Issue 6/2014
Content (30 Articles)
Anaplastic astrocytomas: survival and prognostic factors in a surgical series
Siril G. Rogne, Ane Konglund, David Scheie, Eirik Helseth, Torstein R. Meling
Patient response to awake craniotomy – a summary overview
Monika Milian, Marcos Tatagiba, Guenther C. Feigl
Use of intraoperative fluorescein sodium fluorescence to improve the accuracy of tissue diagnosis during stereotactic needle biopsy of high-grade gliomas
Roberto Rey-Dios, Eyas M. Hattab, Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol
Kinetics of porphyrin fluorescence accumulation in pediatric brain tumor cells incubated in 5-aminolevulinic acid
Michael Schwake, Dennis Günes, Michaela Köchling, Angela Brentrup, Juliane Schroeteler, Marc Hotfilder, Michael C. Fruehwald, Walter Stummer, Christian Ewelt
Selection of surgical approaches based on semi-quantifying the skull-base invasion by petroclival meningiomas: a review of 66 cases
Jun Tao, Yunjie Wang, Bo Qiu, Shaowu Ou, Yong Wang, Pengfei Wu
Delayed neurological deficit following resection of tuberculum sellae meningioma: report of two cases, one with permanent and one with reversible visual impairment
T. Santarius, B. J. Jian, D. Englot, M. W. McDermott
Intracranial meningiomas and neurofibromatosis type 2
Gokcen Gokce, Osman Melih Ceylan, Fatih Mehmet Mutlu, Halil Ibrahim Altinsoy
Operative management of trigeminal neuromas: an analysis of a surgical experience with 55 cases
Li-feng Chen, Yang Yang, Xin-guang Yu, Qiu-ping Gui, Bo Bu, Bai-nan Xu, Ding-biao Zhou
Supratentorial calcified pseudotumour: experience of a single institution and review of the literature
Nir Shimony, Asaf Aizic, Emanuela Cagnano, Nevo Margalit, Zvi Ram, Shlomi Constantini, Jonathan Roth
How to distinguish tumor growth from transient expansion of vestibular schwannomas following Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Thomas Mindermann, Ines Schlegel
Integration of navigated brain stimulation data into radiosurgical planning: potential benefits and dangers
Thomas Picht, Sarah Schilt, Dietmar Frey, Peter Vajkoczy, Markus Kufeld
Abnormal expression of an ADAR2 alternative splicing variant in gliomas downregulates adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing
Jun Wei, Zhaohui Li, Chao Du, Bin Qi, Xingli Zhao, Liping Wang, Lirong Bi, Guan Wang, Xuan Zhang, Xiaoyun Su, Yuzhuo Pan, Yu Tian
Philately in molecular biology research of human gliomas in the era of omics
Juha E. Jääskeläinen, Emília Gaál-Paavola
Endoscopic resection of cystic pontine tumour: three case reports and a proposal for minimally invasive dual-endoscopic surgery
Tadashi Watanabe, Taku Sato, Yugo Kishida, Eiji Ito, Masahiro Ichikawa, Jun Sakuma, Tetsuya Nagatani, Kiyoshi Saito
Giant intracranial hemangioma in a neonate
Ibrahim Jalloh, Andrew F. Dean, Dominic G. O’Donovan, Justin Cross, Matthew R. Garnett, Thomas Santarius
The strategy of microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm: how to decide the endpoint of an MVD surgery
Hui Sun, Shi-Ting Li, Jun Zhong, Wen-Chuan Zhang, Xu-Ming Hua, Liang Wan, Xue-Sheng Zheng
Combined intraoperative monitoring of abnormal muscle response and Z-L response for hemifacial spasm with tandem compression type
Min Yang, Xuesheng Zheng, Tingting Ying, Jin Zhu, Wenchuan Zhang, Xiaosheng Yang, Shiting Li
Microvascular decompression in patients with coexistent trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm and glossopharyngeal neuralgia
Yong-Nan Wang, Jun Zhong, Jin Zhu, Ning-Ning Dou, Lei Xia, Massimiliano Visocchi, Shi-Ting Li
Validation and evaluation of the volumetric measurement of cerebellopontine angle cistern as a prognostic factor of microvascular decompression for primary trigeminal neuralgia
Yoshihisa Kawano, Taketoshi Maehara, Kikuo Ohno
Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia using the ‘Stitched Sling Retraction’ technique in recurrent cases after previous microvascular decompression
Ali Tayebi Meybodi, Zohreh Habibi, Mojtaba Miri, Seyed Ali Fakhr Tabatabaie
A retrospective study of 113 consecutive cases of surgically treated spondylodiscitis patients. A single-center experience
Ehab Shiban, Insa Janssen, Maria Wostrack, Sandro M Krieg, Florian Ringel, Bernhard Meyer, Michael Stoffel
Clinical relevance of neuroforaminal patency after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Christopher Brenke, Martin Dostal, Anne Carolus, Christel Weiß, Ernst Wilhelm Radü, Kirsten Schmieder, Martin Barth
Early surgical education of residents is safe for microscopic lumbar disc surgery
Martin N. Stienen, Nicolas R. Smoll, Gerhard Hildebrandt, Karl Schaller, Oliver P. Gautschi
Spinal ependymoma with regional metastasis at presentation
Niv Pencovich, Gyang Bot, Zvi Lidar, Akiva Korn, Maria Wostrack, Bernhard Meyer, Mohamad Bydon, George Jallo, Shlomi Constantini
Letter to the editor: dural reconstruction with a vascularised pleural flap following en bloc resection of a thoracic epithelioid sarcoma: technical note
Alexandre Simonin, Michel Gonzalez, Marc Levivier, John Duff
Modified open-door laminoplasty for the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy in elderly patients
Stefan Alexander König, Uwe Spetzger
Transoral approach to extradural non-neoplastic lesions of the craniovertebral junction
Paolo Perrini, Nicola Benedetto, Nicola Di Lorenzo
A neurosurgical phantom-based training system with ultrasound simulation
Andrea Müns, Constanze Mühl, Robert Haase, Hendrik Möckel, Claire Chalopin, Jürgen Meixensberger, Dirk Lindner
A novel three-dimensional and high-definition flexible scope
Kenichi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Natori, Kazunari Oka
George Gershwin A case of new ways in neurosurgery as well as in the history of western music
Elena Gasenzer, Edmund A. M. Neugebauer