E-ISSN: 1019-5157
ISSN: 2651-5024
Vol. 1, Issue 3 (1990)
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Original Investigation
Between April 1961 and April 1988. the senior author operated upon 299 patients for treatment of lateral cervical disc herniations and upon 36 patients for stenotic cervical spinal canal causing myelopathy employing a modified Cloward's technique in the Buffalo Metropolitan area. Autogeneous bone gr...
The early diagnosis of acoustic neurinomas and their localisation is very important. As neuro otological tests may help in this respect. neuro otological findings of twenty patients with histologically proven acoustic neurinoma were analysed retrospectively. The importance of neuro otological examin...
We present two patients without primary cardiopulmonary disease, who developed adult respiratory distress syndrome in response to lesions of the central nervous system. Clinical and laboratory investigations are described in detail and pertinent literature is reviewed.
In this study, muscle fascia removed from over the biceps femoris muscle was used as microvascular interpositional graft material in 67 rats. The faces of the cleaned fascia were rolled in order to form the luminal surface of the graft and were sutured in the from of a tube in different diameters an...
Pages: 119-123
Ischemia-induced lipid peroxidation is one of the most important factors producing tissue damage in spinal cord injury. In this study a standard spinal cord injury model in rats was used and the effects of chronic administration of Selenium (3 ppm/lt water orally) before and alpha-tocopherol managem...
In this study sleep EEG recordings of 20 epileptic patients with different types of seizures have been evaluated. Sleep EEG recordings were found to be helpful in detecting epileptic discharges of the patients whose waking EEGs failed to demonstrate specific abnormalities. Also, we had the occasion ...
Pages: 130-133
Forty craniocerebral trauma patients who were hospitalized for observation or surgical intervention were administered phenytoin for anticonvulsant prophylaxis. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples were taken on the eighth day of medication and pheytoin levels were determined with the aim of searchi...
Pages: 134-136
An unusual case of cerebral arterial dolichoectasia with systemic vascu1ar abnormalities is reported. The diagnostic and clinical aspects of this entity are discussed.
Case Report
Pages: 137-139
Cerebellar medulloblastomas are the commonest malign tumors of the posterior fossa in childhood and they frequently metastasize. Tumor metastasis can be seen along the neural axis, lymph nodes, soft tissues, bones and distant organs. Spinal cord metastases are usually located in the extramedullary r...
Pages: 140-142
A case of saccular aneurysm of the azygos anterior cerebral artery is reported. Aneurysms of the azygos anterior cerebral artery are extremely rare. Clinical, radiological and operative findings are described in detail and the pertinent literature is reviewed.
A case of solitary chondroma with a dural attachment is presented. The unusal fronto-parietal localisation, the computerized tomographic images and histological findings of this rare tumour are discussed. No recurrence is expected after total removal.