The management of obstructive hydrocephalus by the use of external continuous ventricular drainage.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Before operating on 130 patients with pituitary disorders, we evaluated their bone window CT images sliced parallel to the transnasal surgical route to assess the surgical anatomy of the nasal cavity for transnasal surgery. METHODS:High resolution bone window CT was performed in 3- to 5-mm slices parallel to...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Abe T,Asahina N,Kunii N,Ikeda H,Izumiyama H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The worldwide spread of smartphone usage enables new possibilities for longitudinal monitoring of objective functional impairment (OFI) in patients undergoing surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). METHODS:Three patients, undergoing elective surgery for lumbar DDD, self-assessed OFI using a rec...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sosnova M,Zeitlberger AM,Ziga M,Gautschi OP,Weyerbrock A,Stienen MN,Maldaner N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 15 patients without acute brain injury the concentrations of Neuron-specific Enolase (NSE), S-100 Protein (S-100), Creatine Kinase (CK), and Creatine Kinase BB isoenzyme (CK-BB) in ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were measured immediately after lateral ventricle cannulation for diagnostic or treatment purpose...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kruse A,Cesarini KG,Bach FW,Persson L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsurgical circumferential stripping of intracerebral metastases is often insufficient in achieving local tumor control. Supramarginal resection may improve local tumor control. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed for patients who underwent supramarginal resection of a cerebral metastasis by a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kamp MA,Rapp M,Slotty PJ,Turowski B,Sadat H,Smuga M,Dibué-Adjei M,Steiger HJ,Szelényi A,Sabel M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The practice of endoscopic endonasal surgery is still limited in children because of the relative rarity of sellar lesions in the paediatric population. However, such an approach is increasingly reported in the literature as an alternative option to standard sublabial microsurgery, and its surgical results a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Massimi L,Rigante M,D'Angelo L,Paternoster G,Leonardi P,Paludetti G,Di Rocco C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelium synthesizes mediators which either cause vasorelaxation or vasoconstriction. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of these mediators in the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm. An inhibitor of endothelium-derived relaxing factor is haemoglobin; endothelium removal by triton X-100 an...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Baykaner MK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of cranial epidermoid cysts (EC) remains controversial, and although generally considered to be congenital, acquired origin has been reported. EC represent 0.2 to 1.8% of all brain tumours, and only one fourth are intradiploic in location. We report of a 44-year-old woman with a giant intradiploic EC of the...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Prat Acín R,Galeano I

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The use of rapid sequential gamma camera scintigraphy in conjunction with computer aided storage and evaluation of data has been shown to be a promising method for the analysis of CSF dynamics in man. 2. Using this method rapid flow of CSF in the basal cisterns can be studied. The further course of tracer activity ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Palma A,Kolberg T

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of endovascular treatment of ruptured dissecting aneurysms of the vertebral artery, the benefits of early embolization, and the predictors of outcomes. CLINICAL MATERIAL AND METHODS:Between September, 2001 and May, 2009, 25 patients with ruptured verteb...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lee JM,Kim TS,Joo SP,Yoon W,Choi HY

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral developmental venous anomalies (DVAs) are variations of venous vascular anatomy related to an underdevelopment of either the superficial or deep venous emissary system, resulting in a dilated transmedullary vein fed by multiple smaller venous radicles responsible for drainage of normal brain parenchyma. While...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Rinaldo L,Lanzino G,Flemming KD,Krings T,Brinjikji W

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptomatic extracranial vertebral artery (VA) dissection may need surgery. We describe such a case successfully treated with atlantoaxial fusion based on its rare dynamic angiographic findings. A 27-year-old woman suffered from repeated brainstem and cerebellar infarctions from a left extracranial VA dissecting aneur...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ikeda N,Hayashi H,Goto M,Satoi H,Iwasaki K,Toda H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen cases of large thalamic gliomas were treated by laser surgery and CUSA under X8 magnification and subsequently they were subjected to radiotherapy. More than 50% of the tumours were located in the dominant hemisphere and therefore an interhemispheric approach was carried out to avoid disturbances of speech and...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Prakash B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surgical carbon dioxide laser unit (laser) has been used since 1977 in twenty-five cases of various brain tumours, including ten meningiomas (four sphenoid ridge, two parasagittal, two falx, one olfactory, one posterior fossa), eleven gliomas (seven glioblastoma, four astrocytoma), two metastatic brain tumours, one ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hara M,Takeuchi K,Okada J,Takizawa T,Matsumoto M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most complications of radiosurgery occur after 6-12 months and some long term complications up to after 5-10 years. Although severe, immediate side effects are rare, we report a patient who shows that this possibility should be taken into account when large volumes are treated especially in the posterior fos...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Wolff R,Karlsson B,Dettmann E,Böttcher HD,Seifert V

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:70 patients were treated for spinal dural arteriovenous fistula in the same centre, during a period of 10 years. Conus medullaris and cauda equina syndromes were observed in all patients as the clinical stereotyped presentation. Diagnosis was based on myelography in the first instance and then on angiography. 40 patie...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mourier KL,Gelbert F,Rey A,Assouline E,George B,Reizine D,Merland JJ,Cophignon J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multicentric WHO grade II gliomas constitute a rare entity. Their pathogenesis and treatment are still a matter of debate. OBJECTIVE:We present a 23 year-old female with two synchronous but separate WHO grade II oligodendrogliomas in the temporal and frontal lobes. CLINICAL FEATURES:The two lesions showed ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Vergani F,Sanson M,Duffau H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of clinical and radiographic vasospasm after transsphenoidal resection of a craniopharyngioma. We review the literature on the association of vasospasm and craniopharyngioma and examine management options. Given the lack of evidence for the optimal management of these patients, treatment in conco...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nash R,Elwell V,Brew S,Powell M,Grieve JP

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two patients with petroclival meningioma were operated upon by the middle fossa transpetrosal-transtentorial approaches since 1977. Half of those showed tumour extension into the middle fossa and one-third in the cavernous sinus. Seventeen (40%) had a large tumour of 40 mm in diameter or larger, and 8 of those h...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kawase T,Shiobara R,Toya S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Close relatives (CR) of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and high-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) suffer extraordinary distress during the treatment: Distress may lead to persisting mental illness symptoms within the spectrum of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders, a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Rueckriegel SM,Baron M,Domschke K,Neuderth S,Kunze E,Kessler AF,Nickl R,Westermaier T,Ernestus RI

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model of cerebral blood flow and the cerebrospinal fluid circulation is described which permits the study of phenomena caused by dynamic changes in cerebrovascular autoregulatory or cerebrospinal fluid compensatory reserves. A transient decrease in cerebral perfusion pressure was produced by carotid art...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Czosnyka M,Pickard J,Whitehouse H,Piechnik S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of vertebral epidural metastases has been in the past and still remains the object of special attention in an attempt to improve the quality of life of these patients. To assess the effects of and indications for surgery, the clinical histories of 53 patients with this malignant disease who had undergone dec...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： García-Picazo A,Capilla Ramírez P,Pulido Rivas P,Garcia de Sola R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, we compared the dosimetric properties between Gamma Knife (GK) and Cyberknife (CK), and investigated the clinical implications in treating brain metastases (BMs). METHODS:Between 2011 and 2013, 77 patients treated with either single-fraction GK for small BMs (n = 40) or fractionated CK for la...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cho YH,Lee JM,Lee D,Park JH,Yoon K,Kim SO,Kwon DH,Kim JH,Kim CJ,Roh SW

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In terms of response to fractionated radiotherapy, metastatic brain tumors of certain origins are considered radioresistant. OBJECTIVE:To determine the influence of "radioresistant" histology on outcomes of brain metastases treated with radiosurgery. METHODS:Between 2001 and 2017, 121 patients with brain m...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kim KH,Lee MH,Cho KR,Choi JW,Kong DS,Seol HJ,Nam DH,Lee JI

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For gliomas, the goal of surgery is to maximise the extent of resection (EOR) while minimising the postoperative morbidity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefits of a protocol developed for the surgical management of gliomas located in language areas, where tractography-integrated navigation...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Vassal F,Schneider F,Sontheimer A,Lemaire JJ,Nuti C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the majority of patients with minimal acute subdural hematomas (aSDHs) can be managed conservatively, some require delayed aSDH evacuation due to hematoma enlargement. This study was designed to determine the risk factors associated with delayed hematoma enlargement leading to surgery in patients wi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kim BJ,Park KJ,Park DH,Lim DJ,Kwon TH,Chung YG,Kang SH

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the operative mortality and morbidity of definitive intracranial microsurgical aneurysm obliteration as a function of timing of early operative intervention and as a function of clinical condition at the acute state, we retrospectively review 164 consecutive patients who underwent surgery within 72 hours f...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hotta T,Tokuda S,Nishiya M,Tanaka Y,Nakamura J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the association of intracranial aneurysms and abdominal aortic aneurysms to elucidate the incidence and independent risk factors for this association. Ultrasonography of the abdominal aorta was performed in 181 patients with 224 intracranial aneurysms. Six patients had suffered subarachnoid hae...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Miyazawa N,Akiyama I,Yamagata Z

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The necessity of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in neurosurgical procedures is under debate. Although detailed recommendations exist for many other surgical disciplines, there are very limited data on the probability of transfusions during neurosurgical procedures. METHODS:Three-thousand and twenty-six c...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Linsler S,Ketter R,Eichler H,Schwerdtfeger K,Steudel WI,Oertel J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is described of a 52 year old patient admitted for acauda equina compression syndrome (flaccid paraplegia of the lower limbs, bilateral lumbar and sciatic pains, urinary incontinence) of rapid onset and due to narrowing of the lumbar canal from tabetic arthropathy. These vertebral manifestations occur in a lo...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cantore GP,Gambacorta D

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article presents an autosomal dominant Currarino syndrome with incomplete penetrance in three out of four members of the same family. The mother had only a bony sacral defect and no other signs. In the older daughter, the syndrome was completely developed with presacral cystic teratoma, a sacral defect and abdomin...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Bunc G,Ravnik J,Vorsic M,Ravnik M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00