ABSTRACT
The article analyses the late results of surgical treatment of 123 patients with parasagittal meningiomas of various localization along the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) and falx cerebri (FC). Invalidism of patients after operations for meningiomas of the middle third of the sagittal line is still high because of stable motor defects. The results of operations for SSS resection without restoration of venous outflow of the hemisphere are poorer. Recurrences of the disease were revealed in one fourth of patients in different periods after surgery. The possibility of rehabilitation of the patient after an operation for recurrences of the tumor considerably reduces with each subsequent recurrence.
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Meningeal Neoplasms/surgery , Meningioma/surgery , Disability Evaluation , Epilepsy/etiology , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Meningeal Neoplasms/complications , Meningeal Neoplasms/rehabilitation , Meningioma/complications , Meningioma/rehabilitation , Microsurgery , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local , Postoperative Complications , Pseudotumor Cerebri/etiologyABSTRACT
On the basis of a study of the palmomental reflex in 100 children (from new born to 3 years) and in 73 adult patients with organic lesions of the CNS the author makes a supposition of a connection between its appearance and a lesion of the caudate nucleus. The highest level of the CNS related to the mechanism of the formation of the palmomental reflex is most likely the paleostriatum. The appearance of the palmomental reflex was not connnected with the occurrence of other symptoms of the CNS lesions.
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Caudate Nucleus , Frontal Lobe , Reflex, Abnormal , Brain Diseases/diagnosis , Chin , Hand , Humans , Infant, NewbornABSTRACT
In 100 autopsy observations with saccular aneurysms of diverse localization the structure of arteries at the base of the brain was studied. In 26 per cent of the cases this structure was of the normal or "classic" type. In some instances there could be detected deviations from the "classic" type, with a tendency in certain localization of the aneurysm towards hypoplasia of the proximal length of the anterior cerebral artery. Frequently encountered divergences from the "classic" type of the structure come as a result of a delayed development of the vessels at the base of the brain during early stages of ontogenesis.
