De novo aneurysm: case reports and literature review.

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 spinal form of brucellosis is still a disabling disease in many countries outside North America and northern and central Europe. Fifteen consecutive cases of spinal brucellosis diagnosed and treated over a 20-year period were reviewed retrospectively. Six patients were farmers, while 10 patients had a history of i...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Tekkök IH,Berker M,Ozcan OE,Ozgen T,Akalin E

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow diversion is a safe and effective treatment for many types of brain aneurysms. Even so, there remain some aneurysms that persist despite initial treatment. In studies with the longest follow-up (5 yr), at least 5% of aneurysms persist with this treatment modality. As the cumulative experience and clinical indicat...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bonney PA,Connor M,Fujii T,Singh P,Koch MJ,Stapleton CJ,Mack WJ,Walcott BP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases of complete bilateral homonymous hemianopsia with sparing of central vision that are caused by bilateral tentorial herniation are extremely rare. We describe one such case resulting from severe head trauma, the first to be reported in which magnetic resonance images showed clear evidence of the responsible lesio...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Tanaka R,Miyasaka Y,Yada K,Mukuno K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a novel stent remodeling technique for the coiling of ruptured wide-neck cerebral aneurysms. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 46-year-old man presented with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (Hunt and Hess grade IV), intracerebral hemorrhage, and hydrocephalus. Cerebral angiography revealed a wide-neck small ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lopes DK,Wells K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasiveness is a critical event in the development of malignancy in brain tumors. A potential molecular mediator is basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). NIH-3T3 cells transfected with the bFGF gene fused with a signal peptide sequence (signal peptide bFGF) acquire an invasive phenotype as measured by in vitro assay...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gately S,Tsanaclis AM,Takano S,Klagsbrun M,Brem S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:During the past 15 years, the concept of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors has continued to evolve. We present an interesting case of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor that showed rapid growth during a short period of time. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 9-year-old boy had been experiencing intractable c...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sampetrean O,Maehara T,Arai N,Nemoto T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although several clinical applications of transpedicular screw fixation in the cervical spine have been documented recently, few anatomic studies concerning the cervical pedicle are available. This study was designed to evaluate the anatomy and adjacent neural relationships of the middle and lower cervical pe...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Uğur HC,Attar A,Uz A,Tekdemir I,Egemen N,Cağlar S,Genç Y

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite apparent gross total resection, olfactory groove meningiomas have a high rate of late recurrence (average, 23%). In this retrospective study, we confirmed that the sites of these recurrences are the cranial base and paranasal sinuses. We postulated that these recurrences stem from conservative handlin...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Obeid F,Al-Mefty O

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of depressed and anxious mood states in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), a degenerative spine condition with symptoms of neck pain, numb clumsy hands, gait difficulties, sphincter dysfunction, and impotence. To examine the relation between mood and functional de...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Stoffman MR,Roberts MS,King JT Jr

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:For several decades, the clinical study of Parkinson's disease has driven an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the dopaminergic system and its complex role in modulating motor behavior. This article reviews salient areas of research in this field, commencing with the molecular biology of the development of t...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hodaie M,Neimat JS,Lozano AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:: The development of technical skills is a major goal of any neurosurgical training program. Residency programs in North America are focused on achieving an adequate level of training to produce technically competent surgeons. The training requirements and educational environments needed to produce expert surgeons are...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gélinas-Phaneuf N,Del Maestro RF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Operations on the 4th ventricle offer the potential for injury of the brain stem, cerebellum, cranial nerves, and major cerebellar arteries and veins. Twenty-five cadaver brains were examined using 3x to 25x magnification to define the relationship of these vital structures to the 4th ventricle. The 4th ventricle has ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Matsushima T,Rhoton AL Jr,Lenkey C

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case involving giant and multiple aneurysms of the distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is presented. Of the 130 reported cases of peripheral aneurysms of the PICA, 6 have been described as giant aneurysms and 5 have involved multiple aneurysms located on a single PICA. The occurrence of multiple aneur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dernbach PD,Sila CA,Little JR

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A two-stage approach using orbitozygomatic (OZ) and retrosigmoid (RS) craniotomies is one option for the management of petroclival lesions with supratentorial extension. The goal of this study was to investigate the supratentorial and infratentorial exposures of the clivus obtained through this staged approac...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Little AS,Jittapiromsak P,Crawford NR,Deshmukh P,Preul MC,Spetzler RF,Bambakidis NC

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade of the 18th century, Franz Joseph Gall of Vienna invented a combination of physiognomy and brain localization that he originally called "craniology" (the science of the head) and later called "organology" (the science of the organs of the brain). Between 1800 and 1812, he worked with Johann Christop...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Greenblatt SH

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the spinal evoked response to focal electrical stimulation of the sensorimotor cortex in 32 rats. The results demonstrate a long-latency response (beginning at 8 milliseconds) elicited by electrical stimulation, which is distinct from the short-latency motor evoked potential previously reported...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ryder J,Zappulla R,Nieves J

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A single-stage combined craniofacial-transfacial approach that exposes the midline cranial base without visible facial incisions is described. METHODS:Between 1992 and 1998, eight patients underwent surgery for five different anterior cranial base pathological findings: four angiofibromas, one mesenchymal ch...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Feiz-Erfan I,Han PP,Spetzler RF,Porter RW,Klopfenstein JD,Ferreira MA,Beals SP,Joganic EF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vittorio Marchi was an Italian neuroscientist who lived during the second half of the 19th century. He is generally remembered for developing a novel staining method to trace the degeneration of nervous fibers in lesions of the central nervous system. This osmium-based method was used worldwide for approximately a cen...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Talamonti G,D'Aliberti G,Debernardi A,Innocenti G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have reported a clinical trial of an autologous cervical sympathetic ganglion transplanted into the brain of a parkinsonian patient. A 45-year-old woman presented with bradykinesia and a gait disturbance for 8 years under L-dopa treatment. The patient underwent stereotactic transplantation of the right ste...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Itakura T,Komai N,Ryujin Y,Ooiwa Y,Nakai M,Yasui M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The author presents data to support the continued need for ablative procedures, particularly cordotomy, in the management of cancer-related pain. METHODS:Fifty-one patients with cancer-related body or face pain were treated with computed tomography-guided radiofrequency ablation of the spinothalamic tract or...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Raslan AM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:In surgery of spinal vascular lesions such as spinal arteriovenous fistula or vascular tumors, assessment of feeding arteries and draining veins is important. Intraoperative digital subtraction angiography is useful but is invasive and sometimes technically demanding. Near-infrared indocyanine...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Murakami T,Koyanagi I,Kaneko T,Iihoshi S,Houkin K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The lack of treatment options for surgically inaccessible cavernous malformations has made radiosurgery a possible alternative to conservative management. The few previous reports of radiosurgical efficacy have been limited by small numbers, short follow-up, or lack of attention to the full spectrum of end po...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Amin-Hanjani S,Ogilvy CS,Candia GJ,Lyons S,Chapman PH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) outflow resistance (Ro) using a bolus injection method was carried out under normal conditions and in a state of artificially increased elastance produced by saline loading into the CSF space. These values of Ro were compared with Ro estimated by the steady state infusion method...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Takizawa H,Gabra-Sanders T,Miller JD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External ventricular drainage (EVD) was used before and after posterior fossa operations in 62 children and adolescents. In all cases, the removal of the tumor (midline in 47 and laternal in 15) was attempted; total removal was achieved in 41. The overall mortality was 6.5% (4 patients). Only 25% of the survivors need...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Papo I,Caruselli G,Luongo A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Radiosurgery can be considered a well-established option for the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). The exact application of the therapeutic dose is based on the availability of imaging data sets with superior image quality that can be superimposed using an image fusion algorithm. For follow-up ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hamm KD,Klisch J,Surber G,Kleinert G,Eger C,Aschenbach R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biochemical alterations associated with mechanical stress have been explored as an initiating step in the pathological progression of ligamentum flavum hypertrophy (LFH); however, this mechanism remains poorly understood. Recently, the inflammation induced after mechanical stress and the subsequent response ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hur JW,Kim BJ,Park JH,Kim JH,Park YK,Kwon TH,Moon HJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intervertebral disc space infection can be a serious and disabling complication of any procedure that affords entry for bacteria into the susceptible disc space. Most disc space infections occur after cervical or lumbar laminectomies. Discitis has been reported after myelography, lumbar puncture, paravertebral injecti...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Zeiger HE Jr,Zampella EJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, including upper- and lower-extremity somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs), has been used to identify and prevent injury to neurovascular structures during conventional skull base surgery. The expanded endonasal approach (EEA) is a novel minimally invasive appr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Thirumala PD,Kassasm AB,Habeych M,Wichman K,Chang YF,Gardner P,Prevedello D,Snyderman C,Carrau R,Crammond DJ,Balzer J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00