ALLMedicine™ Craniotomy Center

May 21st, 2022 - Whether primary brainstem hemorrhage (PBH) should be treated with a conservative treatment or with surgical intervention (such as craniotomy, puncture, and drainage) is still controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and s...

May 20th, 2022 - Background: Primary gliomas are an incurable disease in spite of aggressive multimodality therapy consisting of craniotomy, irradiation, and chemotherapy. Therapeutic options for patients with recurrent glioma are limited, and there is an unmet ne...

May 18th, 2022 - Aneurysms of the basilar trunk represent an exceptional challenge to the neurosurgeon, due to high mortality and surgical morbidity. We present a 69-year-old man with a giant dolichoectatic thrombotic basilar trunk aneurysm (BTA), who underwent ri...

May 16th, 2022 - Awake mapping has been associated with decreased neurological deficits and increased extent of resection in eloquent glioma resections. However, its effect within clinically relevant glioblastoma subgroups remains poorly understood. We aimed to as...

May 16th, 2022 - To assess the aesthetic efficacy of acellular dermal matrix (ADM) implantation to prevent frontotemporal depression (FTD) following minipterional craniotomy (MPT) to clip unruptured intracranial aneurysms. We retrospectively compared the incidence...

Nov 8th, 2017 - : Although there are numerous publications addressing venous thromboembolism and its prevention in neurosurgery, there are relatively few high-quality studies to guide decisions regarding thromboprophylaxis. In patients undergoing craniotomy, we r...

Sep 17th, 2016 - Nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) are the most frequent pituitary tumors. To create evidence-based guidelines for the initial management of NFPAs. A multidisciplinary task force composed of physician volunteers and evidence-based medicine-...

May 20th, 2022 - Background: Primary gliomas are an incurable disease in spite of aggressive multimodality therapy consisting of craniotomy, irradiation, and chemotherapy. Therapeutic options for patients with recurrent glioma are limited, and there is an unmet ne...

May 13th, 2022 - Essential tremor (ET) is a chronic, progressive neurological disease characterized by a symmetrical 4-12 Hz kinetic tremor constantly affecting hands and arms. The tremor can also involve the neck, the lower limb, the voice, the mouth, the tongue ...

Apr 28th, 2022 - Any patient with a primary or metastatic brain tumor in or near an eloquent area would be eligible for participation in the study assuming no contraindications to any of the studies or operative procedure. Pre-operative: Evaluation will include cl...

Apr 6th, 2022 - A prospective study of 20 neurosurgical patients evaluating the dynamic decompressive craniotomy technique using NeuroVention, LLC craniotomy bone flap fixation plates. The plates allow for rigid and semi-rigid bone flap fixation dependent on the ...

Apr 1st, 2022 - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a chronically neurological disease characterized by progressive seizures, followed by a latency period of several years after various injuries including febrile seizures, infection, trauma, tumors, and vascular malf...

Apr 5th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Neuroendoscopy for the treatment of patients with brain abscesses has curative effects and is associated with less traum...

Mar 30th, 2022 - For more than 20 years, investigators have tried numerous targeted therapy strategies against glioblastoma (GBM) that have fallen frustratingly short in establishing clinical benefit.1 That changed in November 2021 when an international team of in...

Jun 4th, 2021 - An Alabama neurosurgeon who was charged with manslaughter in the death of a third-year medical student is now facing a malpractice suit alleging he performed the wrong brain surgery. The brain surgery patient's widow, Christine Metzger, is suing J...

Apr 23rd, 2021 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation System (IpsiHand System), a noninvasive device that uses a brain-computer interface to help stroke patients recover use of their hands and arms. Thi...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - Transcript: Benjamin P. Levy, MD: Advanced lung adenocarcinoma remains an exceptional example of precision medicine in oncology, as we persist in exploring new therapeutic targets and evaluating new ways to sequence and combine novel agents. I...