E-ISSN: 1019-5157
ISSN: 2651-5024
Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2001)
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Original Investigation
Pages: 001-008
Surgical treatment of movement disorders, and especially Parkinson's disease, is regaining momentum. Despite all efforts, a significant number of patients who suffer from various types of movement disorders are becoming surgical candidates. Recent advances in medical technology have enabled more pre...
To report our experience with a series of consecutive patients with brain metastases, who underwent gamma knife radiosurgery during a 3 year period and to assess the prognostic significance of primary cancer type, number of intracranial lesions, and tumor locatian with regard to survival. We also ex...
Neoplasms of glial origin constitute 40-50% of all primary tumors of the central nervous system. Although a number of clinical features are related to prognosis, tumor grade is currently used to predict outcome. However, at present, grading is a subjective process based on tumor morphology and quant...
Pages: 026-031
Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) is a mitochondriaI enzyme that is found at high levels in neurons. Changes in NSE levels maY provide quantitative information about the extent of certain types of neurological injury, including cerebral infarction, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, cınd...
Pages: 032-037
The aim of this study was to investigate whether expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) grafts prevent peridural fibrosis (PF). Seven adult dogs were anesthetized with an intramuscular injection of xylazine + ketamine HCI, and were operated on between L5 and S1 via a posterior approach. Total lami...
Pages: 038-043
Lesions in the extradural middle and upper clival region, including the posterior cavernous sinus, and those in the infratemporal and middle fossa areas can be accessed by the subtemporal preauricular infratemporal approach. This method requires drilling of the petrous bone and clivus, and mobilizat...
Pages: 044-050
The histopathological diagnoses for a series of hypodense non-enhancing lesions were established through computed tomography (CT)-guided stereotactic brain biopsy. The aim was to retrospectively assess how well the imaging-based diagnoses correlated with the histological diagnoses in these cases.
Pages: 051-055
This retrospective study investigated the outcomes of surgical therapy in 14 patients with advanced ulnar neuropathy at the elbow. We evaluated patients clinically and electrophysiologically pre- and postoperatively. The mean follow-up was 43.8 months. The gender distribution in the group indicated ...
Case Report
Lymphangioma is a relatively common tumor of soft tissue, but a rare primary lesion of bone. Very few eases of skull lymphangioma have been reported to date. We describe a patient with solitary lymphangioma of the skull that was treated by total exeision and autogenous bone grafting. We also review ...
Fibrous dysplasia is a congenital, nonfamilial, metabolic disturbance that produces 2.5% of all osseous tumors, and more than 7% of all nonmalignant tumors in bone. Involvement of the temporal bone, however, is relatively rare. An 8-year-old girl presented with progressive hearing loss. She had a ma...
Pages: 065-068
Osteochondroma of the spine is a rare condition that may or may not be accompanied by neurological dysfunction. We report a case of cervical osteochondroma originating from the transverse process of the fifth cervical vertebra, and discuss the main clinical, pathological and radiological features th...
Pages: 069-072
Desmoplastic infantile neuroepithelial tumors (DINTs) are superficially located supratentorial neoplasms that include masses known as "desmoplastic infantile gangliomas" (DIGs) and "desmoplastic infantile astrocytomas" (DIAs). Apart from the presence of ganglion cells in DIGs, these tumors and DIAs ...
This report describes the case of 49-year-old female patient who developed a lumbar spinal subdural hematoma as a complication of lumbar discectomy. We give the details of the case and review the relevant literature. Our conclusion is that spinal subdural hematoma should be considered a possible pos...