abstract：:Malignant glioma presenting as an intracerebral haematoma is very rare. Two patients having malignant gliomas, initially presenting as intraparenchymal haematomas, are discussed. One patient survived, but the other patient rapidly deteriorated and died. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Richardson RR,Siqueira EB,Cerullo LJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the arteriovenous malformations of the posterior fossa the arterial feeders and the dural venous sinuses can be identified in anatomical terminology. The arterialised veins which do not conform to adult anatomical descriptions represent the persistent embryonic veins of the metencephalic and myelencephalic segments...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Vidyasagar C

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the results of measurements of ultrasound velocity in, and density of, a number of normal and pathological tissues are given. From the results it can be concluded that intracranial pathological regions will often be detectable with ultrasound techniques, but is is not possible with any degree of certaint...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： van Venrooij GE,Boone RM,van der Gon JJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old woman had a left frontal expanding mass with calcified areas. A craniotomy and resection of the mass were performed. Histological sections showed a mixed tumour: osteochondrosarcoma-glioblastoma multiforme. The absence of previous irradiation and its location, deep in the frontal lobe and apparently unat...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sarmiento J,Ferrer I,Pons L,Ferrer E

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of percutaneous epidural stimulation has been evaluated in 11 patients with multiple sclerosis. Trial stimulation was performed at the thoracic level and lasted for 4 to 10 days. Evaluation was accomplished before the start and at regular intervals during and after the treatment. The scoring systems ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ketelaer P,Swartenbroekx G,Deltenre P,Carton H,Gybels J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a case of a post-traumatic subdural haematoma with an unusual evolution in two phases, one slow, the other very rapid. The rapidity of the evolution was caused by the rupture of a cortical dural artery, shown angiographically. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ciappetta P,Bruni P

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of measurements in vivo of intracranial pressure obtained with a new telemetric epidural pressure transducer are described. The relations of epidural pressure to ventricular fluid pressure are studied in acute experiments and found to be linear, but variable. The functioning of 18 transducers was studied over ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： de Jong DA,Berfelo MW,de Lange SA,Maas AI

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External continuous ventricular drainage (CVD) in patients suffering from obstructive hydrocephalus is being used in many neurosurgical centers as a routine procedure for the temporary relief of intracranial pressure. The results of this treatment have been insufficiently evaluated. In the present study two groups of ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Shalit MN,Ben Ari Y,Eynan N

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of spontaneous temporal pneumatocoele secondarily infected by Haemophilus parainfluenzae is reported. Its relation to the lateral ventricle and to a defect in the tegmen tympani was confirmed by computerized tomography (CT). The possible aetiological mechanisms are discussed. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Cowie RA,Harris P

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CTX) of meningioma patients towards meningioma cells and fibroblasts was studied in vitro before and after surgery, using the 3H-proline microcytotoxicity test. When incubated with allogeneic target cells before surgery, lymphocytes from three out of seven donors showed a specific destructi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Pees HW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 160 patients suspected of having acquired hydrocephalus were studied either by quantitative isotope ventriculography (QIV) or by lumbar isotope cisternography (LIC). Of these patients, 56 had hydrocephalus. Mental deterioration, gait disturbances, ataxia, spasticity, and incontinence were most frequently pr...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Jensen F,Jensen FT

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic and prognostic values of quantitative isotope ventriculography (QIV), lumbar isotope cisternography (LIC), pneumoencephalography (PEG), and continuous intraventricular pressure recording (CIP) were assessed on the basis of the clinical course in 160 patients suspected of having acquired hydrocephalus. T...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Jensen F,Jensen FT

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventriculographic findings of a severe ascending transtentorial herniation that occurred after shunting in an infant with a posterior fossa tumour are described. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Eisenberg HM,Sarwar M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrested hydrocephalus probably results from improvement of CSF circulation during growth. Although a generally accepted condition, its mode of onset, its presence in a given patient, and time required to establish the absence of progressive hydrocephalus have not been defined. Five patients are presented with ostensi...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： James HE,Schut L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of dogs, the transport routes of intrathecally administered 99Tcm-DTPA from an omental graft to the venous blood were studied by scintillation probes placed over the portal and external jugular veins and by blood samples from the inferior vena cava. It was found early in the course of investigation that a ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Levander B,Asard PE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical findings and operation results in two series of patients with medial prolapse of an intervertebral disc with total or partial occlusion of the spinal canal are reported. In one of the series (30 patients) symptoms of cauda equina compression, with bladder and rectal disturbances, were present, and in the ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Spännare BJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supervolt radiation therapy produced no improved survival rates in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme as compared to orthovolt therapy. Survival times of more than one year or two years must still be considered a rarity. The application of computer techniques to the calculation of dose distributions greatly enha...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kahr E

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of moderately reduced arterial oxygen tension (aPO2 of about 45 Torr) on the metabolism and the blood flow of the brain was tested in 20 anaesthetized, artificially ventilated normotensive, normocapnic beagle dogs. It is demonstrated that the decrease in systemic oxygen delivery to the brain is countered...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hamer J,Wiedemann K,Berlet H,Weinhardt F,Hoyer S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a seventeen-years-old girl suffering from partial seizures with complex symptomatology. The neuroradiological studies demonstrated a slow-growing glial tumour seated deeply in the right temporo-occipital region. Scalp EEG demonstrated a bilateral asynchronous temporal focus without definite latera...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Marossero F,Ettorre G,Franzini A,Motti DF

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the high rate of shunt complications due to obstruction and infection there is a considerable number of undesirable side effects caused by excessive drainage of CSF. Four hundred shunt treated patients are analyzed for overdrainage signs: acute decompression symptoms produced by upward shifting of the b...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Faulhauer K,Schmitz P

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of bilateral internal carotid artery thrombosis after blunt injury to the head in a 54 years old male is described. The literature is reviewed and comment is made on the causes. Unilateral thrombosis of the internal carotid artery after closed or blunt injury to the head and neck is well known but not common. T...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Robinson RG,Gwynne JF

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After clipping of intracranial aneurysms, postoperative vasospasm may occur remote from the distribution area of the artery and may cause death. The authors report two cases and give the clinical, neuroradiological, and neuroanatomical findings. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Kirchner M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General aspects of glioblastomas are considered such as preoperative diagnosis, stereotactic punctures for tissue samples, location and tumour size, interference with CSF circulation. The operative risk and different approaches to treatment are discussed, and the results are compared. The described combined treatment ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Diemath HE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review of the literature on Cheyne-Stokes respiratory periods reveals enormous variation of the opinions expressed. The original description concerned periodicity characterized by rhythmic changes of respiratory phases and respiratory pauses in a relation of 60 : 15 seconds. In the respiratory phase there were 30 ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Lorenz R,Ito A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the National Institute of Neurosurgery a team of ophthalmologists and neurosurgeons has for 20 years been collaborating in the research and treatment of optic nerve gliomas. Among 34 patients, 30 were under the age of 20 years, and 20 under the age of 10 years. Of the 20 patients younger than 10 years, 16 were girl...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Pásztor E,Remenár L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technical problems of surgery for anterior circle aneurysm have in large measure been solved. The problem of reduced perfusion to the brain which characterises the patient with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage in a poor clinical condition demands more subtle physiological handling. It appears likely that mainte...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Symon L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of cauda equina paraparesis due to compression by tabetic osteo-arthropathy. Diagnosis was confirmed by the typical clinical picture of tabes and by the history of a chancre 53 years earlier. Radiography of the spine showed vertibral osteo-arthropathy. Opaque contrast myelography showed comp...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Steimlé R,Jacquet G,Wehbi M,Sauvageot M,Lecuyer F

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of CAT in the diagnosis of infratentorial expanding lesions is analysed on the basis of 224 personal cases. The posterior fossa lesions are classified in four groups according to the reliability of CAT as the only pre-operative examination. The present indications for conventional neuroadiological procedu...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Papo I,Caruselli G,Menichelli F,Pasquini U,Salvolini U

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intensive experimental spinal cord impact trauma in rabbits led, after 90 minutes, to a significant increase of serotonin content in the segments of spinal cord at the injury epicentres. Adjacent segments showed normal values. It is suggested that the existing contradictory published data concerning the serotonin c...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Nĕmecek S,Suba P,Cerman J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The use of rapid sequential gamma camera scintigraphy in conjunction with computer aided storage and evaluation of data has been shown to be a promising method for the analysis of CSF dynamics in man. 2. Using this method rapid flow of CSF in the basal cisterns can be studied. The further course of tracer activity ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Palma A,Kolberg T

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purification of a substance which protects mitochondrial activity against its decay in association with various cerebral pathologies, and the effect of this substance in vitro and in vivo have been mentioned. Defatted egg albumin was hydrolyzed with pronase, and diafiltrated through mesh, to obtain fractions of mo...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Ishii S,Sato K,Watanabe H,Kobayashi M,Shimizu T

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of surgically treated non-neoplastic diseases of the sella (two arachnoid cysts and one empty sella) are reported. All three patients had visual deficits but no gross endocrine disturbances. The study of these three clinical cases and an analysis of the relevant literature suggest a possible unitary hypoth...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Benedetti A,Carbonin C,Colombo F

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of a series of 75 patients, the practical use of Icp continuous long-term recording in severe head injuries without mass lesions or remaining deeply comatose after surgical procedures is critically analyzed. ICP monitoring alone seems to be not essential for prognosis. Conversely it is of much greater use...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Papo I,Caruselli G

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of primary cerebral abscess due to Nocardia asteroides, and its surgical removal, are described. Postoperative meningitis caused by the same fungi was succesfully cured with sulphadiazine and cycloserine. The nocardial disease, its neurological complications, and therapy are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sáenz Lope E,Crespo Guiterrez D

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of a small arteriovenous angioma over a period of almost 18 years in a 20 year old patient has been proved by arteriography. This case is added to 29 cases previously published in the literature. The authors do not readily accept the theory of autochthonous growth, but prefer secondary or "pseudo-growth". I...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Szepan B

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral pareses occurring in early childhood or produced subsequently by trauma or spontaneous cerebral haemorrhages, present a heterogenous symptomatic picture. In the forefront we find the spastic pareses associated with extra-pyramidal motor hyperkinesia (athetosis, dystonia, ballism). 36 C.P.-patients were su...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Mundinger F,Ostertag C

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience from five cases operated on within one year (among 50 microsurgical operations at the base of the brain) persuades us to discuss the topical relations of the meningiomas of the tuberculum sellae and the modifications in operating techniques necessary. For the two contrasting types of tumour found, which are...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Hänsel G,Seeger W

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive and segmental spasm of the ophthalmic artery has been demonstrated angiographically a few hours after a car accident in a case with posttraumatic amaurosis. The possibility of a correlation between ophthalmic artery spasm and posttraumatic amaurosis has been discussed. ...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Brihaye J,Van-Geertruyden MB,Jeanmart L

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a clinical standpoint recovery of spinal nerve roots is less likely than that of peripheral nerves, despite their identical structures. This may be due to several factors including the length of gap to be bridged, changes in the proximal stump or neuroma, and chromatolysis. In this paper we discuss the roles of s...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Sanjuanbenito L,Esteban A,González-Martinez E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Glasgow Coma Scale, based upon eye opening, verbal and motor responses has proved a practical and consistent means of monitoring the state of head injured patients. Observations made in the early stages after injury define the depth and duration of coma and, when combined with clinical features such as a patient's...

journal_title：Acta neurochirurgica

authors： Teasdale G,Jennett B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00