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Original Source: Stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of symptomatic brainstem cavernous malformations.
Object The authors performed a retrospective review of prospectively collected data to evaluate the safety and efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for the treatment of patients harboring symptomatic solitary cavernous malformations (CMs) of the brainstem that bleed repeatedly and are high risk for resection. Methods Between 1988 and 2005, 68 patients (34 males and 34 females) with solitary, symptomatic CMs of the brainstem underwent Gamma Knife surgery. The mean patient age was 41.2 years, and all p...
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Huntington's disease is a hereditary disease caused by a defect in a single gene on Chromosome 4 that is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. The defect causes a part of DNA, called a CAG...
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Acorda’s GGF2 can improve erectile function after cavernous nerve damage
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Flow rate may dictate brain arteriovenous malformation radiosurgery success
The presence of angioarchitectural features indicating high flow rate in a brain arteriovenous malformation warns that complete obliteration may be difficult to achieve with radiosurgery, say research...
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A coculture system of cavernous endothelial and smooth muscle cells
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Cavernous malformations of the conus medullaris are rare lesions; only 9 cases have been reported in the literature. Most cases are described in adults and only one case has been reported in pediatric...
Approaches to ventrally located intramedullary lesions of the upper cervical spine can be extremely challenging. We present a custom-tailored, minimally invasive anterior approach to a ventrally locat...
Chiari III Malformation: A Rare Case with Review of Literature.
The Chiari Malformation is a neural tube defect involving the posterior cranial fossa and the hind brain, characterized by herniation of the posterior fossa contents below the level of the foramen mag...
The association of carotid cavernous fistula with Graves' ophthalmopathy.
Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO) is one of the frequent manifestations of the disorder which is an inflammatory process due to fibroblast infiltration, fibroblast proliferation and accumulation of glycosam...
Carotid-cavernous aneurysm accounts for 2-9% of all intracranial aneurysms. The rupture of carotid-cavernous aneurysm is usually caused by a trauma. Nevertheless, spontaneous rupture may rarely be enc...
