Dural arteriovenous fistula of the anterior condylar confluence and hypoglossal canal mimicking a jugular foramen tumor.

abstract：OBJECT:The authors sought to determine the incidence, time course, and risk factors for overall adverse radiation effect (ARE) and symptomatic ARE after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases. METHODS:All cases of brain metastases treated from 1998 through 2009 with Gamma Knife SRS at UCSF were considere...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sneed PK,Mendez J,Vemer-van den Hoek JG,Seymour ZA,Ma L,Molinaro AM,Fogh SE,Nakamura JL,McDermott MW

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Intracranial germinomas commonly occur in the pineal region, the floor of the third ventricle (hypothalamus), or both, and they are often associated with diabetes insipidus (DI). The authors conducted a study to correlate preoperative DI with the endoscopic and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging evidence of tumor o...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wellons JC 3rd,Reddy AT,Tubbs RS,Abdullatif H,Oakes WJ,Blount JP,Grabb PA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary apoplexy has not been reported in the setting of lymphocytic hypophysitis. The authors present the case of a woman with sudden vision loss and headache. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed focal hemorrhages in a sellar lesion with suprasellar extension. The results of histopathological analysis were consiste...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lee MS,Pless M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The end of the first 100 years of any endeavor is an appropriate time to look back and peer forward. As neurosurgery celebrates its 1st century as a specialty, the increasing role of women neurosurgeons is a major theme. This article documents the early women pioneers in neurosurgery. The contributions of these trailb...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Corley J,Kim E,Philips CA,Stippler M,Parr AM,Sweet J,Rosseau G

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic violence leading to strangulation by an abusive spouse can cause carotid artery dissection. This phenomenon is rare and has been described in only three previous instances. The authors present their management strategies in three additional cases. Three young women aged 24 to 43 years were victims of manual s...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Malek AM,Higashida RT,Halbach VV,Dowd CF,Phatouros CC,Lempert TE,Meyers PM,Smith WS,Stoney R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report the authors describe the endovascular treatment of dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) through transcranial puncture of the feeding arteries. Four patients had DAVFs that were fed by occipital arteries (OAs) that supplied blood to the intracranial meningeal arteries via the transcranial branches and co...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chapot R,Saint-Maurice JP,Narata AP,Rogopoulos A,Moreau JJ,Houdart E,Maubon A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The effectiveness and safety of radiosurgery for small- to medium-sized cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) have been well established. However, the management for large cerebral AVMs remains a great challenge to neurosurgeons. In the past 5 years the authors performed preplanned staged radiosurgery to t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chung WY,Shiau CY,Wu HM,Liu KD,Guo WY,Wang LW,Pan DH

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a newly recognized complication of lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt placement, namely, intracranial hypotension from leakage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through a defect in the lumbar dura created by the shunt catheter. They report on a 47-year-old obese woman with idiopathic intracranial hypertension ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Liao YJ,Dillon WP,Chin CT,McDermott MW,Horton JC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on a young woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) Type IV in whom a spontaneous direct carotid-cavernous fistula (CCF) was treated by transvenous occlusion with regular and fiber-coated Guglielmi detachable coils. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time this approach has been used in a pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kanner AA,Maimon S,Rappaport ZH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric condition. Traditionally, anterior capsulotomy (AC) was an established procedure for treatment of patients with refractory OCD. Over recent decades, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has gained popularity. In this paper the authors review the pub...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Pepper J,Hariz M,Zrinzo L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the central nervous system, recurrence of intracranial Masson's vegetant intravascular hemangioendothelioma (MVIH) is rare. To the authors' knowledge, only three recurrent intracranial cases have been reported. The authors report the case of a 75-year-old woman with a recurrent left-sided cerebellopontine angle and...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Avellino AM,Grant GA,Harris AB,Wallace SK,Shaw CM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superior oblique myokymia (SOM) is a rare eye movement disorder presenting as uniocular rotatory microtremor due to intermittent contractions of the superior oblique muscle. Medical treatment usually fails to provide long-term benefit for the patient and has considerable side effects. Surgical alternatives including t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Samii M,Rosahl SK,Carvalho GA,Krzizok T

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with glioblastoma multiforme of the brain was treated with both intravenous and oral glycerol as well as intravenous mannitol in an attempt to reduce increased intracranial pressure. After an initial lowering of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure to near normal values during continuous glycerol administr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Guisado R,Tourtellotte WW,Arieff AI,Tomiyasu U,Mishra SK,Schotz MC

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Because of its huge clinical potential, the importance of premotor areas for motor function itself and plastic reshaping due to tumors or ischemic brain lesions has received increased attention. Thus, in this study the authors used navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) to investigate whether tum...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bulubas L,Sabih J,Wohlschlaeger A,Sollmann N,Hauck T,Ille S,Ringel F,Meyer B,Krieg SM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four adults with unilateral (three cases) or bilateral (one case) closed schizencephaly, medically intractable epilepsy, and otherwise normal neurological examinations are presented. Three were examined preoperatively with magnetic resonance imaging and one with computerized tomography. Scalp electroencephalographic (...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Silbergeld DL,Miller JW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Pituitary adenomas represent a large proportion of brain tumors that are increasing in incidence because of improved imaging techniques. Headache is the primary symptom in patients with large tumors (macroadenomas), but is also a symptom in patients with small tumors (microadenomas, tumors < 1.0 cm). The prevale...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fleseriu M,Yedinak C,Campbell C,Delashaw JB

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with hydrocephalus due to aqueductal stenosis suffered facial pain which was relieved after the insertion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. The trigeminal somatosensory evoked response (TSER) of the affected side showed lower amplitudes and longer latencies as compared to the unaffected side. Following surger...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Findler G,Feinsod M

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiographic features and long-term clinical outcome in three patients who presented at birth with a cystic suboccipital mass in direct communication with the fourth ventricle are reviewed. The pathological findings in a fourth infant who died are also discussed. All surviving infants were treated with cyst excisi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fenstermaker RA,Roessmann U,Rekate HL

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE A subset of patients with Chiari I malformation demonstrate patent subarachnoid spaces around the cerebellum, indicating that reduced posterior fossa volume alone does not account for tonsillar descent. The authors distinguish two subsets of Chiari I malformation patients based on the degree of "posterior fo...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Taylor DG,Mastorakos P,Jane JA Jr,Oldfield EH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Guglielmi detachable coil (GDC) technology is a valuable therapeutic alternative to the surgical treatment of ruptured or incidental intracranial aneurysms. The authors describe their technical and clinical experience in the use of the GDC technique in patients who underwent endovascular occlusion for the treatm...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Murayama Y,Viñuela F,Duckwiler GR,Gobin YP,Guglielmi G

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Convexity meningiomas are commonly managed with resection. Motor outcomes and predictors of new deficits after surgery are poorly studied. The objective of this study was to determine whether postoperative diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) was associated with neurological deficits after convexity meningioma re...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Magill ST,Nguyen MP,Aghi MK,Theodosopoulos PV,Villanueva-Meyer JE,McDermott MW

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:This study investigated the specific preoperative MRI features of patients with intracranial meningiomas that correlate with pathological grade and provide appropriate preoperative planning. METHODS:From 2006 to 2012, 120 patients (36 men and 84 women, age range 20-89 years) with newly diagnosed symptomatic int...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lin BJ,Chou KN,Kao HW,Lin C,Tsai WC,Feng SW,Lee MS,Hueng DY

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transoral, transsphenoidal microsurgical technique for exposing the pituitary stalk and gland of the rhesus monkey is described and illustrated. The technique has proved to be a safe and practical method for performing a variety of pituitary operations in a total of 37 animals. The procedures have included complete ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tindall GT,Patton J,Neill JD

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningiomas have been reported to have associated areas of surrounding low density on computerized tomography (CT). These low-density areas may represent edema, widened subarachnoid spaces, loculated cerebrospinal fluid, demyelination, or adjacent tumor. Two cases are presented in which this adjacent area of low densi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Becker D,Norman D,Wilson CB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to evaluate the causes of treatment failure in patients with arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) who underwent radiosurgery, which is increasingly used as a treatment method for selected, surgically high-risk AVMs. Unfortunately, radiosurgical treatment fails in a small but significant p...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ellis TL,Friedman WA,Bova FJ,Kubilis PS,Buatti JM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The primary goals of this study were: 1) to examine the influence of disease and treatment on headache in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannoma (VS); and 2) to identify clinical predictors of long-term headache disability. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional observational study with international multicen...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Carlson ML,Tveiten ØV,Driscoll CL,Boes CJ,Sullan MJ,Goplen FK,Lund-Johansen M,Link MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：OBJECT:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) have been shown to have significant osteoinductive activity in numerous in vitro and in vivo assay systems, and BMP-2 and BMP-7 are currently being evaluated in human clinical studies. In the spinal region, BMPs have been shown to promote spinal arthrodesis at a higher rate tha...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Helm GA,Alden TD,Beres EJ,Hudson SB,Das S,Engh JA,Pittman DD,Kerns KM,Kallmes DF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current state of surgery for vestibular schwannomas (VSs) is the result of a century of step-by-step technical progress by groundbreaking surgeons who transformed the procedure from its hazardous infancy and high mortality rate to its current state of safety and low morbidity rate. Harvey Cushing advocated bilater...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Akard W,Tubbs RS,Seymour ZA,Hitselberger WE,Cohen-Gadol AA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term outcome achieved after repeat Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) using a uniform treatment plan. METHODS:Between 1985 and 2010, 53 patients underwent repeat GKS for refractory TN. In the initial GKS, which involved targeting the root ent...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kimball BY,Sorenson JM,Cunningham D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00