Use of bone morphogenetic protein-9 gene therapy to induce spinal arthrodesis in the rodent.

abstract：OBJECT:Sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation activates perivascular vasodilatory nerves in the ipsilateral anterior circle of Willis. This experiment tested whether stimulation of the ganglion could reverse vasospasm and improve cerebral perfusion after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in monkeys. METHODS:Thirteen cynomolg...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Takahashi M,Zhang ZD,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) abnormalities, namely kinks, coils, and stenoses, was evaluated in a consecutive unselected series of 76 cases of single supratentorial saccular aneurysms submitted to bilateral carotid angiography. These patients were compared with a control group of 120 pat...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Spallone A,Cantore G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occipital neuralgia syndromes have been ascribed to a great many pathological alterations, some demonstrable and some hypothetical. Recently, occipital neuralgia has been attributed to developmental and posttraumatic lesions in the cervicocranial junction region, with the nerve roots at C-1 and C-2 considered to be th...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Ehni G,Benner B

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The human leukocyte antigen-A24 (HLA-A24) allele is highly expressed in Asians. This allele is expressed in 60% of the Japanese population and in a significant number of people of other ethnicities. The interleukin-13 type alpha2 receptor (IL-13Ralpha2) has been shown to be a glioma-specific antigen, and is abun...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Shimato S,Natsume A,Wakabayashi T,Tsujimura K,Nakahara N,Ishii J,Ito M,Akatsuka Y,Kuzushima K,Yoshida J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:A wide variation in postoperative drainage volumes is observed during treatment of chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) with twist-drill or burr-hole craniostomy and closed-system drainage. In this study the authors investigate the causes of the variation, the clinical significance thereof, and its influence on trea...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kwon TH,Park YK,Lim DJ,Cho TH,Chung YG,Chung HS,Suh JK

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the technique of a transantral transsphenoidal approach to the sella turcica. The advantages and potential complications are discussed. This procedure may also be applicable when dealing with tumors of the skull base and orbits. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Hoyt TE,Turnbull FM,Kusske JA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with painless hypertrophy of one calf had clinical and myelographic features compatible with an S-1 radiculopathy. Electromyographic studies revealed intermittent spontaneous discharges (bizarre repetitive potentials) in the affected extremity. Several patients have previously been described with S-1 radi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Cooper WH,Ringel SP,Treihaft MM,Hall KA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caudal zona incerta target within the posterior subthalamic area is an investigational site for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson disease (PD) and tremor. The authors report on a patient with tremor-predominant PD who, despite excellent tremor control and an otherwise normal neurological examination, exhib...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Bangash OK,Thorburn M,Garcia-Vega J,Walters S,Stell R,Starkstein SE,Lind CR

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was conducted to examine the effects upon normal lymphocyte activation of the addition of brain-tumor cyst fluid or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to an in vitro culture system. It was believed that factors present in these fluids may play a role in local and systemic immunosuppression in brain-tu...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kikuchi K,Neuwelt EA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, diagnosis and management of disorders involving nerves are generally undertaken without images of the nerves themselves. The authors evaluated whether direct nerve images obtained using the new technique of magnetic resonance (MR) neurography could be used to make clinically important diagnostic distinction...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Filler AG,Kliot M,Howe FA,Hayes CE,Saunders DE,Goodkin R,Bell BA,Winn HR,Griffiths JR,Tsuruda JS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eighty-one patients with single aneurysms involving the anterior circulation were treated either by wrapping (60 cases) or clipping (121 cases), and 96.1% of them were followed for 10 years. The rate of early rebleeding (less than 6 months) from wrapped aneurysms was 8.6% (confidence interval 1.4% to 1...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Todd NV,Tocher JL,Jones PA,Miller JD

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Quantitative and qualitative alterations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) commonly occur in many cancers in humans, including malignant gliomas. The aim of the current study was to evaluate molecular and cellular effects of OSI-774, a novel EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, on nine glioblastoma multi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Halatsch ME,Gehrke EE,Vougioukas VI,Bötefür IC,A-Borhani F,Efferth T,Gebhart E,Domhof S,Schmidt U,Buchfelder M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head trauma, intracerebral hematoma formation, and hemorrhagic cerebral infarction cause extravasation of the intravascular contents, red blood cell (RBC) hemolysis, hemosiderin deposition within the neuropil, and an increased incidence of epilepsy. Reports conflict regarding the efficacy of the administration of prop...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Willmore LJ,Triggs WJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocortical stimulation mapping (ESM) is the clinical standard for localizing critical sensorimotor and language functions, but other functions can be assessed with this technique as well. The authors describe an 8-year-old girl with a left frontal desmoplastic gangliocytoma and medically intractable epilepsy who ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kho KH,Rutten GJ,Leijten FS,van der Schaaf A,van Rijen PC,Ramsey NF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transdural herniations of the spinal cord are rare, and those occurring acutely after a spinal cord injury (SCI) are particularly unusual. In this report, the authors present the case of acute posttraumatic spinal cord herniation in a patient who sustained severe polytraumatic injuries. The clinical manifestations wer...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Marquardt G,Weidauer S,Zanella FE,Seifert V

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Congenital occipitocervical (OC) instability is uncommon in healthy children but can occur in many children with Down syndrome. A simple morphometric method of evaluating the OC joint in children with OC instability is presented, supported by a qualitative image analysis based on computed tomography (CT). METHO...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Browd S,Healy LJ,Dobie G,Johnson JT 3rd,Jones GM,Rodriguez LF,Brockmeyer DL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Meningoencephaloceles are congenital malformations that have a high incidence in the population of Southeast Asia. Frontoethmoidal meningoencephaloceles, the most common variety, require surgical treatment. The authors combined neurosurgical and craniofacial approaches for the development of a simple technique t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Pinzer T,Lauer G,Gollogly J,Schackert G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVEDelay in diagnosis and subsequent treatment of nonconvulsive seizures can lead to worsened outcomes. The gold standard in detecting nonconvulsive seizures is continuous video-electroencephalography (cEEG). Compared to routine, 30-minute EEG, the use of cEEG increases the likelihood of capturing intermittent n...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Freund B,Probasco JC,Ritzl EK

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although image-based human stereotaxis began with Spiegel and Wycis in 1947, the major principles of radiographic stereotaxis were formulated 50 years earlier by the French scientific photographer Gaston Contremoulins. In 1897, frustrated by the high morbidity of bullet extraction from the brain, the Parisian surgeon ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Giller CA,Mornet P,Moreau JF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Quantitative assessment of tumor microvascularity has the potential to improve prognostication, advance understanding of tumor biology, and help narrow potential molecular therapies. While the role of tumor microvascularity has been widely studied in meningiomas, this study examines both the role of automate...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Karsy M,Burnett B,Di Ieva A,Cusimano MD,Jensen RL

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was measured at different times during the first 150 minutes following an experimental space-occupying lesion produced with a 50-microliter microballoon in rats. Local CBF was measured with the carbon-14-labeled iodoantipyrine quantitative autoradiographic technique. A region of local ischemi...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kingman TA,Mendelow AD,Graham DI,Teasdale GM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was designed to investigate hyperperfusion syndrome after the restoration of normal cerebral blood flow in a chronically cerebral ischemic state resulting from high-flow arteriovenous malformations or severe carotid stenosis. A fistula between the left distal common carotid artery and the jugular vein was crea...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Sakaki T,Tsujimoto S,Nishitani M,Ishida Y,Morimoto T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few reports of anterior communicating artery aneurysms causing visual symptoms, and penetration of the optic chiasm by such aneurysms has not been reported. A 40-year-old man presented with the abrupt onset of left homonymous hemianopsia, right visual acuity disturbance (finger counting), and slight headache...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Date I,Akioka T,Ohmoto T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonism caused by 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) exposure was first identified in intravenous drug users. This neurotoxicant has since been used extensively in nonhuman primates to induce an experimental model of Parkinson disease (PD). In this study, the authors examined the intraoperative p...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Christine CW,Langston JW,Turner RS,Starr PA

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：OBJECT:Shock waves have been experimentally applied to various neurosurgical treatments including fragmentation of cerebral emboli, perforation of cyst walls or tissue, and delivery of drugs into cells. Nevertheless, the application of shock waves to clinical neurosurgery remains challenging because the threshold for s...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Kato K,Fujimura M,Nakagawa A,Saito A,Ohki T,Takayama K,Tominaga T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Recent evidence has indicated that the efficacy of the epidural blood patch (EBP) in the treatment of spontaneous CSF hypovolemia (SCH) is still limited. Therefore, further improvement of the EBP technique is an important clinical challenge. The authors describe a series of cases of SCH treated with fluoroscopic...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Watanabe K,Hashizume K,Kawaguchi M,Fujiwara A,Sasaoka N,Furuya H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was measured in 39 men at normocapnia and after 5% CO2 inhalation using the xenon-133 technique. Twenty-three patients had unilateral carotid artery occlusion with no angiographic evidence of contralateral carotid artery stenosis or ophthalmic collateral flow. Eleven of these patients had und...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Clifton GL,Haden HT,Taylor JR,Sobel M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Pituitary adenomas represent a large proportion of brain tumors that are increasing in incidence because of improved imaging techniques. Headache is the primary symptom in patients with large tumors (macroadenomas), but is also a symptom in patients with small tumors (microadenomas, tumors < 1.0 cm). The prevale...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Fleseriu M,Yedinak C,Campbell C,Delashaw JB

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological findings in 20 cases of glioblastoma multiforme were correlated with clinical histories and computerized tomographic (CT) scans. This was done to define the neoplasm in three stages: before treatment, during remission, and during recurrence. The untreated lesions were markedly cellular neoplasms composed ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgery

authors： Burger PC,Dubois PJ,Schold SC Jr,Smith KR Jr,Odom GL,Crafts DC,Giangaspero F

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00