Residency training in neurological surgery, 1934-1984: evolution over 50 years of trial and tribulation. The 1984 AANS presidential address.

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to compare designed scaffolds with a random-pored sponge scaffold to determine what role scaffold architecture plays in a cortical injury model. METHODS:Cylindrical scaffolds (3x3 mm) were made of a poly-(epsilon-caprolactone) polymer with 2 different molds from a 3D printer and had ei...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wong DY,Krebsbach PH,Hollister SJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:In an attempt to improve peripheral nerve repair, the influence of the addition of reverse end-to-side neurorrhaphy for an injured peripheral nerve was investigated in the rat sciatic nerve transection model. METHODS:Twelve Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into two groups (six rats in each group). In Group I, t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fujiwara T,Matsuda K,Kubo T,Tomita K,Hattori R,Masuoka T,Yano K,Hosokawa K

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:In this paper, the authors' goal was to compare the artifact induced by implanted (in vivo) adjustable shunt valves in spin echo, diffusion weighted (DW), and gradient echo MR imaging pulse sequences. METHODS:The MR images obtained in 8 patients with proGAV and 6 patients with Strata II adjustable shunt valves ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Toma AK,Tarnaris A,Grieve JP,Watkins LD,Kitchen ND

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excision of human cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) can be complicated by postoperative edema and hemorrhage in adjacent brain tissue, despite the complete excision of the malformation. Various theories have purported to explain the hemodynamic basis for this predisposition, including disordered autoregulati...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sekhon LH,Morgan MK,Spence I

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The angles of arterial bifurcations are governed by principles of work minimization (optimality principle). This determines the relationship between the angle of a bifurcation and the radii of the vessels. Nevertheless, the model is predicated on an absence of significant communication between these branches. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ingebrigtsen T,Morgan MK,Faulder K,Ingebrigtsen L,Sparr T,Schirmer H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior condylar confluence (ACC) is located on the external orifice of the canal of the hypoglossal nerve and provides multiple connections with the dural venous sinuses of the posterior fossa, internal jugular vein, and the vertebral venous plexus. Dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) of the ACC and hypoglossal...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Liu JK,Mahaney K,Barnwell SL,McMenomey SO,Delashaw JB Jr

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case of a 68-year-old man who experienced acute obstructive hydrocephalus after having suffered an infarction in the occipital lobe. Histopathological and serial neuroimaging examinations revealed that portions of a large disintegrating occipital infarct had entered the lateral ventricle and ob...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nakaguchi H,Miyamoto M

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：: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

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Chronic neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury is a major clinical problem. Its management is difficult, and therapeutic approaches vary and include oral medication, neurostimulation, and surgery. The aim of this study was to assess the adequacy of surgical nerve revision in a large series of patient...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Decrouy-Duruz V,Christen T,Raffoul W

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of elevated (> or = 75%) jugular venous oxygen saturation (SjvO2) and its relationship to cerebral hemodynamic and metabolic parameters and to outcome after severe head injury. METHODS:Data from 450 severely head injured patients admitted to the Neurosurgic...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cormio M,Valadka AB,Robertson CS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of magnetic resonance (MR) images obtained in 289 neurosurgical patients, loss of signal intensity (signal-void phenomenon, SVP) of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the mesencephalic aqueduct was observed in 77 patients. This SVP was noted in the MR studies of 12 of 14 patients with communicat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ohara S,Nagai H,Matsumoto T,Banno T

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal epidural hematomas (SEHs) are uncommon complications of traumatic injury to the spine. Emergency surgical evacuation is the standard treatment. Although it is recognized in the literature, the possibility of nonsurgical treatment of traumatic SEH is far from being codified. The authors report excellent outcomes...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： La Rosa G,d'Avella D,Conti A,Cardali S,La Torre D,Cacciola F,Longo M,Tomasello F

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Chordomas have a high propensity for local recurrence and progression, as well as for systemic and cerebrospinal fluid metastasis. The authors identified and analyzed a series of patients with chordomas, focusing on an underrecognized pathological entity-surgical seeding of tumor cells. METHODS:In a retrospecti...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Arnautović KI,Al-Mefty O

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：OBJECT:Intrasylvian hematoma (ISH) is a subtype of intracranial hematoma caused by aneurysmal rupture and often presents with a poor initial neurological grade; it is not well studied. The aim of this study was to elucidate outcomes of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with ISH. METHODS:Data for 97 patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fukuda H,Hayashi K,Moriya T,Nakashita S,Lo BW,Yamagata S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the first documented case of transplacental transmission of metastatic melanoma to the neuraxis. The patient was a 7-month-old boy who presented with signs and symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an inhomogeneously enhancing posterior fossa mass measurin...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Trumble ER,Smith RM,Pearl G,Wall J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the trial discontinuation and publication rate of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in neurosurgery. METHODS Trials registered from 2000 to 2012 were identified on the website clinicaltrials.gov using a range of key words related to neurosurgery. Any trials that were actively ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Jamjoom AAB,Gane AB,Demetriades AK

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Ascites and abdominal pseudocysts are two complications that can occur following placement of a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt. Although various factors have been implicated, the exact pathogenesis of the two conditions remains elusive. To the authors' knowledge, there are no studies in which these two obviousl...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kariyattil R,Steinbok P,Singhal A,Cochrane DD

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the level of patient satisfaction and approach-related patient complaints between a superciliary keyhole approach and a pterional approach. METHODS Patients who underwent an ipsilateral superciliary keyhole approach and a contralateral pterional approac...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Park J,Son W,Kwak Y,Ohk B

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A blinded evaluation of the effects of subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation was performed in levodopa-intolerant patients with Parkinson disease (PD). These patients (Group I, seven patients) were moderately or severely disabled (Hoehn and Yahr Stages III-V during the off period), but were receiving only a smal...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Katayama Y,Kasai M,Oshima H,Fukaya C,Yamamoto T,Ogawa K,Mizutani T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVEThe purpose of this study was to analyze national trends in adult cranial cases performed by neurological surgery residents as logged into the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) system.METHODSThe ACGME resident case logs were retrospectively reviewed for the years 2009-2017. In these...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Agarwal N,White MD,Cohen J,Lunsford LD,Hamilton DK

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old man presented with a history of recurrent meningitis secondary to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea. The patient had bilateral optic disc dysplasia in association with a basal encephalocele, but had no midline facial anomalies. The syndrome is rare, and this is the first report of a patient with this ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bullard DE,Crockard HA,McDonald WI

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Results of radial nerve grafting are largely unknown for lesions of the radial nerve that occur proximal to the humerus, including those within the posterior cord. METHODS The authors describe 13 patients with proximal radial nerve injuries who were surgically treated and then followed for at least 24 months...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bertelli JA,Ghizoni MF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few neurosurgeons have stressed the occurrence, manifestations, and resectability of intramedullary spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVM's). In six of 17 patients in the authors' series of operable spinal AVM's, the lesions had major intramedullary components. Three of these six patients presented with subarachnoid...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cogen P,Stein BM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional blood-to-tissue transport, expressed as a unidirectional transfer rate constant (K), was measured in experimental RT-9 brain tumors using 14C-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) and quantitative autoradiographic techniques. The magnitude of K depends on the permeability, surface area, and blood flow of the tissu...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Molnar P,Blasberg RG,Horowitz M,Smith B,Fenstermacher J

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl was referred for evaluation of the deceleration in her rate of linear growth, an arrest in the progression of her pubertal maturation, and bifrontal headaches. Detailed endocrinological and radiological studies revealed the following abnormalities: partial growth hormone deficiency, prepubertal lute...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Dempsey RJ,Chandler WF,Sauder SE

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the first DNA-based diagnosis of Bartonella henselae cultured from a brain lesion in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. This human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient presented with altered mental status, fever, and diabetes insipidus. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed multifo...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： George TI,Manley G,Koehler JE,Hung VS,McDermott M,Bollen A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Skull base chondrosarcoma is one of the most intractable tumors because of its aggressive biological behavior and involvement of the internal carotid artery and cranial nerves (CNs). One of the most accepted treatment strategies for skull base chondrosarcoma has been surgical removal of the tumor in conjunct...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hasegawa H,Shin M,Kondo K,Hanakita S,Mukasa A,Kin T,Saito N

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articular cysts of the atlantoaxial joint are infrequently described and probably an underreported cause of upper cervical spinal cord compression. The authors report on two patients with cysts located posteriorly of the dens in whom a C-1 and partial C-2 hemilaminectomy with subtotal resection of the cyst provided ad...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zorzon M,Skrap M,Diodato S,Nasuelli D,Lucci B

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00