abstract：:The authors present a case of spinal epidural hematoma during anticoagulant therapy. Clinical presentation is characterized by classic paravertebral back pain, followed by progressive neurological deficit due to spinal cord and radicular compression, with sensory deficits and bladder disturbance. From the literature, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Rodriguez y Baena R,Gaetani P,Tancioni F,Tartara F

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetrating cranio-cerebral trauma caused by fire-arm constitute the most frequent penetrating wounds in civilian ambit; in these cases the great extention of cerebral damage is the result of distructive forces generated by high velocity which moves this bodies. In civilian ambit cranio-cerebral wounds caused by penet...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Tancioni F,Gaetani P,Pugliese R,Rodriguez y Baena R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1985 and 1993, we treated seven cases of optic nerve sheath meningiomas. The median age at onset of their symptoms was 42.14 years. All of the patients were aged between 27 and 60 females with a slowly progressive lesion. Computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging were used as diagnostic procedure i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Yüceer N,Erdogan A,Ziya H

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of Halifax interlaminar clamps in posterior arthrodesis for atlanto-axial instabilities has recently been reported. The four Anderson II fractures submitted were surgically treated by posterior arthrodesis with Halifax clamps and bilateral "H" shaped bone-grafts obtained from the iliac crest. Only in the first...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Agrillo U,Simonetti G,Hernandez R,Di Benedetto A,Iacovino F,Chiappetta F

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-beta (IFN-B) plus thymostimulin (Th) were administered for eight weeks, intravenously and by intramuscular route to eight patients with metastatic brain tumors. No patient had a complete response. One had a stable disease and seven a progressive disease during that time. The mechanisms of the action of IFN-...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Salpietro FM,Cipri S,Alafaci C,Tripodi M,Alonci A,Buda G,Tomasello F

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe 2 patients with solitary cerebral metastasis occurring 13 years after treatment for a renal tumor in one and 17 in the other. Both patients are alive 30 and 36 months after surgery respectively. The pathogenetic and therapeutic features typical of this type of solitary metastasis with late-onset a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Cervoni L,Salvati M,Delfini R

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last seven years (1985-91) 28 primary tumours in the cauda among 104 intraspinal tumors were observed. The largest group (71%) comprised ependymomas and neurinomas. The rest included 5 lipomas, 2 astrocytomas and 1 epidermoid. Low-back pain without or with sciatic or crural irradiation was the most common i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Parenti G,Fiori L,Marconi F,Tusini G

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present two cases of non-traumatic subdural haematomas associated with a meningioma. Relevant literature is reviewed and the pathogenesis of this rare condition is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Pozzi M,Dario A,Marra A,Scamoni C,Dorizzi A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography was performed in a patient with a median nerve tumor at the arm, histologically confirmed as neurilemmoma. Neurilemmoma was a slightly hypodense, solid tumor with no vascular contrast enhancement. To our knowledge this is the first CT description of a median nerve neurilemmoma at the arm. According...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Zingale A,Consoli V,Tigano G,Pero G,Albanese V

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the neuroimaging studies of 150 patients with cavernous sinus tumors operated on during an 8-year period. Meningiomas (66 cases), chordomas (18 cases), trigeminal neurolemmomas (12 cases), and chondrosarcomas (11 cases) were the most common diagnosed neoplasms. Neuroradiological findings are briefly descri...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Lanzino G,Hirsch WL,Pomonis S,Sen CN,Sekhar LN

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors report three cases of pseudotumor cerebri with noteworthy visual defect. Lumboperitoneal shunt enables good recovery where there was no atrophy of the optic nerve and demonstrated its usefulness also in serious situations. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Angiari P,Corradini L,Corsi M,Merli GA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isolated oculomotor nerve palsy is very rarely the presenting sign of a pituitary adenoma. It may occur slowly due to mechanical compression or rapidly, secondary to pituitary apoplexy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with and without gadolinium DTPA enhancement provides excellent anatomical detail and is useful i...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Rossitch E Jr,Carrazana EJ,Black PM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reporting two cases of dorsally located cervico-medullary hemangioblastomas the Authors discuss clinico-biological features, diagnosis and therapy of this vascular neoplasms, analyzing the cases reported in detail in the available literature. In this site the tumor has often an exophitic development, adhering more or ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Ferrante L,Mastronardi L,Acqui M,Missori P,Tacconi L,Fortuna A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fournier's gangrene is a rare, multi-organism infection of the perineum. The disease is most often confined to the groin area with distant spread being extremely unusual. A ase of spinal epidural abscess as a complication of Fournier's gangrene is presented. The infection appears to have spread by the hematogenous rou...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Rossitch E Jr,Maggio MI,Anderson EE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old male, with a relatively uncommon multiple neurilemmoma, exhibited symptoms of cauda equina compression. Following a diagnosis of multiple tumor of the cauda equina and extradural cyst, based on myelography and CTM, the tumors at L1-L2, the left S1 nerve root, and left hip were resected. Three years after...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Shikata J,Yamamuro T,Iida H,Yasuda T,Shimizu K

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of acute spontaneous subdural haematoma are described. A review of the literature reveals the rarity of this pathology. The several etiological possibilities are discussed. The clinical onset may simulate other cerebrovascular diseases. The prognosis is correlate to the neurological findings at the operatio...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Marconi F,Fiori L,Parenti G,Ravelli V

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present three cases of pituitary adenoma with adjacent carotid artery aneurysm. The three adenomas are HGH-producing, prolactinoma and non-functioning tumors. Two of these 3 patients showed signs and symptoms of adenoma, while the other one showed a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The presence of the aneurysm adjace...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Fujiwara S,Fujii K,Nishio S,Fukui M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data from phase II trials have shown that lonidamine (LND) is effective in the treatment of tumors of various histogenesis, including gliomas. In the present work, we tested the antiproliferative effect of LND on a human glioblastoma cell line (LI) in different culture conditions. When LI are cultured in their ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Iacopino F,Sica G,Macrì P,Paggi MG,Scerrati M,Roselli R,Marchetti P,Della Cuna GR,Marini L

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selected panel of monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) directed to distinct tumor associated antigens (TAA) has been tested to define the capability of these reagents to differentiate among metastatic carcinoma, lymphoma and primary brain tumor on cytologic specimens obtained with stereotactic techniques. Results obtained ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Mottolese M,Carapella CM,De Santis M,Mastrostefano R,Raus L,Salzano M,Pericoli N,Riccio A,Natali PG

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report their personal series of 100 consecutive surgically treated single brain metastases between 1981 and 1988. Patients selection was decided with respect to general and neurological conditions and to primary cancer development. Resection was mostly radical, postoperative mortality rate was 6% and neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Ferrara M,Bizzozzero L,Talamonti G,D'Angelo VA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of some extracts of human glioblastoma of the haemolytic complement of human and xenogeneic sera has been examined. The study suggests that the antigenic products of some human glioblastomas may induce an inhibiting effect on the haemolytic complement of human, as well as xenogeneic (rat and rabbit), sera. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Occhiogrosso M,De Tommasi A,Vailati G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of a so called azygous anomaly of the distal ACA, consisting in a single branch, is rare. Authors report two cases of azygous aneurysm on which surgery was performed successfully, and describe their angiographic characteristics, the frequent association of an aneurysm with azygous and the morphological ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Nardi PV,Esposito S,Greco R,Massari A,Patricolo A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients out of more than 300 with severe Graves' ophthalmopathy followed in this institution were submitted to orbital decompression carried out on 16 eyes by a three-wall procedure consisting of a transfrontal approach with the removal of the roof, the lateral wall and part of the floor of the orbit. All patien...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Bartalena L,Marcocci C,Bogazzi F,Panicucci M,Bruno-Bossio G,Cantini R,Lepri A,Tusini G,Pinchera A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are reported in which a cerebral glioma developed after radiation therapy for a different primary tumor. The first case was a boy, who presented a right thalamic anaplastic astrocytoma 7 years after irradiation for a left temporal polymorphic cell sarcoma. The second case was a woman, with a right temporal a...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Zampieri P,Zorat PL,Mingrino S,Soattin GB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant exophthalmos is often not resolvable using only medical or radiation therapy. The pressure on the optic nerve which is generally associated with it evolves rapidly in many cases towards optic atrophy and subsequently loss of vision. Only surgical treatment offers any guarantee of success and of the various t...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Cantini R,Burchianti M,Valleriani AM,Giorgetti W,Tusini G

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reports the results of the stereotactic treatment via endocavitary irradiation (Talaraich's method) of 50 gliomatous cysts (volume: 5-242 cm3; av.: 73 cm3) in 45 patients (M: 24; F: 21; age 3.5-57 yrs; av.: 22 yrs) in the period January 1973-January 1987. Twenty-four patients (27 cysts) were affected...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Musolino A,Merckaert P,Munari C,Daumas-Duport C,Chodkiewicz JP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic biopsy, together with CT and MRI, plays a very important role in the diagnosis of intracranial neoplasms and in their subsequent treatment. Serial neuroimaging-driven biopsies are considered the method of choice when dealing with gliomas, due to their well know morphological dishomogeneity; peritumoral ti...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Schiffer D

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently observed that arachidonic acid (AA) metabolites may modulate many of the mechanisms involved in tumor growth and metastasis. In order to clarify the role played in human brain tumors, authors have determined AA metabolic profiles in 63 surgical specimen of human intracranial tumors (mostly neuroep...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Paoletti P,Chiabrando C,Gaetani P,Castelli MG,Butti G,Martelli L,Rolli M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association in the same patient between two meningiomas and an astrocytoma of the third ventricle is presented. All tumors were removed in two surgical sessions. The unusual occurrence of such associations, except for the so-called phakomatoses, is emphasized. Other similar cases drawn from the literature are tabl...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Gaudio R,Cimmino A,Pierangeli E,Occhiogrosso M

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a giant aneurysm of the internal carotid artery which ruptured during cerebral angiography is reported. 30 other cases from literature of the last 35 years are reviewed. The majority of aneurysms ruptured during angiography was located at the internal carotid artery. 21 out of 30 patients were females. Fatal...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Behr R,Agnoli AL,Zierski J

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old woman with a subarachnoid hemorrhage was operated on for an anterior communicating artery aneurysm demonstrated by angiography. A month later she developed intestinal hemorrhage and a selective angiography showed multiple aneurysmatic dilatations, which were compatible with angiodysplasia, to be the caus...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Isla A,Roda JM,Alvarez F,Blázquez MG

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 8 Italian centers participating in the International Cooperative Study on Timing of Aneurysm Surgery operated upon 68% of their patients eligible for the study. This low operative rate is mainly explained by the prevailing use of a delayed surgical policy. Only 28% of cases were operated on within 3 days of hemorr...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Pasqualin A,Kassel NF,Torner JC,Spallone A,Benedetti A,Da Pian R,Guidetti B,Marini G,Mingrino S,Pluchino F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors report a rare case of traumatic aneurysm of the internal carotid artery observed in a 19-year-old man after a car accident. The aneurysm was recognized by cerebral angiography performed immediately after trauma and clipped to avoid delayed rupture. The literature on traumatic aneurysms is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Cerillo A,Vizioli L,Meglio G,Villano M,Kniahynicki C,Tedeschi G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors report a case of intracranial meningioma in two sisters, with no evidence of neurofibromatosis. A study of the karyotype has been performed; in one patient we have found a pericentric inversion of one chromosome 9. The possible role of the genetical factors in the develop of familial meningiomas is discuss...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Ferrante L,Acqui M,Mastronardi L,Nucci F

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is reported a case that required transoral exposure of C2-C3 intervertebral space in order to remove a huge osteophyte spur projecting into the spinal canal and producing a severe myelopathy. This unusual surgical route was used because the relevant interspace was inaccessible via the standard anterior approach due...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Di Lorenzo N,Fortuna A

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 53-year-old woman with adult-onset neurological dysfunction secondary to spinal dysraphia and lumbosacral lipoma is presented. This condition not only affects children, but may produce neurological troubles also in adult age. This observation confirms that lumbosacral lipomas do not represent a static co...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Maiuri F,Corriero G,Gallicchio B,Donati P,Gambardella A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors report their results on the treatment of 10 cases of primary spinal epidural lymphoma. All patients underwent surgery followed by radiotherapy and 60% of them improved after treatment. The Authors stress the importance the preoperative neurological status and early diagnosis play on the prognosis. They con...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Cappellani G,Giuffrè F,Tropea R,Guarnera F,Augello G,Chiaramonte I,Mancuso P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors describe the case of a patient with facial pain associated with hydrocephalus which had a complete recovery after the placement of a ventriculo-atrial shunt. The possible pathological basis of this symptom are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Arienta C,Sina C,Farabola M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acromegaly associated to a giant osteoma of the cranial vault and hydrocephalus in a young woman is reported. It can be suggested that acromegaly favoured the marked growth of the osteoma. Hydrocephalus resulted consequent to both the compression of the superior longitudinal sinus by the tumor and alteration...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Corriero G,Maiuri F,Giamundo A,Cirillo S,Briganti F

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniobasal tumors affecting the middle cranial fossa are rarely treated radically; the main problem to solve is the presence of important nervous and vascular structures in this region. The Authors report a case of complete removal of a malignant tumor involving the temporal bone and the middle cranial fossa. Surgery...

journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences

authors： Benedetti A,Pesavento G,Curri D,Casentini L,Cervellini P,Bonato F

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00