The autoimmune basis of hypopituitarism in traumatic brain injury: fiction or reality?

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Intraspinal tumours are rare and principally managed surgically. Laminectomy, employed for access to the spinal canal, destroys the posterior tension band leading to a risk of kyphosis. Hemilaminectomy as an alternative may be less destructive, potentially reducing the risk of deformity and causing less po...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Millward CP,Bhagawati D,Chan HW,Bestwick J,Brecknell JE

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of operating theatre time is an important issue in neurosurgery, in a National Health Service Hospital. NHS Trusts are under ever increasing pressure to meet specified 'targets' in relation to admissions and operations. We performed a retrospective audit on the utilization of neurosurgical operating theatr...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Iyer RV,Likhith AM,McLean JA,Perera S,Davis CH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 510 patients with proven aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is reported. The incidence of recurrent haemorrhage during the period awaiting surgery was 13.7%. There was no significant difference in incidence between good and poor grade patients. Following rebleeding there was an immediate mortality o...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： O'Neill P,West CR,Chadwick DW,Conway M,Foy PM,Maloney P,Pickard JD,Spillane JA,Shaw MD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with surgical infection of the posterior fossa are presented. There were 14 patients with cerebellar abscess, one patient with a solitary posterior fossa subdural empyema, and another with a combined cerebellar abscess and subdural empyema. Two of the cerebellar abscess patients also had supratentoria...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Brydon HL,Hardwidge C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case where the administration of intrathecal gentamycin, used to treat a ventriculitis consequent upon a ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection, with a persistent elevation of the CSF leucocyte count is described. In a situation where the number of white cells in the CSF is taken to indicate resolution of infection, i...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lee TK,Kerr RS,Adams CB

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of post-traumatic cerebral haemodynamic disturbances might be beneficial for predicting the management outcome when measuring the basal cerebral arteries blood flow velocity by ultrasonic transcranial Doppler device immediately after severe head injury. Thirty patients who sustained severe brain injury under...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Splavski B,Radanović B,Vranković D,Has B,Muzević D,Janculjak D,Legcević J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing techniques for lengthening a peritoneal catheter require a formal laparotomy, and exploration for the catheter which is then extended by the addition of a necessary length. We describe a simplified technique which is quicker and which in co-operative patients can be done under local anaesthesia on an out-pati...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mittal P,Chand M,Chhabra DK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 14-year-old boy with cavernous malformation of the optic chiasm. He had a 2-year history of gradually worsening visual disturbance. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a suprasellar mass, findings compatible with craniopharyngioma. The mass was biopsied and histological e...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Muta D,Nishi T,Koga K,Yamashiro S,Fujioka S,Kuratsu J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Management of patients presenting for various nonspecific complaints without clear neurological abnormalities and with normal ventricular size remains highly controversial. We intended to share our rationale for surgical treatment of patients who show symptoms of transient increase of intracranial pressure owin...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Koziarski A,Podgórski A,Zieliński GM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and inexpensive device is described for measurement of intracranial pressure over prolonged periods. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mann KS,Yue CP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction Stereotactic mesencephalotomy is an ablative procedure which lesions the pain pathways (spinothalamic and trigeminothalamic tracts) at the midbrain level to treat medically refractory, nociceptive, contralateral pain. Sparsely reported in contemporary English language literature, this operation is at risk...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ivanishvili Z,Pujara S,Honey CM,Chang S,Honey CR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There is an abundance of articles published on low-grade glioma. The aim of this study was to identify and review the 50 most-cited articles on low-grade glioma, and to perform a bibliometric analysis. METHODS:In June 2017, we performed a basic search of the Web of Science database using "low-grade glioma mana...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Burak Atci I,Yilmaz H,Samanci MY

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obese woman with benign intracranial hypertension had been managed for several years with lumbo-peritoneal shunting. Following a bilopancreatic procedure performed for management of her obesity dense peritoneal adhesions caused repeated shunt failure. The shunt system was successfully converted to a lumbo-atrial sy...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Pülhorn H,Redfern RM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a series of eight patients undergoing circumferential neural decompression and stabilization of the thoracolumbar spine via a single midline posterior approach, with complete vertebrectomy for a variety of indications. Four had primary tumours, two secondary tumours, one patient had tuberculosis and one had...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Crocker M,James G,Ibrahim A,Thomas N,Chitnavis B

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebro-PICA aneurysms represent a particular technical challenge because of the extremely narrow operative field and the presence of numerous vital neural and vascular structures. The lack of exposure still remains the limiting factor in most cases. During the 9-year period from January 1980 to October 1989, 8 verte...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Roux A,Mohr G,Hardy J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four patients with intractable partial epilepsy underwent surgery between 1969 and 1988. Localization was by non-invasive means using scalp EEG and CT. In 12 cases the focus was temporal and in eight frontal. Craniotomy was undertaken with intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG). Ten cases had a standard tem...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Davies KG,Weeks RD

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial differences in the incidence and rate of rupture of intracranial aneurysms are well recognized. A retrospective study of racial differences between Maori and European New Zealanders presenting to the Auckland Regional Neurosurgical Unit between 1985 and 1990 was conducted. It was found that the incidence per 10...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Marks PV,Hope JK,Cluroe AD,Furneaux CE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 14-month-old infant presenting with unresponsiveness and seizure following thoracic surgery. Imaging showed full territory left middle cerebral artery infarct and signs of raised intracranial pressure (ICP) that required emergency decompressive craniectomy (DC). The child made a good functional...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Grigoratos DN,Mazarakis NK,Lumsden DE,Kariyawasam S,Bhangoo R,Gordon A,Lin JP,Dlamini N

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a metastatic lung carcinoma that had metastasized to the thoracic extradural space and penetrated the dura, resulting in a combined extra and intradural spinal tumour. To our knowledge this is the first such report of a metastatic lung adenocarcinoma demonstrating direct dural invasion. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Raffalli-Ebezant H,Prasad A,Ray A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral syphilitic gumma is extremely rare and easily misdiagnosed. We illustrate a case of a cerebral syphilitic gumma developed in just a few months mimicking a brain tumor in a HIV-negative patient and Treponema pallidum was detected in the cerebral syphilitic gumma. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zhang L,Zhou Y,Chen J,Yan W,Kong Q,Chen P,Sang H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:With an increasingly ageing population, the number of elderly people diagnosed with pituitary tumours continues to rise. There is a concern that with increasing age and comorbidities, there is higher anaesthetic risk, as well as peri-operative morbidity and mortality from pituitary surgery. This study aimed to a...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Pereira EA,Plaha P,Chari A,Paranathala M,Haslam N,Rogers A,Korevaar T,Tran D,Olarinde R,Karavitaki N,Grossman AB,Cudlip SA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess surgical results and quality of life after removal of tumours causing ventral compression of the brainstem using the presigmoid or combined presigmoid/retrosigmoid approaches. METHODS:A review of all our patients operated on with removal of tumours causing ventral compression of the brainstem in wh...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Frič R,Eide PK

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report their experience in the treatment of childhood hydrocephalus by endoscopic choroid plexus coagulation and post-operative ventricular perfusion with artificial CSF. The procedure was carried out on 23 children without mortality. In 12 cases (52%) the procedure was successful in controlling the hydroc...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Griffith HB,Jamjoom AB

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendoscopy is increasingly used in the management of brain tumours and tumour related hydrocephalus and this study reviews the efficacy of neuroendoscopic interventions in this unit in patients with brain tumours. A series of 87 neuroendoscopic operations carried out in 77 patients with brain tumours over a 6-year...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Macarthur DC,Buxton N,Punt J,Vloeberghs M,Robertson IJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the efficacy of our methods for decreasing the incidence of post-operative central nervous system infections (PCNSI) and to assess the type of microbiology and risk factors associated with PCNSI. METHODS:This prospective study was performed at First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang U...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ma YF,Wen L,Zhu Y

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients with borderline or frank insufficiency of their cerebrovascular reserve undergoing carotid endarterectomy were given enough short acting barbiturates, during cross clamping of the internal carotid artery, to cause EEG burst suppression. Arterial and venous concentrations of lactate were measured in bloo...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wassman H,Fromm G,Nadstawek J,Bannister C,Hartmann A,Pavlidis C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report our experience with five lesions exclusively involving the entire cavernous sinus in which an essentially extradural surgical approach was used. There were two cases of cavernous haemangioma, two cases of meningioma and one case of fungal granuloma. The dural cover of the superior orbital fissure, and mandib...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Goel A

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebral metastasis in osteosarcoma is extremely rare. A 14-year-old girl who had previously been operated upon for osteosarcoma of the femur presented with seizures and left hemiparesis. A right parietal lesion with calcification and brain oedema was found. After resection of the mass, pathology revealed an oste...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Onodera H,Yoshida Y,Sakakibara Y,Kono T,Uchida M,Tanaka Y,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 2-year period, 22 consecutive comatose patients (Glasgow Coma Score of less than or equal to 8) with intraventricular haematomas were managed with prolonged external ventricular drainage via an external one-way valve regulated system. The mean duration of drainage was 12 days. The overall mortality was 23%. Acc...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chan KH,Mann KS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between March 1989 and December 1993, 101 patients with inoperable arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and seven patients with inoperable angiographically occult malformations (AOVMs) have been treated with stereotactic multiple arc radiotherapy (SMART). All patients (excluding one patient with a brain stem AOVM) were ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sebag-Montefiore DJ,Doughty D,Biggs D,Plowman PN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00