List of works by Alessandro Olivi

194 Efficacy of Primary Microvascular Decompression vs Salvage Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia

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A contralateral, transfrontal, extraventricular approach to stereotactic brainstem biopsy procedures. Technical note

scientific article published in March 2005

A proposed classification system that projects outcomes based on preoperative variables for adult patients with glioblastoma multiforme

scientific article published in May 2010

Accuracy of frameless and frame-based image-guided stereotactic brain biopsy in the diagnosis of glioma: comparison of biopsy and open resection specimen

scientific article published in June 2005

Acute chiasmal abscess resulting from perineural extension of invasive sino-orbital aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient.

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

An integrated genomic analysis of human glioblastoma multiforme

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Association of preoperative depression and survival after resection of malignant brain astrocytoma

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Association of real-time intraoperative contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and color-Doppler ultrasound in the surgical treatment of spinal cord dural arteriovenous fistulae. A technical note.

scientific article published in February 2018

Autoimmune hypophysitis.

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Bone morphogenetic proteins inhibit the tumorigenic potential of human brain tumour-initiating cells.

scientific article published on December 2006

Chemotherapy for brain tumors with polymer drug delivery.

scientific article published on January 2012

Clinical course and pathologic findings after Gliadel and radiotherapy for newly diagnosed malignant glioma: implications for patient management.

scientific article published on January 2004

Clinically manifested frontal lobe compression after anterior craniectomy and deep inferior epigastric perforator flap reconstruction

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Concurrent neoadjuvant chemotherapy is an independent risk factor of stroke, all-cause morbidity, and mortality in patients undergoing brain tumor resection

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Cyclopamine-mediated hedgehog pathway inhibition depletes stem-like cancer cells in glioblastoma

scientific article (publication date: October 2007)

Cystic prostate metastases to the brain parenchyma: report of two cases and review of the literature.

scientific article published in January 2001

Decompression of the Jugular Bulb for Enhanced Infralabyrinthine Access to the Petroclival Region: A Quantitative Analysis

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms in adult patients undergoing craniotomy for brain tumors

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Detection of circulating tumor DNA in early- and late-stage human malignancies

scientific article (publication date: 19 February 2014)

Detection of tumor-derived DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with primary tumors of the brain and spinal cord

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Direct delivery of platinum-based antineoplastics to the central nervous system: a toxicity and ultrastructural study

scientific article published in January 1993

Dose escalation of carmustine in surgically implanted polymers in patients with recurrent malignant glioma: a New Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy CNS Consortium trial

scientific article published in May 2003

Efficacy of primary microvascular decompression versus subsequent microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia.

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Electrocardiographic-Guided Technique for Placement of Ventriculoatrial Shunts: A Valid and Cost-Effective Technical Simplification.

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Endovascular Treatment of the Posterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysms: Single-Center Experience and a Systematic Review

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

Epirubicin exhibits potent anti-tumor activity in an animal model of malignant glioma when administered via controlled-release polymers

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Establishing percent resection and residual volume thresholds affecting survival and recurrence for patients with newly diagnosed intracranial glioblastoma

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Establishment and Biological Characterization of a Panel of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) and GBM Variant Oncosphere Cell Lines

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Establishment of a human glioblastoma stemlike brainstem rodent tumor model

scientific article published on July 2010

Extent of surgical resection is independently associated with survival in patients with hemispheric infiltrating low-grade gliomas

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Factors associated with recurrent back pain and cyst recurrence after surgical resection of one hundred ninety-five spinal synovial cysts: analysis of one hundred sixty-seven consecutive cases

scientific article published in May 2010

Factors associated with survival and recurrence for patients undergoing surgery of cerebellar metastases

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Factors associated with survival for patients with glioblastoma with poor pre-operative functional status.

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

FasL gene knock-down therapy enhances the antiglioma immune response

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

Frameless image-guided stereotactic brain biopsy procedure: diagnostic yield, surgical morbidity, and comparison with the frame-based technique

scientific article published in February 2006

GNOSIS: guidelines for neuro-oncology: standards for investigational studies--reporting of surgically based therapeutic clinical trials.

scientific article published on 5 December 2006

Gliadel (BCNU) wafer plus concomitant temozolomide therapy after primary resection of glioblastoma multiforme

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Glioblastoma multiforme in the Muir-Torre syndrome

scientific article published on February 2011

Glucose-6-phosphatase is a key metabolic regulator of glioblastoma invasion.

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HIV-associated primary CNS lymorbidity and utility of brain biopsy

scientific article published in February 1999

Harvey Cushing's open and thorough documentation of surgical mishaps at the dawn of neurologic surgery.

scientific article published in February 2011

Histologically benign, clinically aggressive: Progressive non-optic pathway pilocytic astrocytomas in adults with NF1.

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Hypoglossal canal invasion by glomus jugulare tumors: clinico-radiological correlation.

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Identifying better surgical candidates among recursive partitioning analysis class 2 patients who underwent surgery for intracranial metastases

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Imaging after GliaSite brachytherapy: prognostic MRI indicators of disease control and recurrence

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Immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy in the treatment of tumors

scientific article published on January 2010

Independent association of extent of resection with survival in patients with malignant brain astrocytoma

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Independent predictors of morbidity after image-guided stereotactic brain biopsy: a risk assessment of 270 cases

scientific article published in May 2005

Interstitial chemotherapy for malignant gliomas: the Johns Hopkins experience

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Interstitial delivery of carboplatin via biodegradable polymers is effective against experimental glioma in the rat.

scientific article published on January 1996

Intra-arterial intraoperative computed tomography angiography guided navigation: a new technique for localization of vascular pathology

scientific article published on December 2012

Intracranial aneurysms of the posterior circulation associated with a fenestration: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Intracranial leiomyosarcoma in a patient with AIDS.

scientific article published in January 1999

Intratumoral concentrations of imatinib after oral administration in patients with glioblastoma multiforme

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

Iulius Casserius and the first anatomically correct depiction of the circulus arteriosus cerebri (of Willis).

scientific article published on 09 December 2011

Jugular vein invasion rate in surgically operated paragangliomas: a multimodality retrospective study.

scientific article published on 6 May 2014

Local delivery of a synthetic endostatin fragment for the treatment of experimental gliomas

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Long-term immunological investigation of malignant intracranial gliomas.

scientific article published in July 1981

Long-term seizure outcomes in adult patients undergoing primary resection of malignant brain astrocytomas. Clinical article

scientific article published in August 2009

MGMT inactivation and clinical response in newly diagnosed GBM patients treated with Gliadel.

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Management considerations for differentiated thyroid carcinoma presenting as a metastasis to the skull base.

scientific article published on July 2007

Metastatic Atypical and Anaplastic Meningioma: A Case Series and Review of the Literature

scientific article published on 28 January 2017

Microarray-Based Phospho-Proteomic Profiling of Complex Biological Systems.

scientific article published on April 2016

Microsurgical fenestration of the lamina terminalis reduces the incidence of shunt-dependent hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

scientific article published in December 2002

Multidisciplinary approach for improved outcomes in secondary cranial reconstruction: introducing the pericranial-onlay cranioplasty technique

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Multiple intracranial aneurysms in identical twins

scientific article published on January 1988

Multiple resections for patients with glioblastoma: prolonging survival

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

NY-ESO-1 expression in meningioma suggests a rationale for new immunotherapeutic approaches.

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Neoplastic meningitis following surgical resection of isolated cerebellar metastasis: a potentially preventable complication

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

New approach to tumor therapy for inoperable areas of the brain: chronic intraparenchymal drug delivery

scientific article published in November 2002

Non-virally engineered human adipose mesenchymal stem cells produce BMP4, target brain tumors, and extend survival

scientific article published on 21 May 2016

Parenteral hydroxypropyl cyclodextrins: intravenous and intracerebral administration of lipophiles

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Patients undergoing surgery of intracranial metastases have different outcomes based on their primary pathology

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Perioperative and long-term outcomes from the management of parasagittal meningiomas invading the superior sagittal sinus.

scientific article published in October 2010

Persistent outpatient hyperglycemia is independently associated with decreased survival after primary resection of malignant brain astrocytomas

scientific article published in August 2008

Persistent outpatient hyperglycemia is independently associated with survival, recurrence and malignant degeneration following surgery for hemispheric low grade gliomas.

scientific article published on 8 July 2009

Phase I trial of polifeprosan 20 with carmustine implant plus continuous infusion of intravenous O6-benzylguanine in adults with recurrent malignant glioma: new approaches to brain tumor therapy CNS consortium trial

scientific article published on February 2007

Pilocytic and pilomyxoid hypothalamic/chiasmatic astrocytomas

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Podocalyxin-like protein is expressed in glioblastoma multiforme stem-like cells and is associated with poor outcome.

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Polyethylene glycol hydrogel dural sealant may reduce incisional cerebrospinal fluid leak after posterior fossa surgery

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Polymeric nanoparticles for nonviral gene therapy extend brain tumor survival in vivo.

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Predictors of visual outcome following surgical resection of medial sphenoid wing meningiomas

scientific article published on October 2012

Preoperative charlson comorbidity score predicts postoperative outcomes among older intracranial meningioma patients

scientific article published in February 2011

Preservation of glial cytoarchitecture from ex vivo human tumor and non-tumor cerebral cortical explants: A human model to study neurological diseases

scientific article published on 16 May 2007

Prognostic significance of contrast-enhancing anaplastic astrocytomas in adults

scientific article published in August 2010

Progressive Low-Grade Glioma: Assessment of Prognostic Importance of Histologic Reassessment and MRI Findings

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Recent advances in brain tumor therapy: local intracerebral drug delivery by polymers.

scientific article published on January 2004

Recurrence and malignant degeneration after resection of adult hemispheric low-grade gliomas

scientific article published in January 2010

Recurrent glioependymal cyst of the posterior fossa: an unusual entity containing mixed glial elements. Case report

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Rhabdoid meningioma occurring in an unrelated resection cavity with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Case report

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Risk of surgical site infection in 401 consecutive patients with glioblastoma with and without carmustine wafer implantation

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Seizure control for patients undergoing meningioma surgery

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

Solitary fibrous tumors in the central nervous system. A clinicopathologic review of 18 cases and comparison to meningeal hemangiopericytomas

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Solitary, isolated metastasis from Ewing's sarcoma to the brain: case report

scientific article published in March 1991

Steroid-responsive intracranial germinoma presenting as Holmes' tremor: importance of a tissue diagnosis.

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Supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme: the role of surgical resection versus biopsy among older patients

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Surgical outcomes for older patients with glioblastoma multiforme: preoperative factors associated with decreased survival

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Surgical outcomes of craniocervial junction meningiomas: a series of 22 consecutive patients.

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Survival and recurrence for patients undergoing surgery of skull base intracranial metastases.

scientific article published on 03 April 2013

Synovial sarcoma of the frontal sinus. Case report.

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Technical note: Orbitozygomatic craniotomy using an ultrasonic osteotome for precise osteotomies

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The Minipterional Craniotomy for Anterior Circulation Aneurysms

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

The butterfly effect on glioblastoma: is volumetric extent of resection more effective than biopsy for these tumors?

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The efficacy of carmustine wafers for older patients with glioblastoma multiforme: prolonging survival.

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The role of cervical collar in functional restoration and fusion after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion without plating on single or double levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The role of non-rigid cervical collar in pain relief and functional restoration after whiplash injury: a systematic review and a pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

The supraorbital craniotomy for access to the skull base and intraaxial lesions: a technique in evolution

scientific article published in February 2010

Treatment of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme with GliaSite brachytherapy

scientific article published in July 2005

Uniform brain tumor distribution and tumor associated macrophage targeting of systemically administered dendrimers.

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Unique challenges faced by pediatric neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing in 1909 at Johns Hopkins: a choroid plexus tumor of the lateral ventricle mimicking a cerebellar lesion.

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Use of Gliadel (BCNU) wafer in the surgical treatment of malignant glioma: a 10-year institutional experience

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

VM-26 monochemotherapy trial in the treatment of recurrent supratentorial gliomas: preliminary report.

scientific article published in February 1981

Venous thromboembolism occurs infrequently in meningioma patients receiving combined modality prophylaxis.

scientific article published on January 2007

Visual and electrical evoked response recorded from subdural electrodes implanted above the visual cortex in normal dogs under two methods of anesthesia

scientific article published in March 2003

When gross total resection of a glioblastoma is possible, how much resection should be achieved?

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