Publications by authors named "Umberto Godano"
Background: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a potentially reversible disease. Surgical results have been well described in the literature, but only a few studies investigated the subjective outcome. This study aimed to investigate the patient's expectations about surgery, the perceived improvement after treatment, and its impact on the quality of life (QoL).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Choroid plexus cysts (CPCs) are a type of neuroepithelial cysts, benign lesions located more frequently in the supratentorial compartment. Symptomatic CPCs in the posterior fossa are extremely rare and can be associated with obstructive hydrocephalus.
Case Description: A previously healthy elderly woman suffered intermittent attacks of headache and vomiting associated with gait instability.
Primary dural lymphoma (PDL) is an extremely rare subtype of primary central nervous system lymphoma arising from the dura mater in absence of systemic disease. The most common histological type is the low-grade marginal zone lymphoma, whereas high-grade lymphomas are unusual. We present a case of primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, presenting as PDL in the posterior fossa, originating from the dura mater of the petrous bone covering the surface of the left cerebellum, a location not previously described.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObject: Although neuroendoscopic biopsy is routinely performed, the safety and validity of this procedure has been studied only in small numbers of patients in single-center reports. The Section of Neuroendoscopy of the Italian Neurosurgical Society invited some of its members to review their own experience, gathering a sufficient number of cases for a wide analysis.
Methods: Retrospective data were collected by 7 centers routinely performing neuroendoscopic biopsies over a period of 10 years.
Background. Hypophysitis is an inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland that may mimic pituitary tumors clinically and radiologically. Case Description.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present an overview of the history, development, technological advancements, current application, and future trends of cranial endoscopy. Neuroendoscopy provides a safe and effective management modality for the treatment of a variety of intracranial disorders, either tumoral or non-tumoral, congenital, developmental, and degenerative, and its knowledge, indications, and limits are fundamental for the armamentarium of the modern neurosurgeon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of the report is to define the indications and results of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus and to discuss the physiopathological mechanism of this procedure.
Methods: The cases of 110 patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus who underwent ETV in four Italian neurosurgical centers were retrospectively reviewed. The postoperative outcome was correlated with patient age, length of clinical history, preoperative clinical score, symptoms of clinical onset, type of hydrocephalus, and intraoperative findings.
Endoscope-controlled microneurosurgery for the treatment of intracranial fluid cysts.
Childs Nerv Syst
November 2004
Objective: This study assessed the role of endoscope-controlled microneurosurgery (ECM) in the treatment of intracranial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cysts.
Methods: Twelve patients affected by symptomatic arachnoid cysts (11 in the sylvian fissure and 1 in the cerebellopontine angle) underwent ECM, in which the endoscope is used to view the operating field while microsurgical instruments can be passed alongside the endoscope for surgical maneuvers. All the cysts were superficially located and could be reached directly through a burr hole on their surface, so that the endoscope was inserted into the cyst without passing through the brain parenchyma.