Efficacy of chymopapain chemonucleolysis. A long-term review of 105 patients.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vision loss remains a debilitating complication of pituitary adenomas, although there is considerable variability in visual impairment before and after decompression surgery. Growing evidence suggests secondary damage to remote visual structures may contribute to vision loss in patients with chiasmatic compre...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rutland JW,Delman BN,Huang KH,Verma G,Benson NC,Villavisanis DF,Lin HM,Bederson JB,Chelnis J,Shrivastava RK,Balchandani P

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Preoperative anemia may be treated with a blood transfusion. Both are associated with adverse outcomes in various surgical procedures, but this has not been clearly elucidated in surgery for cerebral aneurysms. In this study the authors assessed the association of preoperative anemia and perioperative blood tran...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Seicean A,Alan N,Seicean S,Neuhauser D,Selman WR,Bambakidis NC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven patients with spasticity of spinal cord origin have been maintained for up to 2 years with continuous spinal intrathecal infusion of baclofen. Prior to treatment, all of the patients had severe rigidity in their lower limbs and most had frequent and extensive spontaneous spasms, all of which greatly interfered w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Penn RD,Kroin JS

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The management of massive brain swelling remains an unsolved problem in neurosurgery. Despite newly developed medical and pharmacological therapy, the rates of mortality and morbidity caused by massive brain swelling remain high. According to many recent reports, surgical decompression with dural expansion is su...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yoo DS,Kim DS,Cho KS,Huh PW,Park CK,Kang JK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial occurrence of follicular dendritic cell (FDC) sarcoma, a rare tumor derived from dendritic cells of the lymphoid follicle, has not yet been described. Therefore, the case of a 53-year-old man presenting with an intracranial mass invading the clivus is reported. The diagnosis of FDC sarcoma was confirmed b...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hasselblatt M,Sepehrnia A,von Falkenhausen M,Paulus W

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Due to the complex and variable nature of brachial plexus injury, outcome analysis can be cumbersome and imprecise. Many scales have been devised, but no single scale is used uniformly. Moreover, despite several studies in which the authors have reported brachial plexus surgical data, no highly predictive clinic...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ashley WW Jr,Baty JD,Hollander T,Noetzel MJ,Park TS

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:The authors describe a simple technique that reduces the incidence of retained ventricular catheters and minimizes the risk of life-threatening intraventricular hemorrhage during the removal of an obstructed, adherent ventricular catheter in patients with hydrocephalus. The technique requires no special equipment and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Whitfield PC,Guazzo EP,Pickard JD

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Seizures are a potentially devastating complication of resection of brain tumors. Consequently, many neurosurgeons administer prophylactic antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the perioperative period. However, it is currently unclear whether perioperative AEDs should be routinely administered to patients with brain tu...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wu AS,Trinh VT,Suki D,Graham S,Forman A,Weinberg JS,McCutcheon IE,Prabhu SS,Heimberger AB,Sawaya R,Wang X,Qiao W,Hess K,Lang FF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous undescribed cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction is presented. Limitation of abdominal excursion by a spica cast used to correct congenital hip dislocation reduced cerebrospinal fluid flow through a shunt. This easily correctable cause of "shunt failure" nearly resulted in replacement of a workin...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gerber AM

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Reconstruction after anterior cervical decompression has involved the use of tricortical iliac crest bone or fibular strut grafts, but has been associated with significant morbidity. In this study the authors evaluated the efficacy of titanium mesh cages (TMCs) for stability and fusion following anterior cervica...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Narotam PK,Pauley SM,McGinn GJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the clinical behavior of eight patients with cerebral astrocytomas, in whom computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the brain was characterized by diffuse bilateral cerebral hemisphere tissue density abnormalities and minimal focal mass effect. Five patients were newly d...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rogers LR,Weinstein MA,Estes ML,Cairncross JG,Strachan T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The formation of cerebral aneurysms involves complex processes and little is known about the mechanisms by which they originate, grow, and rupture. The purpose of this study was to identify early ultrastructural morphological changes that lead to the formation of experimental cerebral aneurysms. METHODS:Twenty ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Jamous MA,Nagahiro S,Kitazato KT,Satoh K,Satomi J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors studied the microsurgical anatomy of the ophthalmic artery (OphA), paying particular attention to its possibly dangerous anastomoses with the middle meningeal artery (MMA). METHODS:The microsurgical anatomy of the OphA and its anastomoses with the MMA were studied in 14 vessels from seven adult cada...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Perrini P,Cardia A,Fraser K,Lanzino G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review was undertaken to determine the efficacy of using dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) lesions to treat intractable pain caused by trauma to the conus medullaris and cauda equina. Traumatic lesions of this area are unique in that both the spinal cord and the peripheral nerve roots are injured. Although DREZ lesio...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sampson JH,Cashman RE,Nashold BS Jr,Friedman AH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consecutive series of 32 adult patients with chronic subdural hematoma was studied in respect to postoperative cerebral reexpansion (reduction in diameter of the subdural space) after burr-hole craniostomy and closed-system drainage. Patients with high subdural pressure showed the most rapid brain expansion and clin...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Markwalder TM,Steinsiepe KF,Rohner M,Reichenbach W,Markwalder H

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Clinical results of an extra-intracranial arterial bypass (EIAB) procedure for cerebral ischemia are assessed in 65 patients. The 5-year-study suggests that the EIAB procedure has a protective effect against further clinically significant cerebrovascular accidents in properly selected patients. Correlation with angiog...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gratzl O,Schmiedek P,Spetzler R,Steinhoff H,Marguth F

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term outcome achieved after repeat Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) using a uniform treatment plan. METHODS:Between 1985 and 2010, 53 patients underwent repeat GKS for refractory TN. In the initial GKS, which involved targeting the root ent...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kimball BY,Sorenson JM,Cunningham D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Application of sensitive infrared imaging is ideally suited to observe blood vessels and blood flow in exposed organs, including the brain. Temporary vascular occlusion is an important part of neurosurgery, but the capacity to monitor the effects of these occlusions in real time is limited. In surgical procedure...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Watson JC,Gorbach AM,Pluta RM,Rak R,Heiss JD,Oldfield EH

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Despite the controversy over the clinical significance of Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) for refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), the modality has attracted attention because it is less invasive than resection. The authors report long-term outcomes for 7 patients, focusing in particular on the long-term c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Usami K,Kawai K,Koga T,Shin M,Kurita H,Suzuki I,Saito N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Nuclear receptor corepressor (N-CoR) forms a complex that maintains neural stem cells in an undifferentiated state through transcriptional repression. Recently, it has been shown that N-CoR is overexpressed in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tumor stem cells and has a putative role in maintaining these cells in an...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lu J,Zhuang Z,Song DK,Mehta GU,Ikejiri B,Mushlin H,Park DM,Lonser RR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The objectives of this study were to: 1) describe the incidence and clinical features of intravertebral vacuum phenomenon (IVVP) in a relatively large number of cases; 2) quantitatively evaluate intravertebral instability and determine the factors affecting instability; and 3) evaluate the efficacy of percutaneo...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kim DY,Lee SH,Jang JS,Chung SK,Lee HY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A micro-corrosion technique was used to demonstrate an extensive vasa vasorum network in extracranial vessels but did not reveal this system in intracranial vessels of comparable size in three species of animals. The absence of a vasa vasorum network in cerebral vessels may result in a higher level of susceptibility t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Clower BR,Sullivan DM,Smith RR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors describe their initial results obtained using a skull-mounted trajectory guide for intraoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-guided brain biopsy sampling. The device was used in conjunction with a new methodology known as prospective stereotaxis for surgical trajectory alignment. METHODS:Betwee...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hall WA,Liu H,Martin AJ,Maxwell RE,Truwit CL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors sought to confirm that the combined supra/infratentorial-transsinus approach offers a safer means of resecting large pineal region tumors than other approaches currently being used. The aforementioned method provides a wider exposure of the pineal region with less brain retraction than the infratento...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ziyal IM,Sekhar LN,Salas E,Olan WJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The goal of this study was to find which central nervous system (CNS) pathways are involved in volitional control over reinnervated biceps or pectoral muscles. METHODS:Intercostal nerves (ICNs) were coapted to the musculocutaneous nerve (MCN) or the medial pectoral nerve (MPN) in 23 patients with root avulsions...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Malessy MJ,Thomeer RT,van Dijk JG

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathology of hematomyelia was examined in 35 rats following the stereotactic injection of 2 microliters blood into the dorsal columns of the thoracic spinal cord. This experimental model produced a small ball-hemorrhage without associated neurological deficits or significant tissue injury. Histological sections of...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Milhorat TH,Adler DE,Heger IM,Miller JI,Hollenberg-Sher JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old man, who had previously had a left atrial myxoma excised, developed recurrent hematomas of the left occipital lobe. Microscopic examination revealed the presence of metastatic myxoma. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ng HK,Poon WS

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental contusion paraplegic injury to the posterior spinal cord in cats results in a sudden increase of systemic blood pressure to between 200 and 250 mm Hg, and an increase in pulse pressure and a slowing of pulse rate. This initial hypertensive phase lasts approximately 3 to 4 minutes, and then is followed by ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rawe SE,Perot PL Jr

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00