Treatment of fusiform aneurysms of the peripheral cerebral arteries. Report of two cases.

abstract：OBJECT:The object of this study was to examine the relationship between hospital volume and long-term mortality after treatment of intracranial aneurysms. METHODS:The authors identified patients treated for intracranial aneurysms between 2002 and 2010 from patient registries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and linked ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lindekleiv H,Mathiesen EB,Førde OH,Wilsgaard T,Ingebrigtsen T

更新日期：2015-09-01 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:Operative intervention for craniovertebral junction (CVJ) instability in patients with Down syndrome has become controversial, with reports of a low incidence of associated neurological dysfunction and high surgical morbidity rates. The authors analyzed their experience in light of these poor results and attempt...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Taggard DA,Menezes AH,Ryken TC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:An increasing number of patients with vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are being treated with radiosurgery. Treatment failure or secondary regrowth after radiosurgery, however, has been observed in 2%-9% of patients. In large tumors that compress the brainstem and in patients who experience rapid neurological deteri...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gerganov VM,Giordano M,Samii A,Samii M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of hemoglobin (Hb) in the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm remain a matter of discussion. Hemoglobin is known to be released from extravasated red blood cells in a variety of pathological conditions, including subarachnoid hemorrhage. These conditions are often accompanied by infiltration of inflammatory c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Suzuki S,Takenaka K,Kassell NF,Lee KS

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on a 17-year-old boy who suffered from slowly progressive and long-standing symptoms of ataxia, neck pain, and headache. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a tumor arising from the floor of the fourth ventricle that resulted in a moderate hydrocephalus. A parti...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Warmuth-Metz M,Klein R,Sörensen N,Solymosi L

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms in eight human glioblastoma cell lines and two normal human glial cell cultures were determined. Earlier studies identified PKC-alpha and PKC-gamma in these cell lines but PKC-beta was not present. In this study, PKC-epsilon and PKC-zeta are demonstrated immunologically in the...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Xiao H,Goldthwait DA,Mapstone T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Botulinum toxin injections are the best therapeutic option in patients with spasmodic torticollis. Although a small number of patients do not benefit from such therapy, the majority respond well but may develop antibodies to the toxin after repeated applications. In those termed primary nonresponders, no improve...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Braun V,Richter HP

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft-versus-leukemia effect is an immune-mediated antitumor phenomenon associated with allogenic bone marrow transplants (BMTs) for hematological malignancies, and recent findings have indicated that a similar effect could occur in some solid tumors such as breast cancers. The authors report on a 42-year-old man with...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tanaka M,Shibui S,Kobayashi Y,Nomura K,Nakanishi Y

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The impact of FDA approval of flow-diversion technology for the treatment of supraclinoid internal carotid artery aneurysms and the publication of the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study, both of which occurred in 2011, on the utilization of extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypasses is not known. METHODS:The Na...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Alvi MA,Rinaldo L,Kerezoudis P,Rangel-Castilla L,Bydon M,Cloft H,Lanzino G

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intratumoral hemorrhage as the presenting symptom of spinal tumors is rare. The authors describe a patient who presented with rapidly progressing paraplegia 24 hours after sustaining a minor traumatic injury of the thoracic spine. Radiological evaluation demonstrated a low-thoracic intradural tumor that was resected a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cohen ZR,Knoller N,Hadani M,Davidson B,Nass D,Ram Z

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a prospective randomized study of the efficacy of steroid therapy in patients with severe head injury. One hundred patients were randomized into two equal groups: the steroid group received 5 mg/kg/day of methylprednisolone, and the nonsteroid group received no drug. The groups were similar in their clinical f...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Saul TG,Ducker TB,Salcman M,Carro E

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Functional neurosurgical interventions such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) are traditionally performed with the aid of a stereotactic frame. Although frameless techniques have been perceived as less accurate, data from a recent phantom study of a modified frameless approach demonstrated a laboratory accuracy ex...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Holloway KL,Gaede SE,Starr PA,Rosenow JM,Ramakrishnan V,Henderson JM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors assessed the efficacy and complications from gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS) for multiple sclerosis (MS)-associated trigeminal neuralgia (TN). METHODS:There were 15 patients with MS-associated TN (MS-TN). Treatment involved three sequential protocols, 70 to 90-Gy maximum dose, using a single 4-mm iso...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rogers CL,Shetter AG,Ponce FA,Fiedler JA,Smith KA,Speiser BL

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVEPituitary adenomas and the treatment required for the underlying neuropathology have frequently been associated with cognitive dysfunction. However, the mechanisms for these impairments remain the subject of much debate. The authors evaluated cognitive outcomes in patients treated with or without Gamma Knife ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tooze A,Sheehan JP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of regulating flow rate through cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunts with the addition of a flow-regulating device (FRD) is reported. The FRD consists of a small-caliber (0.4 mm) Teflon tube placed in the usual connector. This device has the advantage of converting the original shunt valves to valves for higher-r...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yamada H

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case of an intraneural ganglion cyst of the peroneal nerve. The cyst was diagnosed by means of ultrasound, which also gave an exact definition of its size and location, confirmed at operation. Some controversial aspects of these lesions are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Leijten FS,Arts WF,Puylaert JB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a frame with guides to facilitate accurate correlation of the planes of brain-specimen sections with computerized axial tomography brain scans. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Shipps FC,D'Agostino A,Raaf J

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intraoperative nerve action potential (NAP) recording is a useful tool for surgeons to guide decisions on surgical approaches during nerve repair surgeries. However, current methods remain technically challenging. In particular, stimulus artifacts that contaminate or mask the NAP and therefore impair the inte...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wu G,Belzberg A,Nance J,Gutierrez-Hernandez S,Ritzl EK,Ringkamp M

更新日期：2019-08-16 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：:The case is reported of a patient with progressive left hemiparesis due to vascular compression of the medulla oblongata. Metrizamide computerized tomography cisternography revealed that the left vertebral artery was compressing and distorting the left lateral surface of the medulla. Compression was surgically relieve...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kim P,Ishijima B,Takahashi H,Shimizu H,Yokochi M

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1925 and 1945, Walter Dandy and Kenneth McKenzie performed more than 700 posterior fossa eighth nerve sections and vestibular neurectomies to treat the intractable vertigo accompanying Ménière's disease. During the past 10 years, with the aid of microsurgical techniques and the approach to the posterior fossa ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Silverstein H,Norrell H,Rosenberg S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The cerebellomedullary fissure (CMF) is a space between the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata, which often adhere to each other. The purpose of the present study was to demonstrate the importance of the unilateral CMF dissection for clipping vertebral artery (VA)-posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) an...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kawashima M,Takase Y,Matsushima T

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Brain tissue acidosis is known to mediate neuronal death. Therefore the authors measured the main parameters of cerebral acid-base homeostasis, as well as their interrelations, shortly after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans. METHODS:Brain tissue pH, PCO2, PO2, and/or lactate were measured in 151 pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Clausen T,Khaldi A,Zauner A,Reinert M,Doppenberg E,Menzel M,Soukup J,Alves OL,Bullock MR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present an unusual case in which increased intracranial pressure developed because of multiple-suture craniosynostosis and megaloencephaly in a child with a previously undiagnosed lysosomal storage disease, alpha-D-mannosidase deficiency. This 3-year-old boy presented with a history of frequent naps, heada...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Grabb PA,Albright AL,Zitelli BJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head trauma, intracerebral hematoma formation, and hemorrhagic cerebral infarction cause extravasation of the intravascular contents, red blood cell (RBC) hemolysis, hemosiderin deposition within the neuropil, and an increased incidence of epilepsy. Reports conflict regarding the efficacy of the administration of prop...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Willmore LJ,Triggs WJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors have treated intractable pain, particularly cancer pain related to bone metastasis, with various protocols. Cancer pain has been treated by gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS), targeted to the pituitary gland-stalk, as an alternative new pain control method. The purpose of this study was to investigate a ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hayashi M,Taira T,Chernov M,Fukuoka S,Liscak R,Yu CP,Ho RT,Regis J,Katayama Y,Kawakami Y,Hori T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of Motor Index score, pinprick sensory score, joint position sense score, somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) grade in the ulnar (SSEPu) and posterior tibial (SSEPt) regions, and overall SSEP grade (mean SSEPu + t) was conducted in 36 patients with cervical spinal cord injuries to determine the relations...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Li C,Houlden DA,Rowed DW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on an unusual case of a primary intracranial myxoma in a 39-year-old woman. The patient presented with headache and generalized seizure. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large right frontal tumor resembling a parasagittal meningioma. A gross-total resection was performed, and histological revie...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Powers CJ,Pizzi CC,Cummings TJ,Friedman AH

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The posterior subthalamic area (PSA) is a promising target of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for medication-refractory essential tremor (ET). This case series describes a novel adverse effect manifesting as dystonic tics in patients with ET undergoing DBS of the PSA. METHODS Six patients with ET received elect...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chandran AS,Joshi S,Thorburn M,Stell R,Lind CR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00