Patterns and Clinical Impact of Angiographically Visible Distal Emboli During Thrombectomy With Solitaire for Acute Ischemic Stroke.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report 81 patients with a traumatic intracerebellar hemorrhagic contusion or hematoma managed between 1996 and 1998 at 13 Italian neurosurgical centers. METHODS:Each center provided data about patients' clinicoradiological findings, management, and outcomes, which were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS:A...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： d'Avella D,Servadei F,Scerrati M,Tomei G,Brambilla G,Angileri FF,Massaro F,Cristofori L,Tartara F,Pozzati E,Delfini R,Tomasello F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifteen burr hole defects were filled with sterilized human cadaver skull in 45 patients ranging in age between 10 and 88 years. One to 6 allogeneic skull discs per patient were placed in all areas of the calvaria. The length of postoperative observation ranges between 6 months and 5 years. No instances of...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Prolo DJ,Gutierrez RV,DeVine JS,Oklund SA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of treating central or paramedian disc herniations of the upper lumbar levels, including the thoracolumbar junction, through the oblique paraspinal approach. We published a technical case report on this subject in 2004. METHODS:Nineteen consecutive patient...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kim JS,Lee SH,Moon KH,Lee HY

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although arachnoid cysts and intracranial aneurysms are very common lesions, their association in the same patient is rare. We present a case of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm ruptured into an arachnoid cyst. We found only six cases with intracystic hemorrhage reported in the literature. The presence of an...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Zanini MA,Faleiros AT,Rondinelli G,Gabarra RC,Resende LA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Silent corticotroph adenomas (SCAs) are clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) with positive staining for corticotropin (ACTH) by immunohistochemistry. Whether SCAs behave more aggressively than NFPAs without ACTH immunoreactivity (ACTH negative) remains controversial. OBJECTIVE:To compare cha...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ioachimescu AG,Eiland L,Chhabra VS,Mastrogianakis GM,Schniederjan MJ,Brat D,Pileggi AV,Oyesiku NM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of primary infectious spondylitis, two caused by Staphylococcus aureus and one by tuberculosis, were diagnosed using the method previously described for automated percutaneous discectomy. All three patients, in whom biopsy using fine needle techniques previously was unsuccessful, had positive cultures from...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Onik G,Shang YL,Maroon J,Eichenblat M,Mercer D,Bailes JE

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently introduced a new type of ultrasonic-based, three-dimensional ranging system for the localization of small handheld surgical tools to be used during operation in open stereotactic brain surgery. This targeting system has now been extensively laboratory tested during thousands of measuring cycles with a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Horstmann GA,Reinhardt HF

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of Hyaloglide gel (or auto-cross-linked polysaccharide [ACP] gel; Fidia Advanced Biopolymers, Abano Terme, Italy), a hyaluronan-derivative polymer, on peripheral nerve scarring and nerve regeneration. METHODS:We performed two surgical procedures in adult rats: 1) neurolysis of the sciat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dam-Hieu P,Lacroix C,Said G,Devanz P,Liu S,Tadie M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of Clinical Problem Solving manuscripts is to present management challenges in an attempt to give practicing neurosurgeons insight into how field leaders address these dilemmas. This illustration is accompanied by a brief review of the literature on the topic. We describe the case of a patient who presente...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Natarajan SK,Siddiqui AH,Hopkins LN,Boulis NM,Levy EI

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of vasospasm on costs, length of stay, and mortality among inpatients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. METHODS:We combined hospital accounting and physician billing data for a consecutive cohort of 198 patients who underwent surgical clipping or endovascular coiling for subarachn...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chou CH,Reed SD,Allsbrook JS,Steele JL,Schulman KA,Alexander MJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current tendency in acoustic neuroma surgery to attempt the preservation of hearing function and the problem of accidental hearing loss caused by microsurgical neurovascular decompression operations for hemifacial spasm or trigeminal neuralgia prompted us to study the exact surgical vulnerability of the auditory s...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sekiya T,Iwabuchi T,Andoh A,Kamata S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiation-induced changes (RICs) are the most common complication of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), and they appear as perinidal T2-weighted hyperintensities on magnetic resonance imaging, with or without associated neurological symptoms. OBJECTIVE:To determine...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ilyas A,Chen CJ,Ding D,Buell TJ,Raper DMS,Lee CC,Xu Z,Sheehan JP

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author looks back on his more than 70 years of familiarity with Americans involved in warfare, noting their loyal support for our country's objectives. Drawing on the Einstein equation, his own visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and current literature, he, as a physician, belatedly concurs with those who look on th...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Evans JP

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case demonstrating the marked growth of an angiographically occult arteriovenous malformation is presented. A review of 58 cases in which an increase in the size of an arteriovenous malformation occurred suggested that the patient's initial age may have had an important role in such growth and that both the age and ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Wakabayashi S,Ohno K,Shishido T,Tamaki M,Matsushima Y,Hirakawa K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with cervical plexiform neurofibromas are presented. Each of these patients had severe cervical kyphosis and has undergone anterior decompression, anterior reconstruction, and posterior stabilization. We discuss the surgical management of cervical kyphotic deformities associated with plexiform neurofibrom...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ward BA,Harkey HL,Parent AD,McGuire RA Jr,Kendig RJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:During its course between the brainstem and the lateral rectus muscle, the abducens nerve usually travels forward as a single trunk, but it is not uncommon for the nerve to split into two branches. The objective of this study was to establish the incidence and the clinical importance of the duplication of the...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ozveren MF,Sam B,Akdemir I,Alkan A,Tekdemir I,Deda H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Spontaneous spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks have been noted occasionally at multiple sites in the same patient, but recurrent spontaneous spinal CSF leaks have not been documented. We describe a patient with a recurrent CSF leak who was found at surgery to have an absence of the entire n...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Schievink WI,Jacques L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle manifested itself as a contralateral hemifacial spasm. On computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging scans, the brain stem was markedly displaced and distorted by the tumor. After total removal of the meningioma, the hemifacial spasm completely disappeared. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rhee BA,Kim TS,Kim GK,Leem WL

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biophysical modeling of glioma is gaining more interest for clinical practice. The most popular model describes aggressivity of tumor cells by two parameters: net proliferation rate (ρ) and propensity to migrate (D). The ratio ρ/D, which can be estimated from a single preoperative magnetic resonance imaging ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Amelot A,Deroulers C,Badoual M,Polivka M,Adle-Biassette H,Houdart E,Carpentier AF,Froelich S,Mandonnet E

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of giant cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) remains a challenge. OBJECTIVE:To propose hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HSRT) as a part of staged treatment, and evaluate its effect by analyzing AVM volume changes. METHODS:From 2001 to 2007, 20 AVMs larger than 5 cm were treated...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Xiao F,Gorgulho AA,Lin CS,Chen CH,Agazaryan N,Viñuela F,Selch MT,De Salles AA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen studies on psychosocial aspects of back pain are reviewed. Among six studies trying to differentiate pain of organic and functional origin, only two studies claim to be able to make such a distinction. Psychological disturbance--studied with a variety of instruments--proved to be an important factor affecting...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Keel PJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anterior clinoidal meningiomas (ACMs) are a subgroup of meningiomas accounting for less than 10% of supratentorial meningiomas. OBJECTIVE:To assess the reliability and safeness of the lateral supraorbital approach (LSO) to remove ACMs. METHODS:Between September 1997 and October 2009, a total of 73 ACM pati...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Romani R,Laakso A,Kangasniemi M,Lehecka M,Hernesniemi J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurosurgical tradition at Jefferson Medical College began in the 19th century with Samuel Gross. In his textbook entitled A System of Surgery, Gross revealed his knowledge of the disorders of the nervous system at a time when innovations were practically inexistent. Gross' work paved the way for William Williams ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chalouhi N,Osterholm J,Jabbour P,Dumont AS,Gonzalez LF,Harrop J,Sharan A,Rosenwasser R,Tjoumakaris S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review an experience with the posterior interhemispheric approach applied to vascular lesions in the posterior midline, to examine the effects of patient position and gravity retraction of the occipital lobe, and to identify circumstances requiring increased exposure by sectioning the falx and tentorium. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chi JH,Lawton MT

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the use of brain stem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) in 10 adult patients with vascular disorders of the posterior circulation that were treated surgically and to compare the BAEPs with the neurological findings. The vascular lesions included basilar artery stenosis in...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Little JR,Lesser RP,Lueders H,Furlan AJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk factors for poor quality of life (QOL) after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) remain poorly described. OBJECTIVE:To identify the frequency and predictors of poor QOL 1 year after SAH. METHODS:We studied 1-year QOL in a prospectively collected cohort of 1181 consecutively admitted SAH survivors between Ju...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Taufique Z,May T,Meyers E,Falo C,Mayer SA,Agarwal S,Park S,Connolly ES,Claassen J,Schmidt JM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study on the effect of shunting, 22 patients diagnosed as suffering from normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) were investigated by means of temporary external lumbar drainage (ELD). Five patients had to be excluded from the study because of complications of ELD or definitive shunting. ELD correctly pre...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Haan J,Thomeer RT

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After radiotherapy, 20 patients, 18 with documented progression of malignant glioma and 2 with Grade II astrocytoma, received a total of 52 courses of intracarotid 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) at a dose of 150 mg/m2 dissolved in 5% dextrose in water. The patients were treated at 6-week intervals for a ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Johnson DW,Parkinson D,Wolpert SM,Kasdon DL,Kwan ES,Laucella M,Anderson ML

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There were 15 cases of multiple meningiomas in a consecutive series of 168 cases of meningioma studied by computed tomography during the last 5 years. This incidence of 8.9% is significantly higher than the 1 to 3% incidence reported previously. A brief clinical survey of the 15 cases and a description of the location...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lusins JO,Nakagawa H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of isolated intramedullary sarcoidosis. The patient developed progressive signs that indicated a spinal tumor, which were investigated with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging scans. Magnetic resonance imaging clearly revealed an intramedullary lesion, but the diagnosis of sarcoidosis was mad...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Levivier M,Brotchi J,Balériaux D,Pirotte B,Flament-Durand J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00