abstract：:We present the case of a 51-year-old female who had a four-year history of Parkinson's disease with severe "on-off' and disabling progression of symptoms on chronic levodopa therapy. After obtaining FDA approval, we implanted a Medtronic deep brain stimulation lead stereotactically into the right anterior pallidum con...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Iacono RP,Lonser RR,Maeda G,Kuniyoshi S,Warner D,Mandybur G,Yamada S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to further elucidate the pathogenesis of the direct carotid cavernous fistulas (dCCF) clinical, patho-anatomical, and physico-mechanical studies were performed. In 27 of 42 patients the dCCF were found to be localized in the segment C4 (according to Teufel, 12), in 13 patients in segment C2 and in only 2 pati...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Helmke K,Krüger O,Laas R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen of 145 patients with post-traumatic subdural hygroma (SDHy) developed chronic subdural haematoma (CSDH) at the involved site over a period of 6 years. CSDHs were found at the site of SDHys with no history of further head injury at a mean interval of 56 days. It appeared that these 13 patients did not have any...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Park CK,Choi KH,Kim MC,Kang JK,Choi CR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review is made of the current management strategies of abscesses in basal ganglia and thalamus, based on a review of the literature and three of our own cases. Clinical picture, aetiology, diagnostic, surgical treatment and outcome are discussed. Stereotactic abscess puncture in combination with temporary drainage a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lutz TW,Landolt H,Wasner M,Gratzl O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, radiological and surgical findings of 56 patients with congenital malformations of the craniovertebral junction who underwent surgical intervention in the Department of Neurosurgery, Hacettepe University Medical School were reviewed. The anomalies were classified according to their embryonic origin. Fort...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Erbengi A,Oge HK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of cavernous angioma, a remote gyrus, which was found to contain an epileptogenic focus by intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG), was resected simultaneously with lesionectomy. The patient was a 27-year-old male who was referred to our hospital because of frequent systemic tonic-clonic convulsions. ECoG...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kamada K,Isu T,Takahashi T,Tanaka T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features of 6 children who are probable sufferers of "unilateral" Moyamoya disease are here reported. They showed angiographic findings which were compatible with those of Moyamoya disease, albeit only on one side. They did not, however, show any basic aetiologic factors. The age of onset, the clinical sy...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Matsushima T,Inoue T,Natori Y,Fujii K,Fukui M,Hasuo K,Kuwabara Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimens of the anterior pituitary lobe were investigated histologically in 28 craniopharyngioma patients operated on trans-sphenoidally. The pituitary glands in 3 patients revealed lymphocytic invasion giving a histological appearance typical of lymphocytic hypophysitis (incidence: 11%). At follow-up examination all...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Puchner MJ,Lüdecke DK,Saeger W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early onset "juvenile type" Parkinson's disease is commonly associated with disabling bilateral levodopa-induced dyskinesias. We report here a successful contemporaneous bilateral postero-ventral pallidotomy performed on a 46-year-old male with juvenile type Parkinson's and associated levodopa incited symmetric dyskin...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Iacono RP,Lonser RR,Yamada S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the high resolution magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) as pre-operative angiography for the detection of ruptured cerebral aneurysms. MRA was performed on 1.5 tesla system using the 3-dimensional time of flight (3D-TOF) method. The field of view was 16 cm or 20 cm and matrix...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Houkin K,Aoki T,Takahashi A,Abe H,Koiwa M,Kashiwaba T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right coronal sutures of twelve (12) newborn rabbits were fixed with commercially available, self-reinforced poly-L-lactide miniplates, with eight (8) rabbits sham treated with titanium miniplate fixation as reference experiments, in order to demonstrate the possible effects on skull growth. After six (6) months f...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Antikainen T,Pernu H,Törmälä P,Kallioinen M,Waris T,Serlo W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two patients with petroclival meningioma were operated upon by the middle fossa transpetrosal-transtentorial approaches since 1977. Half of those showed tumour extension into the middle fossa and one-third in the cavernous sinus. Seventeen (40%) had a large tumour of 40 mm in diameter or larger, and 8 of those h...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kawase T,Shiobara R,Toya S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After ventricular catheterization magnetic resonance (MR) imaging very often demonstrates a focal area of high signal along the drain track which corresponds to parenchymal oedema. This high signal seemed to be more pronounced when the frontal area was catheterized than when the junctional parieto-temporo-occipital pa...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Raftopoulos C,Bidaut L,Chaskis C,Cantraine F,Clarysse S,Balériaux D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three patients were operated on for ruptured intracranial aneurysms during a 12-month-period. Intraoperative evaluation of cortical blood flow by means of a thermal diffusion probe was performed in 23 out of the 41 patients who were operated on for aneurysms of the anterior circulation. The autoregulation index ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Viale GL,Cossu M,Cella F,Balestrero M,Rossi A,Masoni D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 2.5-year-old boy with Saudi variant of multiple sulfatase deficiency (MSD or Austin's disease). He presented with the features of cervical cord compression and a severe form of hydrocephalus. The former was due to a thickened posterior arch of the atlas and the latter from a narrow foramen magnum and menin...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： al-Moutaery KR,Choudhury AR,Hassanen MO

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with brain metastasis from lung cancer, we have been able to control local recurrence in approximately 80% of cases. But many of them tend to show brain atrophy with mental deterioration developing a few months after whole brain radiation. To prevent brain atrophy, we have attempted treating patients, whos...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nakamura O,Matsutani M,Shitara N,Okamoto K,Kaneko M,Nakamura H,Asai A,Ueki K,Shimizu T,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous malformations in the posterior fossa are relatively rare. Although the introduction of CT and MRI has made them easier to detect, their treatment is still controversial. Based on our experience with six patients and a review of the literature, we have tried to establish guidelines for their treatment. Since the...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mori K,Seike M,Kurisaka M,Kamimura Y,Morimoto M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is aimed at examining the therapeutic effect of Nicorandil on chronic vasospasm using beagle dogs subjected to a "two-haemorrhage" insult, as well as its dilatory effect on the PDA [phorbol-12,13 diacetate]-induced contraction of the canine basilar artery. 1. A total of 12 animals of either sex, weig...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Matsui T,Nagafuji T,Tsutsumi K,Uchida H,Miyauchi T,Asano T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the clinicopathology features of leptomeningeal dissemination of malignant gliomas, a total of 157 consecutive patients treated between 1978 and 1989 were analysed. Twenty-two patients (14%) were judged to have dissemination. In 20 patients, the dissemination was diagnosed antemortem. Eleven patients had...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Arita N,Taneda M,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a personal series of 44 consecutive patients undergoing burrhole evacuation and closed system suction drainage for chronic subdural haematoma are presented. 43 patients made a complete recovery and one was left with moderate disability. Contralateral weakness in one patient, recurrence of haematoma in a...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Choudhury AR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schaltenbrand and Wahren stereotactic atlas was critically re-examined focusing on the technical quality and the consistency of the horizontal, sagittal and frontal microscopic cut series. From each series, both an isotropic contour and a solid volume model represented by a 256 matrix with an edge length of 6.4 cm...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Niemann K,Naujokat C,Pohl G,Wollner C,von Keyserlingk D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one cases of posterior fossa haemangioblastoma have been seen in our department over a period of 23 years. Seven cases were associated with spinal cord lesions and one with a supratentorial lesion. There were 22 cases of Lindau's disease (43%). The onset was earlier and recurrences commoner than in isolated case...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Symon L,Murota T,Pell M,Bordi L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feline infusion model of brain edema was used to evaluate the pathophysiological effects of 0.6 ml infusions of autologous serum protein (66%), human serum protein (66%), human glioma cyst fluid and a tissue culture medium (TCM) on the structure and function of the forebrain white matter. These infusions increased...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Whittle IR,Ironside JW,Piper IR,Miller JD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute cerebrovascular congestion after a closed head injury is significantly related to intracranial hypertension. As an indirect method of cerebral blood flow measurement; transcranial doppler sonography (TCD) provides a rapid and noninvasive assessment of cerebral haemodynamics, including hyperaemic conditions. TCD ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Muttaqin Z,Uozumi T,Kuwabara S,Arita K,Kurisu K,Ohba S,Kohno H,Ogasawara H,Ohtani M,Mikami T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of thromboxane A2 synthetase inhibitor and hyperdynamic therapy on delayed cerebral ischaemia following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage were evaluated in a series of twenty eight patients, who underwent aneurysmal clipping with 72 hours after subarachnoid haemorrhage. Postoperatively, 13 patients were ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Yano K,Kuroda T,Tanabe Y,Yamada H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of dissection of the extracranial vertebral artery with prominent occipital pain and elements of the lateral medullary syndrome. Arteriography showed a string and pearl sign. Magnetic resonance imaging allowed visualization of an intramural thrombus associated with a narrow vascular lumen. The distal...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mabuchi S,Kamiyama H,Abe H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-hundred seven patients who were operated on consecutively between January 1983 and December 1990 to relieve disabling positional vertigo (DPV) using the microvascular decompression (MVD) procedure were studied. Selection of the patients for MVD operations was based on both case history and the results of otoneurol...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Møller MB,Møller AR,Jannetta PJ,Jho HD,Sekhar LN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4 patients with aneurysms of different size and location were examined by cerebral angiography, computed tomography, angio-computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and angiography, in order to demonstrate haemodynamic and morphological aspects of cerebral aneurysms. Turbulent flow within aneurysms could be show...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nüssel F,Wegmüller H,Huber P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact aneurysms of the carotid siphon at the point of take-off of the posterior communicating artery may exhibit orbital pain, whether associated with oculomotor palsy or not as a warning symptom prior to rupture. In order to explain this symptom the hypothesis of a sensory pathway within the third cranial nerve, whi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lanzino G,Andreoli A,Tognetti F,Limoni P,Calbucci F,Bortolami R,Lucchi ML,Callegari E,Testa C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical presentation, diagnosis, surgical technique and results of 25 cases of intramedullary tumours in patients under 16 years of age are analyzed. Pre-operative spinal deformity was present in 9 patients. Surgery was performed in all. After multilaminectomy with preservation of the intervertebral joints, total rem...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lunardi P,Licastro G,Missori P,Ferrante L,Fortuna A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPECT scanning with Tl-201 and Tc-99m offers a unique, inexpensive functional imaging modality to combine with CT stereotactic craniotomy for guiding resection of necrosis and/or tumour in patients treated with escalated doses of radiation (> 6000 cGy) by either brachytherapy or radiosurgery. Thirty-two cases were ana...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Alexander E 3rd,Loeffler JS,Schwartz RB,Johnson KA,Carvalho PA,Garada BM,Zimmerman RE,Holman BL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and intracranial pressure (ICP) were studied in cats, suffering from a chronic space-occupying lesion produced by enlargement of an epidural balloon over the left sensomotory cortex. Our study shows that latency alterations of SEP are not dependent on the degree of ICP. Additional...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Bothe HW,Lee SW,Samii M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 812 patients with intracranial tumours treated by radiosurgery during the period 1984-1990, 129 had meningiomas. Of these latter, 72 had middle fossa meningiomas. Patients with meningiomas treated by us since March 1990 are not included in this report since we established the investigative principle of a minimum of...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Valentino V,Schinaia G,Raimondi AJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern neuro-imaging techniques have significantly increased the accuracy of stereotactic procedures and have thereby generated a renewed interest in guided brain surgery. This paper describes the neuroradiological aspects of stereotaxic target calculation (x-, y-, z- coordinates) using the Riechert-Mundinger (Fisher)...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Parizel PM,De la Porte C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelium synthesizes mediators which either cause vasorelaxation or vasoconstriction. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of these mediators in the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm. An inhibitor of endothelium-derived relaxing factor is haemoglobin; endothelium removal by triton X-100 an...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Baykaner MK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the recent advances in neuroradiology including the CT scan and the spin-echo-magnetic resonance (MR), accurate diagnosis of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) involving the spinal cord is still based on selective angiography. This last procedure is invasive and needs to be repeated during the follow up. P...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mourier KL,Gelbert F,Reizine D,Gobin PY,Bongioanni F,George B,Lot G,Merland JJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:171 patients with an instability-related failed back surgery syndrome underwent internal fixation. The operative indication was based on specific diagnostic procedures such as anaesthesia of articular nerves and the trial external immobilization in a plaster jacket. Taking account of the different types of hypermobili...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Markwalder TM,Battaglia M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 12 patients syringomyelia was diagnosed using MRI. The underlying cause was a hindbrain hernia in 8 patients, a posterior fossa cyst in one case, and in 3 patients the underlying cause remained unknown. Syringo-subarachnoid shunting in 8 patients failed to decrease pain and the size of the syrinx, motor lesion and ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Firsching R,Sanker P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1984 and 1991 86 patients with single cerebral metastases underwent linear accelerator radiosurgery using the atraumatic and reproducible Greitz-Bergström head-fixation device. Routine one-month follow-up documented disappearance of the tumour in 16 patients, with resolution of the oedema and ventricular shift...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Valentino V,Mirri MA,Schinaia G,Dalle Ore G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case with an ill-defined arteriovenous malformation in the parieto-occipital region is presented. Open surgery was unsuccessful in removing the AVM totally, and treatment with gamma knife radiosurgery was then attempted. At 14 months after this treatment the AVM was believed to be obliterated. The patient had a new ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Guo WY,Karlsson B,Ericson K,Lindqvist M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00