Measuring the health status of children with hydrocephalus by using a new outcome measure.

abstract：:In a randomized postoperative trial, adjuvant post-irradiation chemotherapy, consisting of nitrogen mustard, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP), was tested versus radiation therapy alone for newly diagnosed medulloblastoma in patients between 1 and 21 years of age. Patients treated with irradiation plus ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Krischer JP,Ragab AH,Kun L,Kim TH,Laurent JP,Boyett JM,Cornell CJ,Link M,Luthy AR,Camitta B

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy was performed on perchlorate extracts of tumors (24 cases) or peritumoral vermis (five cases) obtained at surgery. Fifteen tumors were typical cerebellar astrocytomas and nine were posterior fossa primitive neuroectodermal tumors/medulloblastomas. Spectra obt...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sutton LN,Wehrli SL,Gennarelli L,Wang Z,Zimmerman R,Bonner K,Rorke LB

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural foundations underlying visual agnosia are poorly understood. The authors present the case of a patient who underwent awake surgery for a right basal temporooccipital low-grade glioma in which direct electrostimulation was used both at the cortical and subcortical level. Brain mapping over the inferior longitudi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fernández Coello A,Duvaux S,De Benedictis A,Matsuda R,Duffau H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of complete anatomical compartmentalization of the cavernous sinus in a patient with bilateral Type D cavernous dural arteriovenous fistulae is described. This anatomical anomaly isolated the anterior cavernous sinus and orbital venous system, which was primarily responsible for the patient's clinical ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chaloupka JC,Goller D,Goldberg RA,Duckwiler GR,Martin NA,Viñuela F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review their 2-year experience with a rhinoseptal transsphenoidal approach to skull-base tumors of various pathologies involving both the sphenoid and cavernous sinuses. Eight patients with cranial nerve palsies attributable to compression of the contents of the cavernous sinus and/or optic canal are inclu...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hashimoto N,Kikuchi H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of this prospective, single-case study evaluated the potential for functional recovery from chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). The patient was motor complete with minimal and transient sensory perception in the left hemibody. His condition was classified as C-2 American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Grad...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： McDonald JW,Becker D,Sadowsky CL,Jane JA Sr,Conturo TE,Schultz LM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective sacral neurectomy was performed in 12 patients with intractable urge incontinence of long duration (mean 12 years) caused by detrusor hyperreflexia. There was great variation in the innervation of the bladder, but resection of an S-3 root or rootlet was carried out in all patients. Six of the patients, who w...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tørring J,Petersen T,Klemar B,Søgaard I

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:Through the combined efforts of neurosurgeons, head and neck surgeons, and craniofacial surgeons, the standard transbasal approach to the frontal fossa has been modified to include removal of the orbital roofs, nasion, and ethmoid sinuses. This approach has been combined further with facial disassembly procedures to p...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Spetzler RF,Herman JM,Beals S,Joganic E,Milligan J

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:This article describes a new flexible bipolar neuroelectrode which is inserted percutaneously into the epidural space for segmental spinal cord stimulation. This electrode was used in experiments with dogs and monkeys for recording cortical somatosensory evoked potentials in order to identify intraoperative spinal cor...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kaschner AG,Sandmann W,Larkamp H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosurgery has played an important role in the development of neuroscience and the science of consciousness. In this paper, the authors reflect on some of the historical contributions of neurosurgeons to the science of consciousness and discuss the ways in which clinical neurosurgery can contribute to the science of...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hasegawa H,Jamieson GA,Ashkan K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Obtaining brain biopsy specimens is often the diagnostic test of last resort for patients with unexplained neurological conditions, particularly those with a rapidly deteriorating neurological course. The goals of this analysis were to determine the diagnostic sensitivity of brain biopsy specimens in these types...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Josephson SA,Papanastassiou AM,Berger MS,Barbaro NM,McDermott MW,Hilton JF,Miller BL,Geschwind MD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological variables were monitored in dogs and sheep after exposure of the brain to a pressure wave produced by a fluid-percussion device. Mean systemic arterial pressure (SAP), mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP), and pulmonary wedge pressure (PWP) were recorded prior to and following trauma. Lung lymph flows ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Millen JE,Glauser FL,Fairman RP

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:It is generally accepted that hemifacial spasm (HFS) is caused by pulsatile vascular compression upon the facial nerve root exit zone. This 2-3 mm area, considered synonymous with the Obersteiner-Redlich zone, is a transition zone (TZ) between central and peripheral axonal myelination that is situated at the ner...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Campos-Benitez M,Kaufmann AM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hypercholesterolemia on vascular responsiveness was studied in isolated rabbit arteries. The arteries of animals maintained on a cholesterol-rich (1%) diet for 6 months had more pronounced intimal lesion than those receiving the diet for 3 months. The aortas were more severely damaged than the carotid or...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kanamaru K,Waga S,Tochio H,Nagatani K

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:It has been demonstrated that an extensive resection (total or subtotal) may significantly increase the overall survival in patients with WHO Grade II gliomas (low-grade gliomas [LGGs]). Yet, recent data have shown that conventional MR imaging underestimates the spatial extent of LGG, since tumor cells were foun...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yordanova YN,Moritz-Gasser S,Duffau H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 514 hospitalized head-injury survivors was identified based on their injury and 448 (87%) of them were followed for 1 year. Comprehensive neurobehavioral testing was performed 1 month and 1 year after injury. The authors developed predictions of six neuropsychological and two psychosocial outcomes 1 year a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Temkin NR,Holubkov R,Machamer JE,Winn HR,Dikmen SS

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the case of a 15-year-old boy with Crouzon syndrome (CS) who presented with headache and facial diplegia. He had undergone several craniofacial interventions and a posterior fossa decompression for tonsillar herniation caused by the CS. A ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt had been inserted for hydr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Thines L,Vinchon M,Lahlou A,Pellerin P,Dhellemmes P

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:Although in several histological studies of arteriovenous malformation (AVM) nidi the presence of compartments has been documented, no clinical study has been published. The present study was conducted to determine the presence of nidus compartments in clinical cases by using a new radiographic method. Two patients wi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kakizawa Y,Nagashima H,Oya F,Ito K,Tanaka Y,Hongo K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) has been shown to provide considerable benefit to children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). The authors sought to evaluate the risks of postoperative spinal deformities in patients following SDR. METHODS:All patients who underwent SDR at McGill University between 1991 and 2001 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Golan JD,Hall JA,O'Gorman G,Poulin C,Benaroch TE,Cantin MA,Farmer JP

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Intrinsic disease processes of the brainstem (gliomas, neurodegenerative disease, and others) have remained difficult or impossible to treat effectively because of limited drug penetration across the blood-brainstem barrier with conventional delivery methods. The authors used convection-enhanced delivery (CED) o...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lonser RR,Walbridge S,Garmestani K,Butman JA,Walters HA,Vortmeyer AO,Morrison PF,Brechbiel MW,Oldfield EH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:An increasing number of patients with vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are being treated with radiosurgery. Treatment failure or secondary regrowth after radiosurgery, however, has been observed in 2%-9% of patients. In large tumors that compress the brainstem and in patients who experience rapid neurological deteri...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Gerganov VM,Giordano M,Samii A,Samii M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated leukocytes appear to be directly involved in potentiating ischemic central nervous system (CNS) injury. Adhesion of leukocytes to endothelium is essential for their migration and requires the binding of adhesion receptors of the leukocyte (CD 18) to an intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM) on endothelium. M...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Clark WM,Madden KP,Rothlein R,Zivin JA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A precise understanding of the ambient cistern and its associated arachnoid membranes is helpful for accessing perimesencephalic lesions. However, few studies of the arachnoid membranes related to the ambient cistern have been published, and, additionally, some aspects of the ambient cistern also require further...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Qi ST,Fan J,Zhang XA,Pan J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immune responses to brain antigens in patients with head injury were studied by applying the leukocyte adherence inhibition (LAI) assay. The investigation was conducted in three phases. 1) In the initial phase, evaluation of a series of 22 test and 25 control cases obtained at random during a 2- to 6-week tim...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Apuzzo ML,Sheikh KM,Heiden JS,Weiss MH,Kurze T

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have created an experimental model of regional cerebral ischemia in gerbils that is reproducible and has a low mortality rate. In gerbils, either the posterior communicating artery (PCoA) or the middle cerebral artery (MCA) was occluded, and the distribution of cerebral ischemia from each surgical procedur...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yoshimine T,Yanagihara T

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of cerebrovascular malformations intrigued early neurosurgeons. Cushing defined vascular malformations as tumors arising from cerebral blood vessels. He successfully resected the first arteriovenous malformation 3 years after it had been irradiated. In the absence of angiography, the pathoanatom...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cohen-Gadol AA,Spencer DD

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00