(1) The clinical application of extratemporal stimulation distal to the stylomastoid foramen is limited in these cases by the more proximal site of the lesion.
(2) Automatisms are predominantly seen in complex partial seizures arising from temporal areas, but they also may be seen in seizures with extratemporal onset.
(3) When analysis was confined to those seizures in which lateralization was possible, we correctly lateralized 93% to 99% of temporal seizures and 89% to 100% of extratemporal seizures.
(4) These features were correlated with the presence or absence of pathologic abnormalities in temporal and extratemporal locations.
(5) This metabolic defect commonly involves the temporal lobe in patients with complex partial seizures of mesial temporal origin, and is encountered less consistently with seizures of extratemporal neocortical origin.
(6) Most complex partial seizures emanate from the temporal lobe; however, the seizures also may be extratemporal in origin.
(7) Extratemporal seizure onset associated with abnormal pathological substrate was significantly more likely to have a lower frequency (less than 13 Hz, p less than 0.05) and no periodic spikes before seizure onset (p less than 0.00001) than extratemporal seizure onset recorded from areas without pathological findings.
(8) In the middle third of the extratemporal course of the facial nerve each branch has to be repaired and primary repair is advocated.
(9) The principals of VIIth nerve repair and grafting and presented in the intracranial, internal auditory canal, labyrinthine, tympanomastoid and extratemporal sites.
(10) The predominant ictal behavioural manifestations observed during seizure spread to contralateral temporal and extratemporal structures included warning (3%), motionless stare (36%), automatism (77%), and head-body turning (81%).
(11) The various therapeutic options such as temporal lobectomy, selective amygdalohippocampectomy, extratemporal cortical resections, hemispherectomy and corpus callosotomy are described and the risks and benefits of surgery discussed.
(12) The technique and results of surgical reconstruction of different extent of the extratemporal part of the facial nerve after oncological operations and after accidental injuries are reported.
(13) Seizures originated extratemporally in all 8 patients.
(14) Ictal onset was shown to be remote from the zone of previous resection in 3 of 15 cases (all 3 extratemporal and in the ipsilateral hemisphere).
(15) Type I CPSs are preceded by a motionless stare and have been correlated with a temporal focus, whereas Type II CPSs are not preceded by a motionless stare and have been correlated with an extratemporal focus.
(16) In 6 patients with technically adequate P3 studies and extratemporal seizures, bilaterally present P3 potentials were noted.
(17) The extratemporal part of the facial nerve and its primary branches may be successfully reconstructed with a suitable nerve graft obtained from the upper cervical region.
(18) Two patients served as control lobectomy specimens since they had normal neuropathological studies, and electroclinical correlations indicated an extratemporal lobe origin for complex partial seizures.
(19) Both cases of extratemporal recurrences and 3 of the 10 cases of temporal lobe recurrences in the area of previous resection were associated with residual unresected structural lesion.
(20) The authors describe the use of temporal lobectomy following careful and repeated electroencephalogram (EEG) evaluation (with implanted electrodes in otherwise unresolvable cases) in the epileptic group characterized by automatisms (psychomotor seizures) with temporal epileptiform activity complicated by EEG foci in the opposite temporal lobe or by extratemporal activity.
Skull
Definition:
(n.) A school, company, or shoal.
(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(3) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(4) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(5) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(6) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(7) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
(8) A three-dimensional anatomic model of a human skull was produced with birefringent materials for photoelastic analysis.
(9) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
(10) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(11) Tension pneumocephalus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and plain skull X-ray.
(12) After removal from the skull, the brains were processed for histopathological evaluation of ischemic neuronal damage by light microscopy and morphometry.
(13) The author describes three systems for (1) the treatment of mandibular fractures; (2) the treatment of midface fractures, for reconstructive surgery of the facial skeleton and the skull, and for orthognathic surgery; and (3) the reconstruction of mandibular defects including condyle replacement.
(14) To avoid the complications attributable to the cervical spine, we recommend roentgenographic examination in all neurofibromatosis patients who are about to have general anesthesia or skull traction for treatment of scoliosis.
(15) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(16) Lateral skull X-ray images are routinely used in cephalometric analysis to provide quantitative measurements useful to clinical orthodontists.
(17) The absence of a visible fracture on plain skull radiographs does not exclude a fracture, and those patients with clinical signs of a fracture should be treated appropriately and further investigations performed.
(18) In our study, 17 fractures were detected in 594 patients who had skull radiography because of trauma to the head.
(19) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(20) A new combination of techniques for resection of hemangiopericytoma of the skull base is described.