Role of gamma knife radiosurgery for recurrent or residual World Health Organization grade II and III intracranial meningiomas.

abstract：:Thoracic complications of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt are very rare. We report an unusual case of VP shunt intrathoracic migration, associated with symptomatic hydrothorax. The patient was successfully managed with revision. We reviewed the 10 cases reported in the literature and discussed the mechanism of shunt-t...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Akyüz M,Uçar T,Göksu E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial penetration during attempted nasogastric intubation is a rare, often lethal occurrence. We report the inadvertent introduction of a nasogastric tube intracranially in a neonate following repair of unilateral choanal atresia. Following manual removal of the tube, the patient made a good recovery. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nathoo N,Nadvi SS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wide-necked and non-saccular aneurysms are difficult to treat with coil embolization. The use of stents has expanded the role of endovascular treatment. METHODS:A retrospective study of 43 patients with wide-necked, fusiform or blister aneurysms treated with stent-assisted coiling or stent alone. The review...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Galal A,Bahrassa F,Dalfino JC,Boulos AS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of isolated myxopapillary ependymoma (MPE) of the fourth ventricle. This is the thirteenth reported case of primary intracranial MPE and the fourth reported case of MPE originating from the fourth ventricle. We suggest that exhaustive clinical and radiological investigation of a spinal ependymoma must...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kumaria A,Chan HW,Goldspring RJ,Paine SML,Dow GR

更新日期：2018-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND CONTEXT:Transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) is recognised as a treatment for symptomatic lumbar disc herniation, whilst surgical decompression is generally thought to be the most effective treatment option for lumbar spinal stenosis. There is little available literature examining the effect of ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Davis N,Hourigan P,Clarke A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic pseudoaneurysms of the superficial temporal artery are uncommon. They present to a variety of specialities - orthopaedics, ear, nose and throat, neurosurgery, maxillofacial, plastic surgery, vascular surgery and dermatology. Experience managing these lesions is therefore limited and diluted. We present a cas...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Murphy M,Hughes D,Liaquat I,Edmondson R,Bullock P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a fenestrated basilar artery aneurysm successfully clipped by means of a right presigmoid petrosal approach. Three-dimensional CT angiography enabled the surgeon to plan an approach to an aneurysm in this unique location, and the presigmoid petrosal approach was suitable for clipping of the ane...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Arai H,Sato K,Miyajima M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a surgical series of 74 patients (30 males and 44 females) with pathologically verified cavernous angiomas of the intracranial and orbital compartments. Patients were admitted between 1975 and 1991; six had a family history of cerebral cavernomas, and two had multiple (two) lesions. The 76 malformations wer...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Acciarri N,Padovani R,Giulioni M,Gaist G,Acciarri R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the infraorbital nerve (ION) has been used to establish an animal mode of trigeminal neuralgia (TN), but key parameters of the model have not been quantified until now. Objective: The aim of the study was to quantify a standard of pain threshold to evaluate a succes...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Xia L,Liu MX,Zhong J,Dou NN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established treatment modality for chronic pain, angina pectoris, and peripheral vascular disease. This study evaluates experience with SCS over a 13-year period with emphasis on surgical complications, revisions and pain relief. It took the form of a retrospective study of medical/...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kay AD,McIntyre MD,Macrae WA,Varma TR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Radiation exposure is a known risk factor for meningioma but there are no data regarding hemangiopericytoma and radiation exposure.Case Description: We report a 29-year-old pineoblastoma patient diagnosed with a hemangiopericytoma at a different location, after a successful surgical excision and adjuvant r...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Demirci Otluoglu G,Zorlu E,Yılmaz B,Akakın A,Yapıcıer O,Kilic T

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Decompressive craniectomy is often emergently performed in an effort to reduce intracranial hypertension. After this urgent intervention, brain-injured patients often start rehabilitation programs but are left with a skull defect. Cranioplasty is often performed in these situations in order to repair this def...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Di Stefano C,Sturiale C,Trentini P,Bonora R,Rossi D,Cervigni G,Piperno R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the operative technique and our preliminary experience with use of the Renishaw neuromate(®) stereotactic robot to implant depth electrodes for investigation of focal epilepsy in the UK. Conventional electrocorticography involving a craniotomy and implantation of grids of electrodes directly onto the brain...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Abhinav K,Prakash S,Sandeman DR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three patients treated for cervical radiculopathy by anterior cervical discectomy and BOP grafting. Because of recurrent symptoms re-exploration was carried out 30 months later in the first case, 10 months in second and 8 months in the third case. At reoperation the grafts were disrupted into easily separabl...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hafez RF,Crockard HA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The operative management and early post-operative outcome of 16 consecutive cases of paediatric penetrating head injury treated by a single surgeon at a military trauma centre in Southern Afghanistan are retrospectively analysed. The majority of cases of injury were caused by fragments from exploding munitions. The ai...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mathew P,Gibbons AJ,Christie M,Eisenburg MF

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：:Cerebellar haemangioblastomas commonly arise in patients with von Hippel - Lindau disease. We present the case of a 47-year-old male who has successfully undergone 10 separate procedures for symptomatic cerebellar haemangioblastomas. To our knowledge, this case is unique with respect to the frequency of symptomatic re...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Newman S,Wasserberg J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The azygous anterior cerebral artery (AACA) is a rare anatomical variant, which is frequently associated with saccular aneurysms. These aneurysms are often located in the distal segment of the AACA. Proximal AACA aneurysms are rare and pose considerable challenges, both in radiological characterization and in manageme...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nair R,Menon G,Govindaraju L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure to follow patients with hydrocephalus can expose them to potentially fatal consequences. Two cases are used to illustrate this and the merits of follow-up of these patients are discussed. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Buxton N,Punt J

更新日期：1998-10-01 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

abstract：:We describe a patient who within 2 months of undergoing radio-chemotherapy for glioblastoma developed an Epstein-Barr virus-positive primary diffuse large B-cell CNS lymphoma. To our knowledge, this is the first such case reported in the literature showing that new tumefactions following aggressive treatment for gliob...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zakaria Z,Fenton E,Khalil A,Sattar MT,Molnar P

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with cauda equina syndrome (CES) are frequently referred late when neurological damage cannot be reversed. National Guidelines for emergency referral, imaging and treatment of CES contain symptoms and/or signs that are those of late often, irreversible CES. Referral at this stage may be too late f...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Todd NV

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Object/Background: Vasospasm is a common cause of mortality and morbidity following rupture of intracranial aneurysm. Hemodynamic therapy instituted in these patients in the past has been replaced by direct manipulation of the spastic vessels by angioplasty and intra-arterial infusion of vasodilators. Howeve...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Goel R,Aggarwal A,Salunke P,Kumar A,Chhabra R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of 21 patients who underwent syringopleural shunting for syringomyelia is summarised. All the patients were continuing to deteriorate at the time of the operation. Objective improvement was seen in nine patients following the procedure but three subsequently deteriorated. Contralateral syrinx sympt...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Williams B,Page N

更新日期：1987-01-01 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 report a case of a giant serpentine aneurysm of the right middle cerebral artery (MCA) that was treated by total excision of the aneurysm with cerebral blood flow control management. Four years later the patient presented with a three month history of headache and angiograms showed a new aneurysm on a different bra...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bakaç G,Gholkar A,Mendelow AD

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to measure metabolic changes monitored by bedside microdialysis during impending and manifest hypoxia in traumatic brain injury. In 41 patients, a PtiO2-catheter (Licox; 1/min) was placed into non-lesioned frontal white matter together with a microdialysis catheter (CMA, hourly). Data were analysed f...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sarrafzadeh AS,Kiening KL,Callsen TA,Unterberg AW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroid plexus xanthogranulomas are uncommon lesions that occur almost exclusively in adults; most of them constitute incidental autopsy findings. A case of symptomatic bilateral xanthogranulomas of choroid plexus in a 6 year-old girl with progressive visual loss is reported. Theories on the pathogenesis of this entit...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mendez-Martinez OE,Luzardo-Small GD,Cardozo-Duran JJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 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