E-ISSN: 1019-5157
ISSN: 2651-5024
Vol. 9, Issue 1 (1999)
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Original Investigation
This paper is a retrospective analysis of 288 craniocerebral gunshot wounds treated over a 5-year period. Twenty-one in-hospital deaths occurred, most as a direct result of brain injury. The level of central nervous system (CNS) damage was the most valuable prognostic factor in these cases. The pres...
Pages: 008-015
Surgical procedures designed to decompress and stabilize unstable trauma-related thoracolumbar fractures are primarily anterior or posterior operative approaches combined with anterior or posterior instrumentation. Our goal is to identify patients that are likely to benefit from either fixation syst...
Most current anterior stabilization systems involve the placement of two screws in each vertebra, and connecting these using a rod or plate. In this study, we present findings from patients who were treated with single vertebral body screw (SVBS) - rod or - plate systems. Our aim was to determine wh...
Pages: 025-030
The purpose of this study was to determine the value of venous magnetic resonance angiography (Venous MRA) as the sole procedure for diagnosing and following up dural sinus thrombosis (DST). We also reviewed the etiology, clinical features, and therapeutic aspects of this neurological emergency. Ten...
Pages: 031-037
When commenting on morphological findings in cerebral vasoconstriction studies, caution is required in two areas, namely the mechanical stresses involved in experimental manipulations, and preparation techniques. Since simultaneous radiological studies are sometimes compared with the results of morp...
Pages: 038-043
The effects of head injury on lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant defense system were investigated in aged and young rats. The animals were divided into 4 groups of 10. A mild head trauma was applied to 10 young rats (3 months of age) in group II and to 10 aged rats (24 months of age) in group IV...
Pages: 044-047
This study reveals the effects of diazepam on the development of neural tube defects in the chick based on light microscopy and histopathological study. Thirty fertile Hubbard Broil eggs were divided into two equal groups. Group 1 embryos (n:15) at stage 8 (the four-somite stage) of development were...
Beta-endorphin (B-EP) is a 31 amino acid polypeptide secreted by the pituitary, brain, and various other tissues. It has potent opiate-like activity, can produce analgesia, and may play a physiological role in adapting the immune system to stress by affecting lymphocyte and complement binding activi...
Pages: 052-058
Eighty seven Sprague-Dawley rats were used to study the anatomy of the horizontal segment of middle cerebral artery (MCA) and infarction after occlusion of this vessel. We investigated the size and location of the lesion produced, and found a correlation between infarct size and neurological deficit...
Pages: 059-063
The purpose of this study was to investigate the preventive effect of Ticlopidine on thrombus formation after surgical arterial injury. The model of microsurgical carotid endarterectomy was performed on the common carotid arteries in rats. Twenty rats were equally divided into two groups: a control ...
Pages: 064-067
A comparison of the effects of epidural morphine and epidural morphine + bupivacaine on postoperative pain following lumbar laminectomy and discectomy. Thirty American Society of Anesthesiolgists (ASA) I patients undergoing lumbar laminectomy and discectomy were randomly assigned to two groups (n = ...
Case Report
The authors describe a woman with visual loss and epilepsy that were caused by removal of a meningioma on the right sphenoidal ridge in an operation 5 years prior to presentation. The patient started to improve neurologically after omental transplantation to the injured optic chiasma and right tempo...
Fracture of the occipital condyle is a very rare injury. Complaints in these cases vary from upper cervical pain to the multiple cranial nerve palsies. We report the case of a traffic accident victim who had occipital condyle fracture with no clinical symptoms about these fracture. A fracture of the...