E-ISSN: 1019-5157 ISSN: 2651-5024
Original Investigation
OBJECTIVE: This study provides preliminary information on stress distribution over the cervical spine in static physiologic loading conditions with the strain-gage technique. Limited numbers of in vitro studies have been conducted to investigate strain and stress patterns on the bony structure of...
OBJECTIVE: We investigated atypical and malignant meningiomas based on the Modified World Health Organization (WHO) histological criteria of malignance. METHOD: We present 45 surgical cases ( 26 atypical and 19 malignant) of total 504 meningiomas operated in Social Security Ankara Education and R...
We report an extremely rare case of ruptured saccular aneurysm at the junction of the hypoplastic basilar and the persistent primitive trigeminal artery (PPTA). Three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT) angiography can delineate the aneurysm of the right persistent primitive trigeminal artery...
Case Report
We present a 61-year-old man with a 3-month history of headache, hemiparesia and speech disturbance. Computerized tomography (CT) of the brain showed well defined, diffusely contrast enhanced and frontoparietally located solid mass. Histopatologic diagnosis of the tumour was hemangioblastoma. In ...
While primary cholesteatoma is rare, its presentation with only double vision merits extra attention. Apatient with primary cholesteatoma of the petrous apex where the only symptom was double vision is presented. Due to extreme medial localization there was absence of the common symptoms of heari...
Metastatic tumours in the choroid plexus are generally considered to be very rare. We report a case of bladder carcinoma metastasizing to the choroid plexus of the trigone of the lateral ventricle. This tumour was shown by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, followed ...
An extremely rare case of a calcified cerebral hydatid cyst is presented. The cyst was treated surgically at our department. The only symptom was generalized seizure. The calcified, non-enhancing and well-circumscribed characteristics of the lesion were detected on computed tomography (CT). The p...
It is important to distinguish tumor recurrence from radionecrosis because subsequent therapy and prognosis are guided by the cause of progression. Necrosis is an important histological feature of glial tumors. Tumor necrosis is due to an insufficient blood supply and is ischemic in nature. Diffe...
Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is a rare emergency. The exact etiology is unknown. A 60-year-old woman arrived at the emergency department with back pain, followed 20 minutes later by acute paralysis of both legs. The initial magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed a spinal epidural hematoma ...
Ossification of the thoracic ligamentum flavum is a rare condition and reports of this pathology have been limited mostly to oriental patients. Uppermost lesions are rare. A 39-year-old Turkish male presented with spastic paraparesis. He was a piano carrier. Radiological examinations revealed ex...
The indications for surgery and the optimal surgical strategy for intradural spinal lipomas are still being debated. The article presents two cases of intradural spinal lipoma that were treated with subtotal resection and decompression. The patients were two adults, one with a thoracic intradural...
To report of a case of lumbar spondylodiscitis caused by Morganella morganii and to discuss surgical treatment of spondylodiscitis by an extended posterior paramedian approach and posterior instrumentation. Instrumentation was performed by an extended posterior paramedian approach for our patient...