E-ISSN: 1019-5157 ISSN: 2651-5024
Original Investigation
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between psychosomatic disorders and surgical outcome using the Symptom Check List-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) scale. METHOD: A cross-sectional study was performed to assess the impact of preoperative psychological factors on surgical outcome by using the Sympt...
OBJECTIVE: Quality of life is becoming more important within the concept of health care. Although clinical outcome still plays a big role in outcome measurement, patients' perceptions and understanding of their own health is being considered as significant. There are many measurement tools used f...
Case Report
Spinal cord compression due to follicular thyroid carcinoma is rare. We report an unusual case of isolated vertebrae metastasis of follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting with spinal cord compression. It is unusual for this neoplasm to initially present as a single metastasis to the spine. Compre...
Glioblastome multiforme (GBM) is a malignant tumor of the brain which may develop primarily or secondary to radiotherapy. The occurence of GBM following radiotherapy for medulloblastoma is a very rare condition and few cases have been reported. A 10-year-old girl who had been treated by surgery ...
Patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) and associated craniocervical junction abnormalities are at high risk for the development of progressive neurologic deficits. A 60-year-old male patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome was admitted to the emergency room with an 8-year history of a progressive ...
A 40-year-old male had been operated five years ago due to a right frontal diffuse infiltrative astrocytoma grade II and the tumor had been removed grossly. There was no other lesion in the posterior fossa at that time and the patient received radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Five years later, the ...
Scaphocephaly is the most common type of craniosynostosis. Simple sagittal suturectomy is still the operation of choice for infants under the age of 6 months. We describe a 4-month-old boy who underwent calvarial remodeling for the treatment of scaphocephaly. The patient was operated on in the pr...
Lumbar intervertebral disc herniations can regress spontaneously at different levels and times in a patient even in the presence of a neurological deficit. A patient with spontaneous regressions of two herniated lumbar discs at different levels and time periods, which regressed after conservative...
OBJECTIVE: The presence of cartilage and bone in a glial tumor is most unusual. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this condition. In some cases, there is a fibrous capsule between tumor tissue and the cartilaginous area together with glial fibrillary acidic protein negativity in c...