abstract：:The use of fibrin glue to fix heterologous bone dowels in the recipient site in Cloward's procedure for cervical spondylotic myelopathy is described. The procedure ensures immediate and satisfactory spinal stability without need for any postoperative contention device. It has been successful in 18 patients with 26 int...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Fortuna A,Palatinsky E,Di Lorenzo N

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients presenting a relapsing form of sporadic brachial plexus neuropathy, the so-called Parsonage Turner syndrome, are reported. The diagnosis is based on clinical and electromyographic features. Recurrent attacks, although infrequently encountered, have been well described in the past. Sporadic cases of this s...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Michotte A,Dierckx R,Deleu D,Herregodts P,Schmedding E,Bruyland M,Ebinger G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied contrast sensitivity function in normal subjects and in three illustrative cases with various neurological disorders. This was done by measuring contrast sensitivity over a range of spatial frequencies for vertical sinewave grating stimuli. It is demonstrated that contrast sensitivity function can give info...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bulens C,Meerwaldt JD,van der Wildt GJ,Keemink CJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral Symmetrical Calcifications (B.S.C.) in cerebro represent calcium deposits usually found in the basal ganglia and/or dentate nucleus. They can be the result of diverse disorders, but can also present themselves without any underlying disease. Most often they are asymptomatic, but if the calcifications are ext...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Smit L,van Wijk RM,Rico RE,Sitalsing AD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a case of calcified, organized hematoma in the cerebellopontine angle which developed 20 years after subtotal removal of an acoustic neurinoma, presenting as a recurrence of acoustic neurinoma on computed tomography. It points out the difficulty in differentiating a recurrent tumor from an organiz...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Ito M,Tajima A,Sato K,Ishii S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the combination of CW-Doppler ultrasonography and OPG-Gee are described in 68 patients. The Doppler examination had a sensitivity of 92% and a specificity of 89%, the percentages for the OPG-Gee were 69 en 79. The combination of the Doppler examination with the OPG-Gee improves our positive predictive v...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Strik F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of multilocular brain abscess is reported in a 14-year-old girl, following cavernous sinus thrombosis. In absence of any other source of infection the cavernous sinus thrombosis is presumed as the cause of brain abscess. Possible pathogenesis is discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Mahapatra AK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute facial nerve paralysis is a relatively common pediatric disorder. Idiopathic facial nerve palsy (Bell's palsy) has to be distinguished from other etiologies. Retrospective review of the results of routine diagnostic work-up studies of our patients, failed to reveal any clinically significant abnormalities and di...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Eshel G,Lahat E,Azizi E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (VRNF) with progression during two pregnancies and obstetrical complications is described to illustrate the effect of pregnancy on VRNF and vice versa. The interaction between VRNF and pregnancy is discussed. The obstetrical complications and progression of VRNF lesions d...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Boiten J,Jansen EN,de Graaff R

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive supranuclear palsy is a heterogeneous system degeneration. We studied three patients by means of electrooculography. There were severe disturbances in saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements, and optokinetic nystagmus in both vertical and horizontal planes. Caloric reactions were absent in all patients. ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Breuer TJ,Wuisman PG,Korten JJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amongst the protean extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, scant mention is made of muscle involvement. This report outlines the clinical features, electrodiagnostic and muscle biopsy findings in a patient with ulcerative colitis who developed progressive proximal muscle weakness. The demonstra...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bhigjee AI,Bill PL,Cosnett JE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological criteria for diffuse gliomatosis are clearly demarcated but its clinical diagnosis has always been hampered by the imaging techniques used. Although with the advent of CT scanning clinical possibilities were improved, isodense brain lesions are difficult to detect and in these cases the diagnosis gliomato...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Troost D,Kuiper H,Valk J,Fleury P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 27 normal subjects evoked potentials (EPs) were serially measured across an interval of 3.5 months. The variation in latencies of the P100 component of the VEP and of the components N13 and N20 of the SEP did not exceed 12% of the absolute values of these latencies on the first recording. The VEP and SEP were also ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： de Weerd AW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features and additional investigations of 20 Dutch patients suffering from cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX), an inborn error of metabolism in bile acid synthesis, are described. The onset was in the second or third decade. The clinical picture at the time of examination consisted of a combination of t...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Waterreus RJ,Koopman BJ,Wolthers BG,Oosterhuis HJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is presented, who developed a suprasellar tumour. Stereotactical biopsy of the tumour revealed the diagnosis of a dysgerminoma. Immunocytochemical examination of the CSF showed neoplastic cells staining for human chorionic gonadotropin and for alpha-fetoprotein. The authors stress the possibility to diagnose...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Stark E,Knehans A,Wurster U,Patzold U

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Description of 11 patients with congenital malformations of the spinal cord. Six of them were males, five females and the age varied from 7 to 70 years. Most of these cases produced clinical neurological signs indicating spinal cord disease in later life during an intercurrent disease. It was thought that changes in t...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Moffie D,Stefanko SZ,Makkink B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brain tumor in a 4-year-old child is described. The neoplasm was partly cystic and showed an a-typical multi-differentiated aspect. Microscopically the neoplasm had a clear-cut 'malignant' morphology. This tumor represents possibly a partly maturated primitive neuroectodermal brain tumor. The term PNET is briefly di...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Troost D,Hageman LM,van der Werf AJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a solitary cerebellar abscess in a 36-year-old Rwandese male is described. First it was considered to be tuberculosis, but at microscopal examination of the lesion after neurosurgical excision the true germ was found: Blastomyces dermatitidis. This solitary intracerebellar blastomycosis abscess is only the...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Raftopoulos C,Flament-Durand J,Coremans-Pelseneer J,Noterman J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) has been used in the last five years as a method for cerebral bloodflow imaging, especially in cerebral infarction. In this study the first experiences in the Netherlands are presented. In 57.6% of our patients lesions, defined by SPECT were larger than those found by...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： de Bruïne JF,van Royen EA,van Weeren F,vd Weel FA,Reiffers S,Verbeeten BW Jr,Krens H,Hijdra A,Limburg M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old man presented with symptoms of periodic ataxia, dysarthria, nausea and excessive sweating during the last twenty years. These symptoms could be provoked by physical or emotional stress and disappeared after bedrest for several hours. No other members of his family were known to have such complaints. Acet...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Verlooy P,Velis DN

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is presented who developed a frontal intracerebral hemorrhage, which proved to be due to a metastasis of a choriocarcinoma. The patient's uterus and adnexa had been removed two years previously for a non-malignant disorder. two years previously for a non-malignant disorder. The authors stress the importance ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： van den Doel EM,van Merriënboer FJ,Tulleken CA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of spinal cord compression due to solitary osteochondroma of the spine are reported. The rarity and benign nature of the tumour is stressed. Other reported cases are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Kak VK,Prabhakar S,Khosla VK,Banerjee AK

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case, in which rhinorrhoea was caused by a pituitary adenoma, is presented. Leakage of CSF or metrizamide could be observed on CT. ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bilo HJ,Ponssen H,van der Veen EA,Wolbers JG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfiram in generally accepted maintenance doses in alcoholism may produce a rather severe polyneuropathy. In addition to the 39 literature cases, 5 personal patients were examined. Detailed clinical findings are given and the frequent permanent sequelae are emphasized. In 2 patients sural nerve biopsies were studie...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： van Rossum J,Roos RA,Bots GT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachnoid cysts are rare lesions responsible for spinal cord compression. Five cases of congenital intraspinal arachnoid cysts are reported. Three cases of thoracic and two cases of thoracolumbar region were encountered. The clinical presentation was one of progressive spastic paraparesis. The characteristic radiologi...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Swamy KS,Reddy AK,Srivastava VK,Das BS,Reddy GN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of locked-in syndrome is described and the literature is reviewed. The disorder consists of quadriplegia and mutism with preserved consciousness. The only remaining voluntary movements are usually vertical eye movements and eyelid blinking. Most cases are caused by basilar artery occlusion resulting in a brains...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Virgile RS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to establish which sensitivity test is to be preferred for final assessment of recovery of sensibility after nerve grafting. For this purpose seven sensibility tests were performed on patients who had been treated by median nerve transplantation. The findings revealed that the stereognosis test is ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Keunen RW,Slooff AC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen homocystinuric patients--13 children and 6 adults--were identified in the course of a selective screening for homocystinuria due to cystathionine synthase deficiency. Treatment with high doses (300-1200 mg/day) of pyridoxine was carried out in 17 patients, of whom 15 were completely responsive. In 10 patients...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Del Giudice E,Striano S,Andria G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have concluded that provocation of fasciculations by neostigmine indicates a lesion of lower motor neurones. We performed 20 control experiments in 18 healthy volunteers. Ten subjects received an intramuscular injection of 1.0 mg neostigmine per 60 kg body weight. All showed fasciculations, most profu...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Heijnsbroek GJ,van Gijn J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a so-called 'butterfly vertebra' is presented. Radiography, including computed tomography, is shown. The embryology and pathogenesis of the vertebral column with respect to vertebral abnormalities are discussed, with special reference to butterfly vertebra. Finally, attention is paid to the clinical man...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： de Graaf RJ,Matricali B,Hamburger HL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of beat-to-beat variations was employed in a group of 14 chronic alcoholics and compared with a group of normal individuals. A significant increase in the number of runs was found in the alcoholics reflecting impaired neurogenic control of the heart. It is concluded that cardiac neuropathy should be consid...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Melgaard B,Somnier F

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven cases are presented of recurrent ventricular catheter obstruction, an infrequent but serious problem in the management of hydrocephalus. Plugging of the catheter was caused by detritus rather than by choroid plexus. A retrospective analysis of 214 shunt revisions indicated that obstruction both by detritus and b...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Go KG,Ebels EJ,van Woerden H

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is presented suffering a hemiparesis. Megadolicho-vascular malformation of the intracranial part of the internal carotid arteries and some of its branches and of the basilar artery was suggested by CT and confirmed by angiography. The value of CT compared with angiography in relation to intracranial megadoli...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lodder J,Janevski B,van der Lugt PJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case history of a meningeal arteriovenous malformation, presenting as a pseudotumor cerebri syndrome. Subarachnoid hemorrhage did not occur and brain configuration was normal on CT-scan. The pathogenesis of papilledema in this case is discussed. Probably the cause must be sought in the massive ov...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： van den Bergh R,Dralands G,Crolla D,van den Bergh P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings suffering from acro-osteolysis, a rare disorder, are discussed. Although three distinct types of acro-osteolysis, namely familial, idiopathic, and due to vinyl-chloride, are clearly defined, these patients did not fit into any category. They had intact nails, preserved tactile and sensory system, plantar ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Kaur S,Kumar B,Chopra JS,Lamba G,Narang A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical data demonstrate that there is a significant difference between at least two types of idiopathic Parkinsonian patients; a benign type of Parkinson's disease and a malignant type. They can be distinguished by the time course of a disability-score, independent of the duration of the disease. The benign cases re...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Birkmayer W,Riederer P,Youdim BH

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one children with brain-stem glioma are discussed. Sixteen received radiotherapy and five were too sick to be irradiated. The mean survival was 3.4 weeks for the non-irradiated group and 8.7 months for the treated group, two of the latter being still alive five and ten months after diagnosis. From the literatur...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Ataç MS,Blaauw G

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six cases of traumatic corotid cavernous fistulae treated by a combination of trapping and embolization are reported. The advantages and disadvantages of various operative procedures in the treatment of carotid cavernous fistulas are discussed. In our opinion a combination of trapping and embolization has advantages o...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Gökalp HZ,Ozkal E

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common neurological problems in family practice were determined to assess what knowledge of neurology is essential to the graduating medical student. The family practitioner's difficulties in managing these problems and needs for referral, were studied. Types of problems seen in a teaching hospital neurology service w...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Murray TJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor response of the Glasgow 'coma' scale is readily learned by nurses and doctors. It can be used as a reliable indicator of changes in the state of a comatose patient, as there is a high agreement rate between different observers. ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Braakman R,Avezaat CJ,Maas AI,Roel M,Schouten HJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00