应用C1-2螺钉棒系统行后路复位、固定和融合治疗合并寰-枢椎脱位的颅底凹陷症

目的探讨应用C1-2螺钉棒内固定系统行后路复位、固定和融合治疗寰枢椎脱位的手术疗效。方法 2013年4月至2013年10月,对30例我科收治的合并寰枢椎脱位的颅底凹陷症患者采用寰椎侧块螺钉和枢椎椎弓根峡部螺钉(或下关节突螺钉、颈3椎弓根螺钉)棒内固定系统进行复位、固定并取髂后上嵴松质骨植骨融合。通过术后3D-CT评判复位程度,JOA评分评判临床疗效,并探讨影响手术效果的因素。结果 30例患者中26例达到完全复位,4例为部分复位。其中25例完成了3个月以上随访,CT显示植骨愈合良好,未出现植骨的吸收及内固定的松动。结论 C1-2椎弓根钉棒内固定系统对治疗合并寰枢椎脱位的颅颈交界区畸形可以获得满意的疗效,安全可行。     

寰枢侧方关节撑开结合关节重塑技术治疗颅底凹陷合并寰枢椎脱位的临床疗效

目的观察寰枢侧方关节间撑开结合关节重塑技术治疗颅底凹陷合并寰枢椎脱位的临床效果。方法回顾性分析2019年10月至2021年9月首都医科大学三博脑科医院脊髓脊柱中心诊治的12例颅底凹陷合并寰枢椎脱位患者的临床资料。所有患者均合并寰枕融合, 斜坡枢椎角度均减小。术中均行关节间撑开松解侧方关节, 再进行关节重塑, 调整关节面的倾斜角度;然后置入融合器, 使寰椎向上及向后方旋转移动, 并进行固定。所有患者采用日本骨科协会(JOA)评分评估临床症状的改善情况;测量手术前后寰齿间距、齿状突超过钱氏线的距离、斜坡枢椎角度及延髓脊髓角度的变化, 评估寰枢椎复位及齿状突成角移位的矫正情况。结果所有患者均成功重塑关节面并置入螺钉, 均行枕骨-枢椎内固定。手术时长为(191.7±46.9)min, 术中出血量为(182.5±69.3)ml, 无一例患者发生椎动脉及硬脊膜损伤。术后1周内, 颈椎CT显示12例患者的寰枢椎脱位均获得复位, 其中齿状突超过钱氏线的距离由术前的(10.0±3.5)mm减少至术后的(4.2±2.3)mm, 寰齿间距由术前的(6.7±2.1)mm减少至术后的(1.4±0.8)mm;颈椎...     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

单纯后路复位及固定治疗自发性寰枢椎脱位

目的 利用单纯后路复位,同时行内固定治疗寰枢椎脱位的方法,既不需要颅骨牵引,也不需经口腔齿状突切除.方法 2004年5月至2007年12月,收治自发性寰枢椎脱位病人20例,手术前后利用CT及MRI进行影像学测量,评价脱位及脊髓延髓受压程度.根据是否合并寰枕融合分别采用C1侧块～C2椎弓根螺钉技术3例及C2椎弓根～枕骨螺钉技术17例.手术中向前推压C2棘突或通过C2椎弓根及枕骨螺钉间撑开将齿状突向前、下牵拉以恢复齿状突与C1前弓的解剖关系.结果 20例病人随访6-48个月,1例术后1周因基底动脉内血栓形成死亡,其余19例均明显改善.手术后影像学检查见脊髓延髓均获彻底减压,合并脊髓空洞的5例病人,空洞均明显缩小;各项影像学测量指标均明显好转(P<0.01).1例于术后3个月时CT提示复位部分丢失,但螺钉位置良好,脊髓延髓减压良好,脊髓空洞继续缩小,6个月时骨性融合.结论 首先选择后路复位及固定,而不是前路经口腔齿状突切除减压,是治疗寰枢椎脱位简单有效,相对安全的方法.     

Diagnostic Difficulties and Treatment Implications

Summary: Differentiation between types of epileptic seizures has been aided in recent years by the introduction of intensive neurodiagnostic techniques and the development of increasingly detailed classification systems. Paradoxically, these developments have not simplified the task of matching the appropriate antiepileptic drug to a particular seizure type. It is reasonable to assume that anticonvulsant drugs will have different effects on different types of seizures, but faulty, circular reasoning can enter the picture if one also assumes that responses of seizures to different drugs signify different seizure types. There are several examples of differential diagnoses that can fall prey to this problem, including the diagnosis between partial seizures with secondary generalization and generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the diagnosis between complex partial seizures and absence seizures with automatisms, among others. Considerations of etiology in future classification systems can further complicate the problem: should one then choose an anticonvulsant drug on the basis of individual seizure type or on the basis of the type of epilepsy? Ramifications of this issue extend even to the drug approval process. Official sanction is not given for use of a drug for a seizure type not included in the original efficacy studies, even if later scientific evidence shows that seizure type to be related to a type that is included. New trials must be undertaken. These problems arise from how we choose to classify seizures.     

Cognitive Dysfunction Associated with Antiepileptic Drug Therapy

Summary: Epilepsy is frequently associated with cognitive dysfunction. However, the reasons for this correlation are unclear. Possible influential factors include patient age; duration, frequency, etiology, and type of seizures; hereditary factors; psychosocial issues; and antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy. Whereas many of these factors are beyond the physician's control, AED therapy is one element that can be addressed in treatment decisions by recognizing the potential cognitive effects of particular AEDs. For example, phenobarbital impairs memory and concentration; phenytoin affects attention, problem solving ability, and performance of visuomotor tasks. In contrast, carbamazepine may affect concentration, while valproate would appear to have minimal effects on cognition. Moreover, cognitive effects of AEDs are amplified with coadministration of multiple anticonvulsants (polytherapy). A review of studies on the cognitive effects of monotherapy with AEDs, as opposed to those of polytherapy, provides evidence that drug-related cognitive dysfunction can be reversed if patients are switched to a simpler therapeutic regimen. Future research should be directed toward developing reliable measures for assessing and monitoring cognition, and understanding the particular cognitive side effects of each AED. Physicians also need to revise their opinions about which side effects are "tolerable" for epileptic patients.     

Carbamazepine Efficacy in Adults With Partial and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures

Summary: Carbamazepine and phenytoin are drugs of choice in initial monotherapy for adult partial and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. These designations reflect the results of the Veterans Administration Epilepsy Cooperative Study Group of 1985. An earlier comparative study of carbamazepine and phenytoin by Ramsay and associates found both drugs equally effective in controlling new-onset seizures. Among the advantages of carbamazepine is that it causes relatively few cognitive and dysmorphic side effects. Its disadvantages are its unavailability in parenteral formulation and its metabolic autoinduction. The latter must be compensated for by planned dosage increases to maintain therapeutic plasma steady-state levels during the first 2 or 3 months of treatment. Carbamazepine is judged a drug of choice in the treatment of these secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the drug of choice in children, adolescents, and women susceptible to the dysmorphic side effects associated with other anticonvulsant agents.     

Etiologic and Preventive Aspects of Epilepsy in the Child–Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory and Clinic

Summary: Four broad categories of basic phenomena are pertinent to developing ways to prevent epilepsy. These include mechanisms of epileptogenesis, ictal initiation and temporary entrainment by the seizure discharge of normally functioning brain, seizure propagation, and control mechanisms that function both to restrain the cascade of epileptic events culminating in a seizure and to arrest the epileptic event and restore the interictal state. In newborns and children, hypoxia-ischemia is a major factor leading to epileptogenesis, and several schemes are proposed to classify, quantify, and prevent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Control mechanisms must be better understood in order to develop prophylactic recommendations for epilepsy, and an experimental model of "kindling antagonism" may increase our understanding of these. Programs of prevention of seizures in children will evolve only if basic researchers and clinicians work productively together to develop an adequate understanding of factors important in epileptogenesis and antiepileptogenic control mechanisms.     

Epilepsy and anomalies of neuronal migration: MRI and clinical aspects

Neuronal migration disorders are the result of disturbed brain development. In such disorders, neurons are abnormally located. In diagnosing these conditions, magnetic resonance imaging is superior to any other imaging technique. This enables us to improve our knowledge of the clinical correlates of neuronal migration. With reference to migrational disorder, a retrospective study of all 303 patients with epileptic seizures referred for magnetic resonance imaging during a 3-year period was performed, 13 patients (aged 12-41, mean age 27) were identified. They represent 4.3% of the entire study group. Of the patients with known epilepsy, 6.7% and of the mentally retarded, 13.7% had migrational disorders. Four patients had schizencephaly as the dominant finding, one was classified as hemimegalencephaly, 2 had isolated heterotopias, and 6 had localized pachy- and/or poly-microgyria. The clinical pictures are complex. Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders. The present study shows that malmigration is not rare in epilepsy patients, especially not in the mentally retarded.     

Predisposing and Causative Factors in Childhood Epilepsy

Summary: We review information from large studies of defined populations, examining the role of known factors and especially of prenatal and perinatal factors in contributing to nonfebrile seizure disorders of early childhood. We depend especially, but not exclusively, on the recently completed analyses from the Collaborative Perinatal Project of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, the NCPP. About 4% of children in the NCPP who had at least one non-febrile nonsymptomatic seizure by the age of 7 years had a previous seizure during acute neurologic illness, such as meningitis or during the acute illness after trauma. Many such seizures should potentially be preventable. Of children with seizures, 10% had had a neonatal seizure and 13% had had a febrile seizure. Among the hundreds of prenatal and perinatal factors explored as predictors of childhood seizure disorders, the principal predictors identified were congenital malformations of the fetus, cerebral and noncerebral; family history of certain neurologic disorders; and neonatal seizures. In agreement with the British National Child Development Study, labor and delivery factors in the NCPP appeared to contribute very little to childhood seizure disorders. Maldevelopment, rather than damage at birth to an initially intact nervous system, appeared to be the more common mechanism. Most seizure disorders of early childhood remained unexplained by the large set of prenatal and perinatal characteristics examined.     

Classification of methods in transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) and evolving strategy from historical approaches to contemporary innovations

Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) encompasses all methods of non-invasive current application to the brain used in research and clinical practice. We present the first comprehensive and technical review, explaining the evolution of tES in both terminology and dosage over the past 100 years of research to present day. Current transcranial Pulsed Current Stimulation (tPCS) approaches such as Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) descended from Electrosleep (ES) through Cranial Electro-stimulation Therapy (CET), Transcerebral Electrotherapy (TCET), and NeuroElectric Therapy (NET) while others like Transcutaneous Cranial Electrical Stimulation (TCES) descended from Electroanesthesia (EA) through Limoge, and Interferential Stimulation. Prior to a contemporary resurgence in interest, variations of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation were explored intermittently, including Polarizing current, Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), and Transcranial Micropolarization. The development of these approaches alongside Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and pharmacological developments are considered. Both the roots and unique features of contemporary approaches such as transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) and transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) are discussed. Trends and incremental developments in electrode montage and waveform spanning decades are presented leading to the present day. Commercial devices, seminal conferences, and regulatory decisions are noted. We conclude with six rules on how increasing medical and technological sophistication may now be leveraged for broader success and adoption of tES.     

Anticonvulsant Drugs and Cognitive Function: A Review of the Literature

Summary: Alterations of cognitive function are separate from disturbances of behavior seen in association with epilepsy. The nature of the cognitive disability may to a certain extent depend on the seizure type. Partial seizures, mainly derived from a temporal lobe focus, impair memory tasks, while generalized seizures seem to have more effect on attentional abilities. A number of studies, reviewed in this paper, suggest that anticonvulsant drugs further impair cognitive function. Maximal impairments are seen in patients receiving polytherapy: rationalization of polytherapy improves cognitive abilities. Studies in children and adults have allowed differentiation of the effects of various commonly used antiepileptic agents. Maximal cognitive deficits are seen with. phenytoin, while phenobarbital and sodium valproate induce moderate disturbances, and carbamazepine seems relatively free from such toxicity. Further research is needed on the interrelationship between types of seizure disorders, types of anticonvulsant medications, and cognitive function.     

Treatment Considerations in Anticonvulsant Monotherapy

Summary: The long-standing practice of polypharmacy in treating epilepsy is giving way to use of monotherapy. Monotherapy can improve seizure control as well as reduce the risk of serious idiosyncratic reactions, dose-related side effects, and complex drug interactions. Monotherapy also offers improved compliance and cost-effectiveness. The basis of monotherapy is accurate diagnosis and assessment of the patient's seizure type(s), followed by selection of a single appropriate anticonvulsant drug. Many patients currently treated with multiple anticonvulsants can be successfully converted to monotherapy with a carefully monitored program in which troublesome and redundant drugs are gradually withdrawn from the therapeutic regimen.     

Effects of NMD A- and AMPA-Receptor Antagonists on Different Forms of Epileptiform Activity in Rat Temporal Cortex Slices

Summary: Lowering extracellular magnesium induces different patterns of epileptiform activity in rat hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. Short recurrent epileptiform discharges in the hippocampus are stable over time, whereas seizurelike events (SLEs) in the entorhinal cortex, the subiculum, and the neighboring neocortex develop into late recurrent discharges which are not blocked by clinically employed antiepileptic drugs. We tested the sensitivity of the different epileptiform discharge patterns to. /V-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)- and non-NMDA-receptor antagonists. As NMDA-receptor antagonist we used dextrorphan, ket-amine, and 2-aminophosphonovalerate (2APV); as α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionic acid (AMPA)-receptor antagonist we employed the quinoxaline derivative glutamate 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX). The findings show that the different patterns of epileptiform activity, including the late recurrent discharges, are sensitive to all NMDA-receptor antagonists. However, when dextrorphan was employed to suppress seizure-like events, later recurrent discharges did not develop during the remaining time course of the experiment. CNQX reversibly suppressed recurrent discharges in the hippocampus and SLEs in the entorhinal cortex. However, late recurrent discharges become insensitive to CNQX, even at a high concentration of 60 μM m. This finding suggests a prominent role for NMDA receptors in the generation of late recurrent discharges.