Showing papers in "Surgical Neurology in 1981"

TL;DR: A new operative method, encephalo-duro-arterio-synangiosis, for the surgical treatment of pediatric moyamoya disease has been developed to help promote the natural tendency of this disease to develop cerebrovascular collaterals.

TL;DR: The postoperative progress of 3 patients with spinal epidural hemorrhage, but without spinal fracture or dislocation, is presented and the absence of motor or sensorimotor functions preoperatively does not necessarily indicate a poor prognosis.

TL;DR: This book presents an up-to-date review of the peripheral and central vestibular systems with latest references and new chapters on laboratory diagnosis ofvestibular dysfunction; migraine; immune-mediated disorders; inherited disorders; symptomatic treatment of vertigo; antiemetic and antivertigo drugs; and Vestibular rehabilitation.

TL;DR: A review of 100 cases of carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms has been undertaken to detail their associated visual signs and the effect of surgical treatment on visual function.

TL;DR: Sixteen patients suffering from benign intracranial hypertension were studied and results confirm a defect in CSF absorption mechanisms linked to an abolition of the pressure gradient between CSF and sagittal sinus, as well as an important increase inCSF resistance to drainage in 10 others.

TL;DR: The presence of progesterone receptors was independent of the age or sex of the patient, whereas androgen receptors were found only in postmenopausal women.

TL;DR: Marked diminution in intracranial pressure was observed in the sitting or semisitting position in the 13 patients with documented intrac cranial hypertension as well as in the 11 in whom intrac Cranium pressure was not elevated.

TL;DR: The CSF pulse pressure and systolic slope form were highly reliable in the diagnosis of hydrocephalus, whereas mean CSF pressure was not reliable.

TL;DR: A case of delayed central nervous system manifestations of intracranial penetration by a pencil is presented and liberal use of the computed tomographic scan and early operative intervention in cases with cranial perforation are important points in the management of these injuries.

TL;DR: Two cases of neurosarcoidosis are presented that demonstrate several of the rare manifestations of the illness and the literature on the diagnosis and treatment is reviewed.

TL;DR: This report describes a technique in which deep-seated CNS neoplasms, the volume and shape of which had been determined and stereotactically localized by computer reconstruction of CT data, were vaporized with a carbon dioxide laser attached to a stereotactic frame.

TL;DR: All 100 patients in a protocol of therapy for anaplastic gliomas were studied with regard to occurrence of seizures preoperatively and postoperatively, whether anticonvulsant medications were prescribed prophylactically or not.

TL;DR: Syringoperitoneal shunting has been used in the treatment of 4 patients with idiopathic syringomyelia and postoperative observation has not revealed progression of symptoms or failure of the shunt.

TL;DR: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of angiographically proved ruptured venous angioma of the pons treated successfully by an operation.

TL;DR: Two patients who had been having seizures for 10 years or longer were found to have a peculiar neoplastic alteration in the cerebral cortex that was associated with multiple intracranial and spinal neoplasms; therefore, these two patients appear to be unique.

TL;DR: A new approach to revascularization of the posterior fossa for vertebro Basilar insufficiency due to vertebrobasilar junction stenosis is reported, and rationale for the procedure and surgical technique are discussed.

TL;DR: Bilateral arachnoid cysts of the middle cranial fossa in siblings are reported, and it is reported that these cysts are found in siblings with atypical EMTs.

TL;DR: What is believed to be the first known case of an enterogenous cyst in the posterior cranial fossa discovered by computerized tomography and cured by radical surgery is described.

TL;DR: A case of an epidermoid cyst in the frontal base which showed homogeneous high density in noncontrast computed tomography, simulating a meningioma with calcification, is reported.

TL;DR: The autopsy records from 205 patients who died from ruptured intracranial aneurysms were reviewed, with special emphasis on the cause of death and the time after rupture that death occurred.

TL;DR: CSF shunting, especially lumboperitoneal, was very effective, although complications were important, and Steroids were effective as primary treatment, although recurrence and complications of therapy were significant in this group of patients.

TL;DR: Real-time ultrasound scanning has considerable potential in the neurosurgical operating room for the localization and further characterization of intracranial lesions as well as for planning and guiding the approach to such lesions.

TL;DR: Tissues from 8 patients with acoustic neurilemmoma were studied by a new fluorescent steroid histochemical technique to detect the presence of estrogen receptors in or on neoplastic cells.

TL;DR: An in vivo experimental method resulted in measurements of the tensile force in the cord and the modulus of the spinal cord tissue under longitudinal elongation that recovered both sensory and motor function of the cats within a week after a spinal cord segment had been stretched by a 50% elongation.

TL;DR: Thalamotomy remains a useful analgesic procedure in patients with chronic pain and in patients who had bilateral center-median thalamotomy, which was superior to basal thalamotom and had fewer side effects.

TL;DR: A rare case of multiple aneurysms of the vertebrobasilar system associated with fenestration of the intracranial vertebral artery is reported.

TL;DR: The histological findings from the surgically extirpated meningioma are described and the therapeutic effects such as total or partial disappearance of the nidus were observed.

TL;DR: In a surgical series of 755 pituitary adenomas, 51 cases showed intratumoral calcifications on microscopic examination and 13 of these were visible on roentgenographic examination, suggesting a possible hormonal influence in the genesis of calcifications in prolactinomas.