Neurosurgery
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Comparative Study
Evaluation of vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage by use of multislice computed tomographic angiography.
Multislice computed tomographic angiography (CTA) can provide clearer vascular images, even of the peripheral arteries, than conventional CTA. Multislice CTA was compared with digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for the detection of cerebral vasospasm in patients with acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) to analyze whether multislice CTA can replace DSA in the detection of vasospasm after SAH. ⋯ Multislice CTA can detect angiographic vasospasm after SAH with accuracy equal to that of DSA.
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Historical Article
Development of Japanese neurosurgery: from the Edo era to 1973.
IN JAPAN, ALTHOUGH eminent surgeons have performed major operations while the patient is under general anesthesia since the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, neurosurgical operations were performed only sporadically for many years after 1877. The Japanese Neurological Society was formed in 1948. ⋯ The Board of Neurological Surgery was founded in 1966. The Fifth International Congress of Neurological Surgery, held in Tokyo in 1973, strongly influenced young Japanese neurosurgeons.
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Biography Historical Article
Beyond conservatism and the boundaries of a medical discipline: a short history of the department of neurosurgery at kyoto university graduate school of medicine.
CONSTANT CHANGE AND the occasional fusion of two different entities can result in the creation of masterpieces, not only in art but also in neurosurgery. Chisato Araki is one of the pioneers of neurosurgery in Japan; his 2-year sojourn in the United States and Europe provided him with an extraordinary amount of experience. ⋯ His successor, Hajime Handa, established neurosurgery as one of the branches of neuroscience and fostered the collaborations and exchanges among different disciplines that have become a tradition and hallmark of our Department of Neurosurgery. Through anecdotes and glimpses of the evolution of neurosurgery at our institution, we offer insights into the unique nature of Japanese neurosurgery that may illuminate the path toward the resolution of some of the recent and enduring problems encountered in our specialty.
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Using the neural stem cell (NSC) clone C17.2, we evaluated the ability of transplanted murine NSCs to attenuate cognitive and neurological motor deficits after traumatic brain injury. ⋯ These data suggest that transplanted NSCs can survive in the traumatically injured brain, differentiate into neurons and/or glia, and attenuate motor dysfunction after traumatic brain injury.