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Recurrent Lumbosacral Metastases from Intracranial Meningioma. Report of a Case and Review of the Literature
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Lack of Evidence of Osteo-medullary Metastases at Diagnosis in Patients with High Grade Gliomas
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Bone Metastasis of Glioblastoma Multiforme Confirmed by Fine Needle Biopsy
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Complications after multidisciplinary treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations
A series of 67 patients treated for cerebral AVMs with a multidisciplinary approach is reported, with special attention for the complications due to treatment. The malformations were classified after the Spetz...
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Level of consciousness and age as prognostic factors in aneurysmal SAH
The prognostic value of the level of consciousness and the patient's age for the outcome of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is studied in 74 patients admitted on day (D)0 to D3 after aneurysm rupture.
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Prognostic value of the Spetzler's grading system in a series of cerebral AVMs treated by a combined management
The prognostic value of the Spetzler's grading system is studied in a series of 52 AVMs treated by a combined management, using one or several of the 3 available techniques: surgical resection, endovascular em...
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The combined management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations experience with 100 cases and review of the literature
A series of 100 patients treated for a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is presented. Patients were admitted between 1985 and April 1992. Two groups are considered: the first group including 52 patien...
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Routine use of the CO2 laser technique for resection of cerebral tumours
The CO2 laser technique has been routinely used from 1988 through 1992 for the resection of 93 cerebral tumours (meningiomas 58%, gliomas 15%, neurinomas 9%, miscellaneous 18%).
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Surgical management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms personal experience with 37 cases and discussion of the indications
The authors report a series of 37 cases of unruptured aneurysms, admitted and operated upon over a 5 year period (1985–1990), which represents an incidence of 18% of the total number of aneurysm patients opera...
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Management of the ruptured intracranial aneurysm-early surgery, late surgery, or modulated surgery?
The management of the ruptured intracranial aneurysm is studied in two consecutive series: an earlier series, including 328 patients admitted from 1972 through 1984, for which the general attitude was delayed ...
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The carotid endarterectomy: Experience with 260 cases and discussion of the indications
During 1978 to 1989, 235 patients were operated upon with 260 procedures for cervical carotid endarterectomy. The patients were classified according to the presence or absence of ischaemic symptomatology, and ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging contribution to the diagnosis of spinal cord compression by a subdural arachnoid cyst
A case of subdural arachnoid cyst of the thoracic spine was studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), myelography and CT myelography. Myelography and especially CT myelography suggested the diagnosis; MRI e...
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Association of cerebral arteriovenous malformation and cerebral aneurysm. Diagnosis and management
Between 1979 and 1989, 7 patients were admitted, with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and associated aneurysms (7% of the AVM patients and 2% of the aneurysm patients admitted during the same period...
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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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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...