Clinical features and surgical ...
Purpose To summarize our experience and lessons of microvascular decompression surgery for trigeminal neuralgia caused solely by venous compression. ...
A retrieval thrombectomy techni ...
Background To describe preliminary experiences and the procedural details of retrieval thrombectomy using a selfexpanding and fully retrievable Soli ...
Causes of neurological deficits ...
Background The surgical risk of unruptured aneurysms is well quantified. Although the outcomes for ruptured aneurysms are also well described, due t ...
Treatment modalities and outcom ...
Objectives The aim of this study is to investigate the outcomes of asymptomatic meningiomas (MNGs) after a variety of treatment modalities, includin ...
Primary choroid plexus papillom ...
Choroid plexus papillomas are rare tumors of the central nervous system and are usually confined to the ventricular system. We illustrated a primary ...
Harvey Cushing’s case series of ...
Background A review of Dr. Harvey Cushing’s surgical cases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital provided insight into his early work on trigeminal neuralgi ...
Treatment results for complex m ...
Background The objective was to assess the surgical results in complex middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms. Methods From 1999 to 2009 the data of ...
The adverse effects of flow-div ...
Background Stent deployment across the aneurysmal neck has been established as one of the endovascular methods to treat intracranial aneurysms with ...
Influence of parent vessel domi ...
Background Parent vessel plays an important role in aneurysm formation and rupture. The diameter of either the A1 arteries is the peculiar key contr ...
Occlusion of surgical opening o ...
Background Implantation of 1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1- nitrosourea (BCNU) wafer for malignant glioma is not recommended in the case of surgical openi ...
Utility of diffusion tensor-ima ...
Purpose Treatment of intracranial tumors near the corticospinal tract remains a surgical challenge. Several technical tools to map and monitor the m ...
Intracranial recurrences of Ros ...
Rosai–Dorfman disease [RDD] is a condition of an unknown etiology, characterized by proliferation of histiocytes. Not uncommonly extranodal lesions ...
Vasculature and neurovascular r ...
Background Specific microanatomical characteristics of the trigeminal nerve root (TNR) blood supply and close neurovascular relationships with surro ...
Ischaemic stroke after acute in ...
Background We report six new cases of ischaemic stroke after cerebral haemorrhage in patients with moyamoya disease (MMD) and analyse their clinical ...
Terminal ventriculostomy as an ...
Complex syringomyelia is multifactorial, and treatment strategies are highly individualized. In refractory cases, sectioning of the filum terminale, ...
Near-infrared indocyanine green ...
indocyanine green (ICG) as a tracer has recently been introduced as a novel technique for neurosurgery. We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of ...
Isolation, culture, and charact ...
role in the vascular wall and also participate in vascular repair mechanisms. Dysfunction of SMCs may also contribute to the formation of intracrani ...
Midline-craniotomy of the poste ...
Background Osteoplastic craniotomy in midline approaches to the posterior fossa has been proposed as an alternative to traditional osteoclastic cran ...
Arachnoid cysts of the middle c ...
Background Subdural effusions (SDEs) can complicate arachnoid cysts of the middle cranial fossa (ACMFs). While there is a consensus that at least in ...
Onyx embolization for the treat ...
Background Onyx has emerged in recent years for the endovascular treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). However, the role of Onyx em ...
Intraoperative continuous monit ...
Background Preservation of facial nerve function is one of the most important goals in acoustic neuroma surgery. We have been using intraoperative c ...
Incidental major artery aneurys ...
Background Major artery aneurysms may be found incidentally while evaluating moyamoya disease (MMD). The purpose of this study was to delineate the ...
"Minimally invasive" ...
Background Minimal-access technology has evolved rapidly with WtubularW or WpercutaneousW approaches for decompression and stabilization in the lumb ...
Dissection of both frontal and ...
Background Double superficial temporal artery (STA) to middle cerebral artery (MCA) bypass surgery has typically involved more than one linear incis ...
Time course of heme oxygenase-1 ...
Background Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), the rate-limiting enzyme for heme catabolism and iron production, its role in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is ...