Results 91 to 100 of about 6,475,844 (331)

Accuracy of Freehand Versus Navigated External Ventricular Drainage and Comparison of Insertion Trajectories: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The external ventricular drainage is a routine neurosurgical procedure, most often performed by cannulating the frontal horn of the lateral ventricle. Various entry points and insertion trajectory definitions have been proposed; nevertheless, it remains unclear which approach yields the highest success rate.
Adam Sedlák   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the 2006 Massachusetts health care insurance reform on neurosurgical procedures and patient insurance status

open access: yes, 2017
OBJECTIVE The Massachusetts health care insurance reform law passed in 2006 has many similarities to the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA). To address concerns that the ACA might negatively impact case volume and reimbursement for physicians, the ...
Das, Rohit   +5 more
core   +1 more source

What's a White Matter ‘Fiber’?

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT White matter anatomy is investigated using methods that operate at markedly different spatial scales and rely on distinct biological and physical principles. Nevertheless, the term “fiber” is routinely applied to the outputs of tract‐tracing studies, diffusion MRI tractography, and postmortem fiber dissection, often as though these entities ...
Guillaume Dannhoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surgically-induced brain injury: where are we now?

open access: yesChinese Neurosurgical Journal, 2019
Neurosurgical procedures cause inevitable brain damage from the multitude of surgical manipulations utilized. Incisions, retraction, thermal damage from electrocautery, and intraoperative hemorrhage cause immediate and long-term brain injuries that are ...
Zachary D. Travis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Herpes simplex encephalitis as a complication of neurosurgical procedures: report of 3 cases and review of the literature

open access: yesVirology Journal, 2016
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the most common identified cause of focal encephalitis worldwide. However, postoperative HSV encephalitis (HSVE) is a rare complication of neurosurgical procedures and a significant clinical challenge We describe 3 cases of ...
D. A. Jaques   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Opsoclonus in Pediatric Patients: Differential Diagnosis and a Practical Approach to Evaluation

open access: yesAnnals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Opsoclonus is an ocular dyskinesia characterized by involuntary, arrhythmic, multidirectional saccades. In pediatrics, opsoclonus is most commonly attributed to the rare neuroinflammatory disorder opsoclonus‐myoclonus‐ataxia syndrome (OMAS), typically considered a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with neural crest tumors. However, opsoclonus
Aubrey C. Reed   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study hard and work hard

open access: yesChinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2020
DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1672⁃6731.2020.03 ...
Ren⁃zhi WANG
doaj  

The history of neurosurgical procedures for moyamoya disease

open access: yesNeurosurgical Focus, 2006
✓ Almost 50 years of research on moyamoya disease (1957–2006) has led to the development of a variety of surgical and medical options for its management in affected patients. Some of these options have been abandoned, others have served as the basis for the development of better procedures, and many are still in use today.
Cassius V C, Reis   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Preoperative limbic cortical thinning in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgical candidates is associated with pre‐existing and de novo postoperative depression

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Depression is common in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE), but its neuroanatomical basis—and overlap with major depressive disorder (MDD)—remains poorly defined. We investigated whether the cortical and subcortical alterations reported in MDD are also present in mTLE and leveraged the frequent occurrence of depression after ...
Philip Fink‐Jensen   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primary outcomes for patients undergoing cranial neurosurgical procedures in the United States.

open access: yes, 2015
Primary outcomes for patients undergoing cranial neurosurgical procedures in the United States.
Symeon Missios (539512)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy