Operation of arteriovenous malformations assisted by stereoscopic navigation-controlled display of preoperative magnetic resonance angiography and intraoperative ultrasound angiography.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgery for tumors in eloquent brain faces immense challenges when attempting to maximize resection and avoid neurological deficits. OBJECTIVE:In order to give the surgeon real-time atlas-based anatomic information linked to the patient's anatomy, we developed a software-based interface between deformable a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Vabulas M,Kumar VA,Hamilton JD,Martinez JJ,Rao G,Sawaya R,Prabhu SS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The complement system is thought to play a major role in initiating some of the inflammatory events that occur during reperfusion injury. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of C1 esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) on ischemic injury in the rat model of middle cerebral artery suture occlusion and reperfu...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Akita N,Nakase H,Kaido T,Kanemoto Y,Sakaki T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in neurosurgical planning allows identification of white matter tracts and has been associated with a reduction in postoperative functional deficits. Objective:This study explores the relationship between the lesion-to-tract distance (LTD) and postoperative morbidity and...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Meyer EJ,Gaggl W,Gilloon B,Swan B,Greenstein M,Voss J,Hussain N,Holdsworth RL,Nair VA,Meyerand ME,Kuo JS,Baskaya MK,Field AS,Prabhakaran V

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective analysis of cranioplasty, vertebral body replacement, and spinal fusion using tobramycin-impregnated methylmethacrylate in 65 patients is presented. Cranioplastic methacrylate (1 packet) was mixed with 1.2 g of powdered tobramycin and placed into the desired location. The polymer was irrigated with bacit...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shapiro SA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An original stereotactic radiosurgical approach coupling a) Talairach's stereotactic methodology, b) a specially devised mechanical system, and c) a linear accelerator is detailed. The authors present their preliminary results on 66 patients with nonsurgical intracranial arteriovenous malformations. The doses delivere...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Betti OO,Munari C,Rosler R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:Injuries in professional football players are common because of the nature of the collisions and the frequency of axial loading to the cervical spine. These injuries should be thoroughly evaluated because they can put the player at risk of future injury and even paralysis. The focus of this re...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Drakos MC,Feeley BT,Barnes R,Muller M,Burruss TP,Warren RF

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The bony and vascular anatomic features in the region of the petrous apex can vary significantly. These variations affect the operative view obtained via extended subtemporal or anterior transpetrosal approaches to cranial base lesions for individual patients. The goal of this study was to evaluate three-dime...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Villavicencio AT,Leveque JC,Bulsara KR,Friedman AH,Gray L

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the utilization of neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring with motor evoked potentials (MEPs) has become widespread in surgery for traumatic spine fractures and spinal cord injury (SCI), clinical validation of its diagnostic and therapeutic benefit has been limited. OBJECTIVE:To describe the use o...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dhall SS,Haefeli J,Talbott JF,Ferguson AR,Readdy WJ,Bresnahan JC,Beattie MS,Pan JZ,Manley GT,Whetstone WD

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The statement that intracranial meningiomas are cleavable tumors has to be seriously questioned from a surgical standpoint. The purpose of this study was 1) to analyze the operative reports of a personal series of meningiomas to evaluate the percentages of the tumors that could be dissected by passing in the ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sindou MP,Alaywan M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this study, information about the localization of the central sulcus obtained by magnetic source imaging (MSI) was intraoperatively translated to the brain, using frameless image-guided stereotaxy. In the past, the MSI results could be translated to the surgical space only by indirect methods (e.g., the co...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ganslandt O,Steinmeier R,Kober H,Vieth J,Kassubek J,Romstöck J,Strauss C,Fahlbusch R

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In meningioma surgery, the completeness of resection is of great importance with regard to prognosis and recurrence. This is more difficult in meningiomas en plaque and cranial base meningiomas, which often involve the bone of the cranial base. We present a case in which radioguided resection of a meningioma ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dammers R,Hsu SP,Krisht AF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIPPOCRATIC WORKS LEND themselves still today to the modern physician for further analysis of his approach to the diagnosis and treatment of various pathological conditions. We present an attempt to systematize his methodology regarding the management of head trauma and present it in the format of a modern-era algorit...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dimopoulos VG,Machinis TG,Fountas KN,Robinson JS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial epidermoid and dermoid tumors are unusual benign lesions that are potentially curable. Subtotal removal carries a high incidence of recurrence, plus the rare possibility of carcinomatous degeneration of the remnants. Aseptic meningitis from spillage of cyst contents into the subarachnoid space is frequent...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Abramson RC,Morawetz RB,Schlitt M

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen studies on psychosocial aspects of back pain are reviewed. Among six studies trying to differentiate pain of organic and functional origin, only two studies claim to be able to make such a distinction. Psychological disturbance--studied with a variety of instruments--proved to be an important factor affecting...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Keel PJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While multiple new larger-bore aspiration catheters have been introduced for stroke thrombectomy, sizeable cohort outcome studies are lacking along with meaningful comparative studies to evaluate whether they represent a clinically relevant improvement compared to predecessors. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate compara...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gross BA,Hudson JS,Tonetti DA,Desai SM,Lang MJ,Jadhav AP,Jankowitz BT,Jovin TG

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The accessory middle cerebral artery is a rare vascular anomaly of the brain. We describe a case of a ruptured aneurysm at the junction of the accessory middle cerebral artery and the horizontal portion of the anterior cerebral artery. The lesion was demonstrated by angiography and confirmed at surgery. No perforating...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kuwabara S,Naitoh H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of spinal surgery is an important part of the spine-related sciences. The development of treatment strategies for spine-related disorders is acquired from the Western literature. In this article, an Eastern physician, Ibn Sina, who is known as Avicenna in the West, and his treatise, Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (th...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Naderi S,Acar F,Mertol T,Arda MN

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) affect more than one million Americans, predisposing them to a lifetime risk of hemorrhagic stroke and epilepsy. A potential role of the immune response in this disease has not been postulated previously but is compelling given the unique antigenic milieu of CCM lesions...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Shenkar R,Shi C,Check IJ,Lipton HL,Awad IA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign osteoblastic lesions are rare bone tumors and they are usually divided into osteoid osteomas and benign osteoblastomas based on their biological behavior. Both lesions are prevalent in the spine, with the lamina and pedicle being involved frequently. Long diagnostic delays are frequent. Pain, the most prominent...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Janin Y,Epstein JA,Carras R,Khan A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multimodal intracranial monitoring in the neurosurgical patient requires insertion of probes through multiple craniostomies. OBJECTIVE:To report our 5-year experience with a novel device allowing multimodal monitoring though a single twist-drill hole. METHODS:All devices (Hummingbird Synergy, Innerspace) w...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chohan MO,Akbik OS,Ramos-Canseco J,Ramirez PM,Murray-Krezan C,Berlin T,Olin K,Taylor CL,Yonas H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic paraplegia in children is uncommon and, in almost half of these injuries, no contiguous fracture or dislocation of the spine is found. This report presents eight such cases, three in detail. Most of the children were injured in motor vehicle accidents and sustained thoracic level injuries with a permanent lo...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Walsh JW,Stevens DB,Young AB

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite advances in surgical techniques in the management of the brain abscess, long-term antibiotics are as crucial to cure as the initial surgical procedure itself. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy on the duration of antibiotic treatment. METHODS:Be...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kutlay M,Colak A,Yildiz S,Demircan N,Akin ON

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:When confronted with a patient with a brachial plexus injury, how often as neurosurgeons do we consult an atlas to confirm the anatomy of the brachial plexus and then attempt to establish the location of the lesion? Similar difficulties are encountered with lumbar and sacral plexus lesions. In a project organized to a...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Fisher WS 3rd

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of intracerebellar hematoma in infancy is reported. Although the clinical course and computed tomographic appearances suggested a cerebellar tumor, intraoperative and microscopic investigations demonstrated a chronic expanding hematoma enlarging with repeated hemorrhages inside the capsule. The differential dia...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Aoki N,Mizuguchi K

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to describe clinical situations requiring repeat embolization in patients previously treated by endovascular coil embolization for intracranial aneurysms, and to report on our experiences of repeat embolization (RE). METHODS:A total of 466 patients harboring 522 intracranial ane...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kang HS,Han MH,Kwon BJ,Kwon OK,Kim SH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of treatment for the victims of gunshot wounds to the brain remains quite controversial, particularly when these patients present with extensive neurological dysfunction. We propose guidelines regarding the degree and aggressiveness of therapy. The factors that seem to have a significant impact on the patie...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Nagib MG,Rockswold GL,Sherman RS,Lagaard MW

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：:After radiotherapy, 20 patients, 18 with documented progression of malignant glioma and 2 with Grade II astrocytoma, received a total of 52 courses of intracarotid 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) at a dose of 150 mg/m2 dissolved in 5% dextrose in water. The patients were treated at 6-week intervals for a ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Johnson DW,Parkinson D,Wolpert SM,Kasdon DL,Kwan ES,Laucella M,Anderson ML

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into the embryological development of organs has been of relevant interest for contemporary medicine since the 19th century. In particular, some organs, such as the pituitary gland, or hypophysis, were deemed not to have a specific function. They were thus considered as rudimental organs, a mere residue of ev...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Riva M,Cosmacini G,Mortini P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00