Human placenta aneurysm model for training neurosurgeons in vascular microsurgery.

abstract：:The cases of a father and his son who were diagnosed with pathologically confirmed colloid cysts of the third ventricle are presented. The familial occurrence of this tumor is rare and suggests that genetic factors may play a role in its formation. Consistent with the concept that the cyst originates as a developmenta...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Akins PT,Roberts R,Coxe WS,Kaufman BA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to determine how frequently angiographic vasospasm occurs outside the normal access range of transcranial Doppler ultrasound in patients who have suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Vasospasm located in the basal vessels is readily identifiable using transcranial Doppler ultrasound whereas spasm...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Newell DW,Grady MS,Eskridge JM,Winn HR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that seizures induce significant and sustained elevations of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in specific extrahypothalamic rat brain regions associated with epileptic foci including amygdala, hippocampus, pyriform cortex, and anterior cortex. Seizures were induced in dogs to further study th...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shapiro S,Kubek M,Sanders S,Durbin S,Goodwin S,Javed T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Various techniques have been used to stop venous bleeding from the epidural space, vertebral venous plexus, and cavernous sinus. Here, we describe our experience with the use of fibrin glue to stop venous bleeding in these areas. METHODS:During the last 8 years, the senior author (LNS) has used injection of ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sekhar LN,Natarajan SK,Manning T,Bhagawati D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a new suction device with prehensile properties that has proved itself particularly useful in the removal of certain types of tumor, especially extramedullary. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Cantore G,Ciappetta P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two intracranial tumor volume variables have been shown to prognosticate survival of stereotactic-radiosurgery-treated brain metastasis patients: the largest intracranial tumor volume (LITV) and the cumulative intracranial tumor volume (CITV). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the prognostic value of the Score...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hirshman BR,Wilson B,Ali MA,Proudfoot JA,Koiso T,Nagano O,Carter BS,Serizawa T,Yamamoto M,Chen CC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of imaging strategies may be used to derive reliable stereotactic coordinates when performing deep brain stimulation lead implants. No single technique has yet proved optimal. OBJECTIVE:To compare the relative accuracy of stereotactic coordinates for the subthalamic nucleus (STN) derived either fr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ben-Haim S,Gologorsky Y,Monahan A,Weisz D,Alterman RL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual association of a meningioma and an arteriovenous malformation is reported. A 68-year-old man developed left homonymous hemianopsia, left hemiparesis, and gaze palsy. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a right occipital mass lesion containing multiple signal-void areas with tubular and honeycomb appearance, s...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sawamura Y,Janzer RC,Fankhauser H,de Tribolet N

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical characterization of choroid plexus neoplasms was performed in seven cases, five being of benign choroid plexus papilloma (CPP) and the other two of malignant choroid plexus papilloma (choroid plexus carcinoma CPC). Immunohistochemical examination was performed with antibodies to glial fibrillary aci...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Matsushima T,Inoue T,Takeshita I,Fukui M,Iwaki T,Kitamoto T

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) myelography scans demonstrated a dural defect in a 50-year-old man with an epidural arachnoid cyst who had a 29-year history of untreated weakness and numbness both lower limbs. METHODS:MRI scans showed a dorsal intraspinal extradural cystic lesion at the level f...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Miyamoto M,Kim K,Matsumoto R,Isobe M,Isu T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pediatric aneurysms are rare and complex to treat. Long-term angiographic and clinical data after microsurgical or endovascular therapies are lacking. OBJECTIVE:To study the clinical and radiographic outcomes in aneurysms in pediatric patients treated with microsurgery. METHODS:Between 1989 and 2005, 48 pa...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kakarla UK,Beres EJ,Ponce FA,Chang SW,Deshmukh VR,Bambakidis NC,Zabramski JM,Spetzler RF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly designed cottonoid is fixed to the tip of the suction device by the negative pressure. It is especially useful during microsurgical procedures in areas crowded with neurovascular elements. The advantage of pressure-mounted cottonoids lies in the protection provided to the brain and neurovascular elements durin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Arbit E

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of thrombosis of the vertebral artery and an associated bursting fracture of the lower cervical spine is reported. Computed tomography revealed both the location and the spreading of the fractures of the injured spine. We recognized that the vertebral artery thrombosis was caused by an injury to the arterial wa...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Handa Y,Hayashi M,Kawano H,Kobayashi H,Hirose S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic atlanto-occipital (A-O) dislocation is a rare injury that is associated with a high mortality rate. We are presenting the case of a 5-year-old child with this entity to illustrate the mechanism of injury, the often-confusing clinical picture, and the use of diaphragmatic fluoroscopy to localize the neurologi...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Pang D,Wilberger JE Jr

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current surgical management guidelines for pediatric spondylolisthesis (PS) are reliant on data from single-center cohorts. OBJECTIVE:To analyze national trends and predictors of short-term outcomes in spinal fusion surgery for PS by performing a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the Kids' Inpatient...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rumalla K,Yarbrough CK,Pugely AJ,Dorward IG

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electric stimulation of the dorsal spinal cord (DCS) in the treatment of pain in peripheral vascular disease is known to enhance peripheral circulation, but the mechanisms are still obscure. An earlier study has provided indirect evidence that the vasodilator effect is dependent upon alteration of sympathetic vasomoto...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Linderoth B,Gunasekera L,Meyerson BA

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maximizing extent of resection (EOR) improves outcomes in adults with World Health Organization (WHO) grade II low-grade gliomas (LGG). However, recent studies demonstrate that LGGs bearing a mutation in the isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) gene are a distinct molecular and clinical entity. It remains uncle...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Patel T,Bander ED,Venn RA,Powell T,Cederquist GY,Schaefer PM,Puchi LA,Akhmerov A,Ogilvie S,Reiner AS,Moussazadeh N,Tabar V

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with occlusive cerebrovascular disease who have failed maximal medical therapy, which consists of antiplatelet agents as well as maximizing modifiable risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking cessation, and obesity, and whose lesions are not amenable or have not responded to the more common v...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bisson EF,Visioni AJ,Tranmer B,Horgan MA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In meningioma surgery, the completeness of resection is of great importance with regard to prognosis and recurrence. This is more difficult in meningiomas en plaque and cranial base meningiomas, which often involve the bone of the cranial base. We present a case in which radioguided resection of a meningioma ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dammers R,Hsu SP,Krisht AF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of radiofrequency neurolysis guided by computed tomography for the treatment of glossopharyngeal neuralgia is described. This technique has the advantage of being performed in a neutral head position, affording excellent visualization of the jugular foramen, and also of simulating radiographically the pr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Arbit E,Krol G

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive kyphotic deformity of the cervical spine may be a late sequela of congenital cervical anomalies, degenerative disc disease, neoplasm, cervical trauma, and surgical procedures. Of these, postsurgical kyphosis is the most common and can occur after ventral and dorsal surgeries of the cervical spine. The purp...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Stewart TJ,Steinmetz MP,Benzel EC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Organized general surgery has recently proposed creation of a new acute care surgery subspecialty to include emergency care of basic neurosurgical and orthopedic surgical problems. Little is known about neurosurgical attitudes toward this proposal and alternative methods of improving access to emergency neuro...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Byrne RW,Bagan BT,Bingaman W,Anderson VC,Selden NR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frontotemporal craniotomies are commonly performed for a variety of neurosurgical pathologies. Infections related to craniotomies cause significant morbidity. We hypothesized that the risk of cranial surgical site infections (SSIs) may be increased in patients whose frontal sinuses are breached during cranio...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Linzey JR,Wilson TJ,Sullivan SE,Thompson BG,Pandey AS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endovascular coil embolization of ruptured aneurysms is performed under general anesthesia at most centers for perceived improved image quality and patient safety. OBJECTIVE:To report the feasibility of and outcomes associated with endovascular treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients with ruptur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kan P,Jahshan S,Yashar P,Orion D,Webb S,Siddiqui AH,Hopkins LN,Levy EI

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used three-dimensional reconstruction magnetic resonance imaging techniques to understand the anatomic complexity of operative brain lesions and to improve preoperative surgical planning. We report our experience with 14 cases, including intra- and extra-axial tumors and a vascular malformation. In each case, ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kikinis R,Gleason PL,Moriarty TM,Moore MR,Alexander E 3rd,Stieg PE,Matsumae M,Lorensen WE,Cline HE,Black PM,Jolesz FA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Treatment of one side in cases of dissecting aneurysms of the bilateral vertebral arteries (VAs) with subarachnoid hemorrhage may result in dissection or rupture on the contralateral side. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:Three patients presented with dissecting aneurysms of the bilateral VAs with subara...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Otawara Y,Ogasawara K,Ogawa A,Kogure T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We evaluated the feasibility, usefulness, and limitations of near-infrared indocyanine green (ICG) videoangiography during procedures involving the extracranial vertebral artery (VA). METHODS:Nine patients (2 women, 7 men; mean age, 55 years) were evaluated at 2 neurosurgical centers. Near-infrared ICG vi...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bruneau M,Sauvageau E,Nakaji P,Vandesteene A,Lubicz B,Chang SW,Balériaux D,Brotchi J,De Witte O,Spetzler RF

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Xanthogranulomas involving the central or peripheral nervous system are extraordinarily rare. None have been reported in the lower extremity. Here, we report and characterize the first case of xanthogranuloma of the sciatic nerve. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 58-year-old woman presented with poorly...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Patil PG,Cummings TJ,Nunley JA,Friedman AH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chordomas are rare but challenging neoplasms involving the skull base. A preoperative grading system will be useful to identify both areas for treatment and risk factors, and correlate to the degree of resection, complications, and recurrence. OBJECTIVE:To propose a new grading system for cranial chordomas ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Brito da Silva H,Straus D,Barber JK,Rostomily RC,Ferreira M Jr,Sekhar LN

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the successful removal of a ruptured dominant hemisphere arteriovenous malformation that arose in the region of the basal ganglia and was supplied by the lenticulostriate arteries. Obliteration of the lesion was accomplished by a transcerebral approach from above, utilizing the preexisting hemato...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rutka JT,Tucker WS

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00