Object Nowadays the role of microsurgical management of intrinsic brain tumors is to maximize
the volumetric resection of the tumoral tissue, minimizing the postoperative morbidity. …

Nowadays there is increasing interest in identifying–and using–metabolites that can be
employed as biomarkers for diagnosing, treating and monitoring diseases. Saliva and NMR have …

BACKGROUND: The Smith-Robinson 1 approach (SRA) is the most widely used route to
access the anterior cervical spine. Although several authors have described this approach, …

Objective. To study the posibilities of the microsurgical management of ruptured intracranial
aneurysms with the sole preoperative information provided by computed tomography …

The animal model for chronic pain following sciatic nerve section in the rat has been studied
varying the sensory afferents prior to nerve section, using the anaesthetic blocking of the …

BACKGROUND: Previous studies to determine memory lateralization with functional MR
imaging (fMRI) have used encoding or recall tasks. The convergence between the results of …

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most frequent and malignant primary brain tumor. Conventional
therapy of surgical removal, radiation and chemotherapy is largely palliative. Major vault …

Meningiomas are often considered benign tumors curable by surgery, but most recurrent
meningiomas correspond to histologic benign tumors. Because alterations in chromosome 14 …

Twelve patients with grade IV unstable angina were treated with high cervical spinal cord
stimulation (SCS). All patients had been previously treated with maximal tolerated doses of β-…

This book takes readers on a journey around the world and through time, accompanied by a
modern neurosurgeon who reviews historical techniques and instruments used for cranial …