10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY»
Discover the use of
pneumoencephalography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pneumoencephalography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Pneumoencephalography (sometimes abbreviated PEG) is a medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid is drained from around the brain and replaced with air, oxygen, or helium to allow the structure of the brain to show up more ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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A History of Neurosurgery: In Its Scientific and ...
In fact, Dandy predicted that with the combination of pneumoventriculography
and pneumoencephalography no tumor could escape detection.41
Pneumoencephalography was obviously not without drawbacks. Dandy himself
had recognized ...
Samuel H. Greenblatt, T. Forcht Dagi, Mel H. Epstein, 1997
3
Clinical Handbook of Schizophrenia
The next technological development, pneumoencephalography, an early
precursor of the modern structural neuroimaging techniques, by the American
neurosurgeon Dandy in 1919 was applied to the studies of neuroanatomical
brain ...
Kim Tornvall Mueser, Dilip V. Jeste, 2011
4
Neurology and Neurosurgery: Basic Principles
PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND VENTRICULOGRAPHY Air studies of the
brain deserve review if only for historical interest. They have disappeared from
clinical usage but. prior to their availability, the neurosurgeon was dependant on
...
5
Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice
Pneumoencephalography Pneumoencephalography is performed infrequently
since the advent of the CT scan. Pneumoencephalography allows radiographic
examination of the cerebral ventricles after injection of air or oxygen into the ...
Kate Stainton, Jodie Hughson, Rita Funnell, 2011
6
Noback's Human Nervous System, Seventh Edition: Structure ...
Pneumoencephalography The introduction of pneumoencephalography in 1919
by Walter Dandy marked a significant advance. This technique involves replacing
the CSF in the ventricular system with air, thus increasing the contrast between ...
Norman L. Strominger, Robert J. Demarest, Lois B. Laemle, 2012
7
The Flowering of a Waratah: A History of Australian ...
He published his experience with pneumoencephalography in a series of amply,
indeed almost lavishly, illustrated monographs of increasing size: Encephalogra-
phy (Robertson, 1941); Further Studies in Encephalography (Robertson, ...
8
Encyclopedia of Special Education
... a technique (pneumoencephalography) in which air was introduced into the
brain ventricles (either directly or via spinal puncture). The resultant shadowy
contrast between ventricle, brain, and bone would permit some visualization of
major ...
Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, 2007
9
Imaging Strategies in Oncology
Pneumoencephalography is no longer used, whereas ventriculography (positive
contrast) is still performed exceptionally, usually when purely cystic
intraventricular lesions are suspected. The use of ultrasonography in adults is
usually limit 1 ...
David D Stark, Daniel Vanel, 1993
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Microneurosurgery, Volume I: Microsurgical Anatomy of the ...
In the past, pneumoencephalography has found application in two situations
concerning cerebral aneurysm. First when a patient presented with an enlarged
sella turcica or visual and endocrine abnormalities as primary complaints, he
might ...
Mahmut Gazi Yasargil, 2013
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pneumoencephalography is used in the context of the following news items.
Talking about “mouseheimers,” and a call for new neuroscience …
... cerebral angiography and pneumoencephalography were the only options for brain imaging, technologies that were “completely barbaric! «Scope, May 15»
Erik Lindgren (1905–2005)
He presented groundbreaking work on carotid and vertebral angiography, gas myelography, and pneumoencephalography. In 1948, he published his thesis “A ... «AJNR, Aug 06»
