BACKGROUND Intracranial dermoid cysts are rare congenital neoplasms that are believed
to arise from ectopic cell rests incorporated in the closing neural tube. The rupture of an …

OBJECTIVES Outcome of surgical treatment of cerebral aneurysms may be severely compromised
by local cerebral ischaemia or infarction resulting from the inadvertent occlusion of an …

Object The use of dural grafts is frequently unavoidable when tension-free dural closure
cannot be achieved following neurosurgical procedures or trauma. Biodegradable collagen …

Background Venous air embolism has been reported to occur in 23-45% of patients undergoing
neurosurgical procedures in the sitting position. If venous air embolism occurs, a patent …

The present study evaluated the hemostatic efficacy and handling of gelatin-thrombin matrix
hemostatic sealant during intracranial procedures. A retrospective analysis of 478 …

Retrospective analysis of 165 patients (105 males, 60 females) with a mean age of 21.2 years
(range 14 to 25 years) of 6933 surgically treated patients from January 1987 to May 1999 …

Background Tracking of post-registration head motion is one of the major problems in frameless
stereotaxy. Various attempts in detecting and compensating for this phenomenon rely …

Background: Despite progress in diagnosis and therapy, the prognosis of patients with
glioblastoma remains poor. Recently it has been found that the antibacterial agent taurolidine has …

Background Taurolidine was recently found to have a direct and selective antineoplastic
effect on brain tumor cells. The ability of taurolidine to exert antineoplastic action by …

Background Although an inhibiting effect of the antibacterial substance taurolidine on
several tumor cell lines was suggested in 1990, no specific research has been performed …