{"title":"[Multi-projection skull x-rays].","authors":"V T Pustovoĭtenko","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An X-ray method of examination of the skull bones is discussed which is used for detecting multiple small perforating defects in the skull of various localization, determination of the localization of foreign bodies in relation to definite anatomical structures, identification of the displacement of the bone fragments into the cranial cavity, and for the diagnosis of multiple infractions of the cerebral skull. Besides two antero-posterior craniograms, radiograms were taken in additional oblique views with the head turned to the right or to the left in the interval of 20 to 45 degrees. The guiding points for the direction of the X-ray heam are: the lateral border of the superciliary arch, the midpoint between the lateral border of the superciciliary arch and the external acoustic meatus, the midpoint between the external acoustic meatus and the external occipital protuberance. The effectiveness of the method was tested on a skull phantom and verified by observations over 3 patients with multiple infractions of the skull bones.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"47-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11837751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Prevention and treatment of the complications of peridurography].","authors":"N I Adamcho, V P Bondar', I V Rusavskiĭ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In lumbar peridurography conducted in 117 patients with discogenic radiculitis complications occurred both in the stage of peridural anesthesia and after introduction of the radiocontrast medium. During anesthesia the dura mater was punctured in 4 patients, in another 2 patients dicaine penetrated into the subarachnoid space and caused spinal anesthesia with a high upper level. Peridural anesthesia with paralysis of the respiratory musculature developed in 1 patient. After the injection of the radiocontrast medium, spasm in the lower extremities and trunk of the type of spinal epilepsy developed in 4 patients. The clinical picture, prevention, and treatment of these complications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"43-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11837750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V I Rostotskaia, N I Grents, A A Ovchinnikov, I V Spiridonov
{"title":"[Ventriculoscopy in pediatric neurosurgery].","authors":"V I Rostotskaia, N I Grents, A A Ovchinnikov, I V Spiridonov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ventriculoscopy is a simple, safe and informative method of examination of the lateral and third ventricles of the brain in childhood. In hydrocephalus of non-tumorous origin ventriculoscopy makes its possible, as a rule, to determine the origin of the dropsy and its character. The diagnosis of tumor of the brain of intraventricular or paraventricular localization and also of a tumor growing into the lumen of a cerebral ventricle is made on the basis of direct and indirect signs found during a visual examination. The histological nature of the process may be determined by biopsy of the pathological tissue collected during ventriculoscopy.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11839124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Histomorphologic changes following plastic repair of defects in spinal dura mater with a capron strip in complicated experimental fractures of the spine].","authors":"Iu V Biriuchkov, A A Semin, I M Kucher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A wide incision of the dura mater of the spinal cord helps to inspect the subdural space in detail. If there is a defect in the dura mater, or if it is impossible to suture it due to edema and swelling of the spinal cord, it is rational to resort to plastic replacement with a band of capron mesh which resolves completely by the end of the third year after the surgical intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"38-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11837749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Causes of azotemia in severe cranio-cerebral injuries].","authors":"I M Iunovidov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The functional state of the kidneys and the level of azotemia were studied in 51 patients with a severe craniocerebral trauma. Two groups of patients were distinguished according to the preservation of diminution of glomerular filtration. Comparison between these 2 groups showed that in normal glomerular filtration azotemia was linked with the catabolic process, while in diminished glomerular filtration azotemia was also associated with a reduced renal function. The level of azotemia has been established; a higher value is evidence of renal insufficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"30-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11839123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Acute ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract in neurosurgical patients].","authors":"A A Ponomarev, M V Kechker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"55-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11837758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K I Kharitonova, Iu V Etiteín, V P Slavich, N M Sokolova
{"title":"[Alloplasty of dura mater defects with identical tissue prepared and transported in formalin-containing gel media].","authors":"K I Kharitonova, Iu V Etiteín, V P Slavich, N M Sokolova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The storage of dura mater transplants in formalin-containing gel media which allow the entire process of preparation of the biological material to be conducted in non-sterile conditions is substantiated experimentally and clinically. A formalinized allogenous tissue of the same name transplanted in experiments and in the clinic into a defect in the dura mater undergoes active reorganisation and is replaced within a year with a newly-formed connective tissue which does not differ in architectonics from the dura mater of the recipient. When transplants of the dura mater stored in formalin-containing gel media were used in the clinic (172 operations) no complications of the type of liquorrhea, prolapse of the cerebral tissue or coarse subdural adhesions were noted. Suppuration developed in 3 patients (1.7%). The cause of the suppuration, however, was not associated with the transplant. All this makes it possible to recommend allogenous transplants of dura mater stored in formalin-containing gel media for wide use in the practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"35-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11768254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Memory disorders in patients with saccular aneurysms of the internal carotid arteries].","authors":"L I Moskovichiute, N A Smirnov, A S Zograbian","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuropsychological analysis of disorders of memory in patients with sacculated aneurysms of the internal carotid arteries, 14 of whom were examined in the immediate and 30 in the remote periods after the hemorrhage, showed that the side of the lesion may be judged by the character of these disorders. The disorders of memory were of a modally-specific character and emerged in the link of direct reproduction in aneurysms of the right internal carotid artery and in the link of delayed (under conditions of interference) reproduction in aneurysms of the left internal carotid artery. The general cerebral signs in the acute stage of subarachnoid hemorrhage are also manifested specifically in the structure of the memory defect.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"19-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11839121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Method for treating hydrocephalus by ventriculo-jugular shunting].","authors":"M P Gogolev","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pressure sustained by the venous valves was studied by means of a self-recording device; 47 valves of the great saphenous veins of the thigh were tests. A total of 51 valves taken from 10 cadavers were studied. The instruments for and the method of ventriculojugulostomy are described. It consists in diverting the CSF from the lateral ventricle of the brain into the internal jugular vein by means of ventricular silicone rubber catheter and a venous auto- or homograft. Despite the severe contingent of patients subjected to surgery, analysis of 12 operations allows the suggested method to be used for treating hydrocephalus both in adults and in children.</p>","PeriodicalId":76814,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy neirokhirurgii","volume":" 1","pages":"8-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11837759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}