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Autor:
Lisa Hannegan, Michael T. Lawton, Lawrence H. Pitts, Corinna C. Zygourakis, Benjamin L. Franc, Ethan A. Winkler
Publikováno v:
Journal of neurosurgery. 126(2)
OBJECTIVE Postoperative head CT scanning is performed routinely at the authors' institution on all neurosurgical patients after elective aneurysm clippings. The goal of this study was to determine how often these scans influence medical management an
Intratumoral hemorrhage and fibrosis in vestibular schwannoma: a possible mechanism for hearing loss
Autor:
Martin J. Rutkowski, Rajwant Kaur, Isaac Yang, Tarik Tihan, Ari J. Kane, Andrew T. Parsa, Lawrence H. Pitts, Michael E. Sughrue
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurosurgery. 114:386-393
Object Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are benign lesions with an unpredictable natural history. Perhaps the greatest barrier to predicting which patients need treatment is our poor understanding of how these tumors cause hearing loss in the first place
Autor:
Ari J. Kane, Steven W. Cheung, Michael E. Sughrue, Lawrence H. Pitts, Rajwant Kaur, Jeffrey J. Barry, Martin J. Rutkowski, Andrew T. Parsa
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurosurgery. 114:381-385
Object The authors previously published a systematic review of the English language literature regarding the natural history of untreated vestibular schwannomas (VSs). This analysis found that the best predictor of future hearing loss was tumor growt
Autor:
Martin J. Rutkowski, Lawrence H. Pitts, Rajwant Kaur, Isaac Yang, Michael E. Sughrue, Andrew T. Parsa, Gurvinder Kaur, Ari J. Kane
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 17:849-852
The prognostic significance of intraoperative facial nerve electromyography (EMG) changes is not well-established in vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery. We studied facial nerve EMG with a threshold >0.05mA and performed subgroup analyses based on tum
Autor:
Lawrence H. Pitts, Seunggu J. Han, Michael E. Sughrue, Steven W. Cheung, Derick Aranda, Isaac Yang, Andrew T. Parsa
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurosurgery. 112:851-859
Object Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) has evolved into a practical alternative to open microsurgical resection in the treatment of patients with vestibular schwannoma (VS). Hearing preservation rates in GKS series suggest very favorable outcomes without t
Autor:
Michael E. Sughrue, Khadja Lobo, Steven W. Cheung, Derick Aranda, Lawrence H. Pitts, Isaac Yang, Andrew T. Parsa
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurosurgery. 112:163-167
Object Observation is an important consideration when discussing management options for patients with vestibular schwannoma (VS). Most data regarding clinical outcomes after conservative management come from modestsized series performed at individual
Publikováno v:
Otology & Neurotology. 29:710-713
To analyze optimal placement of recording-needle electrodes surrounding the eye and lip for facial nerve monitoring by identifying the maximum compound muscle action potential (CMAP) recorded by electrode pairs of different spatial configurations.Pro
Autor:
Robert K. Jackler, Lawrence H. Pitts
Publikováno v:
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 19:217-238
A variety of surgical approaches are available in the management of acoustic neuroma. Each procedure has certain advantages and disadvantages in terms of surgical exposure, the capability of preserving cranial nerve function, and postoperative morbid
Autor:
Lawrence H. Pitts, Michael T. Lawton, Andrew T. Parsa, Michael W. McDermott, Vincent Y. Wang, Nicholas M. Barbaro, Nalin Gupta, Sandeep Kunwar
Publikováno v:
Neurosurgery. 60:1045-1049
Objective Placement of a lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt is a method for treating communicating hydrocephalus. These shunts can be placed with or without valves. We sought to review the complications associated with the use of LP shunts with the increasin
Publikováno v:
Neurosurgery. 55:E1018-E1022
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: It is common neurosurgical wisdom that depressed cranial fractures (DCFs) over the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) should not be elevated because of the risk of fatal venous hemorrhage. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: A 34-year-old man