(1) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(2) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
(3) Direct visualization of the intercavernous sinuses on contrast-enhanced MR images may serve as an ancillary sign for the diagnosis of carotid-cavernous or carotid-dural fistulas near the sella.
(4) They were 3 patients with Arnold-Chiari malformation with syringomyelia, 3 with syringomyelia and 2 with "narrowed dural tube".
(5) Moderate or marked brain and dural enhancement was noted in nearly every patient imaged within 3 months of surgery, but all brain enhancement was gone by 1 year.
(6) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
(7) Dural attachment is frequent, calcifications are not.
(8) Left angiography, performed in August, 1975, revealed a dural arteriovenous malformation, which was supplied by enlarged left middle meningeal artery, occipital artery, meningohypophyseal artery and superior cerebellar artery and was draining into the left sigmoid sinus.
(9) At this stage any attempt at definitive removal of diseased tissue would necessarily result in a larger dural defect at a time when local disease and systemic illness present unsuitable conditions for reparative procedures.
(10) The authors report a case of growing skull fracture in which watertight dural closure was difficult at the first operation because a dural defect extended deep into the middle fossa.
(11) The intraoperative dural damage did not require specific treatment, while the patients with discitis responded readily with antibiotics.
(12) The third cerebral angiography after right SDP (synangio-dural plasty), 49 months after the initial angiography, revealed, in the right angiography, newly formed anastomotic vessels perfusing the middle cerebral artery region via the extracerebral arteries and in the left cerebral angiography, and an increased obstruction of the ICA terminal portion, transdural anastomosis via the extracerebral arterial system, and a decrease of moyamoya vessels in the basal area.
(13) In meningiomas, a flat, contrast-enhancing, probably dural structure adjacent to the tumor can occasionally be observed on Gadolinium-DTPA enhanced MR images.
(14) In an experimental model using the New Zealand White Rabbit the materials were implanted into dural defects of dimensions 1.7 cm by 1 cm.
(15) The authors present a patient who developed an acute hemorrhage around a Silastic dural substitute 13 weeks after excision of a meningioma and implantation of the graft.
(16) The classic concept that DAVMs arise in direct relationship with the dural sinuses is limited.
(17) The frequent concurrent venous abnormalities are easily understood as (a) retention of fetal anatomical features and (b) frequent occlusions of the dural sinuses of the posterior fossa, especially the sigmoid sinuses.
(18) Thirteen (72%) of the 18 meningiomas exhibited the finding adjacent to the dural attachments.
(19) No post-dural puncture headache was observed in the CSA group.
(20) The clinical picture of dural arteriovenous malformations cannot be explained on the basis of degree of arteriovenous shunting in many cases.
Mural
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.
(a.) Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The circle rate correlated with the extent of mural invasion.
(2) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
(3) Several cases of sarcoma-like mural nodules in ovarian mucinous tumors have been described previously, but only two well-documented cases of true sarcoma were reported.
(4) However, after 24 h of PABC morphologic changes occurred in the heart and lungs, consisting of valvular and mural thrombi and hemorrhage.
(5) The only thing certain is that the effects of the referendum will be big.” Steven Morris Northern Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A loyalist paramilitary mural in Belfast.
(6) Commercialised … one of the new murals commissioned by the Legacy List, by Dutch collective Graphic Surgery.
(7) In an attempt to diagnose ventricular mural thrombi complicating acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 80 patients have been given 100 muCi 125I-labelled fibrinogen after admission to a CCU.
(8) Combined examinations provided reliable information on the extent of aneurysm, the relationship of renal and common iliac arteries, mural thrombi, patency of distal arteries and the relationship with surrounding organs, and were superior to that provided by aortography alone.
(9) In nine specimens removed 5 days to 16 months after embolization therapy, a series of pathologic changes was seen, including patchy mural angionecrosis (adjacent to bucrylate fragments) up to six weeks after embolization, the presence of bucrylate in vessel walls and fibromuscular intimal cushions, and the occurrence (after several months) of entirely extravascular bucrylate.
(10) An initial alveolar or mural pattern might change to a mixed pattern.
(11) Gastro-intestinal mural infiltration can be diagnosed by ultra sound from a typical pattern of echos.
(12) shortly after implantation, giant cell transformation starts at the abembryonic pole of the blastocyst, spreading over the mural trophoblast; 1 day later, the first ectoplacental giant cells appear at the base of the fast growing ectoplacental cone (derived from the polar trophoblast).
(13) For the example, the intra- and extra-mural informations of the GI tract can be known through this technique.
(14) We studied five cystic ovarian mucinous tumors with spindle cell mural nodules to define their histologic and immunohistochemical properties.
(15) In Gaza City, tens of thousands crammed into an area where a huge stage was set up, decorated with a mural depicting Shalit's capture in a June 2006 raid on an army base near the Gaza border.
(16) Complete removal of the mural tumor without excision of the cyst is the goal of operation.
(17) Marked mural thinning in the injured zone was present in all three groups but was most frequent in the BAPN-treated animals.
(18) Twelve patients sustained unilateral vertebral artery thrombosis, seven patients had vertebral AV fistulae (three jugular vein, four vertebral vein) and four patients sustained mural injury without thrombosis.
(19) Calcification of the left atrium is frequently associated with history of rheumatic fever, longstanding congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, mural thrombus and embolization.
(20) Both ventricles were hypokinetic, and bilateral mural thrombi were demonstrated; these were the presumed source of the embolic phenomena.