Abstract:
:The authors report the case of a young man who suffered multiple injuries in a motor vehicle accident, the most significant of which arose in the brain, creating an unusual clinical syndrome. After experiencing an initial coma for several days, the patient was found to have a right-sided homonymous hemianopsia and a right hemiparesis, which was more marked at the shoulder and was accompanied by preservation of finger movement. Dystonic movements appeared 2 months later and progressed, along with increased spasticity on volition, to severe uncontrolled arm movements at 2 years postinjury. This motor disorder continued to worsen during the following 6 years prior to the patient's death. At autopsy, the left side of the brain was observed to have marked atrophy of the optic tract, a partial lesion of the posterior portion of the medial segment of the globus pallidus (GP), and a reduction in the size of the internal capsule at the level of the GP, suggesting impaired circulation to these areas at the time of injury. The isolated lesion of the internal segment of the GP was the presumed cause of the dystonia, acting through an alteration in thalamic inhibition. The atrophic subthalamic nucleus was the probable cause of the hemiballismus. The authors speculate that this and other delayed and progressive features of this case were the result of an active, but disordered, adaptive process that failed to compensate and, instead, caused even greater problems than the original injury.
journal_name
J Neurosurgjournal_title
Journal of neurosurgeryauthors
King RB,Fuller C,Collins GHdoi
10.3171/jns.2001.94.2.0309subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-02-01 00:00:00pages
309-14issue
2eissn
0022-3085issn
1933-0693journal_volume
94pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1995.83.3.0438
更新日期:1995-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECT:The aim of the study was to assess retrospectively the clinical efficacy and possible adverse effects of electrical spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for the treatment of patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). METHODS:Twenty-three patients who suffered severe pain due to RSD were included in the study. T...
journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/spi.1999.90.1.0079
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1984.60.4.0712
更新日期:1984-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Given the relatively benign natural history of cavernous carotid artery aneurysms and based on anecdotal reports in the literature of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) or subdural hemorrhage (SDH) from these aneurysms, observation is warranted and typically recommended. In this case report, the authors describe a woman wh...
journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.2006.105.2.315
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The successful use of autogenous skull bone grafts for a C3-7 anterior cervical fusion is reported and compared with results using other bone grafts. A 51-year-old man with C4-7 anterior cord compression due to spurs and ossified posterior longitudinal ligaments developed progressive tetraparesis following a minor hea...
journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1992.76.2.0298
更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1976.44.3.0313
更新日期:1976-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2011.8.JNS11857
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2010.2.JNS09685
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1979.50.4.0454
更新日期:1979-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/spi.2002.96.3.0309
更新日期:2002-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1997.86.1.0121
更新日期:1997-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1991.75.4.0623
更新日期:1991-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1999.91.1.0121
更新日期:1999-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.3171/jns.2006.104.4.558
更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Blood flow velocity was recorded from the middle or anterior cerebral and extracranial internal carotid arteries using transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) in 121 unselected consecutive patients with acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Recordings were made daily or every 2nd day after SAH for a 14-day per...
journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1993.78.2.0183
更新日期:1993-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/ped.2007.106.4.276
更新日期:2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The ocular complications of intracarotid infusion of drugs for brain-tumor chemotherapy may be eliminated by infusion of the chemotherapeutic agent into the carotid artery above the origin of the ophthalmic artery. The authors have developed a catheter that can negotiate the carotid siphon. This catheter is not balloo...
journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1983.58.4.0616
更新日期:1983-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.3171/2012.4.JNS11214
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2013.5.JNS13206
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2016.9.JNS16152
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2015.2.JNS142721
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.2006.105.3.385
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1990.73.6.0864
更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The authors investigate whether there are any permeability changes in the endoneurial blood-nerve barrier and the perineurium-nerve barrier of surviving nerve allografts. In a normal nerve, the blood-nerve barrier regulates the passage of substances from endoneurial blood vessels into the endoneurium, whereas the peri...
journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1993.78.5.0794
更新日期:1993-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/spi.2003.98.3.0251
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2016.11.JNS161162
更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1995.83.5.0933
更新日期:1995-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to identify the angiographic features of hemorrhagic-onset moyamoya disease (MMD) in comparison with those of patients with ischemic-onset MMD. METHODS: This case-control study compared the data set of the Japan Adult Moyamoya (JAM) Trial with the angiographic data of adult patients...
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2017.11.JNS171990
更新日期:2019-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neurosurgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/jns.1979.50.1.0103
更新日期:1979-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3171/2019.12.JNS192938
更新日期:2020-03-13 00:00:00