Intracerebral haemorrhage as a complication of thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction is infrequent, but it is associated with grave prognosis. We report on a patient who had an intracerebral haemorrhage as a complication of thrombolytic treatment and advocate the CT guided free-hand removal...

Endoscopic systems have now been used with relatively low complication rates in numerous situations including the aspiration and resection of colloid cysts of the third ventricle, biopsy and resection of cystic and intraventricular tumours, evacuation of intracerebral haematomas, and a terminal thir...

A young male patient with symptoms of increased Intra Cranial Pressure (ICP) is reported. Contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed multiple intracranial masses evaluated as metastatic. During preparations for operation, the anti-human immunodeficiency virus (Anti-HIV) test was found to be...

A 22 year old woman with a solid haemangioblastoma in the posterior fossa, cervicomedullary junction and spinal cord is reported. Preoperative magnetic resonans imaging (MRI) provided precise indications of the anatomical location and radiological features of the tumor that facilitated its partial r...

Post-traumatic pneumoorbitus is generally a benign, self limiting condition. However, if a fracture produces ball-valve effect allowing air to enter but not leave the orbit, then extremely high intraorbital pressure and visual loss are possible. A 30- year old man with loss of vision because of tens...

In extreme rarity, spinal cord compression may be caused by intradural extramedullary cysts. One of these rare cysts, the ependymal cyst originates, from ectopic ependymal fragments situated parallel to the central canal development and may be seen anywhere in the spinal aids. Considering this rarit...

Five minutes before spinal cord injury, an 0.02 mg/kg dose of nimedipine was started via a femoral catheter and continued for 96 hours after injury. Pre-and post-injury and post-infusion mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) recordings were obtained. The levels of injured cord sodium-potassium-adenosi...

A series of 57 patients with acute extradural haematoma (EDH) treated conservatively is reported. The main parameters for conservative management were close clinical supervision. repeated computerized tomography (CT) follow-up and asymptomatic or minimal neurological deficit. The criteria for the de...

Fetal substantia nigra grafts (obtained from l5-17-day old-foetuses) were transplanted into cavities overlying the caudate nucleus of rats following destruction of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathways by intraventricular injection of the 6-Hydroxydopamine (6-0HDA). We investigated the effect of f...

The function of experimentally induced hypertension in the formation of saccular aneurysms in rats was the subject of this study. In four group of rats, the left common carotid artery and the posterior branch of both renal arteries was ligated in the first and third group, and only left common carot...