Eosinophilic granuloma of the cervicothoracic junction. Case report.

abstract：OBJECT:Infiltrative tumor resection is based on regional (macroscopic) imaging identification of tumorous tissue and the attempt to delineate invasive tumor margins in macroscopically normal-appearing tissue, while preserving normal brain tissue. The authors tested miniaturized confocal fiberoptic endomicroscopy by usi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Martirosyan NL,Cavalcanti DD,Eschbacher JM,Delaney PM,Scheck AC,Abdelwahab MG,Nakaji P,Spetzler RF,Preul MC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although posterior plates are increasingly used to manage cervical spinal instability, long-term follow-up evaluation of patients with a critical analysis of efficacy and complications has not been reported. The authors have retrospectively analyzed the outcome in 44 consecutive patients (37 males and seven females, a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fehlings MG,Cooper PR,Errico TJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an unusual case of a widely metastatic glioblastoma. DNA copy number microarray profile of the resected specimen revealed complex rearrangements found throughout chromosome 6, a phenomenon known as chromothripsis. Such chromothripsis pattern was not observed in 50 nonmetastatic glioblastoma specimen...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rennert RC,Hoshide RR,Signorelli JW,Amaro D,Sack JA,Brennan CW,Chen CC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to now, navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) has been used for motor mapping in the vicinity of rolandic brain lesions. Recently, nTMS has also been suggested to be useful in mapping human language areas. The authors describe the case of a left-handed patient with a left-side glioblastoma within the...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sollmann N,Picht T,Mäkelä JP,Meyer B,Ringel F,Krieg SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:In large vestibular schwannoma (VS), microsurgery is the main treatment option, and complete resection is considered the primary goal. However, previous studies have documented suboptimal facial nerve outcomes in patients who undergo complete resection of large VSs. Subtotal resection is likely to reduce the ris...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： van de Langenberg R,Hanssens PE,van Overbeeke JJ,Verheul JB,Nelemans PJ,de Bondt BJ,Stokroos RJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a new case of combined atlantoaxial and occipitoatlantal rotatory subluxation in a 17-year-old girl. They describe the clinical and imaging features of this rare entity. An occiput-C2 arthrodesis was performed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bouillot P,Fuentes S,Dufour H,Manera L,Grisoli F

更新日期：1999-04-01 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 report five cases of surgically treated giant vertebral artery aneurysm. Two giant serpentine aneurysms were managed with aneurysmectomy, a giant semifusiform aneurysm with trapping and partial aneurysmectomy, and the other two saccular giant aneurysms with clipping. Surgical results were satisfactory in a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sugita K,Kobayashi S,Takemae T,Tanaka Y,Okudera H,Ohsawa M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature differences between the lower extremities were measured using a computerized thermometric scanning system in order to compare the degree of thermal asymmetry in 144 patients with low-back pain. The patients displayed highly significant thermal asymmetries, with the involved limb being cooler (p less than 0...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Uematsu S,Jankel WR,Edwin DH,Kim W,Kozikowski J,Rosenbaum A,Long DM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosurgery has played an important role in the development of neuroscience and the science of consciousness. In this paper, the authors reflect on some of the historical contributions of neurosurgeons to the science of consciousness and discuss the ways in which clinical neurosurgery can contribute to the science of...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hasegawa H,Jamieson GA,Ashkan K

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：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:The goal of this study was to determine the tensile strength of cranial pia mater. METHODS:Samples of isolated bovine cranial pia mater were subjected to quasistatic traction to evaluate its tensile strength. The experimental curves of physiological deformation that were obtained can be subdivided into three pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Aimedieu P,Grebe R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Although a number of studies have assessed the surgical treatment of paraclinoid-segment carotid artery aneurysms and resulting visual complications, less attention has been given to the results with respect to the superior hypophyseal artery (SHA). The authors evaluated the relationship between the aneurysm, th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Horiuchi T,Goto T,Tanaka Y,Kodama K,Tsutsumi K,Ito K,Hongo K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Treatment with a BRAF mutation inhibitor might shrink otherwise refractory craniopharyngiomas and is a promising preoperative treatment to facilitate tumor resection. The aim of this study was to investigate the noninvasive diagnosis of BRAF-mutated craniopharyngiomas based on MRI characteristics. METHODS Fi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yue Q,Yu Y,Shi Z,Wang Y,Zhu W,Du Z,Yao Z,Chen L,Mao Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Chiari Type I malformation (CMI) is a congenital disorder recognized by caudal displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum and into the cervical canal. Frequently, associated findings include abnormalities of nearby bony and neural elements as well as syringomyelia. Cerebellar tonsillar ect...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Meadows J,Kraut M,Guarnieri M,Haroun RI,Carson BS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVEAwake craniotomies have become a feasible tool over time to treat brain tumors located in eloquent regions. Different techniques have been applied in neurooncology centers. Both "asleep-awake-asleep" (asleep) and "conscious sedation" were used subsequently at the authors' neurosurgical department. Since 2013,...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Suero Molina E,Schipmann S,Mueller I,Wölfer J,Ewelt C,Maas M,Brokinkel B,Stummer W

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied 31 comatose head-injured patients to assess the clinical usefulness of laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) in continuous autoregulation monitoring. The LDF probes were placed on the surface of the cerebral cortex. Data on LDF, intracranial pressure (ICP), and arterial blood pressure (ABP) were recorded a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lam JM,Hsiang JN,Poon WS

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) abnormalities, namely kinks, coils, and stenoses, was evaluated in a consecutive unselected series of 76 cases of single supratentorial saccular aneurysms submitted to bilateral carotid angiography. These patients were compared with a control group of 120 pat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Spallone A,Cantore G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The facial nerve in vestibular schwannomas (VSs) is located on the ventral tumor surface in more than 90% of cases; other courses are rare. A split facial nerve course with two distinct bundles has thus far been described exclusively for medial extrameatal tumors. METHODS:Between 1996 and 2005, 16 consecutive c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Strauss C,Prell J,Rampp S,Romstöck J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superior sagittal sinus thrombosis was diagnosed on computerized tomography (CT) scanning and was subsequently confirmed by angiography in two patients. Small ventricles and filling defects occurring within the sinus (the empty triangle sign) appeared to be highly suggestive of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis, and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： d'Avella D,Russo A,Santoro G,Pandolfo N,Cafarelli F,De Blasi F,del Vivo RE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Electrical motor cortex stimulation can relieve neuropathic pain (NP), but its use requires patients to undergo an invasive procedure. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the primary motor cortex (M1) using a figure-8 coil can relieve NP noninvasively, but its ability to relieve lower limb...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Shimizu T,Hosomi K,Maruo T,Goto Y,Yokoe M,Kageyama Y,Shimokawa T,Yoshimine T,Saitoh Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the biology of thyrotropin (TSH)-producing pituitary adenomas, the authors reviewed the charts of 19 patients who underwent transsphenoidal surgery within a 15-year period at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Between 1989 and 1991, the period during which immunostaining techniques were us...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mindermann T,Wilson CB

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A wide variation in postoperative drainage volumes is observed during treatment of chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) with twist-drill or burr-hole craniostomy and closed-system drainage. In this study the authors investigate the causes of the variation, the clinical significance thereof, and its influence on trea...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kwon TH,Park YK,Lim DJ,Cho TH,Chung YG,Chung HS,Suh JK

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cavernous hemangiomas of the orbit are benign vascular growths that commonly occur in adults and account for 6% of all intraorbital tumors. Multifocal intraorbital cavernous hemangiomas are quite rare. The reported incidence of arachnoid cysts accounts for only 1% of lesions that occupy intracranial space, and they ar...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tatli M,Guzel A,Keklikci U,Guzel E

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report eight cases of trigeminal neurinoma managed over the past 13 years with radical resection at a single-stage operation. Three patients were male and five were female, ranging in age from 25 to 56 years (mean 41.5 years). One had von Recklinghausen's disease. The tumors were located mainly within the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yasui T,Hakuba A,Kim SH,Nishimura S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors demonstrate the use of cottonoid as a marker for ultrasound localization of a subcortical tumor. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Voorhies RM,Bell WO,Patterson RH Jr,Gamache FW Jr

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Obtaining brain biopsy specimens is often the diagnostic test of last resort for patients with unexplained neurological conditions, particularly those with a rapidly deteriorating neurological course. The goals of this analysis were to determine the diagnostic sensitivity of brain biopsy specimens in these types...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Josephson SA,Papanastassiou AM,Berger MS,Barbaro NM,McDermott MW,Hilton JF,Miller BL,Geschwind MD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a newly recognized complication of lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt placement, namely, intracranial hypotension from leakage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through a defect in the lumbar dura created by the shunt catheter. They report on a 47-year-old obese woman with idiopathic intracranial hypertension ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Liao YJ,Dillon WP,Chin CT,McDermott MW,Horton JC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metrizamide computerized tomographic cisternography (MCTC) has proved 100% successful in documenting the precise anatomic location of the dural osseous defect in three patients with sphenoethmoidal rhinorrhea. In each patient, direct surgical approach to the site indicated by MCTC terminated the leakage in a single pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Naidich TP,Moran CJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00