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Henneberg A, Fischer EG, Kornhuber HH. T-lymphocyte subpopulations in multiple sclerosis--do they help to judge immunosuppressive therapy? EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES 1988; 238:94-6. [PMID: 2850189 DOI: 10.1007/bf00452783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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T-cell subpopulations were tested in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients before and after cyclophosphamide (n = 38) and corticotropin (n = 37) treatment and physiotherapy (n = 30). There were no specific changes of subset ratios immediately after immunosuppressive treatment. However, T-cell subpopulations showed great day-to-day variations in MS patients.
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In the past few years it has become evident that neuropeptides may be direct mediators in the modulation of the immune response and the unspecific defense by the brain. Lymphocytes have been thought to have opioid receptors and to respond to opioids with an increase in blastogenesis, cytotoxicity and factor release. Lymphocytes are said to release various neuropeptides. Furthermore, there are some unexplained effects of morphine on the immune system and of the immune system on morphine withdrawal. The purpose of this paper is to review what has been previously published in this field. The well established modulation of phagocyte functions by opioids will only be scanned.
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Met-enkephalin has been found to have an effect on cell shape and motility of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). Specific binding of tritium-labeled Met-enkephalin to the cells could not be demonstrated. There was a rapid proteolytic degradation of the peptide in the medium, followed by uptake of the labeled tyrosine. The peptidase recognizes the N-terminal sequence of various endogenous opioid peptides. The protease inhibitors bestatin and bacitracin had but little effect on the degradation of Met-Enk.
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von Kirchbach A, Fischer EG, Kornhuber HH. Failure to detect dopamine receptor IgG autoantibodies in sera of schizophrenic patients. Short note. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 1987; 70:175-9. [PMID: 3668519 DOI: 10.1007/bf01252518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Autoantibodies against dopamine receptors in schizophrenic patients have been postulated. IgG was fractionated from sera of 15 schizophrenic patients (DSM III) in an acute episode. However, 3H-spiperone binding to dopamine receptors was not inhibited by this fraction.
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Falke NE, Fischer EG. Opiate receptor mediated internalization of 125I-beta-endorphin in human polymorphonuclear leucocytes. CELL BIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS 1986; 10:429-35. [PMID: 3017583 DOI: 10.1016/0309-1651(86)90038-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The early events in the interaction of (125I)-Tyr27-beta-endorphin with human polymorphonuclear leucocytes were investigated. Using ultrastructural autoradiography we found that the labeled peptide specifically bound to the plasma membrane and was internalized within two minutes of incubation at 37 degrees C. Both processes could be inhibited by unlabeled beta-endorphin or by the opiate antagonist diprenorphine. This finding was confirmed by radioreceptorassays. With longer incubation times the specific association of the labeled beta-endorphin with the cells decreased. About 10% of the tracer was degraded within 10 min of incubation as shown by gel chromatography. The morphological changes induced by 125I-beta-endorphin in the granulocytes were investigated under the microscope. The labeled peptide had the same biological effect as unlabeled beta-endorphin.
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Fischer EG, Lorenzo AV, Landis WJ, Welch K, Ofori-Kwakye SK, Dorval B, Hodgens KJ, Kerr CS. Vasculature to the germinal matrix in rabbit pups. J Neurosurg 1986; 64:650-6. [PMID: 3950748 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1986.64.4.0650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The authors report a study of the cerebral vasculature of premature rabbits pertaining to the germinal matrix (GM). A pigmented silicone material (Microfil) was injected into the carotid artery of anesthetized rabbits. Methyl methacrylate vascular casts of a similar group of premature rabbits were examined by scanning electron microscopy. The GM is supplied by arteries from both the basal and convexity surfaces of the brain. Vessels could be identified as arteries or veins by their typical patterns of branching and by the characteristic impressions made on the methyl methacrylate casts by endothelial nuclei. Specific evidence of structural weaknesses in the vasculature, which could be a site of predilection for GM bleeding, was not observed. The similarities in basal ganglia vasculature between premature rabbits and humans justifies using the rabbit model to study vascular aspects of the GM and intraventricular hemorrhage.
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Ofori-Kwakye SK, Sidebottom DG, Herbert J, Fischer EG, Visvesvara GS. Granulomatous brain tumor caused by Acanthamoeba. Case report. J Neurosurg 1986; 64:505-9. [PMID: 3950728 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1986.64.3.0505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A case of a previously healthy 7-year-old girl with a left frontoparietal tumor identified as an Acanthamoeba-induced granuloma is reported, and the literature on Acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis is reviewed. Unlike most reported cases, the Acanthamoeba central nervous system infection presented in this girl as a discrete tumor without meningeal involvement or diffuse encephalitis. A favorable outcome was obtained following total excision of the mass and treatment with ketoconazole.
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Ofori-Kwakye SK, Wang AM, Morris JH, O'Reilly GV, Fischer EG, Rumbaugh CL. Septation and focal dilatation of ventricles associated with cryptococcal meningoencephalitis. SURGICAL NEUROLOGY 1986; 25:253-60. [PMID: 3484842 DOI: 10.1016/0090-3019(86)90235-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A 35-year-old woman developed temporal lobe seizures. Isolated dilatation of the right temporal horn was demonstrated by computed tomography. She was asymptomatic for the next 10 months while on anticonvulsants before severe headaches, vomiting, and mental confusion prompted hospitalization. Both temporal horns were now dilated, there was marked periventricular edema, and cryptococci were cultured from the ventricular fluid. She succumbed after prolonged systemic and intrathecal antifungal therapy, having developed isolation and dilatation of both frontal horns and third and fourth ventricles. Cryptococcal or other fungal meningoencephalitis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of isolated dilatations of the ventricular chambers as noted in the present case.
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Falke NE, Fischer EG, Martin R. Stereospecific opiate binding in living human polymorphonuclear leucocytes. CELL BIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS 1985; 9:1041-7. [PMID: 2866037 DOI: 10.1016/0309-1651(85)90071-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Living human polymorphonuclear leucocytes were incubated with various opiate agonists and antagonists in radioreceptor assays. Binding of the opiate antagonists 3H-naloxone and 3H-diprenorphine and of the benzomorphan 3H-ethylketocyclazocine was found at 4 degrees C and at 37 degrees C, 3H-naloxone binding was stereospecific. Binding of the opiate agonist 3H-dihydromorphine was present at 37 degrees C but not at 4 degrees C and had a different time course as compared to the antagonists. At both temperatures no specific binding of the proteolytic stable analogue 3H-D-Ala-D-Leu-enkephalin was found. Autoradiography showed an unspecific accumulation of 3H-naloxone inside the cells and a specific localization of grains at the cell membrane.
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The effects of beta-endorphin(beta-End), an endogenous opioid, were tested in vitro on shape changes in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). Cell shape changes indicate alterations of the functional status of the cells. Within 2 min, beta-End but not the opioid alkaloid levorphanol or the antagonist, diprenorphine, induced a cell spreading. Subsequently, beta-End and levorphanol (10(-8) M), but not the dextrorotatory isomer, stimulated an elongation of the cells. Both effects of beta-End could be antagonized by diprenorphine in an equimolar concentration. Thus, the effects were stereo-specific and antagonizable. In this test system, the morphological changes evoked by beta-End were equal to the effects of FMLP, a chemotactic substance, used as a reference. Our findings indicate that endogenous opioids might play a role in modulating the initial phase of the PMNs' offensive behaviour, presumably cell adherence and motility.
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Fischer EG, Welch K, Belli JA, Wallman J, Shillito JJ, Winston KR, Cassady R. Treatment of craniopharyngiomas in children: 1972-1981. J Neurosurg 1985; 62:496-501. [PMID: 3973718 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1985.62.4.0496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Between 1972 and 1981, 37 children with craniopharyngioma were cared for at Children's Hospital, Boston. In this paper, the results of treatment with radiation therapy after conservative operations are compared with those following an initial attempt to excise the tumor. Radiation therapy was equally, if not more, effective than attempted excision in controlling subsequent tumor growth. Although this was not a controlled study, the complications of each approach are indicated, and it is inferred that conservative operations combined with radiation therapy offer less risk for psychosocial impairment than does attempted tumor excision when patients are considered as a group. The ultimate effect that either approach might have on quality of life remains to be defined, and therapy must still be individualized to the particular clinical problem.
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Wang AM, Fischer EG, Ofori-Kwakye SK, Rumbaugh CL, Lewis ML. Posterior fossa ependymal cyst and atlantoaxial subluxation in a patient with Down syndrome: CT findings. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1984; 8:783-7. [PMID: 6234336 DOI: 10.1097/00004728-198408000-00041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A 61-year-old woman with Down syndrome presented with progressive deterioration of gait over 9 months. Cranial CT without and with intravenous administration of contrast material demonstrated a posterior fossa cyst. The cyst did not communicate with the fourth ventricle or subarachnoid spaces as proven by CT following a metrizamide ventriculogram. Surgical fenestration of the cyst into the fourth ventricle was done. In addition, a moderate atlantoaxial subluxation with 2 mm movement from extension to flexion was present, which was thought not to be clinically significant, but which might require a spinal fusion at a future time. Ependymal cells were found as a result of a biopsy of the cyst wall.
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Fischer EG, Strand RD, Shapiro F. Congenital hemihypertrophy and abnormalities of the cerebral vasculature. Report of two cases. J Neurosurg 1984; 61:163-8. [PMID: 6726391 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1984.61.1.0163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Two patients are described with congenital hemihypertrophy and vascular abnormalities of the brain on the side of the hypertrophy and in the posterior fossa. The abnormalities observed included giant aneurysm, capillary hemangioma, and arteriovenous malformation. Vascular anomalies in the affected limbs are common in congenital hemihypertrophy, and neurological abnormalities and hypertrophy of the brain have been reported. The presence of vascular abnormalities of the brain in this condition may provide an opportunity to further the understanding of the development of cerebrovascular malformations.
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Fischer EG, Falke NE. Beta-endorphin modulates immune functions. A review. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS 1984; 42:195-204. [PMID: 6083577 DOI: 10.1159/000287845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The investigation of psychoneuroimmunological pathways represents a growing field of research. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about a direct correlation of endogenous opioids and immunologically competent cells.
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Fischer EG, Morris JH, Kettyle WM. Intrasellar gangliocytoma and syndromes of pituitary hypersecretion. Case report. J Neurosurg 1983; 59:1071-5. [PMID: 6631503 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1983.59.6.1071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Syndromes of hypersecretion of pituitary hormone and sellar enlargement may on occasion be caused by a gangliocytoma instead of a pituitary adenoma. At least some of these rare tumors are apparently independent of and separable from the pituitary gland, its stalk, and the hypothalamus, and are therefore surgically removable without incurring further endocrine deficit. The authors report such a case, with successful removal of the tumor via a frontal craniotomy. The associated hypersecretion of pituitary hormone was corrected without disturbing normal pituitary function.
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Four infants underwent craniectomy for craniosynostosis and subsequently developed an expanding cranial defect with herniation of brain. All four had an unrepaired laceration of the dura. The pathophysiology of this entity and of the growing fracture of childhood are discussed, and a unified interpretation of the consequences of unrepaired dural defects is proposed.
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Cavazzuti V, Fischer EG, Welch K, Belli JA, Winston KR. Neurological and psychophysiological sequelae following different treatments of craniopharyngioma in children. J Neurosurg 1983; 59:409-17. [PMID: 6886754 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1983.59.3.0409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The authors present neurological findings and data from psychophysiological tests administered during the follow-up period of 35 patients with craniopharyngioma. Group I patients who were treated by irradiation alone or by radiotherapy and conservative surgical procedures (including biopsy, cyst aspiration, and shunting), showed significantly less frontal lobe and visual perceptual dysfunction than Group II patients, in whom radical tumor resection was attempted by a subfrontal exposure. Frontal lobe dysfunction was demonstrated in sorting tests by perseverative responses, inflexibility of behavior, and lack of inhibitory control, while intelligence quotients remained relatively unaffected. Immediate memory defects and decreased manual dexterity were present, to different degrees, in both treatment groups. On the basis of these preliminary data and a maximum follow-up period of 10 years, the authors conclude that primary irradiation of a craniopharyngioma appears associated with a lower morbidity rate and may avoid the frontal lobe disorders seen in the patients with extensive tumor resection.
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Kornhuber J, Fischer EG. Glutamic acid diethyl ester induces catalepsy in rats. A new model for schizophrenia? Neurosci Lett 1982; 34:325-9. [PMID: 6891756 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(82)90196-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The glutamate antagonist glutamic acid diethyl ester is found to produce catalepsy in rats, when administered into the lateral ventricle. Since the cerebrospinal fluid content of glutamate is reduced in patients with schizophrenia, the central effects of glutamate antagonists are a possible experimental model for schizophrenia.
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Fischer EG, Sotrel A, Welch K. Cerebral hemangioma with glial neoplasia (angioglioma?). Report of two cases. J Neurosurg 1982; 56:430-4. [PMID: 7057243 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1982.56.3.0430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Two patients are reported who had intracerebral mass lesions composed of hemangioma and glial neoplasm. After excision, one recurred as an oligodendroglioma, and the remnant of the other remained static over a 5-year period. These lesions may represent a subgroup of cerebral hemangiomas that have the biological potential for future glial neoplastic growth. Reference is made to experimental work with polyoma virus which can induce cavernous hemangiomas in the central nervous system in mice, and which is a papovavirus. Other papovaviruses can induce ependymomas in hamsters.
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Fischer EG, Anast CS. Pseudotumor cerebri following removal of an adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma. Neurosurgery 1982; 10:297. [PMID: 6280099 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-198202000-00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Welch K, Shillito J, Strand R, Fischer EG, Winston KR. Chiari I "malformations"--an acquired disorder? J Neurosurg 1981; 55:604-9. [PMID: 7277007 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1981.55.4.0604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Caudal herniation of the hindbrain, indistinguishable from the Chiari I deformity, may occur after the establishment of spinal subarachnoid shunts and become symptomatic years after the procedure. Examples are presented and others are cited from the literature. It is proposed that the force responsible for the displacement is the difference in pressure between the cranial and spinal compartments. On the basis of these observations and other considerations as well, a similar process, disproportionate absorption of cerebrospinal fluid from the spinal region, might account for the spontaneous form of the Chiari I deformity.
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Fischer EG, Greene CS, Winston KR. Spinal epidural abscess in children. Neurosurgery 1981; 9:257-60. [PMID: 7301067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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This is a report of three children with spinal epidural abscess. The literature is reviewed and the features of this condition in children are noted. Because of the nonspecificity of presenting symptoms in children, the diagnosis may be delayed, resulting in a worse outcome, especially in children under 1 year of age. The extensive laminectomy advised for the treatment of spinal epidural abscesses in adults is undesirable in children because of the risk of spinal deformity and in most cases is probably not necessary.
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Fischer EG, McLennan JE, Suzuki Y. Cerebral abscess in children. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN (1960) 1981; 135:746-9. [PMID: 7270521 DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1981.02130320060020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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We reviewed 94 consecutive episodes of pyogenic brain abscess seen at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, between 1945 and 1980. After 1970, the mortality as reduced from 36% to 14%. Predisposing factors included congenital heart disease, otitic and sinus infections, closed head injuries, and cystic fibrosis. There were seven patients younger than 5 months of age. In one patient with Fallot's tetralogy, an abscess recurred at the site of retained thorium dioxide (Thorotrast) after an 11-year interval. The continuing substantial mortality is attributed to the presence of coma at the time of treatment, hemorrhagic complications of tapping abscesses, and the location of abscesses in deep brain structures. The early detection and successful treatment of brain abscesses in children remains a clinical challenge.
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Survival and quality of survival have been investigated in 79 patients operated for intracranial metastatic tumor during the decade 1967--1977. The 30-day mortality was 10%. Median survival varied between two and 14 months depending upon the type of primary tumor. The one-year survival was 22% and the two-year survival was 10%. Duration of survival depended strongly upon type of primary turmor and little upon preoperative condition, age, or sex. Fifty-three percent of neurologically impaired patients who survived for at least one month were in better condition after surgery and 5% were in worse condition.
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Fischer EG. Alterations in cerebral blood flow immediately after brief periods of stasis. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1980; 131:271-8. [PMID: 6776789 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-3752-2_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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