Neurol Neurochir Pol
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Neurol Neurochir Pol · Mar 2009
Review[Deep brain stimulation in the surgical management of Tourette syndrome].
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by the presence of vocal and motor tics. Besides tics, patients with TS exhibit a variety of behavioural symptoms, particularly deficit-hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behavioural therapy is applied in patients with mild forms of TS but it has not been proven to be effective in the long-term follow-up. ⋯ Only a limited number of adult patients require long-term medication. Only those patients who were most severely disabled by tics and concomitant obsessive-compulsive disorder were treated in the past by neuroablative neurosurgical procedures. Nowadays, deep brain stimulation is applied in patients with severe forms of TS because of its safety, adjustability, and efficacy.
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Neurol Neurochir Pol · Jan 2009
Direct and remote outcome after treatment of tumours involving the central skull base with the extended subfrontal approach.
To present our results of the surgical treatment of central skull base tumours using the extended subfrontal approach (ESA). ⋯ Extended subfrontal approach is a useful technique for removal of benign tumours expanding along the midline, superiorly and inferiorly to the skull base. For removal of malignant tumours at the same location, ESA is an alternative to a combination of transcranial approach and one of the craniofacial approaches.
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Neurol Neurochir Pol · Jan 2009
Biography Historical ArticleProfessor Ewa Osetowska and her contribution to the development of neuropathology in Poland.
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Neurol Neurochir Pol · Jul 2008
Comparative StudyFactors related to the occurrence of hyperthermia in patients with acute ischaemic stroke and with primary intracerebral haemorrhage.
Hyperthermia worsens prognosis in ischaemic, but probably not in haemorrhagic stroke. The reason for this discrepancy is unknown; therefore we designed this study to compare factors related to the occurrence of hyperthermia in patients with ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke. ⋯ Hyperthermia in acute stroke, whether ischaemic or haemorrhagic, is associated with worse prognosis. Ischaemic stroke patients with hyperthermia have slightly increased levels of inflammatory markers when compared to patients without hyperthermia, but the same difference was not found in patients with haemorrhagic stroke.