Bernt Johan Due-Tønnessen
- Senior consultant; MD, PhD
- (+47) 23 07 43 32
Publications 2024
Regression of Chiari malformation type 2 following early postnatal meningomyelocele repair-a retrospective observation from an institutional series of patients
Childs Nerv Syst (in press)
DOI 10.1007/s00381-024-06586-3, PubMed 39207525
Preoperative estimation of intracranial compliance in symptomatic children with Chiari malformation type 1: impact on outcome and risk of complications
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 166 (1), 22
DOI 10.1007/s00701-024-05897-3, PubMed 38236374
Publications 2023
Long-term outcome of patients treated for craniopharyngioma: a single center experience
Br J Neurosurg, 1-9 (in press)
DOI 10.1080/02688697.2023.2179600, PubMed 36799140
Parents' Perception of the Benefit of Receiving a Patient Information Leaflet Prior to Attending a Craniofacial Multidisciplinary Team Appointment
Cleft Palate Craniofac J, 10556656231219579 (in press)
DOI 10.1177/10556656231219579, PubMed 38092729
Publications 2022
[Moyamoya disease in children]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 142 (13)
DOI 10.4045/tidsskr.21.0776, PubMed 36164799
Molecular pathological insights reveal a high number of unfavorable risk patients among children treated for medulloblastoma and CNS-PNET in Oslo 2005-2017
Pediatr Blood Cancer, 69 (9), e29736
DOI 10.1002/pbc.29736, PubMed 35570402
Whole-exome sequencing in syndromic craniosynostosis increases diagnostic yield and identifies candidate genes in osteogenic signaling pathways
Am J Med Genet A, 188 (5), 1464-1475
DOI 10.1002/ajmg.a.62663, PubMed 35080095
Publications 2021
Intraoperative DNA methylation classification of brain tumors impacts neurosurgical strategy
Neurooncol Adv, 3 (1), vdab149
DOI 10.1093/noajnl/vdab149, PubMed 34729487
The role of pulsatile and static intracranial pressure measurements in the management of children with craniosynostosis-an institutional experience from 49 patients
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 163 (7), 2015-2023
DOI 10.1007/s00701-020-04680-4, PubMed 33389123
Ruptured Aneurysm of the Anterior Communicating Artery in a Newborn: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg, 84 (4), 399-403
DOI 10.1055/s-0041-1739209, PubMed 34897611
Outcomes in adulthood after neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors in the first 3 years of life: long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of 97 patients
Childs Nerv Syst, 37 (8), 2435
DOI 10.1007/s00381-021-05130-x, PubMed 34114083
Comment on : A retrospective analysis of recurrent pediatric ependymoma reveals extremely poor survival and ineffectiveness of current treatments across central nervous locations and molecular subgroups
Pediatr Blood Cancer, 68 (10), e29193
DOI 10.1002/pbc.29193, PubMed 34212473
Choroid Plexus Tumors in Children: Long-Term Follow-Up of Consecutive Single-Institutional Series of 59 Patients Treated over a Period of 8 Decades (1939-2020)
World Neurosurg, 158, e810-e819
DOI 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.11.070, PubMed 34823041
Outcome After Treatment of Spinal Ependymoma in Children and Adolescents: Long-Term Follow-up of a Single Consecutive Institutional Series of 33 Patients Treated Over Eight Decades
World Neurosurg, 150, e228-e235
DOI 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.02.131, PubMed 33684583
Outcome after treatment of pediatric supratentorial ependymoma: long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of 26 patients
Br J Neurosurg, 38 (2), 514-522
DOI 10.1080/02688697.2021.1914821, PubMed 34096810
Executive Function and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescent Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumor
Dev Neuropsychol, 46 (2), 149-168
DOI 10.1080/87565641.2021.1900191, PubMed 33783291
Re-evaluation of abusive head trauma in Norway appears flawed
Acta Paediatr, 111 (4), 793-797
DOI 10.1111/apa.16069, PubMed 34390511
Publications 2020
Long-term outcome of posterior fossa medulloblastoma in patients surviving more than 20 years following primary treatment in childhood
Sci Rep, 10 (1), 9371
DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-66328-8, PubMed 32523021
Adult outcome after treatment of pediatric posterior fossa ependymoma: long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of 22 patients with more than 5 years of survival
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 26 (1), 22-26
DOI 10.3171/2020.1.PEDS19700, PubMed 32217795
Outcomes in adulthood after neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors in the first 3 years of life: long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of 97 patients
Childs Nerv Syst, 37 (2), 427-433
DOI 10.1007/s00381-020-04859-1, PubMed 32814984
Benefits of clinical criteria and high-throughput sequencing for diagnosing children with syndromic craniosynostosis
Eur J Hum Genet, 29 (6), 920-929
DOI 10.1038/s41431-020-00788-4, PubMed 33288889
Epidemiology of craniosynostosis in Norway
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 26 (1), 68-75
DOI 10.3171/2020.1.PEDS2051, PubMed 32244202
Publications 2019
Medical Stress Reactions and Personal Growth in Parents of Children With a Rare Craniofacial Condition
Cleft Palate Craniofac J, 57 (2), 228-237
DOI 10.1177/1055665619869146, PubMed 31426676
Intracranial volume versus static and pulsatile intracranial pressure values in children with craniosynostosis
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 24 (1), 66-74
DOI 10.3171/2019.2.PEDS18767, PubMed 31003225
Persistent shunt dependency in children treated with CSF diversion for idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 162 (1), 39-42
DOI 10.1007/s00701-019-04142-6, PubMed 31736001
Adult outcome after neurosurgical treatment of brain tumours in the first year of life: long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of 34 patients
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 161 (9), 1793-1798
DOI 10.1007/s00701-019-04014-z, PubMed 31309304
Neurosurgical treatment of pediatric pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas: long-term follow-up of a single-institution, consecutive series of 12 patients
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 23 (4), 512-516
DOI 10.3171/2018.11.PEDS18449, PubMed 30738389
Social attainment in physically well-functioning long-term survivors of pediatric brain tumour; the role of executive dysfunction, fatigue, and psychological and emotional symptoms
Neuropsychol Rehabil, 31 (1), 129-153
DOI 10.1080/09602011.2019.1677480, PubMed 31603026
Children treated for medulloblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor in Norway from 1974 through 2013: Unexplainable regional differences in survival
Pediatr Blood Cancer, 66 (10), e27910
DOI 10.1002/pbc.27910, PubMed 31264356
The doctors' role in cases of suspected child abuse
Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen., 139 (2), 126-128
Publications 2018
Abnormally wide eustachian tubes involving the sphenoid bone: A collection
Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol, 3 (3), 214-217
DOI 10.1002/lio2.158, PubMed 30062137
Postoperative radiotherapy for pediatric brain tumor: a lesson learned from treatment of a 5-year-old girl for posterior fossa astrocytoma (WHO1) in 1967
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 160 (10), 2065-2066
DOI 10.1007/s00701-018-3636-3, PubMed 30046877
Neurosurgical treatment of gangliogliomas in children and adolescents: long-term follow-up of a single-institution series of 32 patients
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 160 (6), 1207-1214
DOI 10.1007/s00701-018-3550-8, PubMed 29680921
The doctors' role in cases of suspected child abuse
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 138 (2)
DOI 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0922, PubMed 30698400
Publications 2017
Outcome for children treated for medulloblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (CNS-PNET) - a retrospective analysis spanning 40 years of treatment
Acta Oncol, 56 (5), 698-705
DOI 10.1080/0284186X.2017.1301679, PubMed 28325133
Publications 2016
Novel fusion genes and chimeric transcripts in ependymal tumors
Genes Chromosomes Cancer, 55 (12), 944-953
DOI 10.1002/gcc.22392, PubMed 27401149
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting and ventriculocisternostomy (ETV) in 400 pediatric patients. Shifts in understanding, diagnostics, case-mix, and surgical management during half a century
Childs Nerv Syst, 33 (2), 259-268
DOI 10.1007/s00381-016-3281-1, PubMed 27796553
Persistent shunt dependency and very late shunt failure in a 3-year-old boy with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)
Childs Nerv Syst, 33 (2), 213-215
DOI 10.1007/s00381-016-3316-7, PubMed 27988877
Publications 2015
Posterior fossa ependymoblastoma diagnosed in the second month of life: uneventful 12 years survival after gross total resection followed by chemotherapy
Springerplus, 4, 389
DOI 10.1186/s40064-015-1178-1, PubMed 26251773
Neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors in the first 6 months of life: long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of 30 patients
Childs Nerv Syst, 31 (12), 2283-90
DOI 10.1007/s00381-015-2792-5, PubMed 26174616
Posterior fossa ependymoma in childhood: 60 years event-free survival after partial resection—a case report
Childs Nerv Syst, 31 (9), 1573-6
DOI 10.1007/s00381-015-2766-7, PubMed 26047947
Long-term supratentorial brain structure and cognitive function following cerebellar tumour resections in childhood
Neuropsychologia, 69, 218-31
DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.007, PubMed 25665770
Patients with focal cerebellar lesions show reduced auditory cortex activation during silent reading
Brain Lang, 161, 18-27
DOI 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.08.004, PubMed 26341544
Fusion genes with ALK as recurrent partner in ependymoma-like gliomas: a new brain tumor entity?
Neuro Oncol, 17 (10), 1365-73
DOI 10.1093/neuonc/nov039, PubMed 25795305
Publications 2014
Neurosurgical treatment of pediatric low-grade midbrain tumors: a single consecutive institutional series of 15 patients
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 14 (6), 598-603
DOI 10.3171/2014.9.PEDS1462, PubMed 25325421
Pediatric spinal ependymomas: an unpredictable and puzzling disease. Long-term follow-up of a single consecutive institutional series of ten patients
Childs Nerv Syst, 30 (12), 2083-8
DOI 10.1007/s00381-014-2491-7, PubMed 25079883
Genomic characterization of ependymomas reveals 6q loss as the most common aberration
Oncol Rep, 32 (2), 483-90
DOI 10.3892/or.2014.3271, PubMed 24939246
Publications 2013
Neurosurgical treatment of oligodendroglial tumors in children and adolescents: a single-institution series of 35 consecutive patients
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 12 (3), 241-6
DOI 10.3171/2013.6.PEDS12586, PubMed 23870041
Publications 2012
Neurosurgical treatment of low-grade cerebellar astrocytoma in children and adolescents: a single consecutive institutional series of 100 patients
J Neurosurg Pediatr, 11 (3), 245-9
DOI 10.3171/2012.11.PEDS12265, PubMed 23240848
Surgical mortality and selected complications in 273 consecutive craniotomies for intracranial tumors in pediatric patients
Neurosurgery, 70 (4), 936-43; discussion 943
DOI 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31823bcc61, PubMed 21993188
Publications 2010
Median facial cleft with a frontoethmoidal encephalocele treated with craniofacial bipartition and free radial forearm flap: a case report
Skull Base, 20 (2), 119-23
DOI 10.1055/s-0029-1238216, PubMed 20808538
Comparison of perioperative morbidity after LeFort III and monobloc distraction osteogenesis
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 49 (2), 131-4
DOI 10.1016/j.bjoms.2009.11.015, PubMed 20226576
Midface distraction osteogenesis: internal vs. external devices
Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 40 (2), 139-45
DOI 10.1016/j.ijom.2010.10.009, PubMed 21109402
Publications 2008
Posterior fossa tumours in children
In Series of dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Unipub, Oslo, no. 603, 1 b. (flere pag.)
BIBSYS 080422292, ISBN 978-82-8072-732-9
Publications 2007
Management of hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumors: role of tumor surgery
Pediatr Neurosurg, 43 (2), 92-6
DOI 10.1159/000098379, PubMed 17337918
Is intracranial pressure waveform analysis useful in the management of pediatric neurosurgical patients?
Pediatr Neurosurg, 43 (6), 472-81
DOI 10.1159/000108790, PubMed 17992035
Audits can improve neurosurgical practice--illustrated by endoscopic third ventriculostomy
Pediatr Neurosurg, 43 (6), 482-7
DOI 10.1159/000108791, PubMed 17992036
Publications 2006
Le Fort III distraction osteogenesis in syndromal craniosynostosis
J Craniofac Surg, 17 (1), 28-39
DOI 10.1097/01.scs.0000194177.21916.f1, PubMed 16432404
Publications 2005
The gravity-assisted Paedi-Gav valve in the treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus
Pediatr Neurosurg, 41 (1), 8-14
DOI 10.1159/000084859, PubMed 15886507
Persistent cognitive dysfunction secondary to cerebellar injury in patients treated for posterior fossa tumors in childhood
Pediatr Neurosurg, 41 (1), 15-21
DOI 10.1159/000084860, PubMed 15886508
Publications 2004
Monobloc distraction osteogenesis in pediatric patients with severe syndromal craniosynostosis
J Craniofac Surg, 15 (6), 990-1000; discussion 1001
DOI 10.1097/00001665-200411000-00020, PubMed 15547389
Publications 2003
[Intracranial tumors in children]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 123 (4), 451-5
PubMed 12643055
[Transfacial neurosurgery in skull base tumors]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 123 (4), 465-7
PubMed 12643058
Publications 2002
Long-term outcome after resection of benign cerebellar astrocytomas in children and young adults (0-19 years): report of 110 consecutive cases
Pediatr Neurosurg, 37 (2), 71-80
DOI 10.1159/000065108, PubMed 12145515
Differences in quantitative characteristics of intracranial pressure in hydrocephalic children treated surgically or conservatively
Pediatr Neurosurg, 36 (6), 304-13
DOI 10.1159/000063534, PubMed 12077475
Assessment of continuous intracranial pressure recordings in childhood craniosynostosis
Pediatr Neurosurg, 37 (6), 310-20
DOI 10.1159/000066311, PubMed 12422046
[Treatment of hydrocephalus with endoscopic third ventriculocisternostomy]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 122 (10), 994-8
PubMed 12082709
[Occult spinal dysraphism]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 122 (9), 913-6
PubMed 12082834
Publications 2001
Choroid plexus tumors in children and young adults: report of 16 consecutive cases
Childs Nerv Syst, 17 (4-5), 252-6
DOI 10.1007/pl00013728, PubMed 11398945
Assessment of intracranial pressure volume relationships in childhood: the lumbar infusion test versus intracranial pressure monitoring
Childs Nerv Syst, 17 (7), 382-90
DOI 10.1007/s003810000437, PubMed 11465790
Changes in intracranial pressure after calvarial expansion surgery in children with slit ventricle syndrome
Pediatr Neurosurg, 35 (4), 195-204
DOI 10.1159/000050421, PubMed 11694797
Ependymoma in children and young adults (0-19 years): report of 25 consecutive cases
Childs Nerv Syst, 17 (1-2), 24-30
DOI 10.1007/s003810000400, PubMed 11219619
Publications 2000
[Metotopic craniosynostoses]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 120 (26), 3147-50
PubMed 11109361
[Frontoethmoidal meningoencephaloceles]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 120 (19), 2250-2
PubMed 10997082
Monobloc and midface distraction osteogenesis in pediatric patients with severe syndromal craniosynostosis
Pediatr Neurosurg, 33 (2), 89-94
DOI 10.1159/000028982, PubMed 11070435
[Distraction osteogenesis--a new therapeutic principle in complex craniofacial synostosis]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 120 (26), 3153-5
PubMed 11109362
Publications 1999
[Will the shape of children's heads be standardized?]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 119 (26), 3945
PubMed 10592758
Posterior fossa medulloblastoma in children and young adults (0-19 years): survival and performance
Childs Nerv Syst, 15 (9), 451-5; discussion 456
DOI 10.1007/s003810050437, PubMed 10502004
Publications 1997
Efflux of gamma-aminobutyric acid caused by changes in ion concentrations and cell swelling simulating the effect of cerebral ischaemia
Acta Neurochir (Wien), 139 (5), 453-63
DOI 10.1007/BF01808883, PubMed 9204116
Local anesthesia in posterior cervical surgery
Anesthesiology, 86 (1), 242-3
DOI 10.1097/00000542-199701000-00027, PubMed 9009958
Publications 1994
Modified Robinson-Smith procedure for the treatment of cervical radiculopathy
Acta Neurol Scand, 90 (3), 197-200
DOI 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1994.tb02705.x, PubMed 7847061