Abstract BRAIN RETRACTION IS required for adequate exposure during many intracranial
procedures. The incidence of contusion or infarction from overzealous brain retraction is …

This paper reviews the literature of the brain retraction injury during the last century. The
review focused on the instrument characteristic as well as the physiopathological and …

PURPOSE To evaluate stable xenon-enhanced CT cerebral blood flow with balloon test
occlusion as a predictor of stroke risk in internal carotid artery sacrifice. METHODS Abrupt …

Object The supraorbital approach through an eyebrow incision offers the opportunity to
access a wide variety of lesions of the anterior, middle, and even the posterior fossa. The …

Pediatric Neurosurgery identifies and describes the theoretic concepts of clinical and
operative neurosurgery in the different ages of childhood, emphasizing both clinical and …

✓ The use of brain retractors in intracranial operations may lead to focal cerebral ischemia
and thereby cause brain infarction. To estimate the risk of ischemic damages, the authors …

The authors describe their experience with an unusual postoperative syndrome of
pseudobulbar palsy occurring a few days after the extirpation of large midline vermian/4th …

✓ Brain damage due to retraction was studied morphologically and physiologically in the
dog brain. Two methods of retraction were compared using a retractor with a strain gauge: 1) …

✓ A considerable reduction in regional cerebral blood flow has been demonstrated with
brain retraction at a pressure of 30 mm Hg. The authors undertook a neuropathological …

✓ The problem of minimizing tissue damage during brain retraction was studied both
experimentally in dogs and clinically with the aid of newly designed strain-gauge retractor …