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Spinal dumbbell-shaped epidural cavernous malformation (CM) is a rare, hypervascular entity frequently misdiagnosed for other lesions, leading to unexpected intraoperative bleeding and suboptimal resection. Ou...
Primary central nervous system lymphoma(PCNSL) is a rare kind of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Rituximab combined with high-dose methotrexate, cytarabine and dexamethasone (R-MAD regimen) were reported effective for P...
Intracranial aneurysm is a common cerebrovascular disease, which cause wide concern by neurosurgeons. The 3D–DSA images simulated surgical path may improve the success rate of operation in bridging surgery of ...
Meningoencephalocele is a rare congenital anomaly that is characterized by herniation of brain tissue through a defect in skull. Generally, it could be divided by anatomical location of defect to occipital and...
Hepatic pseudocysts are not a common complication and “extrahepatic” pseudocysts are rarer complications but may occur in every ventriculo-peritoneal shunt patient.
Tiny false intracranial rupture aneurysms are particularly rare. It is challenged both to neurosurgery and endovascular treatment.
The carotid artery is an important blood vessel in the human body. Its ruptures caused by accidents can be lethal cases without timely treatment. Currently, successful rescue cases have rarely been reported, h...
The orbit is susceptible to traumatic injuries, and surgical management of transorbital penetrating injury with foreign body retention is challenging due to the associated risks of nervous and vascular injury....
Treatment of giant basilar aneurysms is extremely challenging, especially recurrences after previous coiling.
Pituitary carcinoma is very rare and hard to diagnose. However, some atypical pituitary adenomas present with a high rate of proliferation and extensive invasion, suggesting a tumor with a high degree of malig...
To explore risk factors and the efficacy of treatment strategies for brain metastasis (BM) in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung.
Intracranial arterial dissection is an important cause of stroke in young and middle-aged adults, but there are no domestic or globally-accepted criteria for the diagnosis and classification of intracranial ar...
Different gene expression profiles are observed in intracranial aneurysm tissue. Understanding these genes and what regulates their expression will help us to understand intracranial aneurysm pathogenesis. We ...
Elderly patients with primary intracranial osteolytic and externally growing atypical meningiomas are rare and easy to be misdiagnosed. Recently, a patient with an atypical meningioma was treated in our depart...
Research on the etiology and pathophysiology of fusiform aneurysm has been impeded due to the inability to collect fusiform aneurysm specimens. We aim to resolve this through the development of a novel fusifor...
While the optimal combination of whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and surgical resection in the treatment of brain metastases, is controversial, the addition of SRS to surgical ...
Glioma stem cells (GSCs) represent a subpopulation of cells within glioma that are characterized by chemotherapy resistance and tumor recurrence. GSCs are therefore important therapeutic target for glioma ther...
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is an acute neurosurgical emergency with a significant fatality rate. In addition to acute brain injury, a considerable part of patients suffering from aSAH develops s...
Fourth ventricle isolated Magendie’s foramen primitive obstruction is rare. The etiology and the pathophysiology of the constitution of this obstruction in congenital cases remain elusive. We report a case of ...
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR is a classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecule encoded by five genes: HLA-DRA, HLA-DRB1, HLA-DRB3, HLA-DRB4 and HLA-DRB5. The current study aimed to in...
Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) is usually considered a relatively benign and localized entity. However, cases of PXA with anaplastic features have been reported in recent years. Anaplastic pleomorphic xan...
Epithelial-mesenchymal transformation(EMT) is a coordinated process in which polarized epithelial cells are induced to lose adhesion from the basement membrane and obtain the properties of mesenchymal cells, i...
The information about paediatric meningiomas is poor. The purpose of this study was to review the clinical characteristic, treatment considerations and prognosis of paediatric meningiomas.
Ankylosing spondylitis was reported to associate with an increased risk of cerebrovascular diseases. In this article, we aimed to report the first case of ankylosing spondylitis associated with moyamoya diseas...
Decompressive craniectomy (DC) has been the classical management for malignant middle cerebral artery infarctions (mMCAI) in clinical practice. However, the association between DC and mMCAI remains unclear. Th...
Pituitary adenoma (PA) is a common intracranial tumor and surgical treatment is considered to be the best treatment for most patients. The extended endoscopic endonasal approach (EEEA) has been used to treat i...
We aim to present an unique case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of the brain parenchyma and study the clinical presentation, imagine characteristic, intraoperative findings, and histopathology fea...
Mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake is a pivotal pathophysiological process for neuronal survival when subjected to ischemic insult. Mitochondrial calcium uptake 1 (MICU1) has been demonstrated as a key regulator of the mi...
Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) is a clinically benign brain tumor associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). There are still controversies on early diagnosis of the tumor.
With the development of emergency and intensive medical technologies, the survival rate of traumatic brain injury has greatly increased. More and more patients have been converted from severe coma to alleviate...
The authors introduced a rare case of intracranial malignant melanoma.
Tuberculum sellae meningioma associated with aneurysm is extremely rare with a limited number of individual cases previously reported. Because of the complicated anatomical structure of the skull base, comorbi...
Pituitary stalk thickening (PST) used as an imaging diagnosis plays a major role in diagnosis and treatment of the hypothalamus and pituitary disease at an early stage. Up until now, several lines of systemati...
Although technically regarded as a simple procedure, titanium mesh cranioplasty could lead to various surgical complications, including postoperative implant exposure. However, there is little data available o...
To investigate nonketotic hyperglycemia (NKH)-related epileptic clinical features and pathogenesis, and improve the diagnosis and treatment.
Parkinsonism-hyperpyrexia syndrome (PHS) is a rare but potentially fatal condition in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a widely used and efficacious treatment for advanced Par...
Developmental venous anomaly (DVA), previously known as “venous angioma”, is the most common cerebral vascular malformation, but hemispheric DVA is extremely rare.
Ventriculo-peritoneal shunting is an effective treatment for hydrocephalus, bowel perforation by peritoneal catheters is an extremely rare complications associated with this procedure.
We aimed to evaluate the clinical presentations and report the acceptable clinical and angiographic outcome of the distal posterior cerebral artery (PCA) dissecting aneurysms with parent artery occlusion (PAO).
Intracranial supratentorial neuroenteric cysts are very rare lesions in the central nervous system. We described a neuroenteric cyst of the left lateral ventricle in a 38-year old male, which had been confirme...
Bioethics falls within the controversial ethical issues from the new advances and emerging technology in pre-clinical and clinical settings which inspired medical policy and practice. The purpose of this paper...
Here, we compiled ten papers detailing recent strides in the field of stem cell therapy, which address critical issues relevant to pursuing this experimental treatment for clinical applications in brain disord...
Repeated intracranial hemorrhages caused by cardiac myxoma is very rare. It is essential for physicians to be aware of such uncommon clinical feature of myxoma.
Much still remains unknown about the pathogenesis of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Previous studies have revealed the abnormal expression of various angiogenesis-related genes in AVMs. To further u...
The aim of the present meta-analysis was to identify whether there was a relationship between mobile phone use and risk of brain tumor. A comprehensive search strategy was developed, and studies were eliminate...
There may be a pathological connection between cardiac failure and ischemic stroke. In this article we describe pertinent research that demonstrates subsequent death of cardiac and neural myocytes in the post ...
This article discusses possible applications of cells derived from human amniotic fluid in regenerative medicine, specifically in stroke therapy. Recent studies have evaluated amniotic fluid as a viable source...
Common B cell lymphoma locations are lymph nodes, skin, bone, mediastinum and it accounts for 2 % of NHL. Giant solitary spinal B-LBL has not yet been described.
Several experimental therapeutics have been demonstrated to be safe and effective in animal models of neurological disorders, but have failed when they reached the clinic. Postulated factors that affected the ...
Ischemic stroke represents a major, worldwide health burden with increasing incidence. Patients affected by ischemic strokes currently have few clinically approved treatment options available. Most currently a...
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