Intraoperative acute tissue expansion for the closure of large myelomeningoceles.

abstract：OBJECT:Outcomes of 1019 brachial plexus lesions in patients who underwent surgery at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center during a 30-year period are reviewed in this paper to provide management guidelines. METHODS:Causes of brachial plexus lesions included 509 stretches/contusions (50%), 161 plexus tumor...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kim DH,Cho YJ,Tiel RL,Kline DG

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ossification of pterygoalar and pterygospinous ligaments traversing the superior aspect of the infratemporal fossa results in formation of osseous bars that can obstruct percutaneous needle access to the trigeminal ganglion through the foramen ovale (FO), interfere with lateral mandibular nerve block, and imp...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Matys T,Ali T,Zaccagna F,Barone DG,Kirollos RW,Massoud TF

更新日期：2019-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The deep frontal pathway connecting the superior frontal gyrus to Broca's area, recently named the frontal aslant tract (FAT), is assumed to be associated with language functions, especially speech initiation and spontaneity. Injury to the deep frontal lobe is known to cause aphasia that mimics the aphasia cause...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fujii M,Maesawa S,Motomura K,Futamura M,Hayashi Y,Koba I,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the site, degree, and dynamics of mechanical compression of the spinal nerve roots, pressure was measured in 42 patients with clinical symptoms and myelographic findings indicating central lumbar spinal stenosis. Pathological pressure on the cauda equina was found in 67% of the patients. The pressure in the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Magnaes B

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the technique of a transantral transsphenoidal approach to the sella turcica. The advantages and potential complications are discussed. This procedure may also be applicable when dealing with tumors of the skull base and orbits. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hoyt TE,Turnbull FM,Kusske JA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Both endovascular coiling and the Pipeline embolization device (PED) have been shown to be safe and clinically effective for treatment of small (< 10 mm) aneurysms. The authors conducted a comparative effectiveness analysis to compare the utility of these treatment methods in terms of health benefits. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Malhotra A,Wu X,Miller T,Matouk CC,Sanelli P,Gandhi D

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a new surgical technique to improve the results of conventional hypoglossal-facial nerve anastomosis that does not necessitate the use of nerve grafts or hemihypoglossal nerve splitting. Using this technique, the mastoid process is partially resected to open the stylomastoid foramen and the desce...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sawamura Y,Abe H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excision of human cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) can be complicated by postoperative edema and hemorrhage in adjacent brain tissue, despite the complete excision of the malformation. Various theories have purported to explain the hemodynamic basis for this predisposition, including disordered autoregulati...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sekhon LH,Morgan MK,Spence I

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Preserving vital cerebral function while maximizing tumor resection is a principal goal in surgical neurooncology. Although functional magnetic resonance imaging has been useful in the localization of eloquent cerebral cortex, this method does not provide information about the white matter tracts that may be inv...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Witwer BP,Moftakhar R,Hasan KM,Deshmukh P,Haughton V,Field A,Arfanakis K,Noyes J,Moritz CH,Meyerand ME,Rowley HA,Alexander AL,Badie B

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 17 patients acetylcholinesterase activity was used to differentiate between sensory and motor fascicles in median and ulnar nerve repair of the hand. Eleven patients received follow-up evaluation 1 to 11 years after surgery, and at that time clinical and electroneurographic examinations were performed to evaluate t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Deutinger M,Girsch W,Burggasser G,Windisch A,Mayr N,Freilinger G

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The transbasal approach (TBA) is an anterior skull base approach, which provides access to the anterior skull base, sellar-suprasellar region, and clivus. The TBA typically involves a bifrontal craniotomy with orbital bar and/or nasal bone osteotomies performed in 2 separate steps. The authors explored the feasi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Effendi ST,Rao VY,Momin EN,Cruz-Navarro J,Duckworth EA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracranial pressure-volume (PV) relationship was examined postoperatively after removal of brain tumors in two groups of patients (13 in all). Changes of ventricular fluid pressure were analyzed by a method involving fluid injection into the lateral ventricle. A technique has been developed which provides quanti...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Paltsev EI,Sirovsky EB

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Brainstem cavernous malformations (CMs) are challenging due to a higher symptomatic hemorrhage rate and potential morbidity associated with their resection. The authors aimed to preoperatively define the relationship of CMs to the perilesional corticospinal tracts (CSTs) by obtaining qualitative and quantitative...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Faraji AH,Abhinav K,Jarbo K,Yeh FC,Shin SS,Pathak S,Hirsch BE,Schneider W,Fernandez-Miranda JC,Friedlander RM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies with transcranial Doppler suggest that the pulsatility of the flow velocity (FV) waveform increases when the distal cerebrovascular resistance (CVR) increases. To clarify this relationship, the authors studied animal models in which the resistance may be decreased in a controlled manner by an increase...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Czosnyka M,Richards HK,Whitehouse HE,Pickard JD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have developed an extended transsphenoidal approach with submucosal posterior ethmoidectomy for resection of tumors located in the cavernous sinus or the suprasellar region that are difficult to remove via the conventional transsphenoidal approach. Surgery was performed using this approach in 14 patients w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Frank G,Pasquini E,Mazzatenta D

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise intraoperative localization of retained bone fragments and foreign bodies avoids extensive brain disseciton, cerebral edema, damage to vital structures, incomplete debridement, and prolonged surgical procedures. Such localization after head trauma is often hampered by cerebral distortion, previous incomplete d...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wood JH,Parver M,Doppman JL,Ommaya AK

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commonest initial computerized tomography (CT) finding in head-injured children is bilateral diffuse cerebral swelling. Cerebral blood flow and CT density studies suggest that this swelling is due to cerebral hyperemia and increased blood volume, not to edema. The clinical history, course, and outcome of 63 childr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bruce DA,Alavi A,Bilaniuk L,Dolinskas C,Obrist W,Uzzell B

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The angles of arterial bifurcations are governed by principles of work minimization (optimality principle). This determines the relationship between the angle of a bifurcation and the radii of the vessels. Nevertheless, the model is predicated on an absence of significant communication between these branches. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ingebrigtsen T,Morgan MK,Faulder K,Ingebrigtsen L,Sparr T,Schirmer H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five Sprague-Dawley rats with saphenous neuromas underwent acute microfilament recording in the proximal nerve. The effect of the potassium channel-blocking agents, tetraethylammonium bromide (TEA) and 4-aminopyridine, on spontaneous activity in A fibers terminating in the neuroma was observed. The effects of g...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Burchiel KJ,Russell LC

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Writer's cramp is a type of idiopathic focal hand dystonia characterized by muscle cramps that accompany execution of the writing task specifically. In this report, the authors describe the clinical outcome after thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy in patients with writer's cramp and present an illustr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fukaya C,Katayama Y,Kano T,Nagaoka T,Kobayashi K,Oshima H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Recent evidence has indicated that the efficacy of the epidural blood patch (EBP) in the treatment of spontaneous CSF hypovolemia (SCH) is still limited. Therefore, further improvement of the EBP technique is an important clinical challenge. The authors describe a series of cases of SCH treated with fluoroscopic...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Watanabe K,Hashizume K,Kawaguchi M,Fujiwara A,Sasaoka N,Furuya H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report nine patients selected from over 100 patients with subdural hematomas successfully treated without surgery. These patients were followed for as long as 5 years. All had angiographically demonstrated subdural hematomas. Electroencephalograms (EEG) documented well the clinical improvement of the patie...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lusins J,Jaffe R,Bender MB

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a woman who was shot in the left occipital area with a .32 caliber automatic pistol. She was neurologically intact on admission, and skull x-ray films revealed the bullet in the right suboccipital area. On the 2nd day of the admission she developed Lhermitte's sign. Repeat films showed that the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Arasil E,Taşçioğlu AO

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 14 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage after carotid endarterectomy is reviewed. This complication occurred in 0.6% of 2362 consecutive carotid endarterectomies performed at the Mayo Clinic from 1972 through 1986. All hemorrhages occurred within the first 2 weeks after operation and were ipsilateral to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Piepgras DG,Morgan MK,Sundt TM Jr,Yanagihara T,Mussman LM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue acidosis is believed to be a key element in ischemic injury of neural tissue. The goal of this study was to determine whether persisting postischemic acidosis or the extent of acidosis would affect metabolic recovery following an ischemic event. Intracellular pH (pHi), adenosine triphosphate, phosphocreatine, a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hoffman TL,LaManna JC,Pundik S,Selman WR,Whittingham TS,Ratcheson RA,Lust WD

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of concentrated conditioned medium from each of eight human malignant glioma cell lines on the growth of indicator cells (normal rat kidney fibroblasts (NRK), clone 14) was determined in monolayer and in soft agar assay systems. The conditioned medium from all cell lines was mitogenic in the monolayer assay...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rutka JT,Rosenblum ML,Stern R,Ralston HJ 3rd,Dougherty D,Giblin J,DeArmond S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the time Harvey Cushing entered medical school, nerve reconstruction techniques had been developed, but peripheral nerve surgery was still in its infancy. As an assistant surgical resident influenced by Dr. William Halsted, Cushing wrote a series of reports on the use of cocaine for nerve blocks. Following his resi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tubbs RS,Patel N,Nahed BV,Cohen-Gadol AA,Spinner RJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of leiomyosarcoma arising from the dura mater is presented. A definite histological diagnosis was based on the electron microscopic features. Extensive removal of the tumor and postoperative radiation therapy resulted in complete remission. The etiology and the origin of this tumor are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Asai A,Yamada H,Murata S,Matsuno A,Tsutsumi K,Takemura T,Matsutani M,Takakura K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Camptocormia is a potentially debilitating condition in the progression of Parkinson's disease (PD). It is described as an abnormal forward flexion while standing that resolves when lying supine. Although the condition is relatively common, the underlying pathophysiology and optimal treatment strategy are unc...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chan AK,Chan AY,Lau D,Durcanova B,Miller CA,Larson PS,Starr PA,Mummaneni PV

更新日期：2018-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriological studies were performed on 45 craniocerebral missile wounds incurred in Vietnam within 2 to 4 hours of occurrence. All missiles had penetrated into the brain. Aerobic and anaerobic cultures were taken of the skin wound, brain, and indriven bone fragments. Forty-four of the skin wounds were contaminated,...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Carey ME,Young H,Mathis JL,Forsythe J

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00