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Intracranial Ependymomas in Adult Patients: Analyses of Prognostic Factors
Objective: The goal of our study is to identify significant prognostic factors for a series of intracranial ependymomas in an adult population. Age, location, histology, preoperative clinical status, extent of r...
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Tentorial Meningiomas. Report on Twenty-Seven Cases
¶ Objective. Report our experience with 27 tentorial meningiomas (TM) surgically treated between 1985 and 1998.
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Lombo-peritoneal Shunt in Non-hydrocephalic Patients: A review of 41 cases
A population of 41 non-hydrocephalic patients in whom a lumbo-peritoneal shunt (LPS) was inserted for various conditions is reviewed. 19 had persistent cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea after cranial injur...
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Chemically Induced Human Gliomas Occurrence of Brain Gliomas in three Matchbox Manufacturers An occupational risk ?
Very little is known on the aetiology of brain tumours of the glioma group. In most cases encountered in the daily neurosurgical pratice, no particular factor of risk is advocated in view of the past history o...
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Lumbo-peritoneal shunt in non-hydrocephalic patients
A population of 41 non-hydrocephalic patients in whom a lumboperitoneal shunt (LPS) was inserted for various conditions is reviewed. 19 had persistent cerebro-spinal fluid rhinorrhoea following cranial injury,...
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Tumors of the Lateral Ventricles
Since the earliest anatomical descriptions of intra-ventricular tumors, neurosurgeons have shown a high degree of interest in the management of these neoplasms, perhaps because these tumors grow freely in an e...
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Patient Selection for an Extracranial—Intracranial Arterial Bypass
It has been fourteen years since the first extracranial intracranial bypass procedures (EIAB) were described (5). Such a procedure, consisting of an anastomosis between the superficial temporal artery and the ...
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Atlanto-axial dislocation due to ossiculum terminale persistens
Two cases of atlanto-axial dislocation due to ossiculum terminale of the odontoid process are reported. A new technique of posterior fusion with a Y-shaped plate is described. Embryological data, clinical feat...
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Angiographic features of the cortical extra- intracranial anastomosis
We have operated on 25 patients, most received a superficial-temporal-artery—middle-cerebral-artery (STA)-(MCA) anastomosis. In three patients an occipital-artery—MCA anastomosis was performed.(2,3,7)
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Pathological tumour circulation — a study of 50 cases by retrograde brachial vertebral angiography
Examination of angiographic films of 50 sub-tentorial space occupying lesions by means of electronic subtraction demonstrated a tumour circulation in 32% of cases. — The existance of a complete (7 cases) or pa...