Head Injuries: Prognosis Evoked Potentials Microsurgery Brain Death

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
The Development of Orbital Surgery from a Neurosurgeon’s Viewpoint....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Long-Term Outcome After Severe Head Injury in Children and Young Adults....Pages 17-22
Outcome After Severe Head Injury with Midbrain Syndrome in the Acute Stage....Pages 23-26
Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, X-ray Computed Tomography, Electroencephalography, and Long-Term Outcome After Head Injury: A Prospective Reexamination of 55 Patients....Pages 27-35
Longlasting Coma After Head Injury: Late Results....Pages 36-42
Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhages in Elderly People....Pages 43-48
Outcome of Patients with an Acute Traumatic Subdural Hematoma....Pages 49-52
Acute Subdural Hematoma - An Unsolved Neurosurgical Problem....Pages 53-56
Regeneration of Intellectual Functions Following Closed Brain Injury: Follow-up Study on a Pair of Twins using the Co-twin as Control....Pages 57-60
The Influence of Independent Parameters on the Evaluation of Patients with Craniocerebral Trauma and Their Occupational Reintegration....Pages 61-65
Prognostic Parameters in Severe Head Injury: A Multivariate Analysis....Pages 66-72
Prognostic Value of Factors Affecting Outcome After Severe Head Injury....Pages 73-77
Organizational Model for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Skull and Brain Injuries at a Neurosurgical Clinic with an Integrated Neuroradiological Department....Pages 78-80
Frequency and Prognosis of Traumatic Brain Edema....Pages 81-86
ICP, nrCBF, and Contrast Scan for the Prognosis of Severe Head Injury....Pages 87-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Value of Multimodality Evoked Potentials in the Diagnosis of Skull/Brain Injuries in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units....Pages 93-96
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Diagnostic and Prognostic Value in Head Injuries....Pages 97-101
Prognostic Significance of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Traumatic Brain Stem Lesions....Pages 103-106
On the Prognosis of Severe Head Injury Using Multimodal Evoked Potentials....Pages 107-111
Isolated Traumatic Lesions of Ventricular and Periventricular Regions and Cerebral Midline Structures: Outcome Prediction by CT Scan, Evoked Potentials, and ICP Monitoring....Pages 112-116
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
The Prognostic Importance of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials, Computed Tomography, and Clinical Findings in Severe Head Trauma....Pages 117-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Anatomy in and on the Jugular Foramen....Pages 125-132
Branchial Paragangliomas....Pages 133-139
Surgery of the Jugular Foramen....Pages 140-152
Microsurgical Approaches to the Cavernous Sinus....Pages 153-157
A Combined Transsylvian-Subtemporal Approach for Management of Tumors Located in the Cavernous Sinus and in Meckel’s Cave....Pages 158-163
Microsurgical Resection of Tumors Involving the Cavernous Sinus: Possibilities and Limitations....Pages 164-173
Anesthesia-Independent Facial Nerve Monitoring with Orthodromic Intra / Extracranial Neurography....Pages 174-177
Clinical Subtyping of Trigeminal Neuralgia and Its Correlation to the Intraoperative Findings and Surgical Results Following Microvascular Decompression....Pages 178-181
Neurovascular Compression as a Cause of Essential Hypertension: A Microanatomical Study....Pages 182-187
Essential Hypertension in Patients with Hemifacial Spasm or Trigeminal Neuralgia....Pages 188-193
Neurosurgical Topography of the Pyramidal Tract....Pages 194-197
Postoperative Mortality in the Era of Microneurosurgery....Pages 198-202
Incidence, Management, and Outcome of Patients with Premature Rupture of Cerebral Aneurysms During Surgery....Pages 203-207
Temporary Vessel Occlusion by Microvascular Clips....Pages 208-213
Aneurysmal Location and Operative Timing....Pages 214-219
Ventral Transvertebral Intradural Approach in Cervical and Thoracic Lesions....Pages 220-224
Lateral Approach for Resection of Anterior Craniospinal Tumors....Pages 225-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Diagnosis of Brain Death....Pages 237-239
Differentiated Diagnostic Measurements in Determining Brain Death in Clinical Practice....Pages 240-242
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Neurosurgical Diagnosis of Brain Death in the Peripheral Hospital Preceding Multiorgan Donation....Pages 243-245
Experience with Determination of Brain Death and Organ Donation....Pages 246-250
On Problems in the Determination of Brain Death....Pages 251-253
Latency of Recovery and Electrical Silence of Auditory Evoked Potentials and the Electrocorticogram After Peracute Complete Brain Ischemia of 2–30 Minutes’ Duration....Pages 254-258
Methodological and Technical Problems in the Confirmation of Brain Death by Evoked Potentials....Pages 259-263
Nasopharyngeal Recording of Subcortical Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Brain Death....Pages 264-269
Is the Loss of Evoked Potentials and Brain Stem Reflexes as Investigated Electrophysiologically Proof of Brain Death?....Pages 270-274
Multimodality Evoked Potentials in the Diagnosis of Brain Death....Pages 275-280
The Value of Motor Potentials Following Transcortical Stimulation in Diagnosing Brain Death — First Results....Pages 281-286
Motor-Evoked Potentials and Transcranial Doppler Sonography During Development of Cerebral Circulatory Arrest....Pages 287-291
Neuropathology of Brain Death in Relation to Continuously Measured Intracranial Pressure....Pages 292-294
The Use of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Monitoring in the Determination of Brain Death....Pages 295-298
Comparative Evaluation of Angiography and Transcranial Doppler Sonography in the Determination of Intracranial Circulatory Arrest....Pages 299-303
Hemodynamics of Cerebral Circulatory Arrest: Correlation Between Perfusion Pressure and Blood Flow Velocity....Pages 304-309
Comparison of Transcranial Doppler Sonography and Cerebral Angiography for the Diagnosis of Cerebral Circulatory Arrest....Pages 310-315
Electrographic Changes in Brain-Dead Patients....Pages 316-320
Brain Death in Fulminant Hepatic Failure....Pages 321-326
Ethical and Legal Aspects of the Diagnosis of Cerebral Death in the GDR....Pages 327-330
Brain Death Diagnosis in Anencephalics?....Pages 331-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Monitoring of Hemodynamics in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Using Transcranial Doppler and Laser Doppler....Pages 337-343
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Cerebral Blood Flow Measurements with 99m Tc-HMPAO and 123 I — Amphetamine (HIPDM) in Patients with Cerebral Tumors (1)....Pages 344-350
CSF Flow Visualization by Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques — Methods and Clinical Examples....Pages 351-356
Intracranial Complications After Anticoagulant Therapy....Pages 357-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-372