OBJECTIVE: Percutaneous spinal instrumentation techniques may be helpful to reduce
approach-related morbidity inherent to conventional open surgery. This article reports technique, …

Object. Monitoring of descending corticospinal pathways by using motor evoked potentials (MEPs)
has proven to be useful in preventing permanent neurological deficits during cranial …

BACKGROUND: Image-guided spinal instrumentation reduces the incidence of implant
misplacement. OBJECTIVE: To assess the accuracy of intraoperative computed tomography (iCT…

Solitary aneurysms of spinal arteries lacking associated vascular malformations are rare.
We report three patients with spinal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to rupture of such …

… Scheufler has described his experience with 38 patients who were treated with a minimally
incisional retropleural thoracotomy or thoracoabdominal approach for pathology of the …

Oxidative phosphorylation is the most important source of energy in mammals. Oxygen
capture, convective and diffusive oxygen transport as well as the final intracellular oxygen …

We investigated the value of brain oxygen partial pressure (P br O 2) with respect to predicting
cerebral energetic failure in a rabbit model of global cerebral ischemia and hypoxia. Local …

Background: Presenting symptoms, treatment considerations, and outcome are strongly
related to the extension of vestibular schwannomas (VS). The aim of the current retrospective …

… MEP amplitudes and latencies were independently reviewed by two investigators blinded
to the PTPCs (PCR and KMS). Data evaluated by two investigators were averaged before …

BACKGROUND Adult scoliosis is a condition with increasing prevalence and medical and
socioeconomic importance. Surgery is fraught with a significant complication rate in an elderly …