Deliberate systemic hypotension to facilitate endovascular therapy of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a computer modeling study.

abstract：OBJECT:The management of pediatric intraventricular tumors is highly dependent on identification of the tumor type. Choroid plexus papillomas, a common intraventricular tumor in children, can be difficult to distinguish radiographically from choroid plexus carcinomas and other common pediatric central nervous system (C...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Krieger MD,Panigrahy A,McComb JG,Nelson MD,Liu X,Gonzalez-Gomez I,Gilles F,Bluml S

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) often can be surgically treated by either ventral or dorsal decompression and fusion. However, there is a lack of high-level evidence on the relative advantages and disadvantages for these treatments of CSM. The authors' goal was to provide a comprehensive review of the relative b...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Alvin MD,Lubelski D,Benzel EC,Mroz TE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The authors performed a retrospective study to assess the impact of functional neuronavigation and intraoperative MRI (iMRI) on surgery of extratemporal epileptogenic lesions on postsurgical morbidity and seizure control. METHODS:Twenty-five patients (14 females and 11 males) underwent extratemporal resections ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Sommer B,Grummich P,Coras R,Kasper BS,Blumcke I,Hamer HM,Stefan H,Buchfelder M,Roessler K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIn 1994 the National Football League (NFL) initiated a comprehensive clinical and biomechanical research study of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), a study that is ongoing. Data on mild TBIs sustained between 1996 and 2001 were collected and submitted by NFL team physicians and athletic trainers, and these data were...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Pellman EJ,Viano DC,National Football League's Committee on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) is an uncommon facial pain syndrome often misdiagnosed as trigeminal neuralgia. The rarity of this condition and its overlap with other cranial nerve hyperactivity syndromes often leads to a significant delay in diagnosis. The surgical procedures with the highest rates of pain relief f...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Rey-Dios R,Cohen-Gadol AA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary macroadenomas most frequently present with visual loss. Although transsphenoidal surgery remains the treatment of choice for patients with neurological manifestations, there have been several advances in its implementation over the last 5 years. Intraoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has emerged as a...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Jones J,Ruge J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This video demonstrates a surgical technique of resecting dorsum sellae meningioma using a combined interhemispheric translamina terminalis approach and pterional approach with clinoidectomy. The tumor, 5 cm in maximum diameter, originated from the dorsum sellae, compressed the third ventricle and the midbrain, and di...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Suematsu S,Ono H,Inoue T,Tamura A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:For patients with glioblastoma multiforme, median survival time is approximately 14 months. Longer progression-free and overall survival times correlate with gross-total resection of tumor. The ability to identify tumor cells intraoperatively could result in an increased percentage of tumor resected and thus inc...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Fenton KE,Martirosyan NL,Abdelwahab MG,Coons SW,Preul MC,Scheck AC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential advantages of a mini-open transforaminal interbody fusion (TLIF) operation are reduced blood loss, shorter length of stay, and less soft-tissue trauma compared to the standard open technique. Prior reports from our group and others have demonstrated successful outcomes using MIS techniques in lumbar fusi...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Amin BY,Tu TH,Mummaneni PV

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the earliest recorded history of medicine, physicians have been challenged by the difficulty in relieving the great pain experienced by individuals suffering from trigeminal neuralgia (TN). The nature of the pain and the events that incite it have been well described, but effective treatments with acceptable lev...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Cole CD,Liu JK,Apfelbaum RI

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral edema is frequently encountered in clinical practice in critically ill patients with acute brain injury from diverse origins and is a major cause of increased morbidity and death in this subset of patients. The consequences of cerebral edema can be lethal and include cerebral ischemia from compromised regiona...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Raslan A,Bhardwaj A

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated epilepsy is an important contributor to morbidity in patients with brain tumors. Proposed pathophysiological mechanisms to explain these effects range from neuronal and glial dysfunction to deranged vascular homeostasis, to ionic and pH changes. Perilesional tissue alterations play a vital role in the...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Rajneesh KF,Binder DK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The American Association of Neurological Surgeons launched the Quality Outcomes Database (QOD), a prospective longitudinal registry that includes demographic, clinical, and patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, to measure the safety and quality of neurosurgical procedures, including spinal surgery. Differing ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Chan AK,Bisson EF,Bydon M,Glassman SD,Foley KT,Potts EA,Shaffrey CI,Shaffrey ME,Coric D,Knightly JJ,Park P,Fu KM,Slotkin JR,Asher AL,Virk MS,Kerezoudis P,Chotai S,DiGiorgio AM,Chan AY,Haid RW,Mummaneni PV

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:In this report the authors review the role of bioinformatics in the design of a research project in which the molecular genetics of malignant glioma were studied. A project to characterize Pokemon expression in malignant glioma was developed, refined, and implemented using bioinformatics methods. METHODS:Using ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Rovin RA,Winn R

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Management of disease in patients undergoing neurosurgical treatment for tumors requires balancing the competing risks of hemorrhage and thrombosis. The authors compared the incidence of clinically apparent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients admitted for treatment of intracrania...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Smith SF,Simpson JM,Sekhon LH

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The contemporary management of projectile head injuries owes much to the lessons neurosurgeons have distilled from their experiences in war. Through early investigation and an increasingly detailed account of wartime clinical experience, neurosurgeons--including the field's early giants--began to gain a greater unders...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Agarwalla PK,Dunn GP,Laws ER

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vein of Galen malformations are rare congenital intracranial vascular malformations. Based on reports in the literature, spontaneous thrombosis or regression of these lesions is rare. Patients have variable outcomes from an asymptomatic course to death. The reasons behind spontaneous thrombosis are not entirely unders...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Moftakhar P,Danielpour M,Maya M,Alexander MJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common form of primary brain cancer, has been significantly advanced by recent efforts to characterize the cancer genome using unbiased high-throughput sequencing analyses. While these studies have documented hundreds of mutations, gene copy alterations, and...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Kahle KT,Kozono D,Ng K,Hsieh G,Zinn PO,Nitta M,Chen CC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Commercially available processed nerve allografts have been shown to be inferior to autografts in previous animal studies. The authors hypothesized that combining different processing and storage techniques will result in improved nerve ultrastructure preservation, lower immunogenicity, and minimized cellula...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Hundepool CA,Nijhuis TH,Kotsougiani D,Friedrich PF,Bishop AT,Shin AY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of this study was to test the validity of the hypothesis that patients in whom brain metastasis is the first indication of an undiagnosed primary tumor have a better chance of survival than similar patients with a known primary lesion. METHODS:Between January 1983 and December 1998, 342 patients with co...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： D'Ambrosio AL,Agazzi S

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors aimed to compare the efficacy of lumbar vertebral body Hounsfield units (HUs) and pedicle HUs at predicting pedicle screw loosening. METHODS:The authors retrospectively assessed 143 patients with L3-5 instrumentation. The patients were classified into one of two groups based on the status of thei...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Xu F,Zou D,Li W,Sun Z,Jiang S,Zhou S,Li Z

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide a way for the brain to interface directly with a computer. Many different brain signals can be used to control a device, varying in ease of recording, reliability, stability, temporal and spatial resolution, and noise. Electrocorticography (ECoG) electrodes provide a highly rel...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Miller KJ,Hermes D,Staff NP

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramedullary spinal cord cavernous malformations account for approximately 5% of all intraspinal lesions. These lesions can present with either acute neurological compromise secondary to hemorrhage inside the spinal cord, or with chronic progressive myelopathy due to repeated microhemorrhages. Surgical resection of ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Liu JK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used to treat various neurological and psychiatric disorders. Over the years, the most suitable surgical candidates and targets for some of these conditions have been characterized and the benefits of DBS well demonstrated in double-blinded randomized trials. This review will disc...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Awan NR,Lozano A,Hamani C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Tectal gliomas constitute a rare and inhomogeneous group of lesions with an uncertain clinical course. Because these supposedly benign tumors are frequently followed up by observation over many years, the authors undertook this analysis of their own case series in an effort to demonstrate that the clinical c...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Mohme M,Fritzsche FS,Mende KC,Matschke J,Löbel U,Kammler G,Westphal M,Emami P,Martens T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Reservoirs integrated into hydrocephalus shunts are commonly used for the removal of CSF and for intra-ventricular pressure measurement. Pumping with the reservoir to diagnose shunt sufficiency is still a matter of controversy. The authors describe an improved flushing device and its characteristic features ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Schlosser HG,Crawack HJ,Miethke C,Knitter T,Zeiner A,Sprung C

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular replacement therapy attempts to improve functioning of the diseased human central nervous system (CNS). In this second installment of a 2-part review, the authors discuss the major challenges to the translation of in vitro and animal studies of neural stem cell (NSC) therapy in the clinical setting. This anal...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Selden NR,Guillaume DJ,Steiner RD,Huhn SL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:Lamotrigine is an antiepileptic drug that inhibits presynaptic voltage-gated sodium channels and reduces the presynaptic release of glutamate in pathological states. Neuroprotective effects of this drug have already been demonstrated in cerebral ischemia models. The aim of the present study was to determine the ...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Tufan K,Oztanir N,Ofluoglu E,Ozogul C,Uzum N,Dursun A,Pasaoglu H,Pasaoglu A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) with the Gamma Knife and linear accelerator has revolutionized neurosurgery over the past 20 years. The most common indications for radiosurgery today are tumors and arteriovenous malformations of the brain. Functional indications such as treatment of movement disorders or intractable p...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Friehs GM,Park MC,Goldman MA,Zerris VA,Norén G,Sampath P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical management of compressive cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) can be challenging. Traditionally, approach indications for decompression of cervical spondylotic myelopathy have been used. However, the postoperative complication profile after cervical OPLL decompression is un...

journal_title：Neurosurgical focus

authors： Cardoso MJ,Koski TR,Ganju A,Liu JC

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00