The pioneering work by Pierre Janny and Nils Lundberg added a new tool to the investigative armamentarium of the neurosurgeon: continuous monitor- ing of intracranial pressure (ICP).
Cell transplantation to the brain and spinal cord is awell-established research tool for studies on cellular andmolecular mechanisms, but can it be developed into a usefultherapuetic approach in human neurological disorders?
In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the study of the interactions between the heart and the brain, especially in the field of cerebral ischemia.
From its discovery in 1929 by Hans Berger until the late 1960s, when sensory visual and auditory evoked potentials were dis- covered and became popular, the EEG was the most important method of neurophysiological examination.
Diese Monographie gibt auf der Grundlage umfangreicher eigener Untersuchungen einen aktuellen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Immunhistochemie in der klinischen und experimentellen Neuroonkologie.
The sellar region and paranasal sinuses constitute the anatomical sections of the skull base in which pathological entities warrant interdisciplinary management.
Although surgery of the skull base still represents a frontier involving different specialties, it is increasingly being accepted and recognized as a special area po- sing both unique diagnostic and surgical challenges and specific requirements.
Had we ever guessed the historical importance of this day, had we expected the impressive and touching episode of German history that took place on November 9, 1989, had we dared to hope that a dream three decades old would come true on precisely that day, we would have held our symposium in the immediate vicinity of the Branden- burg Gate!
Despite a worldwide reduction in its incidence, stroke remains one of the most common diseases generally and the most important cause of premature and persistent disability in the industrialized countries.
The 17th volume of the "e;Advances in Neurosurgery"e; contains a selection of the scientific reports of the 39th annual meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery, which was held in Cologne from May 8-11, 1988.
In diesem Buch wird eine neue konservative Behandlungsmethode des lumbalen Bandscheibenvorfalles auf der Basis einer seit Jahrzehnten in Wildbad durchgeführten Physiotherapie dargestellt.
Der Band befaßt sich mit den bisher nicht bekannten pathophysiologischen Abläufen in den ersten 2 Stunden nach einem akuten Schädel-Hirn-Trauma und weist anhand der gefundenen Ergebnisse die Notwendigkeit der frühzeitigen therapeutischen Interventionen nach.
This 16th volume of Advances in Neurosurgery contains a selection of pa- pers presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery, held in Munster on 3-6 May 1987.
Die spontanen intrazerebralen Hämatome sind die zweithäufigste zerebro-vaskuläre Erkrankung nach den ischämischen Hirninfarkten und gehören daher seit langem in Neurologie, Neurochirurgie und Neuropathologie zu den traditionellen Forschungsgebieten.
The aim of the book is to describe the current approach to meningiomas on the basis of experience gained in the fields of histopathology, biology, radiology and surgery.
