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32/w, Management des erhöhten intrakraniellen Drucks nach Schädel-Hirn-Trauma
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Schädel-Hirn-Trauma
Das schwere Schädel-Hirn-Trauma gehört weiterhin zu den wichtigsten Ursachen für Tod und Behinderung in den westlichen Industrienationen. Betroffen sind vor allem Kinder und jüngere Erwachsene sowie ältere Men...
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Assessment of Indicators for Climate Smart Management in Mountain Forests
This chapter addresses the concepts and methods to assess quantitative indicators of Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) at stand and management unit levels. First, the basic concepts for develo** a framework for a...
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Efficacy of Trans-geographic Observational Network Design for Revelation of Growth Pattern in Mountain Forests Across Europe
Understanding tree and stand growth dynamics in the frame of climate change calls for large-scale analyses. For analysing growth patterns in mountain forests across Europe, the CLIMO consortium compiled a netw...
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Changes of Tree and Stand Growth: Review and Implications
In this chapter, we review the current long-term growth trends and short-term growth reaction to single or repeated stress events on tree and stand level in Europe. Based on growth trend analyses, the chapter ...
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Open AccessA porcine polytrauma model with two different degrees of hemorrhagic shock: outcome related to trauma within the first 48 h
An animal polytrauma model was developed, including trunk and extremity injuries combined with hemorrhagic shock and a prolonged post-traumatic phase. This could be useful for the assessment of different thera...
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Intraoperative Computed Tomography
Intraoperative computed tomography (iCT) has gained increasing impact among modern neurosurgical techniques. Multislice CT with a sliding gantry in the OR provides excellent diagnostic image quality in the vis...
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Randomized controlled trials in neurosurgery—how good are we?
The strongest evidence in medical clinical literature is represented by randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This study was designed to evaluate neurosurgically relevant RCTs published recently by neurosurgeons.
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Thermography – a valuable tool to test hydrocephalus shunt patency
Introduction. Shunt-function in hydrocephalic patients is verified by clinical examination and repeated cranial computed tomography (CCT) in most cases. Because of the disadvantages of multiple radiation especia...
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Delayed oedema in the pyramidal tracts remote from intracerebral missile path following gunshot injury
A 60-year-old man developed a severe left hemiparesis and central facial palsy, accompanied by somnolence and dysarthria 9 days after a gunshot wound to the right temporal region, from which he slowly recovere...
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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas
The efficacy of gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS) for nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NPAs) has been assessed. Sixty patients with NPA were treated by GKS. Complete neurological and endocrinological follow-up ...
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Ruptured intracranial dissecting aneurysms: management considerations with a focus on surgical and endovascular techniques to preserve arterial continuity
The present retrospective analysis was undertaken to review an institutional experience with 13 intracranial dissecting aneurysms as source of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) among a total of 585 ruptured intr...
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Intra- and Parasellar Manifestation of an Ewing's Sarcoma Before Detection of the Primary Tumour
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Quality Management in Neurosurgical Nursing
During the past the increasing public interest in cutting down health care expenses and the growing awareness of the need for quality control in health care delivery necessitated to develop new ways of nursing...
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Open AccessRetinoic acid stimulates meningioma cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix and inhibits invasion
Meningiomas are tumours derived from the arachnoid and pia mater. During embryogenesis, these membranes develop from the migrating craniofacial neural crest. We have previously demonstrated that meningiomas ha...
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Technical Note: A new Model for Quantitative Analysis of Brain Oedema Resolution Into the Ventricles and the Subarachnoid Space
Objective. The aim of the current study was to develop an experimental animal model for quantitative analysis of oedema resolution via the subarachnoid space and the ventricular system using fluorescent oedema m...
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Dural arteriovenous fistulas including the transverse and sigmoid sinuses: Results of treatment in 30 cases
We report about the treatment and outcome of 30 patients with durai arteriovenous fistulas including the transverse and sigmoid sinuses treated between 1986 and 1995. All patients underwent panangiography for ...
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Effects of leucocytes in acute cerebral disorders Proceedings of the First International Symposium on this topic Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Stiftung, Nymphenburg, September 26–27, 1994, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany
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Current Evidence on a Pathophysiological Function of Leukocyte/Endothelial Interactions in Cerebral Ischemia
Accumulation of leukocytes, particularly of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNLs), is considered as an important response in tissue injury or infection. Recent investigations in a variety of organs, such as bo...
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Gewebeprotektion bei akuter Ischämie durch transdermale Wirkstoffapplikation über Liposomen
Die Nekrose von transplantiertem Hautgewebe stellt in der plastischen Chirurgie eine folgenschwere Komplikation dar. Unzureichende mikrovaskuläre Perfusion und Gewebehypoxie sind die entscheidenen Ursachen für...
