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Primary leptomeningeal gliomatosis: case report and review of the literature
A 62-year-old woman developed dysphasia, signs of intracranial hypertension and seizures. An MRI scan evidenced extra-axial contrast enhancement in the absence of mass lesions. CSF analysis was negative for ma...
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Dural arteriovenous fistulas presenting with haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke
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Surgery for intracerebral hemorrhage
The surgical treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is one of the most controversial areas of neurosurgery. Randomized trials are inconclusive due to the small number of patients enrolled or because perfo...
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Adult brain low-grade astrocytomas: survival after surgery and radiotherapy
In order to identify prognostic factors of survival, twelve elements of disease and treatment have been evaluated for a population of 49 patients with diffuse low-grade astrocytoma treated with surgical resec...
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Aneurysms of the vertebro-basilar junction area: Preliminary experience in endovascular and surgical management
Aneurysms of the vertebro-basilar junction area have been considered the most difficult to be surgically treated because of their deep location, the proximity of the brain stem and the cranial nerves. However,...
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Delayed complications of ethmoid fractures: A “growing fracture” phenomenon
Delayed complications of ethmoid fractures are considered relatively rare. However, meningitis, recurrence of previously ceased cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea and delayed onset of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhe...
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Foraminal syringomyelia: Suggestion for a grading system
The standard treatment of foraminal syringomyelia includes foramen magnum decompression and duraplasty. Improvement or stabilization of the disease are achieved in most of cases. However, at least one third of...
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Spontaneous haematoma as unusual complication of silastic dural substitute. Report of 2 cases
Two cases of an unusual complication of synthetic duraplasty are reported. In both cases, patients had been operated on because of meningiomas and dural defects had been repaired with Silastic. Some years late...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effect of Althesin on Intracranial Hypertension in Patients with Severe Head Injury
Alphaxalone — alphadolone (Althesin) causes a marked reduction of intracranial pressure (ICP, cerebral blood flow and metabolism (1,2). Thiopentone has a similar effect and has been successfully used against s...
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Cortical Artery Pressure: Preoperative and Postoperative Arteriographic Findings in Patients with Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion
In ten consecutive patients with internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion and treated by an extra-intracranial arterial bypass (EIAB) the cortical intra-arterial pressure has been measured. The results have bee...
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Chapter
Regional Cerebral Perfusion Assessed with 81mKr and Emission Computerized Tomography
Functional images of brain perfusion can be obtained by a steady-state method which exploits the peculiar physical characteristics of the radioactive gas 81mKr.2 This is a very short half-lived isotope (13 sec ha...
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Angiographic Findings and Cross-Sectional Brain Perfusion Studies after Extra-Intracranial Arterial Bypass
The aims of this paper are (1) to report post-operative angiographic results obtained in a series of 40 patients treated by an extra-intracranial arterial bypass (EIAB) procedure, and (2) to describe the patte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Role of ICP Monitoring in Patients Suffering from Severe Brain Injuries
In order to further evaluate the role of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in brain injured, comatose patients, in terms of both prognostic significance and usefulness for treatment, our total series of m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiple Angiographic Studies and Tri-Dimensional Assessment of Regional Cerebral Perfusion on Patients Treated by EC-IC Bypass
Angiographie Studies: Sixty postoperative angiographies of 40 consecutive patients treated by EC-IC bypass were reviewed. Major results can be expressed as follows. Total patency rate (early an...
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End-to-side anastomosis between carotid arteries and serial angiographic controls in rats
Indications for superficial-temporal-artery—middle-cerebral-artery (STA-MCA) anastomosis are becoming more and more clear. Some centers performing this type of surgery are now presenting encouraging clinical f...
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Monoamine acid metabolites in ventricular CSF of patients with brain tumours
Homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA) in ventricular CSF were determined in 19 patients (12 female 7 male) with brain tumours. No relationship was found between ventricular fluid press...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Management of Head Injury by Means of Ventricular Fluid Pressure Monitoring
The aim of this paper is to summarize the most significant results of our experience with ventricular fluid pressure (VFP) monitoring in acute head injury.
