Wenker / Klinger / Brock Spinal Cord Tumors Experimental Neurosurgery Neurosurgical Intensive Care

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, Berlin, May 12-15, 1985
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-71108-4
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 386 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Advances in Neurosurgery

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wenker, H.

Klinger, M.

Brock, M.

Reuter, F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

President’s Opening Remarks — Reflections on the Bond of Trust Between the Physician and his Patient.- Ernst von Bergmann and the Beginning of Neurosurgery in Berlin.- Extradural Tumors of the Spine.- Intraoperative Spinal Cord Monitoring.- Spinal Cord Tumors.- Basic Anatomic Considerations Concerning the Surgical Approaches to the Spinal Column.- Spinal Tumors.- Neurological Problems in Conjunction with Spinal Tumors.- Differential Diagnostics of Spinal Tumors.- Diagnosis by Examination of Cerebrospinal Fluid in Spinal Tumor Cases.- Conventional Radiologic Diagnosis of Spinal Tumors.- Nuclear Medicine in the Diagnosis of Spinal Tumors.- Spinal Tumors: Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Spinal Tumors: A Multi-Center Study of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie.- The Use of Transthoracic and of Ventro-lateral Access in the Surgical Treatment of Extradural Spinal Tumors in the Thoracic and Lumbar Areas.- Unilateral Approaches to Spinal Tumors.- The Transsacral, Transcoccygeal Approach to Prevertebral Spinal Tumors.- Operative Treatment of Aneurysmal Bone Cysts of the Spine — Radical Excision and Spinal Stabilization.- Osteosynthesis in Patients with Malignant Tumors of the Cervical Vertebral Column: Indications, Techniques, and Results.- Osteosynthesis with AO Plates in the Cervical and Lumbar Regions of the Vertebral Column in Cases of Spinal Metastases.- Differential Diagnosis and Operative Treatment of Rare Intraforaminal Space-Occupying Lesions.- Acute Leriche Syndrome in the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Paraplegia.- Misdiagnoses in Spinal Tumors.- Tumors of the Craniocervical Region: Difficulties in Diagnosis; Microsurgery and Laser Surgery.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Space-Occupying Lesions at the Craniocervical Junction.- Inclincation of the OdontoidProcess in Children and Adults — an Anatomical and Functional Investigation.- Cytostatic Treatment of Spinal Tumors.- Malignant Lymphomas and Spinal Cord Compression.- Aspects of Neurosurgical Intervention for Spinal Manifestations of Malignant Lymphomas.- Clinical and Neuropathological Aspects of Rare Semimalignant Spinal Tumors: Case Reports of a Giant Cell Tumor (Osteoclastoma) and an Atypical Osteoblastoma.- Experimental Neurosurgery.- Microsurgical Anatomy of the Transoral Approach for Anterior Processes of the Upper Cervical Spine.- CT Absorption Analysis in Intracranial Tumor Diagnostics.- Impulse Cytophotometry and the Biological Behavior of Gliomas.- Swelling Behavior of C6 Glioma Cells During Shutdown of Energy Metabolism.- Treatment of Vasogenic Brain Edema by Inhibitors of the Kallikrein-Kinin System.- Neurotransmitter Contents in Low-Grade Gliomas and Glioblastomas.- The Influence of Acutely Increasing ICP upon Diuresis and Water-Electrolyte Balance and Its Modification by Neurohypophysectomy (An Experimental Study).- Noninvasive Measurement of Local Cerebral Blood Flow (nl-CBF) with Stable Xenon Enhanced Dynamic CT — Description of Method and Analysis of Flow Data.- Perioperative Chemiluminescence of Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes and Monocytes in Brain Tumor Patients.- Experimental Hypertensive Intracerebral Mass Hemorrhage in Cats.- Cerebrospinal Fluid and Serum Levels of the Arachidonic Acid Metabolites 6-keto-PGF1? and Thromboxane B2 in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- The Effect of the Cleavage Peptide C3aDesArg of the Third Complement Component on the Accumulation of Leukocytesin Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) and on the Permeability ofthe Blood-CSF Barrier.- Rostral Spread of Epidural 3H-Labeled Morphine.- Subdural Implantation of RG2 GliomaSpheroids in Rat Cerebellum: A New Experimental Brain Tumor Model.- Testing of Hydrocephalus Shunt Systems.- Vessel Repairs of the Carotid Artery of the Rat Using the Modified Nd:YAG Laser.- Neurosurgical Intensive Care.- Legal Problems of Intensive Care.- Computer-Aided Neuromonitoring: Conditions, Techniques, and Clinical Applications.- Present Status of Barbiturates in the Acute Stage of Cerebral Damage.- Cerebrovascular Reserve and Brain-Protective Measures in Cases of Interruption of Carotid Artery Flow.- Intensive-Medical Aspects in the Treatment of Increased Intracranial Pressure.- Possibilities and Limitations of High-Dose Barbiturate Therapy in the Management of Intracranial Hypertension.- Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension Without Barbiturates.- Significance of Acute Disturbances of Pupillary Function in Postoperative Intensive Care After Operations for Craniopharyngiomas.- Provisional Diagnostic Value of the Anaphylatoxin Radioimmunoassay (C3a-desArg-RIA) in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit.- Investigations of Pituitary Function in Severe Head Injury by Radioimmunoassay.- Biological Rhythms of Electrophysiological and Endocrinological Parameters in Acute and Chronic Intracranial Lesions.- Neuromonitoring Supplemented by nrCBF.- Postoperative Observation at the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit After Surgery of the Posterior Fossa.- Monitoring of Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials (BAEPs) in the Intensive Care Treatment of Craniocerebral Traumata.- Auditory Evoked Potentials During and After Complete Ischemiaof the Brain.- Criteria for the Diagnosis of Brain Death.- Limitations of Intensive Care Medicine — as Viewed by a Neurosurgeon.