2 results match your criteria: "The Jikei University Women's and Children's Medical Center[Affiliation]"
Proposal of "evolution theory in cerebrospinal fluid dynamics" and minor pathway hydrocephalus in developing immature brain.
Childs Nerv Syst
July 2006
Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Jikei University Women's and Children's Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: The specificity of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics in the immature brain still remains unknown. In our data previously published, the transependymal intraparenchymal CSF pathway (the minor pathway) plays a significant role in various degrees in the alternative CSF passage. Now, there is a growing consensus in the age differences in the outcome of neuroendoscopic ventriculostomy in treatment of non-communicating types of hydrocephalus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndication for and surgical outcomes of the distraction method in various types of craniosynostosis. Advantages, disadvantages, and current concepts for surgical strategy in the treatment of craniosynostosis.
Childs Nerv Syst
October 2004
Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, The Jikei University Women's and Children's Medical Center (JWCMC), 3-25-8 Nishi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, 105-6451 Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Various surgical techniques for the treatment of craniosynostosis using distraction devices have been described over the last few years and we have applied these procedures in seven patients with varying types of craniosynostosis. The aim of this report is to clarify the advantages and disadvantages of these surgical methods and to discuss current concepts for the surgical strategy in the treatment of craniosynostosis.
Material And Methods: From January 2001 to March 2003, 25 patients with craniosynostosis were examined.