Issue 10/2013
Content (33 Articles)
The reliability of asleep-awake-asleep protocol for intraoperative functional mapping and cognitive monitoring in glioma surgery
Hugues Duffau
Awake craniotomy may further improve neurological outcome of intraoperative MRI-guided brain tumor surgery
Juho Tuominen, Sanna Yrjänä, Anssi Ukkonen, John Koivukangas
The preoperative use of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation facilitates early resection of suspected low-grade gliomas in the motor cortex
Thomas Picht, Juliane Schulz, Peter Vajkoczy
Surgery of recurrent brain metastases: retrospective analysis of 67 patients
Gabriele Schackert, Konrad Schmiedel, Claudia Lindner, Mario Leimert, Matthias Kirsch
Risk of seizure and its clinical implication in the patients with cerebral metastasis from lung cancer
Min Ho Lee, Doo-Sik Kong, Ho Jun Seol, Do-Hyun Nam, Jung-Il Lee
Clinical analysis of primary melanotic ependymoma in the central nervous system: case series and literature review
Chenlong Yang, Guang Li, Jingyi Fang, Liang Wu, Xiaofeng Deng, Yulun Xu
Solitary clival plasmocytomas: Misleading clinical and radiological features of a rare pathology with a specific biological behaviour
Filippo Gagliardi, Marco Losa, Nicola Boari, Alfio Spina, Michele Reni, Maria Rosa Terreni, Pietro Mortini
Facial nerve preservation with preoperative identification and intraoperative monitoring in large vestibular schwannoma surgery
YuHai Zhang, YiJun Chen, YuanJie Zou, WenBin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Xiang Liu, Zhuhai Lv, Kun Yang, Xinhua Hu, ChaoYong Xiao, Wen Liu, HongYi Liu
Effectiveness of C5 or C6-Cz assembly in predicting immediate post operative facial nerve deficit
Silvia Mazzali Verst, Andrea Caivano Sucena, Marcos Vinicius Calfat Maldaun, Paulo Henrique Pires Aguiar
Anatomical variation of superior petrosal vein and its management during surgery for cerebellopontine angle meningiomas
Takao Watanabe, Takahiro Igarashi, Takao Fukushima, Atsuo Yoshino, Yoichi Katayama
Tissue dissection before direct manipulation to the pathology with pulsed laser-induced liquid jet system in skull base surgery—preservation of fine vessels and maintained optic nerve function
Yoshikazu Ogawa, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Toshikatsu Washio, Tatsuhiko Arafune, Teiji Tominaga
The sitting position in neurosurgery: indications, complications and results. a single institution experience of 600 cases
Oliver Ganslandt, Andreas Merkel, Hubert Schmitt, Alexander Tzabazis, Michael Buchfelder, Ilker Eyupoglu, Tino Muenster
A surgical technique to expand the operative corridor for supracerebellar infratentorial approaches: technical note
Roberto Rey-Dios, Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol
The endoscopic intraventricular management of pineal cysts: a minimally invasive modus operandi
Moncef Berhouma, Hongyang Ni, Bernard Vallee
Surgical consideration of cervical dumbbell tumors
Masato Tomii, Yasunobu Itoh, Shinichi Numazawa, Kazuo Watanabe
Clinical features and surgical outcomes of primary cauda equina tumours
Dong Ah Shin, Joong Won Yang, Seong Yi, Yoon Ha, Do Heum Yoon, Keung Nyun Kim
Ganglion cyst of the cruciate ligament with atlantoaxial subluxation
Ching-Yi Lee, Hung-Yi Lai, Shih-Tseng Lee
Lumbar total disc replacement: correlation of clinical outcome and radiological parameters
Oliver L. Boss, S. Ottavio Tomasi, Barbara Bäurle, Friedrich Sgier, Oliver N. Hausmann
Comparison of early and late percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy for lumbar disc herniation
Hongwei Wang, Bo Huang, Wenjie Zheng, Changqing Li, Zhengfeng Zhang, Jian Wang, Yue Zhou
Association of VKORC1-1639G>A polymorphism with susceptibility to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine: a Korean study
Dong-Kyu Chin, In-Bo Han, Alexander E. Ropper, Young-Joo Jeon, Do-Hyung Kim, Young-Sung Kim, Youngseok Park, Yang D. Teng, Nam-Keun Kim, Sung-Uk Kuh
Comparison of functional and histological outcomes after intralesional, intracisternal, and intravenous transplantation of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells in a rat model of spinal cord injury
Dong Ah Shin, Jin-Myung Kim, Hyoung-Ihl Kim, Seong Yi, Yoon Ha, Do Heum Yoon, Keung Nyun Kim
Treatment of atlantoaxial dislocation by single-stage posterior reduction and fixation: letter to the editor
Sheng Han, Jingyu Zou, Yuan Liu, Anhua Wu
Anomalous posterior inferior cerebellar artery crossing the C1-2 facet in patient with atlanto-axial dislocation associated with down’s syndrome
Pravin Salunke, Sameer Futane
“Surgical failure in patient with cervical fracture and ankylosing spondylitis treated with teriparatide to try to augment consolidation ”
Severiano Cortés Franco, Asís Lorente Muñoz, Pedro Perez Barrero, Juan Alberdi Viñas
Suboccipital endoscopic management of the entrapped fourth ventricle: technical note
Alaa Raouf, Ihab Zidan
Repair of a large thoracolumbar myelomeningocele with associated lumbar kyphosis
John C. Duddy, John Caird, Paul Connolly
Ependymoma misdiagnosed as tuberculoma, misguided by overemphasis on MR spectroscopy in endemic area
Sameer Futane, Pravin Salunke, Sushant Sahoo, Naveen Mulinani, Sameer Vyas
Mucopolysaccharidosis type I and craniosynostosis
Jawad Ziyadeh, Martine Le Merrer, Matthieu Robert, Eric Arnaud, Vassili Valayannopoulos, Federico Di Rocco
Systematic review of the outcome of shunt surgery in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Ahmed K. Toma, Marios C. Papadopoulos, Simon Stapleton, Neil D. Kitchen, Laurence D. Watkins
Low-pressure hydrocephalus: indication for custom-made catheters? Technical report
L. Galbarriatu, M. Rivero-Garvía, M. Olivares, D. Miranda, I. Pomposo, J. Márquez-Rivas
Gravity assisted vs. medium pressure valves for communicating hydrocephalus show similar valve-revision rates
Bawarjan Schatlo, Motaz Hamed, Alexander Grote, Johannes Schramm, Georg Neuloh
Modelling pathology from autolog fresh cadaver organs as a novel concept in neurosurgical training
András Csókay, Attila Papp, Domonkos Imreh, Máté Czabajszky, István Valálik, Bálint Antalfi