E-ISSN: 1019-5157
ISSN: 2651-5024
Vol. 31, Issue 1 (2021)
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Turkish Neuro -Excursion
Pages: 001-007
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.31770-20.2
Philosophy meaning ?love of wisdom? is a research product of people who think, produce ideas, and transfer these ideas to each
other. The philosophy of science questions the concept of ?scientific knowledge? and analyzes the procedures and observations
for a logical explanation of facts from a sci...
Original Investigation
Pages: 008-017
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.25523-19.3
AIM: To investigate whether Nimodipine (N) and Nigella sativa (NS) oil have protective, antioxidant effects in brain injury caused by
experimental head trauma.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Fifty albino Wistar rats were randomly divided into 5 groups that underwent experimental head trauma.
Oxidative par...
Pages: 018-023
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.28317-19.3
AIM: To present the authors? experience in treatment of chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) by a minimally surgical percutaneous
approach.
MATERIAL and METHODS: We relate our experience of mini-invasive evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma. Between May
2006 and December 2017, 1079 patients have b...
Pages: 024-030
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29577-20.1
AIM: To identify the effects of different immunohistochemical features of glioblastomas with spinal metastases based on the
metastatic spread and survival rate.
MATERIAL and METHODS: A total of 214 patients who were diagnosed with and operated for brain tumor in our clinic between
2007 and 2018, ...
Pages: 031-037
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.28762-19.2
AIM: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of flow diverter (FD) stents in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms less than 5 mm.
MATERIAL and METHODS: We treated 66 aneurysms in 43 patients with aneurysms less than 5 mm. Of the patients, 29 were
females and 14 males (mean age: 50.2 years). Headach...
Pages: 038-045
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29214-20.2
AIM: To analyze the spinal canal type and spinal structure of patients, to determine appropriate preoperative preparation and surgical
procedures to prevent material malposition, which is the most common complication of thoracolumbar posterior transpedicular
stabilization (TPTS) and is a determine...
Pages: 046-050
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.27866-19.7
AIM: To investigate the relationship between paracetamol and expression levels of cyclooxygenase-2, cyclin B, cell viability and
apoptosis in glioblastoma cell line.
MATERIAL and METHODS: The A172 glioblastoma cells were treated with different concentrations of paracetamol and phosphate
buffer sa...
Pages: 051-058
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.28409-19.2
AIM: To compare preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiologic values in patients who underwent brain and spine surgeries.
MATERIAL and METHODS: A retrospective medical record review was conducted on patients who underwent brain and spine
surgery between January 2014 and July 2018. Patients un...
Pages: 059-066
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29575-20.3
AIM: To investigate the efficacy and safety of the self-locking stand-alone cage used from opposite approach for the treatment of
adjacent segment disease (ASD) after an anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF).
MATERIAL and METHODS: In this study, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical da...
Pages: 067-072
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29149-20.2
AIM: To determine the effectiveness of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in diagnosing cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) in
patients with no findings detected in conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
MATERIAL and METHODS: Fifty-four patients who presented for cervical MRI between January...
Pages: 073-075
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29771-20.2
AIM: To demonstrate the various technical advantages of minimally invasive endoscopic untethering of tight filum terminale for the
treatment of tethered cord syndrome (TCS).
MATERIAL and METHODS: In five pediatric cases of TCS, we performed untethering by using the endoscopic technique. The age
o...
Pages: 076-082
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.28138-19.2
AIM: To investigate the expression patterns of D-serine and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor 1 in the temporal lobes of
patients with intractable epilepsy.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Cortical temporal lobe brain tissue samples were collected from 20 patients with intractable epilepsy
and 6 patient...
Pages: 083-087
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29704-20.2
AIM: To investigate the effect of age, diabetes mellitus, and body mass index (BMI) on the outcomes of carpal tunnel syndrome
(CTS) surgery in patients with moderate CTS according to neurophysiological classification.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Postsurgical outcomes were evaluated via a nerve conductio...
Pages: 088-092
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.30065-20.1
AIM: To investigate the effect of preoperative levodopa responsiveness to clinical outcomes in the first postoperative year, and to
evaluate the changes in the postoperative levodopa responsiveness in patients undergoing subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain
stimulation (DBS).
MATERIAL and METHODS...
Pages: 093-098
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29202-20.3
AIM: To examine the effect of propolis on the healing process in terms of both electrophysiological and ultrastructural parameters
in a rat model of experimental spinal cord injury.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Thirty rats were divided into control, spinal cord trauma, and treated trauma groups with 10 r...
Pages: 099-106
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.27893-20.4
AIM: To determine the mitochondrial microsatellite instability (mtMSI) status in a series of Malaysian patients with brain tumors.
Furthermore, we analyzed whether the mtMSI status is associated with the clinicopathological features of the patients.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Forty fresh frozen tumor t...
Pages: 107-111
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29917-20.2
AIM: To study topography and variability in the origin of anterior interosseous nerve; to identify the branching pattern of the anterior
interosseous nerve supplying the flexor digitorum profundus, flexor pollicis longus, and pronator quadratus muscles.
MATERIAL and METHODS: The present study incl...
Pages: 112-118
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.31730-20.1
AIM: To explain how to resect hippocampal tissue in rats used as live mammalian subjects for the resection of fresh cerebral tissue
in laboratories.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Adult male Wistar-Albino rats (n=50) were used for this purpose.
RESULTS: The average bodyweight of the rats was 316.4 ± 11.71...
Pages: 119-123
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.31515-20.2
AIM: To compare the efficacies of fluoroscopy- and ultrasound (US)-guided caudal epidural steroid injections (CESIs) in patients
with chronic low back pain (LBP).
MATERIAL and METHODS: This study included patients with chronic LBP who underwent US- (Group U; n = 90) or fluoroscopyguided
(Group F;...
Pages: 124-136
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.30216-20.2
AIM: To carry out an in-depth bibliometric analysis of scoliosis literature.
MATERIAL and METHODS: This study used the Web of Science database to identify relevant articles for analysis. The literature
search used the keyword ?scolio*? and focused on the period between 1980-2019. Bibliometric netw...
Pages: 137-141
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.32887-20.1
AIM: To investigate the effects of quetiapine exposure on neural tube development in early stage chicken embryos.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Eighty-four fertilised specific pathogen-free chicken eggs were divided into four equal groups (groups
1?4). Three experimental groups (groups 2, 3 and 4) and a s...
Case Report
Pages: 142-147
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.30192-20.2
AIM: To present one-step customized cranioplasty for intraosseous meningiomas.
CASE DESCRIPTION: The authors report the case of a 54-year-old woman with a consequent frontal intraosseous meningioma
invading the superior sagittal sinus. The patient only suffered from local pain and cosmetic damage....
Letter to Editor
Pages: 148
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.29444-20.1
Pages: 149-150
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.30259-20.2