Prognostic significance of magnetic resonance imaging in the acute phase of cervical spine injury.

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：:A case of brain-stem hemangioma calcificans is described. The few cases reported in the literature prove the rarity of this tumor, which is considered a benign variant of cerebral cavernous hemangioma. Diagnosis and treatment of these tumors are briefly discussed with a review of the literature including 11 previous c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Occhiogrosso M,Carella A,D'Aprile P,Vailati G

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite diagnostic advances, it remains difficult to identify intrasellar and ectopic parasellar adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting microadenomas. The authors present the case of a 61-year-old woman with Cushing disease in whom a significant central-to-peripheral and lateralized right-sided ACTH gradient was...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kim LJ,Klopfenstein JD,Cheng M,Nagul M,Coons S,Fredenberg C,Brachman DG,White WL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One major risk of intraoperative stimulation mapping is the production of stimulation-evoked seizures. Cold Ringer's lactate solution was applied directly to the irritated cortex in 22 patients with stimulation-induced seizures that occurred during intraoperative brain mapping procedures. The irrigation rapidly and re...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sartorius CJ,Berger MS

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure to obliterate intracranial aneurysms completely during initial surgery still occurs in spite of recent technical advances. Of the 115 reoperations reported in this series, 89% of the aneurysms were obliterated, and 84% of the patients had a satisfactory outcome. Twelve patients had poor results, three (2.6%) o...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Drake CG,Friedman AH,Peerless SJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 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：:The criteria by which acromegalic patients are considered "cured" after surgical therapy are still controversial. Since the abnormal growth hormone (GH) increase after the administration of some agents has been demonstrated to be characteristic of the tumoral somatotrophs, its disappearance after surgery may be taken ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Arosio M,Giovanelli MA,Riva E,Nava C,Ambrosi B,Faglia G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described in which incorrect preliminary programming of a computerized tomography (CT) machine caused transposition of the left- and right-side indicators in a CT scan, which led to craniotomy on the normal side. The possible mechanism for this is incorrect pre-scan programming of the CT scanner with respect...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Luessenhop AJ,Schellinger D

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All patients who underwent decompressive lumbar laminectomy in the Washtenaw County, Michigan metropolitan area during a 7-year period were studied for the purpose of defining long-term outcome, clinical correlations, and the need for subsequent fusion. Outcome was determined by questionnaire and physical examination ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tuite GF,Stern JD,Doran SE,Papadopoulos SM,McGillicuddy JE,Oyedijo DI,Grube SV,Lundquist C,Gilmer HS,Schork MA

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal proteases, although tightly regulated under physiological conditions, are known to contribute to cell injury after various forms of tissue ischemia have occurred. Because cathepsin B is a prominent lysosomal protease found in brain parenchyma, the authors hypothesized that it may contribute to neuronal cell ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Seyfried D,Han Y,Zheng Z,Day N,Moin K,Rempel S,Sloane B,Chopp M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Dissections were performed in 100 fresh cadaver palms to determine the frequency with which superficial palmar communication between the median and ulnar nerves occurs and to what extent it might incur iatrogenic injury during endoscopic carpal tunnel release. METHODS:Superficial palmar communication between th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Stancić MF,Mićović V,Potocnjak M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Over the last half century, there have been isolated case reports of purely arterial malformations. In this study, the authors report a consecutive series of patients with pure arterial malformations, emphasizing the clinical and radiological features of these lesions. METHODS Pure arterial malformations wer...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Brinjikji W,Cloft HJ,Flemming KD,Comelli S,Lanzino G

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an observational study in head-injured patients, cerebrovascular pressure transmission was investigated using a systems analysis approach whereby the blood pressure (BP) waveform was used as a measure of an input stimulus to the cerebrovascular bed (CVB) and the intracranial pressure (ICP) waveform as the response ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Piper IR,Miller JD,Dearden NM,Leggate JR,Robertson I

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has defined Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) for assessments in quality of inpatient care. The hypothesis of this study is that, in the treatment of unruptured cerebral aneurysms (UCAs), PSI events are less likely to occur in hospitals meeting the volume t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Washington CW,Taylor LI,Dambrino RJ,Clark PR,Zipfel GJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors demonstrate the use of cottonoid as a marker for ultrasound localization of a subcortical tumor. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Voorhies RM,Bell WO,Patterson RH Jr,Gamache FW Jr

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：OBJECT:Seizures frequently accompany moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Phenytoin and carbamazepine are effective in preventing early, but not late, posttraumatic seizures. In this study the authors compare the safety and effectiveness of valproate with those of short-term phenytoin for prevention of seizures f...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Temkin NR,Dikmen SS,Anderson GD,Wilensky AJ,Holmes MD,Cohen W,Newell DW,Nelson P,Awan A,Winn HR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial gas may be epidural, subdural, subarachnoid, parenchymal, or intraventricular. Intracranial air can be easily diagnosed and its location correctly assessed by computerized tomography. Potentially serious complications of intracranial air, such as tension pneumocephalus, can be rapidly and accurately ident...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Osborn AG,Daines JH,Wing SD,Anderson RE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Using a database that enabled longitudinal follow-up, the authors assessed the long-term outcomes of unruptured cerebral aneurysms repaired by clipping or coiling. METHODS:An observational analysis of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) database, which follows patients lon...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gonda DD,Khalessi AA,McCutcheon BA,Marcus LP,Noorbakhsh A,Chen CC,Chang DC,Carter BS

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:The T-13 spinal cord segment of dogs was compressed both acutely and chronically by means of a balloon catheter. The vascular permeability to protein was assessed using Evans blue albumin (EBA), and the dorsal column evoked potential recorded to monitor conduction failure. With acute compression sufficient to cause co...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Griffiths IR

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive osteolysis is a type of idiopathic osteolysis in which there is spontaneous onset of bone resorption. Almost any bone in the body can be affected. The authors present the case of a 62-year-old man diagnosed with massive osteolysis of the occipital bone and the upper two cervical vertebrae. Despite extensive pn...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Khosrovi H,Ortiz O,Kaufman HH,Schochet SS Jr,Reddy GN,Simmons D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is an infection originating in the San Joaquim Valley of southern California, but now seen with increasing frequency throughout southern California and the southwestern United States. Central nervous system involvement is usually manifested as meningitis. The authors present the case of a young man ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mendel E,Milefchik EN,Ahmadi J,Gruen P

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:This 61-year-old man with a right-sided tentorial dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) was initially treated with staged stereotactic radiosurgery and transarterial embolization. Results of follow-up cerebral angiography performed 4 years later demonstrated complete obliteration of the dAVF and development of a previous...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Friedman JA,Pollock BE,Nichols DA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irving S. Cooper (1922-1985), the son of a salesman, worked his way through high school, college, and medical school to become one of the pioneers in functional neurosurgery. He developed several novel techniques for the surgical management of Parkinson's disease and other crippling movement disorders. A keen interest...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Das K,Benzil DL,Rovit RL,Murali R,Couldwell WT

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:The translabyrinthine route or an extension of it was used to remove 150 acoustic nerve tumors. The mortality was 2% and the morbidity low. Preservation of the facial nerve was achieved in 100% of the small and 80% of the medium-sized tumors, but in only 20% of the large growths. The complications encountered are disc...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： King TT,Morrison AW

更新日期：1980-02-01 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：:A patient with a posttraumatic leptomeningeal cyst is described. The cyst simulated an occipital encephalocele and communicated with an epidural cerebrospinal fluid collection in the posterior fossa. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Nemoto S,Hoffman HJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00