cta eurochirurgica Official Organ of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies Volume 111, 1991 ISSN 0001-6268 Chairman Advisory Board Ex officio the members of the of the Editorial Board Administrative Council of the E.A.N.S.: F. Loew, Homburg/Saar E.-O. Backlund, Bergen M. Bock, Berlin, President S. E. Borgesen, Glostrup E. Pasztor, Budapest, Past-President Editorial Board M. Brock, Berlin L. Calliauw, Gent, Vice President K. Clark, Dallas R. Fahibusch, Erlangen |. Nyary, Budapest, Vice President F. Cohadon, Bordeaux S. Ishii, Tokyo G. F. Rossi, Roma, Vice President V. V. Dolenc, Ljubljana K. Jellinger, Wien D. Thomas, London, Vice Presicent M. Fukui, Fukuoka W. Koos, Wien M. Vapalahti, Kuopio, Vice President H. Handa, Kyoto Chr. B. Ostertag, Freiburg i. Br. C. Lapras, Lyon, Secretary H.-D. Herrmann, Hamburg K. Sano, Tokyo J. L. Antunes, Cascais, Assistant Secretary J. T. Hoff, Ann Arbor, Michigan S. G. Zohrabian, Erevan R. Braakman, Rotterdam, Treasurer F. lsamat, Barcelona G. Lanner, Klagenfurt, Assistant Treasurer H. Kikuchi, Kyoto J. W. D. Miller, Edinburgh, Assistant Editor A. Konovalov, Moscow F. lsamat, Barcelona, Historian H. Nornes, Oslo B. Pertuiset, Paris H.-J. Reulen, Miinchen G. F. Rossi, Roma M. Sindou, Lyon K. Sugita, Matsumoto L. Symon, London K. Takakura, Tokyo J. M. Tew, jr., Cincinnati, Ohio H. Verbiest, Utrecht R. H. Wilkins, Durham, North Carolina L. Calliauw, Gent (Editor for E.A.N.S.-Affairs) Language editing: H. H. Gossman, Plymouth Springer-Verlag Wien New York The exclusive copyright for all languages and countries, including the right for photomechanical and any other reproductions including microform is transferred to the publisher © 1991 by Springer-Verlag/Wien Author-Index Aoki, N., Sakai, T., Oikawa, A., Acute Sub- Fandino, J., Botana, C., Fandifio, C., Rod- Pasztor, E., vide Major, O. 40 dural Haematoma Successfully Treated riguez, D., Gomez-Bueno, J., Clinical and Paulson, O. B., vide Schmidt, J. F. 49 by Percutaneous Subdural Tapping in an Radiographic Response of Fourth Ven- Paulson, O. B., vide Schmidt, J. F. 138 Elderly Patient 132 tricle Cysticercosis to Praziquantel Ther- Peker, S., vide Caner, H. 143 Arfors, K.-E., vide Schiirer, L. 54 apy 135 Rabow, L., vide Bergenheim, A. T. 114 Arias, A., Millan, I., Vaquero, J., Clinico- Fiskeci, C., vide Kulah, A. 108 Rodriguez, D., vide Fandifio, J. 135 morphological Correlation in Syringo- Floris, F., vide Coraddu, M. i8 Rodriguez, G., vide Meglio, M. 43 myelia: a Statistical Study Assisted by Fontijne, W. P. J., vide Braakman, R. 11 Rosadini, G., vide Meglio, M. 43 Computer Measurement of Magnetic Gerdin, B., vide Schiirer, L. 54 Sakai, T., vide Aoki, N. 132 Resonance Images 33 Gibo, H., vide Okudera, H. 61 Samii, A., vide Lang, J., Jr. 147 Beevers, D. G., vide Tsementzis, S. A. 80 Gill, J. S., vide Tsementzis, S. A. 80 Sandric, S., vide Meglio, M. 43 Bellotti, C., Pappada, G., Sani, R., Oliveri, Gilsbach, J., vide de Vries, J. 64 Sani, R., vide Bellotti, C. 103 G., Stangalino, C., The Transcallosal Ap- Gomez-Bueno, J., vide Fandifio, J. 135 Schmidt, J. F., Waldemar, G., Paulson, O. B., proach for Lesions Affecting the Lateral Grogaard, B., vide Schiirer, L. 54 The Acute Effect of Nimodipine on Ce- and Third Ventricles 103 Hariz, M. I., vide Bergenheim, A. T. 114 rebral Blood Flow, its CO, Reactivity, and Benoist, Gy., vide Major, O. 40 Hitchcock, E. R., vide Tsementzis, S. A. 80 Cerebral Oxygen Metabolism in Human Bergenheim, A. T., Hariz, M. I., Laitinen, L. Horvath, M., vide Major, O. 40 Volunteers 49 V., Olivecrona, M., Rabow, L., Relation Ilcayto, R., vide Kula, A. 108 Olsen, K. S., Waldemar, G., Jorgensen, B. Between Sensory Disturbance and Out- Jorgensen, B. Ch., vide Schmidt, J. F. 138 Ch., Paulson, O. B., Effect of Ketanserin come After Retrogasserian Glycerol Rhi- Kempski, O., vide Schiirer, L. 54 on Cerebral Blood Flow Autoregulation zotomy 114 Kennet, R. P., vide Tsementzis, S. A. 80 in Healthy Volunteers 138 Botana, C., vide Fandifio, J. 135 Kobayashi, S., vide Okudera, H. 61 Schréder, R., vide Ernestus, R.-I. 96 Braakman, R., Fontijne, W. P. J., Zeegers, Krauss, J. K., vide Wakhloo, A. K. 119 Schumacher, M., vide Wakhloo, A. K. 119 R., Steenbeek, J. R., Tanghe, H. L. J., Kulah, A., [lgayto, R., Fiskeci, C., Cystic Schiirer, L., Grégaard, B., Gerdin, B., Kemp- Neurological Deficit in Injuries of the Meningiomas 108 ski, O., Arfors, K.-E., Leucocyte Deple- Thoracic and Lumbar Spine. A Consec- Kyoshima, K., vide Okudera, H. 61 tion Does not Affect Post-Ischaemic utive Series of 70 Patients 11 Laitinen, L. V., vide Bergenheim, A. T. 114 Nerve Cell Damage in the Rat Caner, H., Peker, S., Ozcan, O. E., Effects of Lang, J. Jr., Samii, A., Retrosigmoidal Ap- Seeger, W., vide de Vries, J. 64 Hydrocephalus on the Sympathetic proach to the Posterior Cranial Fossa. An Sipos, L., vide Major, O. 40 Nerves of Cerebral Arteries, Investigated Anatomical Study 147 Sood, S., Mahapatra, A. K., Effect of CSF with WGA-HRP Anterograde Tracing in Loveren, H. van, vide El-Kalliny, M. 22 Shunt on Brainstem Auditory Evoked Po- the Rat 143 Mahapatra, A. K., vide Sood, S. 92 tential in Hydrocephalus Secondary to Cerejo, A., vide Vaz, R. 128 Major, O., Sipos, L., Czirjak, S., Benoist, Gy., Brain Tumour 92 Chiappini, F., vide Meglio, M. 43 Horvath, M., Pasztor, E., Spontaneous Stangalino, C., vide Bellotti, C. 103 Cioni, B., vide Meglio, M. 43 Spinal Epidural Haematomas 40 Steenbeek, J. R., vide Braakman, R. 11 Coraddu, M., Nurchi, G. C., Floris, F., Me- Massaro, F., vide Pagni, C. A. 1 Steiger, H.-J., Outcome of Acute Supraten- leddu, V., Surgical Treatment of Extra- torial Cerebral Infarction in Patients Un- Meglio, M., Cioni, B., Visocchi, M., Nobili, dural Spinal Cord Compression due to der 60 73 F., Rodriguez, G., Rosadini, G., Chiap- Metastatic Tumours 18 Sugita, K., vide Okudera, H. 61 pini, F., Sandric, S., Spinal Cord Stimu- Cruz, C., vide Vaz, R. 128 Tanghe, H. L. J., vide Braakman, R. 11 lation and Cerebral Haemodynamics 43 Czirjak, S., vide Major, O. 40 Takemae, T., vide Okudera, H. 61 Meleddu, V., vide Coraddu, M. 18 Dauch, W. A., Prediction of Secondary De- Tew, J. M., Jr., vide El-Kalliny, M. 22 Millan, I., vide Arias, A. 33 terioration in Comatose Neurosurgical Tsementzis, S. A., Kennet, R. P., Hitchcock, Nobili, F., vide Meglio, M. 43 Patients by Serial Recording of Multi- E. R., Gill, J. S., Beevers, D. G., Seasonal Nurchi, G. C., vide Coraddu, M. 18 modality Evoked Potentials 84 Variation of Cerebrovascular Diseases 80 de Vries, J., Gilsbach, J., Seeger, W., Tech- Oikawa, A., vide Aoki, N. 132 Van Velthoven, V., vide Wakhloo, A. K. 119 nical Improvements in the Lateral Suboc- Okudera, H., Kobayashi, S., Kyoshima, K.., Vaquero, J., vide Arias, A. 33 cipital Approach for Neurovascular De- Gibo, H., Takemae, T., Sugita, K., De- Vaz, R., Duarte, F., Oliveira, J., Cerejo, A., compression of the Trigeminal and Facial velopment of the Operating Computer- Cruz, C., Traumatic Interhemispheric Nerves 64 ized Tomographic Scanner System for Subdural Haematomas 128 Duarte, F., vide Vaz, R. 128 Neurosurgery 61 Visocchi, M., vide Meglio, M. 43 Dunsker, St., vide El-Kalliny, M. 22 Olivecrona, M., vide Bergenheim, A. T. 114 Waldemar, G., vide Schmidt, J. F. 49 El-Kalliny, M., Tew, J. M., Jr., van Loveren, Oliveira, J., vide Vaz, R. 128 — vide Schmidt, J. F. 138 H., Dunsker, St., Surgical Approaches to Oliveri, G., vide Bellotti, C. 103 Wakhloo, A. K., van Velthoven, V., Schu- Thoracic Disc Herniations 22 Olsen, K. S., vide Schmidt, J. F., 138 macher, M., Krauss, J. K., Evaluation of Ernestus, R.-I., Wilcke, O., Schréder, R., Su- Ozcan, O. E., vide Caner, H. 143 MR Imaging, Digital Subtraction Cister- pratentorial Ependymomas in Childhood: Pagni, C. A., Massaro, F., Concomitant nography, and CT Cisternography in Di- Clinicopathological Findings and Prog- Cranio-cerebral and Vertebro-medullary agnosing CSF Fistula 119 nosis 96 Injuries. Analysis of 121 Cases 1 Wilcke, O., vide Ernestus, R.-I. 96 Fandino, C., vide Fandifio, J. 135 Pappada, G., vide Bellotti, C. 103 Zeegers, R., vide Braakman, R. 11 Index of Keywords Acute subdural haematoma 132 Differential diagnosis 108 Metastatic vertebral tumours Shunt 92 Arterial blood pressure 138 Digital subtraction 18 Sigmoid sinus 147 Associated brain and spinal cord cisternography 119 Meteorological variables 80 Skull-thickness 147 injury | Disconnection syndrome 103 Monitoring 84 Spinal cord compression 18 Arterial blood pressure 49 MR cisternography 119 Spinal cord injury 11 Autoregulation 138 Ependymoma 96 MR imaging 33 Spinal epidural haematoma 40 Evoked potentials 84 Spontaneous 40 BAEP 92 Extradural tumours 18 Neckmuscle-insertions 147 Subdural fluid collection 132 Brain tumour 92 Neurological recovery 11 Subdural haematoma 128 Burrholes 147 Fourth ventricle 135 Neurosurgery 61 Subdural tapping 132 Neurosurgical intensive care 84 Surgical treatment 108 Calcium antagonist 49 Glycerol 114 Nimodipine 49 Sympathetic nerve 143 Carbon dioxide reactivity 49 Grading system 73 Syringomyelia 33 CBF 43 Operating room 61 Cerebral arteries 143 Head injury 128 Operative technique 64 Thoracic disc herniation 22 Cerebral blood flow 49, 138 Head trauma | Thoraco lumbar spine injury 11 Cerebral contusion 132 Hemifacial spasm 64 Posterolateral-extrapleural Transcranial Doppler 43 Cerebral infarction 73 Hemispheric tumour 96 approach 22 Transcutaneous electrical Cerebral metabolic rate Hydrocephalus 92, 143 Praziquantel 135 stimulation 114 of oxygen 49 Prognostic scale 73 Transpedicular-transfacetal Cerebrovascular disease 80 133-Xe inhalation method 43 approach 22 Chiari malformation 33 Interhemispheric 128 Quantitative histology 54 Transthoracic-transpleural Childhood tumour 96 Intracranial lesions 84 approach 22 Clinical imaging 61 Intraventricular tumours 103 Radiation therapy 96 Transverse sinus 147 Computed tomography 73, 128 Ischaemia 54 Radiotherapy 18 Trigeminal neuralgia 64, 114 Computerized tomography 61, Ischaemic stroke 73 Rat 54 108 Retrosigmoidal approach 147 Vascular decompression 64 Corpus callosum 103 Ketanserin 138 Rhizolysis 114 Ventricular tumour 96 Craniotomy 132 Vertebral trauma 1 CSF fistula 119 Leucocytes 54 SCS 43 CT cisternography 119 Seasonal fluctuation 80 Wheat germ agglutinin- Cysticercosis 135 Magnetic resonance imaging 22 Selective vulnerability 54 horseradish peroxidase Cystic meningioma 108 Mastoid emissary 147 Sensory thresholds 114 (WGA-HRP) 143