Usefulness of contralateral carotid angiography in revascularization therapy of acute internal carotid artery occlusion.

abstract：OBJECT:Resection of cancer and the involved artery in the neck has been applied with some success, but the indications for such an aggressive approach at the skull base are less well defined. The authors therefore evaluated the outcomes of advanced skull base malignancies in patients who were treated with bypass and re...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kalani MY,Kalb S,Martirosyan NL,Lettieri SC,Spetzler RF,Porter RW,Feiz-Erfan I

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of his exceptional and pioneering contributions to the understanding and treatment of neurosurgical conditions, Walter Dandy is considered to be one of the founders of both neurosurgery and neuroradiology. In the field of hydrocephalus, Dandy developed revolutionary research models, imaging modalities, and ope...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Blitz AM,Ahmed AK,Rigamonti D

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Ommaya reservoirs are used primarily for the repeated injection of intrathecal chemotherapy for leptomeningeal metastasis from hematopoietic and solid malignancies. Insertion of this device in a relatively large nondisplaced ventricle is not a difficult task, but challenges arise when the ventricle is small and/or dis...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Al-Anazi A,Bernstein M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Several older studies report a low risk for parenchymal access to the CNS by surgical techniques. In more recent studies, including those with post-puncture CT scans, there are indications that the risk of bleeding might approach 8%. New therapies, such as those that use viral vectors, modified mRNA, or cell...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lundberg J,Johansson CB,Jonsson S,Holmin S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with chronic spinal subdural hematomas are described. Both had a fluctuating clinical course, not previously documented in the literature. Surgical evacuation resulted in almost complete recovery. The pathogenesis of spinal subdural hematoma is discussed and the pertinent literature is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Khosla VK,Kak VK,Mathuriya SN

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common and disabling psychiatric illness, and in a significant proportion of patients with OCD the disease is refractory to conventional pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. For more than half a century, patients with severe, treatment-resistant OCD have been treated with s...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sheth SA,Neal J,Tangherlini F,Mian MK,Gentil A,Cosgrove GR,Eskandar EN,Dougherty DD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective sacral neurectomy was performed in 12 patients with intractable urge incontinence of long duration (mean 12 years) caused by detrusor hyperreflexia. There was great variation in the innervation of the bladder, but resection of an S-3 root or rootlet was carried out in all patients. Six of the patients, who w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tørring J,Petersen T,Klemar B,Søgaard I

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the rare case of a myxoma, a benign soft-tissue tumor of mesenchymal origin noted for occurring in the left atrium of the heart, which was found in the lumbar paraspinal muscles of an 80-year-old woman. This patient experienced low-back pain for over 20 years and had noted its increasing severity w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Guppy KH,Wagner F,Tawk R,Gallagher L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Although the spontaneous occurrence of an unruptured vertebral artery (VA) dissection has increasingly been recognized as a relatively common cause of stroke, and the clinical aspects of this lesion have gradually been determined, its natural course remains obscure. The main goal of this study was to clarify the...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nakagawa K,Touho H,Morisako T,Osaka Y,Tatsuzawa K,Nakae H,Owada K,Matsuda K,Karasawa J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequential changes in microvascular architecture following local cold injury in rat brains were studied post mortem by scanning electron microscopy and the vascular casting method. The findings were compared with the results of immunohistochemical studies of injured endothelial cells using the bromodeoxyuridine (B...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Orita T,Nishizaki T,Kamiryo T,Harada K,Aoki H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infections with organisms resistant to multiple antibiotic agents represent an evolving challenge in the intensive care setting, particularly in patients requiring surgical diversion of cerebrospinal fluid. The authors present the case of a 51-year-old woman who endured protracted hospitalization and requir...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gump WC,Walsh JW

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Neuronal injury remains a leading cause of morbidity in both neonates and adults with injuries induced by intracranial hemorrhage, ischemia-reperfusion, and excitotoxicity. To date, a number of neuroprotective strategies have been evaluated, but they have shown little benefit. Poloxamer 188 (P-188), a membrane-a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cadichon SB,Le Hoang M,Wright DA,Curry DJ,Kang U,Frim DM

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：OBJECT:The authors report a simple method for bilateral open-door cervical expansive laminoplasty in which hydroxyapatite (HA) spacers are secured by titanium screws. A biomechanical study was also conducted to confirm the strength of the screw fixation. METHODS:A unilateral posterior approach was used to allow preser...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Takayasu M,Takagi T,Nishizawa T,Osuka K,Nakajima T,Yoshida J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Disturbance of cerebral phosphorus-containing metabolites occurs in many disease entities and has not been widely studied in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Pilot studies have indicated that hypermagnesemic treatment may improve outcome in patients with aneurysmal SAH, but the precise mechanism is n...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wong GK,Yeung DK,Ahuja AT,King AD,Lam CW,Chan MT,Gin T,Poon WS

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:The current state of surgery for vestibular schwannomas (VSs) is the result of a century of step-by-step technical progress by groundbreaking surgeons who transformed the procedure from its hazardous infancy and high mortality rate to its current state of safety and low morbidity rate. Harvey Cushing advocated bilater...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Akard W,Tubbs RS,Seymour ZA,Hitselberger WE,Cohen-Gadol AA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of reports have shown that epidural or intrathecal administration of morphine provides pain relief. Since February, 1981, the authors have used an implantable pump and epidural catheter for continuous epidural morphine infusion in patients with chronic pain. This system has functioned well, without respirator...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Harbaugh RE,Coombs DW,Saunders RL,Gaylor M,Pageau M

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lower brainstem and cervical spinal cord from an ordinarily treated case of Chiari Type I hindbrain hernia associated with syringomyelia was examined using high-resolution magnetic resonance microscopy and standard neuropathological techniques. Magnetic resonance microscopy allows total screening and visualizes th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Beuls EA,Vandersteen MA,Vanormelingen LM,Adriaensens PJ,Freling G,Herpers MJ,Gelan JM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Secure fixation of the sacrum is technically challenging. The bone of the dorsal sacral surface is often thin, making hook fixation tenuous. The use of bone screws in the sacral pedicles has gained popularity, but rigidity is often not achieved and screw pullout is common. Solid constructs have been achieved using ang...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Baldwin NG,Benzel EC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality rate has recently been reduced to only a small percentage of patients selected for early aneurysm surgery. Despite recovery without neurological deficits, however, a diffuse encephalopathy may remain, with emotional and psychological sequelae that will interfere with rehabilitation and social reintegrati...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ljunggren B,Sonesson B,Säveland H,Brandt L

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intravenous nimodipine on the incidence of mortality and delayed ischemic neurological deficits of patients after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and surgery was studied in a prospective double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Upon admission, all of the patients were in Grades I to III according ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ohman J,Heiskanen O

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report four cases of traumatic neuroma in the cervical nerve root in patients with no history of trauma. In one case the patient presented with intractable pain in the left upper extremity and motor paresis of the left shoulder, and in another case the patient suffered neuropathic pain in the left forearm....

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nomura H,Harimaya K,Orii H,Shiba K,Ueta T,Iwaki T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) with or without whole-brain radiotherapy can be used to achieve local control (> 90%) for small brain metastases after resection. However, many brain metastases are unsuitable for SRS because of their size or previous treatment, and whole-brain radiotherapy is associated with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Raleigh DR,Seymour ZA,Tomlin B,Theodosopoulos PV,Berger MS,Aghi MK,Geneser SE,Krishnamurthy D,Fogh SE,Sneed PK,McDermott MW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present two cases of neuroepithelial (colloid) cysts found above the diencephalic roof, occupying the space between the two fornices and the two leaves of the septum pellucidum, and describe the clinical history, neurological, and neuroradiological findings. Both lesions were removed through a right transv...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ciric I,Zivin I

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The goal of this paper was to investigate the long-term outcome and the possible prognostic factors that might have influenced the persistence of posttraumatic epilepsy after penetrating head injuries sustained during the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988). METHODS:In this retrospective study, the authors evaluated 189 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Eftekhar B,Sahraian MA,Nouralishahi B,Khaji A,Vahabi Z,Ghodsi M,Araghizadeh H,Soroush MR,Esmaeili SK,Masoumi M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbal memory deficits remain a major complication of dominant hemisphere temporal lobectomy for epilepsy. The extent of this deficit was assessed preoperatively and 1 month and 1 year postoperatively with the Wechsler Verbal Memory Scale (WMSV) in 14 adults undergoing left temporal lobectomy. Intraoperative localizat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ojemann GA,Dodrill CB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a surgical technique for resection of dumbbell tumors of the spine. The transparaspinal exposure combines laminectomy and sectioning of the paraspinal muscles through a transverse incision. The procedure allows total tumor resection by means of a single posterior approach in selected patients, thus...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Onesti ST,Ashkenazi E,Michelsen WJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00