Comparing the risks of frameless stereotactic biopsy in eloquent and noneloquent regions of the brain: a retrospective review of 284 cases.

abstract：:Arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) of lateral and sigmoid sinuses are acquired lesions evolving from a previously thrombosed dural sinus. Their natural history is usually that of gradual progression and hence surgery is frequently necessary. The preferred surgical treatment is complete excision coupled with packing o...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sundt TM Jr,Piepgras DG

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a unique case of subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the ophthalmic artery, which was successfully treated with coil embolization. Clinical and imaging features, as well as the relevant literature, are described. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hopkins JK,Shaibani A,Ali S,Khawar S,Parkinson R,Futterer S,Russell EJ,Getch C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the case of a 15-year-old boy with Crouzon syndrome (CS) who presented with headache and facial diplegia. He had undergone several craniofacial interventions and a posterior fossa decompression for tonsillar herniation caused by the CS. A ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt had been inserted for hydr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Thines L,Vinchon M,Lahlou A,Pellerin P,Dhellemmes P

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:A comprehensive review of the literature has shown that the treatment of choice for cerebellar astrocytomas has primarily been gross-total resection of the mass and gross-total resection of the enhancing portion of pilocytic astrocytomas. Most large scale studies of postresection survival rates of patients with cerebe...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Morreale VM,Ebersold MJ,Quast LM,Parisi JE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Sedation regimens for head-injured patients are quite variable. The short-acting sedative-anesthetic agent propofol is being increasingly used in such patients, yet little is known regarding its safety and efficacy. In this multicenter double-blind trial, a titratable infusion of 2% propofol accompanied by low-d...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kelly DF,Goodale DB,Williams J,Herr DL,Chappell ET,Rosner MJ,Jacobson J,Levy ML,Croce MA,Maniker AH,Fulda GJ,Lovett JV,Mohan O,Narayan RK

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:In the preceding article, the authors described the Hydrocephalus Outcome Questionnaire (HOQ), a simple, reliable, and valid measure of health status in children with hydrocephalus. In the present study, they present their initial experience in using the HOQ to quantify the health status in a typical cohort of c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kulkarni AV,Drake JM,Rabin D,Dirks PB,Humphreys RP,Rutka JT

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Pediatric cases of infratentorial subdural empyema (SDE) are both rare and associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The goal of this study was to report patient characteristics, treatment, and outcome in an exclusively pediatric series of SDE cases. METHODS:A series of 14 pediatric cases of infrat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Venkatesh MS,Pandey P,Devi BI,Khanapure K,Satish S,Sampath S,Chandramouli BA,Sastry KV

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the neuroimaging features, treatment planning, and outcome in a case of radiosurgical thalamotomy targeting the centromedian nucleus (CMN) for stroke-induced thalamic pain. A 79-year-old man, with embolic occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery and large hemispheric infarction involving the tha...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Keep MF,Mastrofrancesco L,Craig AD,Ashby LS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to examine the effect of postoperative external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) on disease-specific survival in patients with nonbenign meningiomas. METHODS:The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database from 1988 to 2007 was queried for cases of resected Grades II (atyp...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Stessin AM,Schwartz A,Judanin G,Pannullo SC,Boockvar JA,Schwartz TH,Stieg PE,Wernicke AG

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one monkeys were randomly divided into three groups to undergo baseline cerebral angiography followed by induction of subarachnoid hemorrhage by placement of autologous blood clot along the right-sided arteries of the anterior circle of Willis (Day 0). The monkeys were then given drug vehicle or one of two endo...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hino A,Weir BK,Macdonald RL,Thisted RA,Kim CJ,Johns LM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous intracranial hypotension due to a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak in the spine is an important cause of new, daily persistent headaches. Most patients respond well to conservative treatments including epidural blood patching. Limited options for effective treatment are available for patients in whom these t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Schievink WI,Maya MM,Moser FM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness and limitations of gamma surgery (GS) in the treatment of brain metastases from melanoma. METHODS:Imaging and clinical outcomes in 45 patients treated for 92 brain metastases from melanoma between October 1989 and October 1999 were retrospectively analyzed. F...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mingione V,Oliveira M,Prasad D,Steiner M,Steiner L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central canal of the human spinal cord is partially or completely occluded in the vast majority of individuals by the early years of adult life. The authors describe an experimental lesion following virus-induced ependymitis that bears a striking resemblance to the condition in man. Suckling hamsters were inoculat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Milhorat TH,Kotzen RM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral [anterior internal] capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) is under investigation as an alternative to anterior capsulotomy for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In neuroimaging studies of patients with OCD, dysfunction in the orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rauch SL,Dougherty DD,Malone D,Rezai A,Friehs G,Fischman AJ,Alpert NM,Haber SN,Stypulkowski PH,Rise MT,Rasmussen SA,Greenberg BD

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are reporting a retrospective study of 62 patients whose head injury was sufficiently severe to cause a high probability of posttraumatic epilepsy. Of 50 patients treated with phenytoin, 10% developed epilepsy of late onset. Twelve patients not treated with phenytoin but who had head injuries of equal magnitude had...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wohns RN,Wyler AR

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the level of patient satisfaction and approach-related patient complaints between a superciliary keyhole approach and a pterional approach. METHODS Patients who underwent an ipsilateral superciliary keyhole approach and a contralateral pterional approac...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Park J,Son W,Kwak Y,Ohk B

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood flow for the whole spinal cord (SCBF), central cord (largely gray matter), and peripheral cord (largely white matter) has been measured at all segmental levels using radioactive microspheres in conscious sheep. Whole SCBF was greatest in the lower cervical and lumbar enlargements and least in the upper cervical ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hales JR,Yeo JD,Stabback S,Fawcett AA,Kearns R

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic studies of three rare childhood brain tumors were performed. Two children presented with pure rhabdoid tumors. The third child had a tumor composed of a mixture of rhabdoid elements with neuroepithelial, epithelial, and mesenchymal tissue - an atypical teratoid tumor. All three tumors demonstrated monosomy...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Biegel JA,Rorke LB,Packer RJ,Emanuel BS

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maffucci syndrome is a rare disease characterized by multiple enchondromas and soft-tissue hemangiomas. Additionally, neuroendocrine tumors including pituitary adenomas have been described in these patients. The underlying genetic etiology lies in somatic mosaicism of mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) or ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hao S,Hong CS,Feng J,Yang C,Chittiboina P,Zhang J,Zhuang Z

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head trauma, intracerebral hematoma formation, and hemorrhagic cerebral infarction cause extravasation of the intravascular contents, red blood cell (RBC) hemolysis, hemosiderin deposition within the neuropil, and an increased incidence of epilepsy. Reports conflict regarding the efficacy of the administration of prop...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Willmore LJ,Triggs WJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Disturbance of calcium homeostasis contributes to evolving tissue damage and energetic impairment following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Calcium-mediated activation of calcineurin results in production of tissue-damaging nitric oxide and free oxygen radicals. Inhibition of calcineurin induced by the immunosuppr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Stover JF,Schöning B,Sakowitz OW,Woiciechowsky C,Unterberg AW

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The facial nerve in vestibular schwannomas (VSs) is located on the ventral tumor surface in more than 90% of cases; other courses are rare. A split facial nerve course with two distinct bundles has thus far been described exclusively for medial extrameatal tumors. METHODS:Between 1996 and 2005, 16 consecutive c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Strauss C,Prell J,Rampp S,Romstöck J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of spontaneous respirations at a PaCO2 of 60 mm Hg or above has traditionally been accepted as the respiratory criteria for the determination of brain death. The testing of patients for the presence or absence of apnea has been complicated because the rate of PaCO2 elevation may vary substantially from pat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Benzel EC,Mashburn JP,Conrad S,Modling D

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors conducted a biomechanical study to evaluate pedicle screw pullout strength in osteoporotic cadaveric spines. Nonaugmented hemivertebrae were compared with pressurized polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)-augmented hemivertebrae. METHODS:Six formalin-fixed cadaveric thoracolumbar spines at least two standar...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sarzier JS,Evans AJ,Cahill DW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors reviewed their experience with endoscopic approaches to determine their safety and efficacy in the treatment of pediatric patients who harbor skull base lesions. Although they were interested in ascertaining outcomes after surgery as well as validating and defining indications and limitations of thes...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kassam A,Thomas AJ,Snyderman C,Carrau R,Gardner P,Mintz A,Kanaan H,Horowitz M,Pollack IF

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:It remains unclear whether elderly patients with compressive cervical myelopathy can be expected to experience a promising surgery-related outcome after undergoing expansive laminoplasty. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of expansive laminoplasty in elderly patients with cervical myelopat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Handa Y,Kubota T,Ishii H,Sato K,Tsuchida A,Arai Y

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral protection from an ischemic/hypoxic insult implies that tissue injury can be controlled or even prevented by certain therapeutic maneuvers. For example, physiological thresholds may be altered so that tissue vulnerability to the insult is reduced, or the intensity of an insult may be blunted by enhancing brai...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hoff JT

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of subarachnoid hemorrhage in an 11-month-old infant with tragic outcome. Radiological investigation showed an anterior communicating aneurysm, and postmortem examination confirmed the aneurysm to be a so-called "berry" aneurysm. There were also typical signs of fibromuscular hyperplasia of t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bolander H,Hassler O,Liliequist B,West KA

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is widely used for the clinical treatment of various human diseases. Recent studies have demonstrated that low-energy ESWT upregulates the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and promotes angiogenesis and functional recovery in myocardial infarction an...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yamaya S,Ozawa H,Kanno H,Kishimoto KN,Sekiguchi A,Tateda S,Yahata K,Ito K,Shimokawa H,Itoi E

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00