Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie
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Zentralbl. Neurochir. · Jan 1986
[Can mortality in severe traumatic brain damage be generally reduced?].
A total of 272 cases with fatal traumatic brain injuries were retrospectively analysed. 68% of the cases were outside of any form of therapy. Only the third of these fatal cases are ever seen by a neurosurgeon. In 12% of these fatal cases the outcome might have been improved by an optimum diagnosis and therapy. Prevention of these severe head injuries seems to be the only potential therapy.
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Zentralbl. Neurochir. · Jan 1985
[Results of the neurosurgical treatment of parasagittal meningiomas].
The author reports a series of 79 parasagittal meningiomas; 38 of them were invading the longitudinal sinus. The results, according to their localisation and grade of invasion, are compared to the results in the literature. Different surgical techniques are described.
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Zentralbl. Neurochir. · Jan 1985
[Intracranial space-occupying processes--brain gliomas. 30 years of neurosurgery in Graz].
Patients who had been operated on gliomas of the brain at the University clinic of Neurosurgery in Graz between 1950-1980 were questioned about their postoperative working capacity. 921 gliomatous brain tumors (Zülch's classification) out of a total number of 2430 intracranial space-occupying lesions are discussed. 79,7% of these patients had undergone an operation in which the tumor had been totally or partially resected. The histology of the tumor was compared to the operating mortality, survival time and postoperative working capacity.
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Zentralbl. Neurochir. · Jan 1984
Case Reports[Value of computer tomography in the diagnosis of impression fractures of the cranial vault].
There are only few statements about the validity of computed tomography for the identification of impression fractures of the skull cap. The diagnostic information of roentgenograms without contrast medium and computed tomograms of a total of 15 patients were evaluated and compared. ⋯ The simultaneous consideration of the sequelae of the intracranial traumata by computed tomography enables a complete assessment of the craniocerebral trauma. The appropriate combination of conventional X-ray diagnosis with computed tomography should lead to an optimum diagnostic information also for these clinical pictures.