The role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of triventricular hydrocephalus seen in children with achondroplasia.

abstract：OBJECT:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral [anterior internal] capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) is under investigation as an alternative to anterior capsulotomy for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In neuroimaging studies of patients with OCD, dysfunction in the orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate c...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Rauch SL,Dougherty DD,Malone D,Rezai A,Friehs G,Fischman AJ,Alpert NM,Haber SN,Stypulkowski PH,Rise MT,Rasmussen SA,Greenberg BD

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe three patients with expanding hemorrhagic mass lesions who presented 13 to 18 years after undergoing Silastic duraplasty. In all patients, results of bacteriological cultures of the masses obtained intraoperatively were positive, revealing low-virulence bacteria. Two of the patients were treated w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ekseth K,Boström S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with chronic spinal subdural hematomas are described. Both had a fluctuating clinical course, not previously documented in the literature. Surgical evacuation resulted in almost complete recovery. The pathogenesis of spinal subdural hematoma is discussed and the pertinent literature is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Khosla VK,Kak VK,Mathuriya SN

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The cause and indication for enlargement of chronic subdural hematomas (CSDHs) have remained unresolved. The authors observed a black band on the inner membrane of a CSDH on T2*-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images obtained in patients with symptoms. After surgical treatment, the band disappeared. The T2*-wei...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Imaizumi T,Horita Y,Honma T,Niwa J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:It is unclear if there is a relationship between Chiari malformation Type I (CM-I) and body mass index (BMI). The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between BMI and cerebellar tonsil position in a random sample of people. METHODS:Cerebellar tonsil position in 2400 subjects from a cohort of patie...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Smith BW,Strahle J,Kazarian E,Muraszko KM,Garton HJ,Maher CO

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one consecutive patients with supratentorial primary brain tumors (38 Grade III and IV astrocytomas, one giant-cell astrocytoma, and two cases with insufficient tissue for diagnosis) were randomly allocated within 2 weeks of surgery to one of three therapeutic groups. Group 1 (15 patients) received radiation the...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Weir B,Band P,Urtasun R,Blain G,Mclean D,Wilson F,Mielke B,Grace M

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small group of spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) most commonly present in children or young adults, are characterized by a large size, high flow, the presence of multiple feeders, and frequent extension to paraspinous structures. Cardiac output requirements may be significantly increased by these so-called ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Spetzler RF,Zabramski JM,Flom RA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The goal of this study was to assess the accuracy of the routine clinical use of transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography and SPECT in predicting angiographically demonstrated vasospasm. METHODS:Following receipt of institutional review board approval, the authors reviewed the records of patients with subarac...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kincaid MS,Souter MJ,Treggiari MM,Yanez ND,Moore A,Lam AM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with findings of bilateral cortical blindness and a unilateral carotid bruit is reported. A persistent trigeminal artery allowed emboli from a unilateral ulcerated internal carotid plaque to affect the visual cortex bilaterally. The angiographic findings and a brief discussion of this anomalous artery are pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Heeney DJ,Koo AH

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 30-year-old man with a spinal extradural meningeal cyst in the thoracolumbar region is reported. Operative findings revealed a dural defect that allowed communication between the extradural cyst cavity and the subarachnoid space. Application of the Valsalva maneuver made the cerebrospinal fluid flow into...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Uemura K,Yoshizawa T,Matsumura A,Asakawa H,Nakamagoe K,Nose T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increasing PaO2 can increase brain tissue PO2 (PbtO2). Nevertheless, the small increase in arterial O2 content induced by hyperoxia does not increase O2 delivery much, especially when cerebral blood flow (CBF) is low, and the effectiveness of hyperoxia as a therapeutic intervention remains controversial. The...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hlatky R,Valadka AB,Gopinath SP,Robertson CS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of acoustic neuroma associated with spontaneous hemorrhage. The sudden onset of new symptoms was noted and appears to be common to all such cases. The computerized tomography appearance of the mass underwent changes consistent with the clinical, surgical, and pathological findings. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Castillo R,Watts C,Pulliam M

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a surgical technique for resection of dumbbell tumors of the spine. The transparaspinal exposure combines laminectomy and sectioning of the paraspinal muscles through a transverse incision. The procedure allows total tumor resection by means of a single posterior approach in selected patients, thus...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Onesti ST,Ashkenazi E,Michelsen WJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness and limitations of gamma surgery (GS) in the treatment of brain metastases from melanoma. METHODS:Imaging and clinical outcomes in 45 patients treated for 92 brain metastases from melanoma between October 1989 and October 1999 were retrospectively analyzed. F...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Mingione V,Oliveira M,Prasad D,Steiner M,Steiner L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive brain cancer with median survival of less than 2 years with current treatment. Glioblastomas exhibit extensive intratumoral and interpatient heterogeneity, suggesting that successful therapies should produce broad anticancer activities. Therefore, the natural no...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Clark PA,Bhattacharya S,Elmayan A,Darjatmoko SR,Thuro BA,Yan MB,van Ginkel PR,Polans AS,Kuo JS

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 87 patients with severe brain injury were studied. Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and external ventricular drainage were used to control ICP at high and low levels. Clearance of ytterbium-169-labeled diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (169Yb-DTPA), Evans blue dye, and ventricular cerebrospinal flui...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cao M,Lisheng H,Shouzheng S

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:Cerebral protection from an ischemic/hypoxic insult implies that tissue injury can be controlled or even prevented by certain therapeutic maneuvers. For example, physiological thresholds may be altered so that tissue vulnerability to the insult is reduced, or the intensity of an insult may be blunted by enhancing brai...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hoff JT

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary leptomeningeal gliomatosis is rare, and the diffuse form is even rarer with only three cases reported in the literature. A fourth case is described in this report. Computerized tomography (CT) findings showed hydrocephalus with enhancement of the cerebral cisterns, and analysis of cerebrospinal fluid obtained ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kitahara M,Katakura R,Wada T,Namiki T,Suzuki J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common carotid, femoral, and middle cerebral arteries in the rat have been occluded thrombotically by means of a rose bengal dye-sensitized photochemical reaction initiated in vascular endothelium by the 514.5-nm beam of an argon laser, focused for maximum excitation efficiency of the photosensitizer according to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Watson BD,Dietrich WD,Prado R,Ginsberg MD

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Aneurysms located on the distal portion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are uncommon, and their underlying pathology, natural history, and clinical management are poorly understood. To clarify these lesions more fully, the authors undertook a retrospective analysis of the clinical features and...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lewis SB,Chang DJ,Peace DA,Lafrentz PJ,Day AL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A clearer understanding of the cellular mechanisms involved in the response to ionizing radiation is pivotal to the development of new therapeutic strategies for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). To gain insight into dynamic functional aspects of cell cycle regulation and the control of apoptosis in GBMs, the autho...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kraus A,Gross MW,Knuechel R,Münkel K,Neff F,Schlegel J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Glutamate is important in the pathogenesis of brain damage after cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury. Notably, brain extracellular and cerebrospinal fluid as well as blood glutamate concentrations increase after experimental and clinical trauma. While neurons are one potential source of glutamate, plate...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bell JD,Thomas TC,Lass E,Ai J,Wan H,Lifshitz J,Baker AJ,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this report was to review the results of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of patients with residual neurocytomas after initial resection or biopsy procedures. Four patients underwent stereotactic radiosurgery for histologically proven neurocytoma. Clinical and imaging studies were performed t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tyler-Kabara E,Kondziolka D,Flickinger JC,Lunsford LD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Patients with gliomas frequently have cognitive deficits, and surgery can exacerbate these deficits. Preoperative assessment is therefore crucial in patients undergoing surgery for glioma in eloquent areas, because the proximity of functional areas increases the risk of permanent postoperative cognitive disturba...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Satoer D,Vork J,Visch-Brink E,Smits M,Dirven C,Vincent A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare multiple system histiocytosis that is characterized pathologically by xanthogranulomatous infiltrates and radiologically by symmetrical sclerosis of long bones. The diagnosis is often confirmed by biopsy of bone or of orbital or retroperitoneal soft tissue. Intracranial involvem...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Oweity T,Scheithauer BW,Ching HS,Lei C,Wong KP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The direct thrombin inhibitor dabigatran has recently been approved in the US as an alternative to warfarin. The lack of guidelines, protocols, and an established specific antidote to reverse the anticoagulation effect of dabigatran potentially increases the rates of morbidity and mortality in patients with clos...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Parra MW,Zucker L,Johnson ES,Gullett D,Avila C,Wichner ZA,Kokaram CR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Although a number of studies have assessed the surgical treatment of paraclinoid-segment carotid artery aneurysms and resulting visual complications, less attention has been given to the results with respect to the superior hypophyseal artery (SHA). The authors evaluated the relationship between the aneurysm, th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Horiuchi T,Goto T,Tanaka Y,Kodama K,Tsutsumi K,Ito K,Hongo K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Intraoperative stimulation mapping of subcortical white matter tracts during the resection of gliomas has become a valuable surgical adjunct that is used to reduce morbidity associated with tumor removal. The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to assess the morbidity and functional outcome associated wit...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Keles GE,Lundin DA,Lamborn KR,Chang EF,Ojemann G,Berger MS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory evoked response from the cervical skin surface over the spine (the cervical SER) was recorded, and compared with the cord dorsum potential (CDP) simultaneously recorded from the posterior epidural space at the same segment. The cervical SER evoked by segmental nerve stimulation consisted of an initially ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Shimoji K,Shimizu H,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00