E-ISSN: 1019-5157
ISSN: 2651-5024
Vol. 13, Issue 1 (2003)
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Original Investigation
Giving opportunity to avoid placement of shunt systems, endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) has revolutionized the management of hydrocephalus. With increasing experience, indications for ETV are being continuously reviewed and expanded. We report a retrospective analysis of our experience with 4...
Objective: There has been much progress in spinal surgery over the past two decades. These advances have increased the quality and number of spine-related studies, and the number of papers presented at annual meetings of neurosurgical societies. The Spinal Surgery Section (SSS) of the Turkish Neuros...
Object: Free oxygen radicals play a major role in the pathophysiology of central nervous system (CNS) trauma, neurodegeneration and aging. Aminophylline, an antiasthmatic drug, was shown to exert some free radical scavenging effect on lung tissue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the fre...
Pages: 014-019
Objective: Damage to the vascular endothelium is considered to be an important factor in the development of cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Studies have shown that hemolysate causes structural and functional injury in cultured cerebral endothelial cells. Mexilitine is an anti-arrhy...
Pages: 020-025
Objective: Neuroendoscopic aqueductoplasty presents an effective alternative to third ventriculostomy for the treatment of hydrocephalus caused by stenosis of the aqueduct of Sylvius. There have been few reports in the past decade with promising results. Here we report our preliminary experience, de...
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine sialic acid levels in brain tissue with vasogenic edema due to experimental focal freeze injury.
Methods: Thirty-seven male Wistar-Albino rats were divided into an edema group (n=30) and a control group (n=7). Animals in the edema group were subjecte...
Case Report
Pages: 033-035
This technical note describes a surgical technique than can be used to reconstruct the craniotomy flap in cases of severe brain swelling. Extensive craniotomy with duraplasty and drilling of the inner table of the craniotomy bone flap are the main features of the method. In appropriate cases, this t...
Lumbar discectomy is the most used operative technique at neurosurgery clinics around the world. The complications of lumbar disc operation include infections, dural tear, bleeding, vascular and intestinal injuries. Infectious complications of lumbar disc surgery are superficial and profound tissue ...
Pages: 042-046
An unusual case of spinal dysraphism in a 74 year old woman is reported. Patient was presented with slight lumbar pain and diagnosed coincidentally. Neurological examination was normal. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed tethered spinal cord, diastematomyelia, terminal syringomiyelia, and deg...
Pages: 047-048
A patient disclossed a saccular anterior communicating aneurysm and a frontobasal venous angioma was presented. Up to our knowledge this condition is rare and a common embryogenetic origin can not be hypothesized. It may have clinical significance during determination of the surgery.
Aberrant regeneration of the third cranial nerve is a well-known condition that can develop after head trauma or intracranial aneurysms. Horizontal gaze-eyelid synkinesis, pseudo-V on Graefe phenomenon, and limited elevation and depression of the eyelid with retraction of the globe are common signs ...
In this report we presented a case of an intracranial foreign body granuloma found in a 54-yearold female patient 10 year after she underwent a craniotomy for a right fronto-temporal convexity meningioma. While recurrence of meningioma is well known, foreign-body granuloma is a very rare intracrania...
Pages: 057-060
McCune-Albright syndrome is a specific category of fibrous dysplasia in which the majority of cases feature craniofacial involvement. Mucoceles sometimes accompany this rare condition. This report describes a patient with McCune-Albright syndrome who had a giant mucocele within the dysplastic fibrou...
Pages: 061-066
The authors presented two patients with suggestive of intracranial cystic masses in magnetic resonance imaging whose neurologic deficits completely disappeared without surgical treatment. The first patient was a male teenager who experienced sudden neurologic deficits five years ago and MRI showed a...
Pages: 067-071
Objectives: Striopallidodentate calcinosis is a relatively rare pathological condition encountered in neurological practice that presents with a range of clinical symptoms. Often this lesion is first detected as an incidental finding on radiological examination.
Patients and Methods: We report two...