Craniotomy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Tangential" resection of medial temporal lobe arteriovenous malformations with the orbitozygomatic approach. 
  • A comparison of 3% hypertonic saline and mannitol for brain relaxation during elective supratentorial brain tumor surgery. 
  • A comparison of the combination of aprepitant and dexamethasone versus the combination of ondansetron and dexamethasone for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing craniotomy. 
  • A prospective, comparative trial of three anesthetics for elective supratentorial craniotomy. Propofol/fentanyl, isoflurane/nitrous oxide, and fentanyl/nitrous oxide. 
  • A randomized, double-blind comparison of ondansetron versus placebo for prevention of nausea and vomiting after infratentorial craniotomy. 
  • A randomized, double-blinded comparison of ondansetron, droperidol, and placebo for prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting after supratentorial craniotomy. 
  • A retrospective analysis of a remifentanil/propofol general anesthetic for craniotomy before awake functional brain mapping. 
  • Addition of bevacizumab to standard radiation therapy and daily temozolomide is associated with minimal toxicity in newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme. 
  • Anatomic and clinical study of the orbitopterional approach to anterior communicating artery aneurysms. 
  • Anesthesia for awake craniotomy: a how-to guide for the occasional practitioner. 
  • Anesthesia for craniotomy: a double-blind comparison of alfentanil, fentanyl, and sufentanil. 
  • Association of intracranial aneurysm and Loeys-Dietz syndrome: case illustration, management, and literature review. 
  • Capillary hemangioma of the fourth ventricle in an infant. Case report and review of the literature. 
  • Causes, clinical presentation, management, and outcomes of chronic subdural hematoma at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 
  • Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess. 
  • Clinicopathological characteristics and treatment of rhabdoid glioblastoma. 
  • Clipping of a cerebral aneurysm in a patient with Loeys-Dietz syndrome: case report. 
  • Combined skull base approaches to the posterior fossa. Technical note. 
  • Comparison of postoperative nausea between benign and malignant brain tumor patients undergoing awake craniotomy: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Comparison of remifentanil and fentanyl in patients undergoing craniotomy for supratentorial space-occupying lesions. 
  • Complications and 30-Day readmission rates after craniotomy/craniectomy: A single Institutional study of 243 consecutive patients. 
  • Controversies in the management of brainstem cavernous angioma: report of two cases. 
  • Cortical localization of temporal lobe language sites in patients with gliomas. 
  • Cost analysis of remifentanil and fentanyl for neurosurgical anesthesia. 
  • Craniotomy flap osteomyelitis: a diagnostic approach. 
  • Craniotomy for resection of meningioma in the elderly: a multicentre, prospective analysis from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Craniotomy for tumor treatment in an intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging unit. 
  • Critical assessment of operative approaches for hearing preservation in small acoustic neuroma surgery: retrosigmoid vs middle fossa approach. 
  • Critically ill cancer patients are not consistently hypercoagulable after craniotomy. 
  • Decompressive hemicraniectomy in pediatric patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Determining the remifentanil dose-response relationship during craniotomies: the importance of intensity of the stimulus at the time of pharmacodynamic evaluation. 
  • Disappearing bone disease and Chiari I malformation. 
  • Does midline shift predict postoperative nausea in brain tumor patients undergoing awake craniotomy? A retrospective analysis. 
  • Effect of sedative and hypnotic doses of propofol on the EEG activity of patients with or without a history of seizure disorders. 
  • Endoscopic cranioplasty with calcium phosphate cement for pterional bone defect after frontotemporal craniotomy: technical note. 
  • Evidence based diagnosis and management of chronic subdural hematoma: A review of the literature. 
  • Experience with remifentanil in neurosurgical patients. 
  • Frontoethmoidal giant cell reparative granuloma. 
  • Hearing preservation with the transcrusal approach to the petroclival region. 
  • High-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with brain metastases: individualized multidisciplinary therapy in the management of four patients. 
  • Hypertonic saline for craniotomy? 
  • Hypofractionated stereotactic radiation therapy: an effective therapy for recurrent high-grade gliomas. 
  • Impact of Obesity on Complications and 30-Day Readmission Rates After Cranial Surgery: A Single-Institutional Study of 224 Consecutive Craniotomy/Craniectomy Procedures. 
  • In Response. 
  • Incidence and management of tension pneumocephalus after anterior craniofacial resection: case reports and review of the literature. 
  • Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lateral ventricle in a pediatric patient. 
  • Influence of molecular classification in anaplastic glioma for determining outcome and future approach to management. 
  • Infratentorial and supratentorial strokes after a cranioplasty. 
  • Inhibitory simple partial (non-convulsive) status epilepticus after intracranial surgery. 
  • Intact cerebral blood flow reactivity during remifentanil/nitrous oxide anesthesia. 
  • Intraaxial dermoid cyst of the medulla. 
  • Intracranial pressure and hemodynamic effects of remifentanil versus alfentanil in patients undergoing supratentorial craniotomy. 
  • Intraoperative MR imaging guidance for intracranial neurosurgery: experience with the first 200 cases. 
  • Intraoperative US versus intraoperative MR imaging for guidance during intracranial neurosurgery. 
  • Intraoperative mapping during repeat awake craniotomy reveals the functional plasticity of adult cortex. 
  • MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy in an infant with tuberous sclerosis: technical case report. 
  • MRI-guided stereotactic biopsy in the diagnosis of glioma: comparison of biopsy and surgical resection specimen. 
  • Management of postneurosurgical bone flap loss caused by infection. 
  • March 2000: A 16 year old female with a cerebellar mass. 
  • Metastatic hemangiopericytoma with prolonged survival. 
  • Microvascular decompression for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: long-term effectiveness and complication avoidance. 
  • Middle infratemporal fossa less invasive approach for radical resection of parapharyngeal tumors: surgical microanatomy and clinical application. 
  • Motor cortex stimulation and neuropathic facial pain. 
  • Neurosurgical interventions for spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita: clinical presentation and assessment of the literature. 
  • Neurotologic skull base surgery in pediatric patients. 
  • Nicardipine is superior to esmolol for the management of postcraniotomy emergence hypertension: a randomized open-label study. 
  • No difference between remifentanil and fentanyl in patients undergoing craniotomy. 
  • Oligodendroglioma and juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma presenting as synchronous primary brain tumors. Case report with histological and molecular differentiation of the tumors and review of the literature. 
  • Orbito-Masticatory Syndrome. 
  • Otogenic intracranial abscess: concurrent craniotomy and mastoidectomy--changing trends in a developing country. 
  • Persistent outpatient hyperglycemia is independently associated with decreased survival after primary resection of malignant brain astrocytomas. 
  • Polyethylene glycol hydrogel dural sealant may reduce incisional cerebrospinal fluid leak after posterior fossa surgery. 
  • Porous polyethylene implant for cranioplasty and skull base reconstruction. 
  • Postoperative nausea and vomiting. A retrospective analysis in patients undergoing elective craniotomy. 
  • Power-Assisted Particulate Bone Grafting Effectively Prevents Osseous Defects After Cranial Vault Reconstruction. 
  • Preauricular transzygomatic anterior infratemporal fossa approach for tumors in or around infratemporal fossa lesions. 
  • Pressure support mode improves ventilation in "asleep-awake-asleep" craniotomy. 
  • Quantitative and qualitative assessment of morphology in sagittal synostosis: mid-sagittal vector analysis. 
  • Racial and gender disparities and the role of primary tumor type on inpatient outcomes following craniotomy for brain metastases. 
  • Racial disparities in Medicaid patients after brain tumor surgery. 
  • Regulatory T cell subsets in patients with medulloblastoma at diagnosis and during standard irradiation and chemotherapy (PBTC N-11). 
  • Removable cranial windows for long-term imaging in awake mice. 
  • Retrosigmoid suprafloccular transhorizontal fissure approach for resection of brainstem cavernous malformation. 
  • Safety and Efficacy of Intraoperative Angiography in Craniotomies for Cerebral Aneurysms and Arteriovenous Malformations: A Review of 1093 Consecutive Cases. 
  • Safety of perioperative minidose heparin in patients undergoing brain tumor surgery: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study. 
  • Sagittal sinus thrombosis and leptomeningeal medulloblastoma. 
  • Simple identification of the third segment of the extracranial vertebral artery by extreme lateral inferior transcondylar-transtubercular exposure (ELITE). 
  • Skull base approaches to the basilar artery. 
  • Skull-fixated fiducial markers improve accuracy in staged frameless stereotactic epilepsy surgery in children. 
  • Surgical management of petroclival meningiomas: defining resection goals based on risk of neurological morbidity and tumor recurrence rates in 137 patients. 
  • Surgical treatment of metopic synostosis. 
  • Surgical treatment of nocardial brain abscesses. 
  • Temperatures achieved in human and canine neocortex during intraoperative passive or active focal cooling. 
  • The combined transmastoid retro- and infralabyrinthine transjugular transcondylar transtubercular high cervical approach for resection of glomus jugulare tumors. 
  • The diploic venous system: surgical anatomy and neurosurgical implications. 
  • The incidence of pneumocephalus after supratentorial craniotomy. Observations on the disappearance of intracranial air. 
  • The incidence of unacceptable movement with motor evoked potentials during craniotomy for aneurysm clipping. 
  • The relationship of blunt head trauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and rupture of pre-existing intracranial saccular aneurysms. 
  • The small "surgical aneurysm" at the basilar apex. 
  • The use of fluorescein sodium in the biopsy and gross-total resection of a tectal plate glioma. 
  • Total intravenous anesthesia: advantages for intracranial surgery. 
  • Transient complete lower facial nerve palsy after craniotomy for aneurysm clipping. 
  • Trigeminal schwannomas: skull base approaches and operative results in 105 patients. 
  • Working area and angle of attack in three cranial base approaches: pterional, orbitozygomatic, and maxillary extension of the orbitozygomatic approach. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Professor of Otolaryngology, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Gottfried, Oren N, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Muh, Carrie Rebecca, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology