The surgical correction of coronal and metopic craniosynostoses.

abstract：:The authors present the rare case of a myxoma, a benign soft-tissue tumor of mesenchymal origin noted for occurring in the left atrium of the heart, which was found in the lumbar paraspinal muscles of an 80-year-old woman. This patient experienced low-back pain for over 20 years and had noted its increasing severity w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Guppy KH,Wagner F,Tawk R,Gallagher L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE An effective treatment of patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) or vegetative state (VS) caused by hypoxic encephalopathy or traumatic brain injury (TBI) is not yet available. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the thalamic reticular nuclei has been attempted as a therapeutic procedure mainly in patient...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chudy D,Deletis V,Almahariq F,Marčinković P,Škrlin J,Paradžik V

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke remains a leading cause of morbidity and death for which few therapeutic options are available. The development of neuroprotective agents, a once promising field of investigation, has failed to translate from bench to bedside successfully. This work reviews the ischemic cascade, agents targeting steps ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Turner RC,Dodson SC,Rosen CL,Huber JD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS) is one of a spectrum of overlapping clinical syndromes resulting from mutations in the gene GLI3 on chromosome 7p. Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) is caused by mutations in three distinct genes, including Malcavernin (CCM2), which also maps to chromosome 7p and i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bilguvar K,Bydon M,Bayrakli F,Ercan-Sencicek AG,Bayri Y,Mason C,DiLuna ML,Seashore M,Bronen R,Lifton RP,State M,Gunel M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a series of 100 consecutive patients with spinal metastases causing cord or cauda equine compression, who were treated with surgical decompression. Of these, 30% (all women) had breast cancer. The most common primary neoplasm in man was prostatic carcinoma. Pain was the earliest and most prominant s...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Livingston KE,Perrin RG

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed intracranial hematomas are an important treatable cause of secondary brain injury in patients with head trauma. Early identification and treatment of these lesions, which appear or enlarge after the initial computerized tomography (CT) scan, may improve neurological outcome. Serial examinations using near-infr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gopinath SP,Robertson CS,Contant CF,Narayan RK,Grossman RG,Chance B

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the relatively benign natural history of cavernous carotid artery aneurysms and based on anecdotal reports in the literature of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) or subdural hemorrhage (SDH) from these aneurysms, observation is warranted and typically recommended. In this case report, the authors describe a woman wh...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Andaluz N,Tomsick TA,Keller JT,Zuccarello M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Transcranial motor evoked potential (tMEP) monitoring is popular in neurosurgery; however, the accuracy of tMEP can be impaired by craniotomy. Each craniotomy procedure and changes in the CSF levels affects the current spread. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of several craniotomies on ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tomio R,Akiyama T,Toda M,Ohira T,Yoshida K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Adhesion formation is a serious problem in peripheral nerve surgery, frequently causing dysfunction and pain. The authors aimed to develop an objective biomechanical method of quantifying nerve adhesions and to use this technique for the evaluation of the efficacy of an autocrosslinked hyaluronic acid (HA) gel a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Smit X,van Neck JW,Afoke A,Hovius SE

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infestation of the central nervous system with sparganum, the larva of Spirometra mansoni, is rare. Only 27 cases have been reported in the literature; however, the true incidence might be underestimated. Two cases are reported that were definitively diagnosed by stereotactic biopsy techniques. Without a positive hist...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tsai MD,Chang CN,Ho YS,Wang AD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachnoid cysts are commonly thought to arise from either congenital defects or trauma. In this article the authors report the spontaneous development of a suprasellar third ventricular arachnoid cyst whose origin was not clearly congenital or traumatic. At the age of 4 months, the patient presented with hypertonia, a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Struck AF,Murphy MJ,Iskandar BJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evaluation of brain abscess has been inhibited by the lack of a simple and reproducible model in small animals. A stereotaxic headholder and slow infusion of 1 microliter of saline, containing a known number of bacteria, were used to produce brain abscess consistently in the rat. The natural history of th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Winn HR,Mendes M,Moore P,Wheeler C,Rodeheaver G

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case in which sellar and suprasellar osteogenic sarcoma developed 10 years after radiation therapy for pituitary adenoma. The literature is reviewed and the rarity of this condition discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Amine AR,Sugar O

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure were monitored in 12 patients who were comatose secondary to hypoxic (five cases) or hypotensive (seven cases) nontraumatic cerebral insults. Patients who were hypotensive but not hypoxic developed significant increased ICP. In patients who were comatose from...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Senter HJ,Wolf A,Wagner FC Jr

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A classification is proposed to organize anterior cranial base fractures systematically according to their location and size. The goal of this study was to determine whether these two variables, irrespective of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea, are related to the long-term risk of posttraumatic meningitis an...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sakas DE,Beale DJ,Ameen AA,Whitwell HL,Whittaker KW,Krebs AJ,Abbasi KH,Dias PS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have developed a stereotactic device for use in rabbits that uses the plane at the base of the mandible combined with cranial sutures as an anatomical reference. The device was developed for a study designed to evaluate catheters for infection prophylaxis, and this required the implantation of silicone cat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kockro RA,Giacomelli R,Scheihing M,Aschoff A,Hampl JA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive histological and immunohistochemical studies were performed to elucidate the histopathogenesis of exencephaly induced in chick embryo as an experimental model. The findings were compared with those identified in a chick myeloschisis experimental model and in human autopsy cases. The experimental model of exe...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Oi S,Kokunai T,Okuda Y,Sasaki M,Matsumoto S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of a sacral, extradural choroid plexus papilloma involving the S1-3 level is described. This 50-year-old woman presented with a 4-month history of pain involving her right buttock, perineum, and leg. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the spine revealed a well-defined, mildly enhancin...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kurtkaya-Yapicier O,Scheithauer BW,Van Peteghem KP,Sawicki JE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to investigate the role of S-100 proteins in the onset of vasospasm induced by subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), which leads to severe neurological morbidity and death. It has recently been argued that modifications in the levels of expression of some intracellular signaling elements contr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lefranc F,Golzarian J,Chevalier C,DeWitte O,Pochet R,Heizman C,Decaestecker C,Brotchi J,Salmon I,Kiss R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors report the 3-year results of the Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial (BRAT). The objective of this ongoing randomized trial is to compare the safety and efficacy of microsurgical clip occlusion and endovascular coil embolization for the treatment of acutely ruptured cerebral aneurysms and to compare funct...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Spetzler RF,McDougall CG,Albuquerque FC,Zabramski JM,Hills NK,Partovi S,Nakaji P,Wallace RC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Dysexecutive syndrome is common in patients with moyamoya disease (MMD), a chronic cerebrovascular disease that is characterized by stenosis of the bilateral internal carotid arteries and progressive collateral revascularization, and MMD can be classified as ischemic or hemorrhagic according to the disease p...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fang L,Huang J,Zhang Q,Chan RC,Wang R,Wan W

更新日期：2016-08-01 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:Glioma resection under conscious ("awake") sedation (CS) is used for eloquent areas of the brain to minimize postoperative neurological deficits. The objective of this study was to compare the duration of hospital stay, overall hospital cost, perioperative morbidity, and postoperative patient functional status i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Peruzzi P,Bergese SD,Viloria A,Puente EG,Abdel-Rasoul M,Chiocca EA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the case of a 6-year-old boy who underwent resection of a midline cerebellar tumor. The boy was able to speak fluently after the operation. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed that the right dentate nucleus had been partially removed along with the tumor, but that the left dentate nucleus rema...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kusano Y,Tanaka Y,Takasuna H,Wada N,Tada T,Kakizawa Y,Hongo K

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report four cases of traumatic neuroma in the cervical nerve root in patients with no history of trauma. In one case the patient presented with intractable pain in the left upper extremity and motor paresis of the left shoulder, and in another case the patient suffered neuropathic pain in the left forearm....

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nomura H,Harimaya K,Orii H,Shiba K,Ueta T,Iwaki T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen cases of cerebral cavernous angiomas are reported, and their radiological and pathological features are reviewed. The clinical presentation was variable: 53.8% of patients had seizures, 30.8% intracerebral hemorrhage, and 15.4% focal neurological signs, including one unusual case that presented as a cerebello...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tagle P,Huete I,Méndez J,del Villar S

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his 1756 text, Observations pratiques sur les maladies de l'urèthre et sur plusiers faits convulsifs, Nicolas André coined the term "tic douloureux." He believed that this pain originated from compression of facial sensory peripheral nerves. Using scientific observation and experimentation to confirm this hypothesi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Brown JA,Coursaget C,Preul MC,Sangvai D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-week-old infant manifested continuous vomiting for 1 week accompanied by a tense fontanel, "sun setting" of the eyes, frequent opisthotonos, and hypertonicity. The head circumference was at the 50th percentile. Computerized tomography (CT) revealed acute hydrocephalus and a posterior fossa subdural hematoma. The b...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： French BN,Dublin AB

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are many cities that can claim to have been the incubator of modern neurological surgery, the rise of this surgical subspecialty in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th century mirrors what was occurring around the world. The first confirmed brain tumor operation in the US was performed there i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Solomon RA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship among cerebral blood flow (CBF), blood volume, cardiac output (CO), and mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) at varying levels of arterial CO2 tensions (PaCO2) were studied in 70 normal cats. The CBF was measured from the clearance curve of xenon-133 and CO with a thermal dilution catheter placed in th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Davis DH,Sundt TM Jr

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00