorindi A,De Caro P,Feletti A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors' objective was 2-fold: 1) to compare outcomes of microsurgical resection for vestibular schwannoma (VS) between patients aged 70 years or older and patients younger than 70 years and 2) to test the hypothesis that symptomatic tumors in elderly patients represent a more aggressive variant of VS than t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Van Abel KM,Carlson ML,Driscoll CL,Neff BA,Link MJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a major complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that leads to functional and psychological deficits. Although DAI is frequently underdiagnosed by conventional imaging modalities, it can be demonstrated using diffusion tensor imaging. The aim of this study was to assess the pre...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Inglese M,Makani S,Johnson G,Cohen BA,Silver JA,Gonen O,Grossman RI

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Several methods are used for stereotactically guided implantation of electrodes into the subthalamic nucleus (STN) for continuous high-frequency stimulation in the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). The authors present a stereotactic magnetic resonance (MR) method relying on three-dimensional (3D) T1-weighte...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bejjani BP,Dormont D,Pidoux B,Yelnik J,Damier P,Arnulf I,Bonnet AM,Marsault C,Agid Y,Philippon J,Cornu P

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic yield of imaging tests performed in patients in whom the cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) had not been demonstrated on initial angiography. METHODS:By reviewing medical records of 806 patients with SAH who had been admitted during a 6.5-year period, the a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Topcuoglu MA,Ogilvy CS,Carter BS,Buonanno FS,Koroshetz WJ,Singhal AB

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:W. James Gardner, a skillful neurosurgeon and inventor, is best remembered for his cervical tongs and hydrodynamic theory of syringomyelia. A pioneer of modern neurosurgery, Gardner trained under Charles Frazier in Philadelphia, and in 1929 he moved to Ohio where he became chief of neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nathoo N,Mayberg MR,Barnett GH

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Brainstem hemangioblastomas are frequently encountered in patients with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. These tumors can cause significant morbidity, and their optimal management has not been defined. To better define the outcome and management of these tumors, the authors analyzed the long-term results in pati...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wind JJ,Bakhtian KD,Sweet JA,Mehta GU,Thawani JP,Asthagiri AR,Oldfield EH,Lonser RR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moment-to-moment control of blood pressure is important in the management of the neurosurgical patient. The ideal agent to control blood pressure or induce hypotension should be non-toxic, maintain cerebrovascular autoregulation, and not alter cardiac output or change intracranial pressure. Intravenous nitroglycerin h...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chestnut JS,Albin MS,Gonzalez-Abola E,Newfield P,Maroon JC

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Gliomas are one of the most common types of primary brain tumors. Recent studies have supported the importance of key genetic alterations, including isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations and 1p19q codeletion, in glioma prognosis. Mutant IDH produces 2-hydroxyglutarate from α-ketoglutarate, a key metabolit...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Karsy M,Guan J,Huang LE

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral intracerebral hydatid cysts developed in a 14-year-old patient after an infarct of presumed embolic origin in the left frontotemporoparietal region. The average rate of growth of these cysts was about 5 cm per year. This suggests that the growth rate is far from uniform and indeed, particularly in young pati...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sierra J,Oviedo J,Berthier M,Leiguarda R

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to compare percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) and percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizotomy (PRGR) in terms of effectiveness, complications, and technical aspects. METHODS:Sixty-six consecutive PBC procedures were performed in 45 patients between January 2004 and December 2008...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kouzounias K,Lind G,Schechtmann G,Winter J,Linderoth B

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klatzo's classification of brain edema into two types, vasogenic and cytotoxic, has been in general use since 1967. The former involves overall brain swelling due to fluid entry from the vasculature because of openings in the blood-brain barrier (BBB), whereas the latter refers to cell swelling without any loss of the...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kimelberg HK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Nuclear receptor corepressor (N-CoR) forms a complex that maintains neural stem cells in an undifferentiated state through transcriptional repression. Recently, it has been shown that N-CoR is overexpressed in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tumor stem cells and has a putative role in maintaining these cells in an...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lu J,Zhuang Z,Song DK,Mehta GU,Ikejiri B,Mushlin H,Park DM,Lonser RR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) without evidence of neoplasia was noted in an 84-year-old woman. She subsequently developed a lytic skull lesion, which at surgery proved to be an atypical meningioma. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that this tumor was producing CEA. This aggressive meningiom...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Partington MD,Scheithauer BW,Piepgras DG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model producing diffuse brain injury, without focal brain lesions, has been developed in rats. This has been achieved by allowing a weight of 450 gm to fall onto a metallic disc fixed to the intact skull of the animal which is supported by a foam bed. Two levels of injury were examined by adjusting the height of...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Foda MA,Marmarou A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The goals of this study were to report the clinical presentation, radiographic findings, operative strategy, and outcomes among patients with temporal bone encephaloceles and cerebrospinal fluid fistulas (CSFFs) and to identify clinical variables associated with surgical outcome. METHODS:A retrospective case se...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Carlson ML,Copeland WR 3rd,Driscoll CL,Link MJ,Haynes DS,Thompson RC,Weaver KD,Wanna GB

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00