abstract：BACKGROUND:Blister aneurysms of the internal carotid artery (ICA) are uncommon. There is a paucity of data on the long-term outcomes of patients. OBJECTIVE:To review our experience with the treatment of these lesions. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed all aneurysms treated at our institution between 1994 and 2005. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kalani MY,Zabramski JM,Kim LJ,Chowdhry SA,Mendes GA,Nakaji P,McDougall CG,Albuquerque FC,Spetzler RF

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animal studies suggest that ischemic preconditioning prolongs coagulation times. OBJECTIVE:Because coagulation changes could hinder the translation of preconditioning into clinical settings where hemorrhage may be an issue, such as ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, we evaluated the effects of remote ischemic ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Mayor F,Bilgin-Freiert A,Connolly M,Katsnelson M,Dusick JR,Vespa P,Koch S,Gonzalez NR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vittorio Marchi was an Italian neuroscientist who lived during the second half of the 19th century. He is generally remembered for developing a novel staining method to trace the degeneration of nervous fibers in lesions of the central nervous system. This osmium-based method was used worldwide for approximately a cen...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Talamonti G,D'Aliberti G,Debernardi A,Innocenti G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papillary meningioma (PM) is an uncommon meningioma subtype, and the clinical characteristics remain unclear. OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical characteristics and prognosis of PM. METHODS:The clinical data of 30 PM patients were collected, the samples were reexamined, and the patients' prognoses were ba...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Wang XQ,Chen H,Zhao L,Li ST,Hu J,Mei GH,Jiang CC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporal lobe arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) represent a subgroup of intracranial AVMs with particular characteristics and management issues. OBJECTIVE:To characterize the surgical outcomes of temporal lobe AVMs with emphasis on visual field deficits (VFDs) and seizures. METHODS:Between 1992 and 2008, ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lopez-Ojeda P,Labib M,Burneo J,Lownie SP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurosurgical tradition at Jefferson Medical College began in the 19th century with Samuel Gross. In his textbook entitled A System of Surgery, Gross revealed his knowledge of the disorders of the nervous system at a time when innovations were practically inexistent. Gross' work paved the way for William Williams ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Chalouhi N,Osterholm J,Jabbour P,Dumont AS,Gonzalez LF,Harrop J,Sharan A,Rosenwasser R,Tjoumakaris S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical and surgical graduate medical education has historically used a halstedian approach of "see one, do one, teach one." Increased public demand for safety, quality, and accountability in the setting of regulated resident work hours and limited resources is driving the development of innovative educational tools. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Singh H,Kalani M,Acosta-Torres S,El Ahmadieh TY,Loya J,Ganju A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:: The development of technical skills is a major goal of any neurosurgical training program. Residency programs in North America are focused on achieving an adequate level of training to produce technically competent surgeons. The training requirements and educational environments needed to produce expert surgeons are...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gélinas-Phaneuf N,Del Maestro RF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urinary disorders account for 10% of deaths in patients with complete spinal cord injury. Sacral anterior root stimulation (SARS) may be a valuable therapeutic option to restore complete and voluntary micturition (CVM), but questions on its cost-effectiveness remain. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the cost-effective...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bénard A,Verpillot E,Grandoulier AS,Perrouin-Verbe B,Chêne G,Vignes JR,French Study Group on SARS.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meningeal hemangiopericytoma (M-HPC) is a rare entity. OBJECTIVE:To characterize our institutional experience in treating M-HPC. METHODS:We reviewed the medical records of patients with M-HPC evaluated at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center between 1979 and 2009. RESULTS:We identified 63 p...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Ghia AJ,Chang EL,Allen PK,Mahajan A,Penas-Prado M,McCutcheon IE,Brown PD

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is used in tens of thousands of spinal fusions each year. A trial evaluating a high-dose BMP formulation demonstrated that its use may be associated with an increased risk of cancer. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether BMP, as commonly used today, is associated with an increased r...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lad SP,Bagley JH,Karikari IO,Babu R,Ugiliweneza B,Kong M,Isaacs RE,Bagley CA,Gottfried ON,Patil CG,Boakye M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In selected patients, extracranial-intracranial bypass remains an important treatment for the prevention of stroke. Traditionally, superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery (STA-MCA) bypass uses 1 STA branch. We have adopted a "double-barrel" technique in which both branches are joined with MCA reci...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Duckworth EA,Rao VY,Patel AJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:Flow diversion with the pipeline embolization device (PED) is an emerging endovascular technology allowing curative embolization of very large and giant intracranial aneurysms. Many patients with these complex aneurysms are older. The presence of a tortuous type III aortic arch reduces the cha...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Dietrich C,Hauck GH,Valvassori L,Hauck EF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Markers of coagulation have shown to have important value in predicting traumatic brain injury outcome. OBJECTIVE:To externally validate and investigate the role of markers of coagulation for outcome prediction by using the International Mission for Prognosis and Analysis of Clinical Trials (IMPACT) model w...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Raj R,Siironen J,Kivisaari R,Hernesniemi J,Tanskanen P,Handolin L,Skrifvars MB

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and associated with a poor outcome, especially for intensive care patients. However, recent studies have described favorable outcomes of obese patients after stroke, a phenomenon called the "obesity paradox." OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of the body mass...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Platz J,Güresir E,Schuss P,Konczalla J,Seifert V,Vatter H

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The promising results of the Solitaire Flow Restoration (FR) With the Intention for Thrombectomy (SWIFT) trial recently led to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Solitaire FR stent retriever device for recanalization of cerebral vessels in patients with acute ischemic stroke. OBJECTIVE:To re...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Mokin M,Dumont TM,Veznedaroglu E,Binning MJ,Liebman KM,Fessler RD 2nd,To CY,Turner RD 4th,Turk AS,Chaudry MI,Arthur AS,Fox BD,Hanel RA,Tawk RG,Kan P,Gaughen JR Jr,Lanzino G,Lopes DK,Chen M,Moftakhar R,Billingsley

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classification of middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms is sometimes difficult because the identification of the main MCA bifurcation, the key for accurate classification of MCA aneurysms, is inconsistent and somewhat subjective. OBJECTIVE:To use the meeting point of the M1 and M2 trunks as an objective, g...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Elsharkawy A,Lehečka M,Niemelä M,Billon-Grand R,Lehto H,Kivisaari R,Hernesniemi J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called for studies detailing the prevalence and burden of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in the outpatient clinical setting. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of outpatient visits for minor head injury and compare the numbe...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Mannix R,O'Brien MJ,Meehan WP 3rd

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgery is an important therapeutic option in patients with medically refractory epilepsy. The combination of an extratemporal epileptic focus and nonlesional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was often believed to portend a poor outcome. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the outcome and analyze potential prognostic ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： See SJ,Jehi LE,Vadera S,Bulacio J,Najm I,Bingaman W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:The extracranial venous drainage of the brain is provided mainly by the jugular veins with the variable participation of extrajugular pathways. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:Two cases of occipital sinus pericranii (SP) were observed. A 6-year-old girl presented with a progressively enlarging occipita...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Frassanito P,Massimi L,Tamburrini G,Caldarelli M,Pedicelli A,Di Rocco C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artificial neural networks (ANNs) excel at analyzing challenging data sets and can be exceptional tools for decision support in clinical environments. The present study pilots the use of ANNs for determining prognosis in neuro-oncology patients. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether ANNs perform better at predicti...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Oermann EK,Kress MA,Collins BT,Collins SP,Morris D,Ahalt SC,Ewend MG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:The safety of flow-diverting stents for the treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms is unknown. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A 35-year-old woman with a ruptured dissecting aneurysm of the intradural right vertebral artery and incorporating the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery was trea...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： McTaggart RA,Santarelli JG,Marcellus ML,Steinberg GK,Dodd RL,Do HM,Marks MP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a transition to using patient-reported outcome instruments (PROi) to assess surgical effectiveness. However, none of these instruments have been validated for outcomes of adult Chiari I malformation (CMI). OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the relative validity and responsivene...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Godil SS,Parker SL,Zuckerman SL,Mendenhall SK,McGirt MJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental evidence has indicated the benefit of simvastatin in the treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage. However, no clinical data are available to answer whether a high-dose regimen is more effective than a normal-dose regimen, even though the biochemical actions and related neuroprotective mechanisms ar...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Wong GK,Liang M,Tan H,Lee MW,Po YC,Chan KY,Poon WS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuronavigation has become an intrinsic part of preoperative surgical planning and surgical procedures. However, many surgeons have the impression that accuracy decreases during surgery. OBJECTIVE:To quantify the decrease of neuronavigation accuracy and identify possible origins, we performed a retrospectiv...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Stieglitz LH,Fichtner J,Andres R,Schucht P,Krähenbühl AK,Raabe A,Beck J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Study of the corticosubcortical functional anatomy of reading and picture naming. OBJECTIVE:To study the role of the left basal occipitotemporal area and its white matter pathways. METHODS:Three patients underwent awake surgery for lesions in the left basal posterotemporal region with intraoperative electr...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Gil-Robles S,Carvallo A,Jimenez Mdel M,Gomez Caicoya A,Martinez R,Ruiz-Ocaña C,Duffau H

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:The natural history of pineal region germ cell tumors (GCTs) is not well known. We report a rare case of a pineal region GCT showing rapid enlargement within 2 months, after 7 years with no growth. CLINICAL PRESENTATION:A boy presented with gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty at 6 yea...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Jinguji S,Fukuda M,Nagasaki K,Fujii Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuromodulation is used to restore neural function in disorders that stem from an imbalance in the activity of specific neural networks when they prove refractory to pharmacological therapy. The Kir2.1 gene contributes to stabilizing the resting potential below the threshold of activation of voltage-gated so...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Boulis NM,Handy CR,Krudy CA,Donnelly EM,Federici T,Franz CK,Barrow EM,Teng Q,Kumar P,Cress D

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have documented the high sensitivity of computed tomography angiography (CTA) in detecting a ruptured aneurysm in the presence of acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The practice of digital subtraction angiography (DSA) when CTA does not reveal an aneurysm has thus been called into question. ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Jethwa PR,Punia V,Patel TD,Duffis EJ,Gandhi CD,Prestigiacomo CJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) procedure may reduce many of the risks and limitations associated with posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF). However, little is known about the biomechanical difference between PLIF and TLIF. OBJECTIVE:To determine the biomechanical difference between PL...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Xu H,Tang H,Guan X,Jiang F,Xu N,Ju W,Zhu X,Zhang X,Zhang Q,Li M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One response to randomized trials like the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial has been to adopt a "coil first" policy, whereby all aneurysms be considered for coiling, reserving surgery for unfavorable aneurysms or failed attempts. Surgical results with middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms have been...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Rodríguez-Hernández A,Sughrue ME,Akhavan S,Habdank-Kolaczkowski J,Lawton MT

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:Comminuted sacral fractures present significant challenges for operative management. Open and percutaneous sacroiliac screws have been used for stabilization but carry not insignificant rates of complications, including wound infection for the former and malposition and neurological injury for...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hong J,Spire WJ,Simmons NE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spinal cord stimulation for low-back pain, the use of electrode arrays with both low-power requirements and selective activation of target dorsal column (DC) fibers is desired. The aligned transverse tripolar lead configuration offers the best DC selectivity. Electrode alignment of the same configuration ...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Sankarasubramanian V,Buitenweg JR,Holsheimer J,Veltink PH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endovascular coil embolization of ruptured aneurysms is performed under general anesthesia at most centers for perceived improved image quality and patient safety. OBJECTIVE:To report the feasibility of and outcomes associated with endovascular treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients with ruptur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Kan P,Jahshan S,Yashar P,Orion D,Webb S,Siddiqui AH,Hopkins LN,Levy EI

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anterior cingulotomy (AC) can be an effective therapy for patients with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder who are refractory to traditional medical therapy. For patients who do not respond to AC, the benefit of additional lesion procedures vs continued medical management remains unknown. OBJECTIVE:To det...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Bourne SK,Sheth SA,Neal J,Strong C,Mian MK,Cosgrove GR,Eskandar EN,Dougherty DD

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The supraorbital keyhole approach has been used in anterior skull base tumor and aneurysm surgery. However, there are debates regarding the safety and limitations of this kind of approach. OBJECTIVE:To determine the feasibility and potential benefits of surgical robotic technology in minimally invasive neur...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Hong WC,Tsai JC,Chang SD,Sorger JM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though robotic technology holds great potential for performing spinal surgery and advancing neurosurgical techniques, it is of utmost importance to establish its practicality and to demonstrate better clinical outcomes compared with traditional techniques, especially in the current cost-effective era. Several sys...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Roser F,Tatagiba M,Maier G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retrograde leptomeningeal venous drainage (RLVD) in dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) is associated with intracerebral hemorrhage and nonhemorrhagic neurological deficits or death. Angiographic evidence of RLVD is a definite indication for treatment, but less invasive methods of identifying RLVD are requi...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Nakagawa I,Taoka T,Wada T,Nakagawa H,Sakamoto M,Kichikawa K,Hironaka Y,Motoyama Y,Park YS,Nakase H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lateral extracavitary approach (LECA) and costotransversectomy (CTE) are 2 dorsolateral approaches that avoid entrance into the pleural cavity and facilitate ventral decompression. The indications and outcomes of each of these approaches have not been fully defined in the literature. OBJECTIVE:To assess...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Lubelski D,Abdullah KG,Mroz TE,Shin JH,Alvin MD,Benzel EC,Steinmetz MP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although endovascular technique and related devices continue to improve, recanalization of embolized aneurysm remains a pitfall of this approach. The problem of how to treat the recanalized aneurysm needs to be addressed. OBJECTIVE:To determine the outcomes of patients undergoing repeat embolization for rec...

journal_title：Neurosurgery

authors： Cho YD,Lee JY,Seo JH,Lee SJ,Kang HS,Kim JE,Son YJ,Jung KH,Kwon OK,Han MH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00