Minimally Invasive Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The NASA Smart Probe for Real-time Tissue Identification: Potential Applications in Neurosurgery....Pages 3-7
Clinically Non-functional Pituitary Tumors: The Surgical and Biological Challenge....Pages 8-16
Tips for Correct Use of Navigation....Pages 17-21
Image-Guided Surgery for Gliomas....Pages 22-28
Recent Advances in Radiosurgery for Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: The University of Tokyo Experience....Pages 29-35
Intramedullary Spinal Cord Glial Tumours: Management Philosophy and Surgical Outcome....Pages 36-46
Surgical Tactics for Subaxial Spinal Cord Injury....Pages 47-52
Efficacy of Lateral Position on Minimally Invasive Cervical Expansive Open-Door Laminoplasty....Pages 53-57
MR Tractography for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery....Pages 58-68
Intraoperative MRI....Pages 69-72
Clinical Significance of Positron Emission Tomography in Brain Tumor Surgery....Pages 73-79
The Biology of Glioma—A Discussion from the Standpoint of Photodynamic Diagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy....Pages 80-84
MCA Embolism Local Fibrinolytic Intervention Trial (MELT) Japan....Pages 85-89
Direct Cerebral Bypass Supplements Indirect Bypass Procedures in Moyamoya Disease....Pages 90-95
Treatment of Cerebral Vasospasm Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage....Pages 96-100
Retrocarotid Infracommunicating Approach for Parasellar and Interpedunclar Tumors....Pages 101-107
Genetically Modified Cell Line Grafting for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 108-113
Controlled Secretion of β-endorphin from Human Embryonic Kidney Cells Carrying a Tet-on-NL1-β-endorphin Fusion Gene: Gene Therapy of Pain....Pages 114-118
Human Gene Therapy for Malignant Gliomas....Pages 119-123
Neuronal Restoration of Memory Disturbances and Neuroprotection for Fall in Vegetation after Cardiac Arrest....Pages 124-130
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Neuroprotection and Repair by Using Adult-derived Neural Stem Cell Grafting for Neurological Disorders....Pages 131-137
Diaphragm Pacing with a Spinal Cord Stimulator....Pages 138-142
Intraoperative Monitoring of the Corticospinal MEP (D-wave) in Brain Tumor Surgery....Pages 143-151
Functional Neurosurgical Rehabilitation in Craniovertebral Junction Abnormality. An Exemplary Case Report....Pages 152-160
Functional Electrical Stimulation for Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation at the University of Virginia and Duke University....Pages 161-164
Treatment Results of Poor-grade (WFNS Grade V) Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage....Pages 165-169
Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery Using Instrumentation....Pages 170-175
Clinical Experience with Endoscope-controlled Removal of Intrameatal Vestibular Schwannomas....Pages 176-180
Neuroprotective Approaches in Experimental Model of Cerebral Venous Infarct....Pages 181-185
Treatment of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm: Our Approach....Pages 186-194
Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Surgery for Pituitary Macroadenoma....Pages 195-201
Microsurgical Treatment of Posterior Cranial Fossa Tumors Via Keyhole Approaches....Pages 202-211
The NASA Nanoelectrode Array for Deep Brain Stimulation: Monitoring Neurotransmitters and Electrical Activity Plus Precise Stimulation....Pages 212-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Phenomenological Aspects of Consciousness: Coma Scale in Chronic Stage (Chronic Coma Scale Score; CCSs)....Pages 219-219
Right Median Nerve Electrical Stimulation for the Vegetative State....Pages 220-224
An Ecologically Valid System for Classifying Severity of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children....Pages 225-232
Some Keys to Neurorehabilitation Related to the Circuitry of Emotion in the Brain....Pages 233-239
Multidisciplinary Treatment for Trauma—The AMN View....Pages 240-250
Ventricular Enlargement after TBI—Shunt or No Shunt....Pages 251-256
Ex vivo Expansion and Neural Differentiation of Bone Marrow-derived Cells under Serum-free Condition....Pages 257-259
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Head Trauma Related Epilepsy....Pages 260-267
Recent Projects on Neurotrauma in Japan....Pages 268-273
Head Injury in Buenos Aires City: Main Features....Pages 274-282
Can Mild Head Injury Affect the Quality of Life by Neuropsychological Disturbances?....Pages 283-292
Simple and Effective Assessment of Posttraumatic Higher Brain Function Disorders with Special Reference to the Prefrontal Area....Pages 293-309
Neurobehavioral Sequelae in Neurotraumatology....Pages 310-315
Clinical Analysis of the Patients with Anterior Skull Base and Craniofacial Injury in the Acute Head Trauma....Pages 316-320
Oxidative Injury and Antioxidant Therapy in Acute Brain Injury....Pages 321-327
The Development of Brain Hypothermia Treatment for Severe Brain Trauma: New Finding of Brain Injury Mechanism, ICU Management Technique and Pitfall....Pages 328-334
Hemodynamic Efficacy of Neuroleptanesthesia for Therapeutic Hypothermia in Acute Brain Injury....Pages 335-338
Different Cytokine Responses between Induced and Accidental Hypothermia: An Implication for Controversies over Neuroeffective of Therapeutic Hypothermia....Pages 339-342
Multidisciplinary Treatment Including Brain Hypothermia for Severe Brain Injury....Pages 343-349
Therapeutic Moderate Hypothermia for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review....Pages 350-358
Early Decompressive Surgery for Spinal Cord Injury: Rationale Based on Experimental Study....Pages 359-359
Acetazolamide Vasoreactivity Evaluated by Transcranial Ultrasonic Power Harmonic Imaging and Doppler Sonography....Pages 360-367
Neurointesive Care with Multimodal Monitoring....Pages 368-375
Right Median Nerve Electrical Stimulation for Coma Treatment—Recent Experience in Lithuania and the U.S.A.....Pages 376-385
Management of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: Our Strategy....Pages 386-390
Clinical Features in the Patients with “Platform Accident” in Tokyo....Pages 391-395
Screening for Hypopituitarism Following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)....Pages 396-399
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Development of the New Coma Scale: Emergency Coma Scale (ECS)....Pages 400-403
Pre-hospital Care for Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Retrospective Analysis of JAPAN Neurotrauma Data Bank....Pages 404-411