Intrasellar pituitary tissue pressure, tumour size and endocrine status--an international comparison in 107 patients.

abstract：:Objective: Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) is a useful therapy to improve motor functions and reduce dependence on medication in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The purpose of the study is to assess the long-term clinical outcomes of STN-DBS and to determine the optimal placement of...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Guo S,Li J,Zhang Y,Li Y,Zhuang P

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss a spontaneous subdural haematoma (SDH) arising from an arachnoid cyst in a healthy adult male, presenting with headache and vomiting. Imaging revealed a large SDH communicating with an arachnoid cyst and intracystic haemorrhage. The patient fully recovered with surgical evacuation. We also discuss the cause...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hall A,White MAJ,Myles L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old Caucasian woman presented with left eye pain and a transient left oculomotor nerve palsy. Subsequent imaging revealed a mass involving the sphenoid sinus and sella with suprasellar extension. A trans-sphenoidal hypophysectomy was performed. Histopathology showed a fungal infection consistent with phaeohy...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Yeung IY,Whitelaw BC,Hortobágyi T,Bódi I,Petrou MA,Connor SE,Thomas NW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma recurring after 20 years and representing with subarachnoid haemorrhage is described. Evidence in favour of a neoplastic pathogenesis is presented. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Stapleton SR,Wilkins PR,Bell BA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Irrigation may elevate the intracranial pressure (ICP) during neuroendoscopic procedures. It is unlikely that rinsing the ventricles during routine endoscopic ventriculostomy causes persistent neurological impairment or damage, but procedures such as the endoscopic evacuation of intraventricular haematomas (...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Trnovec S,Halatsch ME,Putz M,Behnke-Mursch J,Mursch K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial differences in the incidence and rate of rupture of intracranial aneurysms are well recognized. A retrospective study of racial differences between Maori and European New Zealanders presenting to the Auckland Regional Neurosurgical Unit between 1985 and 1990 was conducted. It was found that the incidence per 10...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Marks PV,Hope JK,Cluroe AD,Furneaux CE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nerve and muscle biopsy are common procedures often performed by junior surgical trainees. This educational review article describes the operative details of performing biopsies of muscle and nerve. Indications, pre-operative investigations and complication rates are described to aid in proper patient select...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hart MG,Santarius T,Trivedi RA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to measure metabolic changes monitored by bedside microdialysis during impending and manifest hypoxia in traumatic brain injury. In 41 patients, a PtiO2-catheter (Licox; 1/min) was placed into non-lesioned frontal white matter together with a microdialysis catheter (CMA, hourly). Data were analysed f...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sarrafzadeh AS,Kiening KL,Callsen TA,Unterberg AW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary melanocytic tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are rare lesions, but primary sellar tumors are rarer. Only 10 cases have been reported, and they are often misdiagnosed as pituitary macroadenoma. We report the case of a 54-year-old Chinese man who developed progressive bitemporal hemianopsia and visual ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Zhou HJ,Zhan RY,Ma YH,Cao F,Zheng XJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomatosis cerebri (GC), which mainly consists of oligodendroglial tumour cells, is rare and six cases have been documented to date. We present a new case of oligodendroglial gliomatosis cerebri with a favourable response to combination treatment using surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fukushima Y,Nakagawa H,Tamura M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Indications and clinical outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic thoracic discectomy(PETD) in treating thoracic disc herniation is rarely reported and still controversial. We reported an unsatisfied recovery of thoracic disc herniation with PETD, treated by a second posterior thoracic laminectomy and Ponte ost...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Xu Z,Sun B,Chen Y,Zhang Y,Wang JX,Shi CG,Zhang K,Wu HQ,Xie W,Wu XD

更新日期：2020-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate guidance techniques and patient outcomes of ultrasound-guided neuronavigation of deep-seated intracerebral cavernous hemangiomas (CAs). Thirty-five patients with deep-seated intracerebral CAs with sizes ranging between 7 and 45 mm were operated upon only with ultrasound-guidance. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Woydt M,Krone A,Soerensen N,Roosen K

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosrat Ollah Ameli (1913-2010) was one of the pioneers in Iranian neurosurgery. After training in England in the 1950s, Ameli returned to his country to found the Darioush Kabir Hospital, where he started the first neurosurgical ward in collaboration with Prof. E. Samiy. Here he applied his genius and innovation to de...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Alimi M,Rahimi-Movaghar V

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chordoid meningioma is a rare, more aggressive subtype of meningioma. This study documents the histological, radiological and clinical features of seven tumours in five patients among 131 meningioma patients who were treated in the Department of Neurosurgery at Istanbul Medipol University between 2014 and 2019. There ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Tahta A,Genc B,Cakir A,Sekerci Z

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CT images of an 18-year-old woman who had sustained head trauma after a motor vehicle accident are presented demonstrating the iatrogenic intracranial placement of a nasopharyngeal airway. Treatment required a decompressive craniectomy, removal of the nasopharyngeal airway under direct vision, and duraplasty. The pati...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Swanson KI,Nickele CM,Kuo JS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are few agreed quantifiable outcome measures in pituitary surgery. The goal of this study is to present the measurement of resection volume after surgery for pituitary tumours as a surgeon-specific outcome measure that may have use in illustrating the performance of individual surgeons internally and ex...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Phillips N,Tyagi A,Marks P,Nix P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic fungal inflammatory disease prevalent in India and Sri Lanka. Its manifestations are mostly nasal and extranasal lesions are relatively rare. Occasional atypical presentations of this disease lead to diagnostic dilemma. Herein we report on a case of nasopharyngeal rhinosporidiosis having ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Dutta G,Singhal GD,Singh D,Singh H,Srivastava AK,Jagetia A

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A selected series of 14 patients with lumbar disc prolapse causing sciatica have been operated successfully with outpatient (daycase) surgery. Postoperative pain has been much less than expected. This form of surgery has proved very acceptable to patients and to their family doctors. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Griffith H,Marks C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The main treatment modalities for single brain metastases are whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT), surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery. Current guidelines recommend complete surgical excision for single cerebral metastases and two randomised controlled trials (RCT) have also found survival benefit of surgery...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Lim CS,Grundy PL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confusion frequently occurs in patients with gliomas for a number of reasons. One cause is a superimposed intracerebral infection. The case of a 73-year-old man who deteriorated after debulking of a high-grade glioma is described. However, he was successfully treated for Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) diagn...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kalsi P,Tizzard S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim is to present a typical case of IgG4-related hypophysitis, which will offer insight into the aetiology and pathogenesis of this relatively newly described disease. IgG4 Related Disease is a protean systemic condition that mimics inflammatory, infectious, and malignant processes. Biopsy of affected organs will ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Murphy AN,Hannon AM,Brett FM,Agha A,Javadpour M,Looby S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Glioblastomas are the commonest primary brain tumour and are considered one of the most heterogeneous tumour types. The introduction of a glioblastoma with oligodendroglial component (GBM + O) in the latest WHO Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System (1) was to help with this. There has bee...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Elmahdi A,Frary AJ,Scotton WJ,O'Donovan DG,Price SJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is an uncommon clinical entity that is often diagnosed after a delay, or it is misdiagnosed due to the variety of clinical presentations and the associated radiological findings. We present here a case of SIH associated with chronic subdural haematoma (SDH) and subarachnoid h...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Joo WI,Lee KJ,Rha HK,Park HK,Chough JK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing standardized methods to assess outcome is needed to measure the effectiveness of surgery in relieving symptoms and improving quality of life. We prospectively studied 203 patients undergoing primary lumbar discectomy. Data was collected before surgery, at 3 months postoperatively and at long-term follow-u...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Guilfoyle MR,Ganesan D,Seeley H,Laing RJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A true human tail is a rare occurrence and is defined as a caudal, vestigial, midline protrusion with skin covering connective tissue, muscle, vessels and nerves. We report a case of true human tail in a child, which is a very rare happening in humans. ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Chauhan SP,Gopal NN,Jain M,Gupta A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a male, immunocompetent case aged 62-year-old with cryptococcal granuloma in the basal ganglia. No cryptococcal infection occurred in other areas. The diagnosis was made by biopsy. Cryptococcal granuloma was tough and unsuitable for sterotactic biopsy. The patient died of postoperative bleeding and...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Wang G,Shen H,Chu Z,Shen J,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this randomized prospective study was to compare the efficacy of endoscopic versus standard microsurgical excision of pituitary adenomas, and to evaluate the merits and demerits of each approach. Twenty patients with a pituitary adenoma were randomly divided into two groups comprising of 10 cases each. Ten ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Jain AK,Gupta AK,Pathak A,Bhansali A,Bapuraj JR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant anterior circulation aneurysms and some basilar aneurysms can cause problems due to their size, the presence of clot in the aneurysm and the difficulty of applying a clip without kinking the perforating vessels. By utilising cardiopulmonary bypass via the femoro-femoral perforating vessels. By utilising cardiopu...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Richards PG,Marath A,Edwards JM,Lincoln C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined approach for microvascular decompression of trigeminal neuralgia is reported. Arachnoid dissection of the cerebellar horizontal fissure (transhorizontal approach) allowed easy identification of the root exit zone of the trigeminal nerve. The superior semilunar lobule was pulled back rostrally so that retrac...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fujimaki T,Kirino T

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of high field (3 Tesla) MR in target localization for stem cell transplantation. Three patients with Huntington's disease were imaged with a stereotactic frame in place for both MRI and CT. Quality assurance procedures and manual shimming were performed before each ...

journal_title：British journal of neurosurgery

authors： Donovan T,Fryer TD,Peña A,Watts C,Carpenter TA,Pickard JD

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00