World Neurosurg
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Bone cement augmentation procedures (vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty) are the primary treatments for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (VCF). However, these procedures are associated with various problems resulting in subsequent fracture. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the spinal instability factors related to subsequent fracture after vertebral augmentation procedures. ⋯ Predictive scores can be calculated and used to predict the possibility of subsequent fracture according to scores. Group D showed the highest predictive scores and will need more preventative treatment.
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Over the last decade, surgical technology in planning, mapping, optics, robotics, devices, and minimally invasive techniques has changed the face of modern neurosurgery. We explore the current advances in clinical technology across all neurosurgical subspecialties, examine how clinical practice is being shaped by this technology, and suggest what the operating room of tomorrow may look like.
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Although hyperglycemia is a serious complication of subarachnoid hemorrhage, its pathophysiologic mechanism based on neural circuitry has not been known. ⋯ There is an important linear relationship among the blood glucose levels, DND of the IC, and nodose ganglia and degenerated surface areas of IL following experimentally induced sylvian SAH.
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This study aimed to investigate the application of 3-dimensional computed tomography angiography (3D-CTA) for defining cavernous sinus aneurysms and intradural aneurysms involving the internal carotid artery around the anterior clinoid process. ⋯ The virtual line between the inferior border of the anterior clinoid process and the tuberculum sellae on 3D-CTA indicates the proximal dural ring of the internal carotid artery. This line helps differentiate cavernous sinus aneurysms from intradural aneurysms involving the internal carotid artery around the anterior clinoid process.