We analysed the number, type and year of international publications originating from neurosurgical department; in Turkey between the years 1980 and 1990 using online databases in order to be able to compare the figures with the performance of other European neurosurgical societies. We then analysed ...

Three-dimensional Computed Tomography (3-D CT) was performed in 21 patients for characterization of 29 aneurysms of various sizes and locations, and determining the relationship between the vascular and bony structures. These findings are compared with results ofaxial CT. digital subtraction angiogr...

The impact of stereotactic techniques on the management of mass lesions of the third ventricular region is reviewed in a consecutive series of 82 patients treated over three years using primarily stereotactic techniques. The lesions were in the ventricular cavity in 8 cases, thalamic in 26 cases, se...

142 patients who were operated on Department of Neurosurgery during a 21 month period without removal of hair were examined prospectively with regard to the effects of hair on wound sites, Craniotomy was carried out on 124 patients and shunt procedures on 18 patients. No infection was detected in ou...

The authors report two cases of rarely seen intra abdominal complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts (extrusion of abdominal catheter into the serotum and intestinal perforation). In each case, the treatment is outlined.

A 62 year old man was admitted to hospital with the complaints of paraesthesia and aching in the lateral right arm. Neurological and radiological examination revealed cervical root compression due to vertebral artery loop. This is of interest since such a vascular anomaly is not mentioned in the lit...

Haemangioblastomas are true vascular neoplasms which progress inexorably to a atastrophic clinical situation if left untreated. They are mostly intramedullary tumours rarely seen in the extramedullary space. An unusual case with a solitary spinal cord haemangioblastoma located purely in the intradur...

The case of a 26-year-old man with extraneural metastasis from intracranial glioblastoma multiforme is presented. The patient was operated on three times in five years. After the second operation, metastasis occurred direct to the cranium and to the dura mater and remote metastasis to the left cervi...

Spinal epidermoids, with their well-known specific characteristics are usually subdural-extramedullary in location. In this report, a 3-year-old boy with intra-extramedullary epidermoid tumour associated with an abscess is presented. This is the first reported case of infected spinal epidermoid with...

In this paper, the authors describe a 39-year-old man admitted with the complaint of generalized convulsions, headache and amnesia. The radiological and neuropathological findings were interhemispheric epidermoid tumour, which is a rare location. The turnour was removed completely. The diagnosis and...