Cicutti, Santiago E.; Gromadzyn, Guido P.; Cuello, Javier F.; Villamil, Facundo; Bartuluchi, Marcelo(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2024-08-26)
Hemispherectomy is a highly complex procedure that demands a steep learning curve and requires precision for successful
seizure control.1-5 The aim of this operative technique video was to present a modified peri-insular ...
Villamil, Facundo; Mandolesi, Jorge E.; Catena Baudo, Melanie; Paolinelli, Pablo; Vidal, María Florencia; Costanzo, Elsa(Fundación CENIT para la Investigación en Neurociencias, 2024-06-02)
Introducción y Objetivo. La depresión resistente al tratamiento (DRT) es una condición debilitante que no responde a los tratamientos antidepresivos convencionales. La estimulación cerebral profunda (ECP) del área subgenual ...
Villamil, Facundo; Catena Baudo, Melanie; Paolinelli, Pablo Sebastián; Domecq, Lucila; Cervio, Andrés Eduardo; Bendersky, Mariana(Fundación Revista Medicina (Buenos Aires), 2024)
The frontal aslant tract (FAT) connects the supplementary motor area (SMA) with the pars opercularis. Its role in language and its implications in glioma surgery remain under discussion. We present an anatomosurgical study ...
Fraire, Jazmín Azul; Ruella, Mauro; Villamil, Facundo; Domecq, Lucila; Mormandi, Rubén; Cervio, Andrés Eduardo(Asociación Argentina de Neurocirugía, 2024-03-01)
Introducción: Los hemangioblastomas son tumores vascularizados, infrecuentes del sistema nervioso central (SNC), grado I por la OMS, intraaxiales, habitualmente localizados en el cerebelo y la retina que pueden ser esporádicos ...
Cicutti, Santiago Ezequiel; Gromadzyn, Guido Patricio; Cuello, Javier Francisco; Jaimovich, Sebastián Gaston(Springer, 2024-06-04)
Background: Moyamoya disease, a progressive occlusive arteriopathy mainly affecting the supraclinoid internal carotid artery, leads to abnormal "Moyamoya vessels" and ischemic events in children due to decreased cerebral ...
Mormandi, Rubén; Villamil, Facundo; Ruella, Mauro; Cervio, Andrés Eduardo; Condomí Alcorta, Santiago G.; Salvat, Jorge M.(Fundación Revista Medicina, 2023-04)
Introduction: Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula (SDAVF) is a rare vascular disease, of unknown etiology, frequently underdiagnosed. Treatment can be microsurgical or endovascular.
Methods: Retrospective and monocentric ...
OBJECTIVE: Intraventricular and deep-seated brain lesions present
a surgical challenge due to their accessibility, illumination, and relationship to neural and vascular structures. To minimize tissue damage
and its ...
OBJECTIVE: The classical concept is that pediatric epilepsy surgery
(PES) is still underused in developing countries. Accurate information
about the amount of PES programs and procedures in Latin-American
is still ...
Maskin, Luis Patricio; Noya, Santiago Ezequiel; Caffaratti, Guido; Echarri, María Martina; Hlavnicka, Alejandro Félix; Cervio, Andrés Eduardo(Thieme, 2024-04-02)
Objectives: Endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA) procedures are inherently contaminated due to direct access through the nasopharyngeal mucosa. The reported rate of postoperative meningitis in EEA procedures is between ...
Background: Periventricular pediatric low-grade gliomas (pLGG) present a surgical challenge due to their deep-seated location, accessibility, and relationship with the subcortical network connections. Minimally invasive ...
Cicutti, Santiago E.; Cuello, Javier F.; Villamil, Facundo; Gromazdyn, Guido P.; Bartuluchi, Marcelo(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2024-03-23)
Background and objectives: Hemispherotomy is a highly complex procedure that demands a steep learning curve. An incomplete brain disconnection often results in failure of seizure control. The purpose of this article was ...
Villamil, Facundo; Domecq, Lucila; Gromazdyn, Guido P.; Slame, Yamila; Grijalba Romero, Miguel; Bartuluchi, Marcelo(Asociación Argentina de Neurocirugía, 2023-11-01)
Introducción. Desde que se describió por primera vez en la década de 1970, la hemisferectomía funcional ha sido una herramienta esencial en el tratamiento de la epilepsia refractaria al tratamiento médico secundaria a una ...
Domecq, Lucila; Ruella, Mauro; Villamil, Facundo; Monsalve, Martin; Fraire, Jazmín Azul; Mormandi, Rubén; Cervio, Andrés Eduardo(Asociación Argentina de Neurocirugía, 2023-10-01)
La hidrocefalia es una complicación frecuente dentro de la patología tumoral del SNC. La colocación de válvulas de derivación ventrículo-peritoneal (VDVP) en estos casos es, al día de la fecha, la práctica estándar para ...
Introduction: Gliomas are the second most frequent primary brain tumors. Surgical resection remains a crucial part of treatment, as well as maximum preservation of neurological function. For this reason awake surgery has ...
Objective: Analyze the usefulness, efficacy, and safety of transoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in glioma surgery in awake patients.
Materials and methods: Retrospective, single-center, analytical study of a cohort ...
Introduction: Spontaneous CSF leak is a known complication of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). Patients with CSF rhinorrhea present a unique challenge within the IIH population, as the occurrence of a leak can ...
Carelli, Luis E.; de Barros, Alderico Girão C.; Flores Taracena, Silvia M.; Marcó Del Pont, Francisco; Cechin, Igor; Ames, Christopher(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2024-02-26)
This technique is a modification of the posterior vertebral column resection (PVCR) for patients with kyphoscoliosis with vertebral column resection indications (Cobb angle >100° angular and rigid with flexibility <20%-30%). ...