Extent of resection and the long-term durability of vestibular schwannoma surgery.

abstract：:An unusual case of a sacral, extradural choroid plexus papilloma involving the S1-3 level is described. This 50-year-old woman presented with a 4-month history of pain involving her right buttock, perineum, and leg. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the spine revealed a well-defined, mildly enhancin...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kurtkaya-Yapicier O,Scheithauer BW,Van Peteghem KP,Sawicki JE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the technique used to safely identify the petrous carotid artery during expanded endonasal approaches to the skull base. A series of 20 cadaveric studies was undertaken to isolate the vidian artery and nerve and to use them as landmarks to the petrous internal carotid artery (...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kassam AB,Vescan AD,Carrau RL,Prevedello DM,Gardner P,Mintz AH,Snyderman CH,Rhoton AL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the successful staged stenting and coil embolization of a large vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery (VA-PICA) aneurysm using the contralateral VA for access. A 67-year-old woman presented with a large ruptured VA-PICA aneurysm. Initial attempts to stent the wide-necked aneurysm fro...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ecker RD,Hanel RA,Levy EI,Hopkins LN

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the trial discontinuation and publication rate of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in neurosurgery. METHODS Trials registered from 2000 to 2012 were identified on the website clinicaltrials.gov using a range of key words related to neurosurgery. Any trials that were actively ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Jamjoom AAB,Gane AB,Demetriades AK

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Intrasylvian hematoma (ISH) is a subtype of intracranial hematoma caused by aneurysmal rupture and often presents with a poor initial neurological grade; it is not well studied. The aim of this study was to elucidate outcomes of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with ISH. METHODS:Data for 97 patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fukuda H,Hayashi K,Moriya T,Nakashita S,Lo BW,Yamagata S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage rarely occurs in young adults. The aim of this work was to clarify the clinical characteristics of ruptured aneurysms in young adults in the third and fourth decades of life and to compare these two age groups. METHODS:The authors retrospectively investigated 2493 patients who...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Horiuchi T,Tanaka Y,Hongo K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a posttraumatic leptomeningeal cyst is described. The cyst simulated an occipital encephalocele and communicated with an epidural cerebrospinal fluid collection in the posterior fossa. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nemoto S,Hoffman HJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for the origin of the commonly held principle in current neurosurgery regarding the resectability of the anterior one third of the superior sagittal sinus unravels the many fascinating developments that occurred in neurosurgery during the early 20th century. All these occurrences can be traced back to, and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Shrivastava RK,Segal S,Camins MB,Sen C,Post KD

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this prospective study was twofold: 1) to determine the sensitivity and specificity of computer-derived density spectral array in detecting analog electroencephalographic (EEG) ischemic pattern changes during carotid artery cross-clamping in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy; and 2) to assess t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kearse LA Jr,Martin D,McPeck K,Lopez-Bresnahan M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Changes in cortical representation in patients with cerebral lesions may alter the correlation between cortical anatomy and function. This is of potential clinical significance when the extent of cortical resection is based on surface anatomical landmarks. METHODS:Fifty-one patients with supratentorial lesions ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bittar RG,Olivier A,Sadikot AF,Andermann F,Reutens DC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Prognostic factors for outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) include the clinical and pathological characteristics of the patient and hemorrhage as well as some aspects of treatment. Because treatment can vary between countries and continents, the authors used a large database of patients with S...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lipsman N,Tolentino J,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atretic cephalocele appears as an unimportant and benign lesion. This malformation consists of meningeal and vestigial tissues (arachnoid, glial, or central nervous system rests). The authors report the findings in 16 cases (seven parietal and nine occipital) of rudimentary cephaloceles. Twelve patients presented with...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Martinez-Lage JF,Sola J,Casas C,Poza M,Almagro MJ,Girona DG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was measured at different times during the first 150 minutes following an experimental space-occupying lesion produced with a 50-microliter microballoon in rats. Local CBF was measured with the carbon-14-labeled iodoantipyrine quantitative autoradiographic technique. A region of local ischemi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kingman TA,Mendelow AD,Graham DI,Teasdale GM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, the authors demonstrated that meningioma cells secrete platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-like molecules that stimulate their own growth in an autocrine manner. Based on that finding, a study was undertaken to examine the effect of trapidil, a drug known to have an antagonistic action against P...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Todo T,Adams EF,Fahlbusch R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of extracranial traumatic aneurysm formation has not been fully elucidated. Intraarterial optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging modality capable of micrometer cross-sectional resolution, was used to evaluate patients presenting with saccular traumatic aneurysms of the internal carotid arte...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Griessenauer CJ,Foreman PM,Deveikis JP,Harrigan MR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some intracranial aneurysms that might be considered inoperable by open craniotomy are readily treatable by stereotaxic thrombosis. This is possible because the stereotaxic technique requires only that some point on the fundus of the aneurysm can be punctured with a needle. Illustrative cases are given describing the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Smith RW,Alksne JF

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite diagnostic advances, it remains difficult to identify intrasellar and ectopic parasellar adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting microadenomas. The authors present the case of a 61-year-old woman with Cushing disease in whom a significant central-to-peripheral and lateralized right-sided ACTH gradient was...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kim LJ,Klopfenstein JD,Cheng M,Nagul M,Coons S,Fredenberg C,Brachman DG,White WL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), xenon-133 measurement of cerebral blood flow (CBF), and neuropsychological assessments are described in three head-injured patients. The patients were selected because they presented with intracranial hemorrh...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Langfitt TW,Obrist WD,Alavi A,Grossman RI,Zimmerman R,Jaggi J,Uzzell B,Reivich M,Patton DR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The functional recovery of hand prehension after complete brachial plexus avulsion injury (BPAI) remains an unsolved problem. The authors conducted a prospective study to elucidate a new method of resolving this injury. METHODS:Three patients with BPAI underwent a new procedure during which the full-length phre...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Xu WD,Lu JZ,Qiu YQ,Jiang S,Xu L,Xu JG,Gu YD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular asymmetries after shunt surgery were studied. Right and left ventricular areas from pre-and postoperative computerized tomography scans were measured with a computer digitizing technique, and the respective areas were expressed as a ratio. Measurements were made from the scans of 15 hydrocephalic children ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Linder M,Diehl JT,Sklar FH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of cerebrovascular malformations intrigued early neurosurgeons. Cushing defined vascular malformations as tumors arising from cerebral blood vessels. He successfully resected the first arteriovenous malformation 3 years after it had been irradiated. In the absence of angiography, the pathoanatom...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cohen-Gadol AA,Spencer DD

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) often present with impaired gait and cognition together with ventricular enlargement and normal intracranial pressure. Many have vascular risk factors as well as periventricular and deep white matter changes on MR imaging. Abnormal CSF dynamics, that ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tisell M,Tullberg M,Hellström P,Edsbagge M,Högfeldt M,Wikkelsö C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS) is one of a spectrum of overlapping clinical syndromes resulting from mutations in the gene GLI3 on chromosome 7p. Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) is caused by mutations in three distinct genes, including Malcavernin (CCM2), which also maps to chromosome 7p and i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bilguvar K,Bydon M,Bayrakli F,Ercan-Sencicek AG,Bayri Y,Mason C,DiLuna ML,Seashore M,Bronen R,Lifton RP,State M,Gunel M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors analyzed tumor control rates and complications in patients with superficially located meningiomas after gamma knife surgery (GKS). METHODS:Between 1998 and 2003, GKS was performed in 23 patients with 26 lesions in whom follow-up imaging for 1 year or more was available. The male/female ratio was 1:2...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kim DG,Kim ChH,Chung HT,Paek SH,Jeong SS,Han DH,Jung HW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to investigate potential episodes of cerebral ischemia during surgery for large and complicated aneurysms, by examining the effects of arterial temporary clipping and the impact of confounding variables such as blood pressure and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage. METHODS:Brain tissue...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kett-White R,Hutchinson PJ,Al-Rawi PG,Czosnyka M,Gupta AK,Pickard JD,Kirkpatrick PJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The 201Tl uptake index was evaluated for its usefulness in formulating a diagnosis of hemangioblastoma. Thallium-201-single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) studies were performed in nine patients harboring hemangioblastomas in the posterior fossa and in five patients (six lesions) with gliomas in...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kondo T,Kumabe T,Maruoka S,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of spontaneous regression of a herniated cervical nucleus pulposus in a patient with myelopathy. This 37-year-old woman developed sudden quadriparesis; she had reported no history of trauma. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a large disc herniation and increased signal intensity of th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Song JH,Park HK,Shin KM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Smoking is a known risk factor for aneurysm development and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, as well as subsequent vasospasm in both untreated individuals and patients who have undergone surgical clipping of cerebrovascular aneurysms. However, there is a lack of data in the current scientific literature a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Futchko J,Starr J,Lau D,Leach MR,Roark C,Pandey AS,Thompson BG

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes a new technique for exposure of the cervical spine laminae in which the attachments of the semispinalis cervicis and multifidus muscles to the spinous processes are left untouched. It provides a conservative exposure through which a diverse range of posterior cervical surgeries can be performed. I...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Shiraishi T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors report a simple method for bilateral open-door cervical expansive laminoplasty in which hydroxyapatite (HA) spacers are secured by titanium screws. A biomechanical study was also conducted to confirm the strength of the screw fixation. METHODS:A unilateral posterior approach was used to allow preser...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Takayasu M,Takagi T,Nishizawa T,Osuka K,Nakajima T,Yoshida J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00