Dietary supplementation with the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid in traumatic brain injury.

abstract：:In the May 2009 issue of The Lancet Neurology, the 5-year follow-up results of the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) were published. The authors concluded that, although the significant difference between coiling and neurosurgical clipping of ruptured intracranial aneurysms in terms of death and severe ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bakker NA,Metzemaekers JD,Groen RJ,Mooij JJ,Van Dijk JM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a review of 147 patients with intracranial aneurysms surgically treated by one surgeon (FAD) between 1980 and 1987, 36 selected patients received intraoperative barbiturate protection with sodium thiopental during temporary arterial occlusion. Thiopental doses of 5 to 15 mg/kg were used. Twenty-nine of 36 (81%) had...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： McDermott MW,Durity FA,Borozny M,Mountain MA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present 25 pituitary adenomas that were confirmed surgically to have invaded the cavernous sinus space. The surgical results are compared with the preoperative magnetic resonance imaging findings. For comparable radiological criteria, we classified parasellar growth into five grades. This proposed classification is...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Knosp E,Steiner E,Kitz K,Matula C

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rotational vertebral artery syndrome (RVAS) is a rare entity about which previously published studies are mostly limited to individual case reports. OBJECTIVE:To report our decade-long experience with this syndrome in 9 patients with compression ranging from the occiput to C6. METHODS:We utilized a posteri...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lu DC,Zador Z,Mummaneni PV,Lawton MT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraprocedural rupture is a dangerous complication of endovascular treatment. Small ruptured anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysms and microaneurysms present a challenge for both surgical and endovascular therapies to achieve obliteration. An understanding of the complication rates of treating rupt...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Schuette AJ,Hui FK,Spiotta AM,Obuchowski NA,Gupta R,Moskowitz SI,Tong FC,Dion JE,Cawley CM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the factors of importance for the obliteration of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), thus making a prediction of the probability for obliteration possible. METHODS:In 945 AVMs of a series of 1319 patients treated with the gamma knife during 1970 to 1990, the relationship between patient, ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Karlsson B,Lindquist C,Steiner L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) are promising biomarkers of traumatic brain injury (TBI). OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relation of the GFAP and UCH-L1 levels to the severity of TBI during the first week after injury. METHODS:Plasma UCH-L1 and GFAP were...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Posti JP,Takala RS,Runtti H,Newcombe VF,Outtrim J,Katila AJ,Frantzén J,Ala-Seppälä H,Coles JP,Hossain MI,Kyllönen A,Maanpää HR,Tallus J,Hutchinson PJ,van Gils M,Menon DK,Tenovuo O

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Interventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows neurosurgeons to interactively perform surgery using MRI guidance. High-field strength (1.5-T) imaging permits exceptional observation of intracranial and spinal pathological features. The development of this technology and its application to a variety of...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hall WA,Liu H,Martin AJ,Pozza CH,Maxwell RE,Truwit CL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the usefulness of a cellulose acetate polymer (CAP) solution for partial thrombosis of aneurysms. METHODS:We created 14 canine cervical carotid bifurcation aneurysms, 11 of which were subsequently thrombosed partially with CAP solution. We then conducted angiographic and histological investiga...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Tokunaga K,Kinugasa K,Mandai S,Handa A,Hirotsune N,Ohmoto T

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hemifacial spasm caused by a cerebellopontine angle lipoma is extremely rare. We describe a patient with left-sided hemifacial spasm caused by vascular compression of the facial and vestibulocochlear cranial nerves by the anteroinferior cerebellar artery embedded within a cerebellopontine angle lipoma. CLINI...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Barajas RF Jr,Chi J,Guo L,Barbaro N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with recurrent malignant central nervous system gliomas were treated with a combination of 5-fluorouracil, CCNU, hydroxyurea, and 6-mercaptopurine. Thirteen patients had brain stem gliomas, 3 patients had spinal cord gliomas, 3 patients had thalamic gliomas, and 2 patients had cerebellar astrocytom...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rodriguez LA,Prados M,Fulton D,Edwards MS,Silver P,Levin V

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors discuss the indications for both elective and emergency carotid endarterectomy. Reports on the surgical treatment of asymptomatic bruit and contralateral carotid stenosis are reviewed. The results of endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid disease, including transient ischemic attacks, acute neurological de...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Loftus CM,Quest DO

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a rare sequelae of a skull fracture in an adult, a leptomeningeal cyst. A unique method for repairing this defect is described as well. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Halliday AL,Chapman PH,Heros RC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is often perceived as a passive membrane. However, evidence has demonstrated that the BBB plays an active role in normal homeostasis and in certain disease processes. METHODS:Approximately 300 peer-reviewed publications that discussed normal or abnormal BBB function were reviewe...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Neuwelt EA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of vasospasm on costs, length of stay, and mortality among inpatients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. METHODS:We combined hospital accounting and physician billing data for a consecutive cohort of 198 patients who underwent surgical clipping or endovascular coiling for subarachn...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chou CH,Reed SD,Allsbrook JS,Steele JL,Schulman KA,Alexander MJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe newly developed tumor-holding clips, which have been applied in more than 50 patients with large or deep-seated tumors. We devised various kinds of standard tumor clips by modifying Sugita aneurysm clips. Our new tumor clips permit gentle, steady, and easy retraction of the tumor in any direction without d...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shima T,Okada Y,Nishida M,Yamane K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two series of cats, totaling 12 animals, the effect of 1 g of intravenous mannitol per kg over 15 minutes on pial vessels (cranial window technique, multichannel videoangiometry) and intracranial pressure (ICP) was investigated under circumstances of normal ICP and ICP elevated to 20 mm Hg by the cisternal infusion...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Auer LM,Haselsberger K

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the pathological features of three very similar and unusual primary central nervous system tumors that are not readily recognized as conventional ependymomas but which, by ultrastructural examination, have an ependymomatous character. METHODS:Three distinctive tumors were found in a review of our...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kleinman GM,Zagzag D,Miller DC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of interposed nerve graft repair of an oculomotor nerve damaged during surgery for a laterally growing retrosellar pituitary adenoma is reported. The patient showed partial but functionally useful recovery of nerve function and was able to resume professional work. Only a few reports of end-to-end repair have b...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Krajewski R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 50 consecutive patients treated with chemonucleolysis and 50 treated with microlumbar discectomy was carried out. Similar clinical criteria for the diagnosis of "virgin" herniated lumbar discs were used. All patients had low back or radicular pain unrelieved by a minimum of 4 weeks of conse...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Maroon JC,Abla A

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The synergistic effect of clonidine with bupivacaine, well established in peripheral nerve blocks, remains controversial in local field block for postoperative analgesia. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential analgesic benefit of adding clonidine to bupivacaine during preincisional field block in posterior...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Abdel Hay J,Kobaiter-Maarrawi S,Tabet P,Moussa R,Rizk T,Nohra G,Okais N,Samaha E,Maarrawi J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to increase the safety of anterior cervical discectomy, a routine surgery performed by neurosurgeons worldwide, in the face of vertebral artery (VA) anomalies. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 59-year-old woman had an intraoperative injury of the left VA during elective anterior cervical discectomy and f...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gantwerker BR,Baaj AA,Maughan PH,McDougall CG,White WL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine if a window of time could be defined during which angioplasty would be most effective in reversing neurological decline and ultimately improving outcome. METHODS:Of a group of 466 patients, 93 underwent endovascular management of clinical vasospasm that was medically refractory. Eighty-four of ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rosenwasser RH,Armonda RA,Thomas JE,Benitez RP,Gannon PM,Harrop J

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Deep-seated supratentorial intraparenchymal and intraventricular brain lesions can be difficult to access without causing significant trauma to the overlying cortex and intervening white matter tracts. Traditional brain retractors use multiple blades, which do not exert pressure in an equally distributed fash...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Greenfield JP,Cobb WS,Tsouris AJ,Schwartz TH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The postangioplasty evaluation of a stenotic vessel is often conducted by studying serial angiograms to determine the anatomic reduction in stenosis. In flow-limiting stenosis, the hemodynamic change that accompanies these anatomic changes is of great importance in evaluating the success of the angioplasty. T...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Guppy KH,Charbel FT,Corsten LA,Zhao M,Debrun G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrawound vancomycin powder has been studied extensively in spinal fusion surgeries and been found to reduce rates of surgical site infections (SSIs) significantly. Despite its success in spinal surgeries, topical vancomycin has not been extensively studied with respect to cranial neurosurgery. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ravikumar V,Ho AL,Pendhakar AV,Sussman ES,Kwong-Hon Chow K,Li G

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:As a consequence of the increased use of endovascular coiling of intracranial aneurysms, a growing number of case reports on complications are being reported. This article presents a case with a previously undescribed complication of coil treatment: a reactive, noninfectious process after coil...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： König M,Bakke SJ,Scheie D,Sorteberg W,Meling TR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lumbar spine degenerative pathologies are prevalent in the United States. The health benefit of spine surgery in the elderly has been questioned. OBJECTIVE:To compare effectiveness, morbidity, and quality of care associated with surgical management of degenerative lumbar spinal disorders in elderly vs nonel...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： McGirt MJ,Parker SL,Hilibrand A,Mummaneni P,Glassman SD,Devin CJ,Asher AL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative ultrasound can aid the biopsy of deep intracranial lesions. It is, perhaps, less clear whether ultrasound could be useful in functional neurosurgery, where the target is not abnormal in echogenicity. As an example, we chose to investigate in a dog model the periventricular gray target, which is frequent...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Brown FD,Rachlin JR,Rubin JM,Fessler RG,Smith LJ,Schaible KL

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Spontaneous spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks have been noted occasionally at multiple sites in the same patient, but recurrent spontaneous spinal CSF leaks have not been documented. We describe a patient with a recurrent CSF leak who was found at surgery to have an absence of the entire n...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Schievink WI,Jacques L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00