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; Gromadzyn, 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; Slame, Yamila; Grijalba, 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%). ...
Neuroendoscopic procedures inside the ventricular system always bear the risk for an unexpected intraoperative hemorrhage. Most hemorrhages can be managed by constant irrigation with low- and high-pressure washes. In the ...
Objective: To analyze and compare the efficacy of two selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) techniques with intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, using instrumented three-dimensional gait analysis.
Introduction: SDR ...
Third nerve palsy is a rare complication of transsphenoidal surgery and has been merely mentioned in different studies, but there is not any rigorous analysis focusing on this particular complication. The purpose of this ...
Introduction: Prolactinomas are the most frequent pituitary tumor subtype. Despite most of them respond to medical treatment, a proportion are resistant and become a challenge in clinical management. Wnt/β-Catenin pathway ...
Raval, Vishal; Binkley, Elaine; Aronow, Mary E.; Valenzuela, Juan; Peereboom, David M.; Wei, Wei; Srivastava, Sunil; Davanzo, Jaqueline; Culver Boldt, Herbert; McGarrey, Mark P.; Papaliodis, George N.; Sobrin, Lucía; Kim, Ivana K.; Vavvas, Dimitrios G.; Eliott, Dean; Nayak, Lakshmi; Dodds, Emilio; Marcó Del Pont, Francisco; Singh, Arun D.(John Wiley & Sons, 2022-05)
There is limited understanding of the inter-compartmental progression and treatment outcomes of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). In this multicenter retrospective cohort study on 234 patients with PCNSL ...
Objective: To analyze and find risk factors associated with developing transient diabetes insipidus (DI) using a multicenter case series after trans-sphenoidal surgery.
Methods: Medical records of patients who underwent ...
Objective: The purpose of this study is to analyze a series of patients with intradural extramedullary tumors (IDEM) and assess factors that may modify or determine the final long term outcome and management.
Materials ...