High cervical spinal cord compression by an enterogenous cyst. Case report.

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：:A 54-year-old man experienced a right occipital headache accompanied by a roaring sound, nausea, vomiting, right facial weakness, and stiff neck. Vertebral angiography revealed an aneurysm of the right anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) at the internal acoustic meatus which was later excised with favorable res...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Johnson JH Jr,Kline DG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Surgeries for CNS tumors are frequently performed by general neurosurgeons and by those who specialize in surgical neurooncology. Subspecialization in neurosurgical practice has become common and may improve patient morbidity and mortality rates. However, the potential benefits for patients of having their surge...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Khan UA,Bhavsar A,Asif H,Karabatsou K,Leggate JR,Sofat A,Kamaly-Asl ID

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described in which spinal fracture repositioning, decompression, and stabilization are achieved by a combination of hook-rod and pedicle screw fixation. This straightforward technique is useful for performing acute decompression in patients with partial neurological deficits and multisystem injuries. A ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Stancić MF,Mićović V,Potocnjak M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) is widely recognized as an effective, minimally invasive treatment for intractable trigeminal neuralgia, but the role of GKS in glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) remains unclear. This study involved 2 patients with medically intractable GPN who were treated using GKS. One patient required 2 tr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yomo S,Arkha Y,Donnet A,Régis J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) and aneurysms is well documented in the literature. However, a specific type of aneurysm, termed a "pedicle" aneurysm, has received little attention despite its role as a primary source of hemorrhage. The authors report four recent cases of patients with cere...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Perata HJ,Tomsick TA,Tew JM Jr

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:Thirty-eight patients underwent transsphenoidal microsurgical treatment of non-neoplastic intrasellar cysts: 36 had cyst drainage and biopsy of the cyst wall, and in two the cyst was totally removed. Surgical morbidity was 8%. The mean follow-up time was 46.3 months; 100% patient follow-up evaluation was achieved. Six...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Baskin DS,Wilson CB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a commonly employed treatment modality for brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). However, due to the low frequency of delayed cyst formation after AVM SRS, as well as the prolonged time interval between treatment and its occurrence, the characteristics of post-SRS cyst f...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Pomeraniec IJ,Ding D,Starke RM,Liu KC,Mrachek EK,Lopes MB,Sheehan JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Delayed cerebral ischemia is a major cause of morbidity and death following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and requires timely intervention for a successful outcome to be achieved. In this study the investigators compared the commonly used Fisher scale with 2 newer radiographic scales for the prediction of v...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kramer AH,Hehir M,Nathan B,Gress D,Dumont AS,Kassell NF,Bleck TP

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of several calmodulin antagonists, such as N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-naphthalene-sulfonamide hydrochloride (W-7) and its dechlorinated structural analogue (W-5), on the growth and proliferation of cultured and transplanted glioma (GA-1, chemically induced from rat glioblasts) were evaluated. Under cultur...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Suzuki N,Kanno T,Nagata Y,Kato T

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although they are excellent clinical tools, Caspar anterior cervical plates have not been studied closely with regard to their mechanisms of failure. As more extensive operations are contemplated on older, sicker patients, it is imperative to know when a plating system might be prone to failure and what the mechanism ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Paramore CG,Dickman CA,Sonntag VK

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper ventricular catheter placements are associated with improved shunt performance. When placing ventricular catheters via the posterior approach, the surgeon must determine an optimum trajectory and then pass a catheter along that trajectory. The incidence of optimal posterior catheter placements is increased by u...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Garell PC,Mirsky R,Noh MD,Loftus CM,Hitchon PW,Grady MS,Dacey RG,Howard MA 3rd

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical records and histological specimens from 26 patients with choroid plexus papillomas operated on at one institution were reviewed retrospectively. Four patients died perioperatively, and 21 of the remaining 22 patients were followed through March, 1986; the patient lost to follow-up review was last seen 14 y...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： McGirr SJ,Ebersold MJ,Scheithauer BW,Quast LM,Shaw EG

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through the combined efforts of neurosurgeons, head and neck surgeons, and craniofacial surgeons, the standard transbasal approach to the frontal fossa has been modified to include removal of the orbital roofs, nasion, and ethmoid sinuses. This approach has been combined further with facial disassembly procedures to p...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Spetzler RF,Herman JM,Beals S,Joganic E,Milligan J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Endoscopic surgery is an effective treatment strategy for pituitary adenomas; however, intrinsic tumor properties such as tumor consistency can challenge or preclude gross-total resection. Preoperative characterization of tumor consistency may help to guide the surgical approach and to predict the extent of r...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rutland JW,Loewenstern J,Ranti D,Tsankova NM,Bellaire CP,Bederson JB,Delman BN,Shrivastava RK,Balchandani P

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Aneurysm recurrence after coil therapy remains a major shortcoming in the endovascular management of cerebral aneurysms. The need for long-term imaging follow-up was recently investigated. This study assessed the diagnostic yield of long-term digital subtraction angiography (DSA) follow-up and determined predict...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chalouhi N,Bovenzi CD,Thakkar V,Dressler J,Jabbour P,Starke RM,Teufack S,Gonzalez LF,Dalyai R,Dumont AS,Rosenwasser R,Tjoumakaris S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic radiosurgery emerged as a neurosurgical discipline in order to utilize energy for the manipulation of brain or nerve tissue, with the goal of minimal access and safe and effective care of a spectrum of neurosurgical disorders. Perhaps no other branch of neurosurgery has been so disruptive across the entir...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kondziolka D

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the risk of bleeding from unruptured cerebral aneurysms (UCAs), previous studies have used Kaplan-Meier analyses without treating the definitive treatment as a competing risk event, which may underestimate the rupture rate. The authors analyzed the survival of patients with UCAs alongside the o...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kimura T,Ochiai C,Kawai K,Morita A,Saito N

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of gamma knife surgery (GKS) for the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) involving the corpus callosum. METHODS:Thirty-two patients aged from 7 to 65 years (median 25 years) with AVMs of the corpus callosum underwent GKS between 1990 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Maruyama K,Shin M,Tago M,Kurita H,Kawamoto S,Morita A,Kirino T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the histological appearance and proliferation potential of 35 meningiomas in patients with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) and 30 sporadic meningiomas in age- and gender-matched patients without NF2. The NF2 meningiomas showed more mitotic figures (p < 0.001) and nuclear pleomorphism (p = 0.003) than th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Antinheimo J,Haapasalo H,Haltia M,Tatagiba M,Thomas S,Brandis A,Sainio M,Carpen O,Samii M,Jääskeläinen J

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Initial attempts at transcranial approaches to the pituitary gland in the late 1800s and early 1900s resulted in a mortality rate that was generally considered prohibitive. Schloffer suggested the use of a transsphenoidal route as a safer, alternative approach to the sella turcica. He reported the first successful rem...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Liu JK,Das K,Weiss MH,Laws ER Jr,Couldwell WT

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pressure-volume index (PVI) was measured in six adult cats while cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) was reduced from normal levels to below the autoregulatory range by a continuous infusion of adenosine triphosphate. Anesthesia was induced with methohexital and maintained with an N2O:O2 (70%:30%) mixture. Body temp...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gray WJ,Rosner MJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Transorbital penetrating injury (TPI), an uncommon subset of head trauma, requires prompt multidisciplinary surgical intervention. While numerous case reports appear in the literature, there is a lack of discrete recommendations for initial evaluation, surgical intervention, and postoperative care of patients with TPI...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Schreckinger M,Orringer D,Thompson BG,La Marca F,Sagher O

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The literature on abdominal and general surgery-related complications following anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) is scant. In this retrospective review of 60 patients in whom ALIF was performed at their institutions between 1996 and 1998, the authors detail the associated complications and their correlati...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rajaraman V,Vingan R,Roth P,Heary RF,Conklin L,Jacobs GB

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique of "frameless" stereotaxy that allows real-time intraoperative neurosurgical localization is described. The system is composed of four components: a hand-held probe containing two ultrasonic emitters, a microphone array that is rigidly affixed to the operating table in proximity to the surgical field, hard...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Barnett GH,Kormos DW,Steiner CP,Weisenberger J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized postoperative trial, adjuvant post-irradiation chemotherapy, consisting of nitrogen mustard, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP), was tested versus radiation therapy alone for newly diagnosed medulloblastoma in patients between 1 and 21 years of age. Patients treated with irradiation plus ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Krischer JP,Ragab AH,Kun L,Kim TH,Laurent JP,Boyett JM,Cornell CJ,Link M,Luthy AR,Camitta B

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00