OBJECTIVE: The vertebral body is the major load bearing part of the vertebra and consists of a central trabecular core surrounded by a thin cortical shell. The aim of this in vitro biomechanical study is to determine the debated issue of load sharing in a vertebral body. METHODS: A series of non...

A retrospective study was conducted to assess the surgical outcomes of degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. Thirty-four patients treated with decompressive surgery in Departments of III. Neurosurgery, Bakırkoy Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases between 2000-2004 were reviewed. There ...

AIM: This study was designed to determine the hemodynamics of cerebrospinal fluid flow in syringomyelia patients associated with Chiari I malformation using phase-contrast velocity-encoded-cine MRI and also to find out whether treatment outcomes may be predicted by these flow measurements. MATERIAL...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this clinical study was to evaluate the benefits of ultrasonographic imaging in the surgical treatment of lower extremity peripheral nerve lesions. METHODS: Peripheral nerves in the lower extremity were evaluated by using real-time utrasonographic examination. The capabilty...

OBJECTIVE: In the present study, the clinical effectiveness of a surgical procedure in which no draining tubes are installed following simple burr hole drainage and saline irrigation is investigated. METHODS: 10 patients, having undergone operative intervention for unilateral chronic subdural he...

AIMS: The goal of this clinical study was to evaluate the capability of intraoperative ultrasonographical examination to demonstrate the sectioning of the transverse carpal ligament during open surgical treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome with limited uni skin incision (mini skin incision technique)...

Spinal schwannomas are benign tumors arising from spinal nerve root sheaths. These are the most common intradural exramedullary spinal tumous. Schwannomas are mostly solid or heterogenous solid tumors. Cystic schwannomas are rare lesions. We present a 27-year-old woman with an intradural extrame...

We report a case of toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE) in a young woman without prior history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. She was referred to our clinic with a diagnosis of multiple metastases following cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealing multiple ring-enhanced mas...

Approximately 9 to 15% arachnoid cysts occur in the sellar or suprasellar region. The optimal management of symptomatic suprasellar cysts continues to pose a challenge to neurosurgeons. This case report describes a patient with a suprasellar arachnoid cyst who presented at the age of 3 and was fo...

The diagnosis and management of acute subdural hematoma is important in neurosurgery practice. Rapid spontaneous resolution of acute subdural hematoma within a few hours is seen rarely on the CT scan. We present a case that enlarged the existent subdural hygroma showing rapid resolution of acute ...

Idiopathic transverse myelitis is a monophasic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and its recurrence is a rare entity. Existence of syringomyelia in the spinal cord in inflammatory CNS disease is not usually encountered. This case study describes a 45-year-old man who was admi...

OBJECTIVE: To describe a way to increase the exposure for L5-S1 neurofibroma extending to presacral area. Summary of Background Data: Since the neurofibromas of L5-S1 level generally extend to the extraforaminal and presacral area, their resection is difficult compared to other lumbar levels. METH...