Neurocutaneous melanosis with extensive intracerebral and spinal cord involvement. Report of two cases.

abstract：:In this paper the authors trace the history of early craniometry, referring to the technique of obtaining cranial measurements for the accurate correlation of external skull landmarks to specific brain regions. Largely drawing on methods from the newly emerging fields of physical anthropology and phrenology in the lat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Serletis D,Pait TG

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors retrospectively reviewed 121 patients with traumatic cervical spine injuries to determine the risk of neurological deterioration following early closed reduction. METHODS:After excluding minor fractures and injuries without subluxation, the medical records and imaging studies (computerized tomograph...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Grant GA,Mirza SK,Chapman JR,Winn HR,Newell DW,Jones DT,Grady MS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Neurogenesis, which is upregulated by neural injury in the adult mammalian brain, may be involved in the repair of the injured brain and functional recovery. Therefore, the authors sought to identify agents that can enhance neurogenesis after brain injury, and they report that (Z)-1-[N-(2-aminoethyl)-N-(2-ammoni...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lu D,Mahmood A,Zhang R,Copp M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The vascular lumen of an acutely occluded internal carotid artery (ICA) generally contains numerous thrombi. Therefore, carotid angiography on the affected side during revascularization therapy of acute ICA occlusion has a potential risk of causing distal embolization. In this study the authors propose the u...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tsuji K,Nakagawa N,Fukawa N,Miyauchi M,Furukawa K,Nakanishi K,Nakano N,Kataoka K,Kato A

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：OBJECT:The reduction in the level of nitric oxide (NO) is a purported mechanism of delayed vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Evidence in support of a causative role for NO includes the disappearance of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) from the adventitia of vessels in spasm, the destruction of NO by hemoglobin ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Pluta RM,Afshar JK,Thompson BG,Boock RJ,Harvey-White J,Oldfield EH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to determine the predictors of late neurological and hospital-acquired medical complications (HACs) in patients with low-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). METHODS:The authors conducted a retrospective study of 424 patients with low-grade aSAH admitted to their institution fr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mouchtouris N,Lang MJ,Barkley K,Barros G,Turpin J,Sweid A,Starke RM,Chalouhi N,Jabbour P,Rosenwasser RH,Tjoumakaris S

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This 32-year-old man had noticed right leg pain for 4 years and developed classic right sciatica after heavy lifting, followed by episodes of buckling of both legs 1 month prior to admission. His medical history included congenital left abducens palsy. Examination revealed a right Lasègue's sign and Fajersztajn's sign...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Holtzman RN,Jormark SC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors of this retrospective review and analysis of the literature cover an institutional series of neurenteric cysts of the central nervous system in children treated in the magnetic resonance imaging era during a 14-year period. METHODS:Sixteen patients 20 days to 14 years of age are described. The most ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： de Oliveira RS,Cinalli G,Roujeau T,Sainte-Rose C,Pierre-Kahn A,Zerah M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During craniotomy for supratentorial intraparenchymal space-occupying lesions, with the patient either under general anesthesia or awake, a smaller durotomy designed to expose only the region of resection may be desirable because of brain swelling. Similarly, during repeat craniotomy or craniotomy following cerebral i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Silbergeld DL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraaxial cavernous hemangiomas are rare intracranial lesions that can be located in different cranial compartments. Extension across different tissue planes such as the subcutaneous tissue, skull, orbital cavity, intracranial dura mater, and extracranial trigeminal divisions within the same patient has not been prev...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Puca A,Colosimo C,Tirpakova B,Lauriola L,Di Rocco F

更新日期：2004-12-01 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:Cochlear neurons are inevitably exposed to traumatic stress during surgical removal of an acoustic neuroma; that event is an important cause of postoperative cochlear neuronal degeneration, with subsequent loss of spiral ganglion cells (SGCs). The object of this study was to investigate whether preoperative phar...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sekiya T,Shimamura N,Hatayama T,Suzuki S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual instance of severe and potentially lethal depression of the bone marrow is described as a result of the administration of phenytoin for seizure prophylaxis. The patient was treated successfully by prompt cessation of phenytoin and intravenous administration of human recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rawanduzy A,Sarkis A,Rovit RL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fissure separating the motor from the sensory cortex and the substantia gelatinosa capping the posterior horn of the spinal cord are still known by the name of the Italian anatomist Rolando, Luigi Rolando was born in Turin, Italy, in 1773 and died in 1831. His life was not easy, the first of his problems being the...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Caputi F,Spaziante R,de Divitiis E,Nashold BS Jr

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Experience with intraarterial abciximab for the treatment of thromboembolism during endovascular coil embolization is limited. The authors report the outcome of intraarterial abciximab use, with an emphasis on fatal hemorrhagic complications. METHODS:Between March 2003 and May 2006, the authors treated 606 aneu...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Park JH,Kim JE,Sheen SH,Jung CK,Kwon BJ,Kwon OK,Oh CW,Han MH,Han DH

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) often present with impaired gait and cognition together with ventricular enlargement and normal intracranial pressure. Many have vascular risk factors as well as periventricular and deep white matter changes on MR imaging. Abnormal CSF dynamics, that ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tisell M,Tullberg M,Hellström P,Edsbagge M,Högfeldt M,Wikkelsö C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tumor proximity to the ventricle and ventricular entry (VE) during surgery have both been associated with worse prognoses; however, the interaction between these two factors is poorly understood. Given the benefit of maximal tumor resection, it is imperative for surgical planning and technique to know if VE h...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Young JS,Gogos AJ,Pereira MP,Morshed RA,Li J,Barkovich MJ,Hervey-Jumper SL,Berger MS

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A case involving the absence of the midthird portion of the basilar artery (BA) associated with a ruptured fusiform aneurysm of the superior third of the basilar artery discovered after a subarachnoid hemorrhage is reported. Surgical clipping was precluded by the anatomical conditions. The aneurysm was treated by occl...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ricolfi F,Decq P,Brugieres P,Blustajn J,Melon E,Gaston A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric expenditure and nitrogen balance were measured in 14 steroid-treated comatose head-injured patients acutely and up to 28 days after injury. During this period patients were fed with a continuous enteral infusion of a formula containing 2 Kcal/cc and 10 gm nitrogen/liter. Indirect calorimetry was carried out fo...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Clifton GL,Robertson CS,Grossman RG,Hodge S,Foltz R,Garza C

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of moderate hyperventilation on intracranial pressure (ICP), jugular venous oxygen saturation ([SjvO2], an index of global cerebral perfusion), and brain tissue PO2 (an index of local cerebral perfusion). METHODS:Ninety-four tests consisting of 20-minute peri...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Imberti R,Bellinzona G,Langer M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Perioperative visual loss (POVL) is a rare but serious complication in surgical disciplines, especially in spine surgery. The exact pathophysiology of POVL remains unclear, but elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is known to be part of it. As POVL is rarely described in patients undergoing intracranial or int...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Czorlich P,Krätzig T,Kluge N,Skevas C,Knospe V,Spitzer MS,Dreimann M,Mende KC,Westphal M,Eicker SO

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In preparing this paper, the authors reviewed their experiences with four cases of T1-2 disc herniation as well as the medical literature on the subject. Intervertebral thoracic disc herniations are uncommon and high thoracic disc herniations are rare. In the upper third of the thoracic spine, T1-2 is the most common ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Morgan H,Abood C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is characterized by involuntary tonic and/or clonic contractions of facial nerve muscles. Fully endoscopic microvascular decompression (E-MVD) for HFS has not been widely adopted. This paper aims to illustrate the safety and efficacy of the fully endoscopic technique for HFS treatment. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Flanders TM,Blue R,Roberts S,McShane BJ,Wilent B,Tambi V,Petrov D,Lee JYK

更新日期：2018-10-05 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：:One hundred and eighty-one patients with single aneurysms involving the anterior circulation were treated either by wrapping (60 cases) or clipping (121 cases), and 96.1% of them were followed for 10 years. The rate of early rebleeding (less than 6 months) from wrapped aneurysms was 8.6% (confidence interval 1.4% to 1...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Todd NV,Tocher JL,Jones PA,Miller JD

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:The treatment of the syndrome of chronic inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (ADH) secretion by fluid restriction is often attended by poor patient compliance. The following case report illustrates successful management of this condition by oral demeclocycline therapy in a patient who had hyponatremia in association wi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Graze K,Molitch ME,Post K

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphomatoid granulomatosis is of uncertain etiology and poses problems with diagnosis and treatment. A case with involvement of the right temporal lobe, but associated with cystoid macular edema of the retina, is described. The unusual mode of presentation, the radiographic, operative, and pathological findings, the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kerr RS,Hughes JT,Blamires T,Teddy PJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00