E-ISSN: 1019-5157
ISSN: 2651-5024
Vol. 22, Issue 3 (2012)
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Review
Pages: 269-273
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5521-11.0
AIM: The patients who undergo neurosurgical procedures are at high risk for perioperative deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
Pharmacological prophylaxis with mechanic prophylaxis is a safe and effective way of preventing deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary
thromboembolism in neurosurgery....
Original Investigation
Pages: 274-279
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.4634-11.1
AIM: To explore the surgical effect of cerebellar tonsillectomy with suboccipital decompression and duraplasty by small surgical incision
(3~4cm around the foramina magnum) on treating Chiari I Malformation (CM I) patients.
MATERIAL and METHODS: A retrospective study was undertaken on 76 CM I pati...
Pages: 280-285
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.4879-11.1
AIM: The objective of this study was to introduce a surgical navigation method which provides a safe, quick and effective access to cortical and
subcortical tumors, along with a review of other methods in use for this purpose.
MATERIAL and METHODS: 53 patients have been operated using this techniq...
Pages: 286-293
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5133-11.0
AIM: In this paper we discuss the Neurosurgical Training Programme (NTP) in some European countries.
MATERIAL and METHODS: Although there is no official data on how many neurosurgeons are certified in Europe, our calculation shows that
this number is somewhat lower than in the United States of Ame...
Pages: 294-299
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5136-11.1
AIM: Keyhole endoscopy is a promising therapeutic option for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We sought to compare the clinical
outcomes between keyhole endoscopy surgery and craniotomy for basal ganglia ICH.
MATERIAL and METHODS: The authors performed a retrospective analysis of the cl...
Pages: 300-304
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5177-11.1
AIM: To investigate the role of erythrocyte free radical scavenging enzyme activities (FRSE), carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity and
malondialdehyde (MDA) in infants with myelomeningocele (MM).
MATERIAL and METHODS: We compared antioxidant enzyme activities and MDA level in 40 individuals (10 infant...
Pages: 305-308
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5178-11.2
AIM: This study aimed to investigate the clinicoradiological features in patients with traumatic peritentorial subdural hematomas (SDHs).
MATERIAL and METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical and radiological findings, management criteria, and outcomes in 32
patients with peritentorial SD...
Pages: 309-316
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5144-11.3
AIM: Most brain tumor patients encounter cognitive impairments. Coping with such challenges is intolerable for them. Objective: This study
tries to determine the diagnostic role of cognitive tests, CPT, Stroop and TOL, in assessing neuro-cognitive impairments among patients with
brain tumor and he...
Pages: 317-323
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5213-11.1
AIM: Surgical approaches to Meckel's cave (MC) are often technically difficult and sometimes associated with postoperative morbidity. The
relationship of surgical landmarks to relevant anatomy is important. Therefore, we attempted to delineate quantitatively their anatomy and
the relationships bet...
Pages: 324-328
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5284-11.1
AIM: To determine whether transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion aggravate adjacent segmental degeneration more adversely than anterior
lumbar interbody fusion.
MATERIAL and METHODS: A normal finite element model, an anterior lumbar interbody fusion model and a transforaminal lumbar interbody
fus...
Pages: 329-335
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5333-11.0
AIM: Traditional surgical strategies for severe brain contusion are constantly associated with variable degree of postoperative neurological
dysfunction, which is in part attributed to the location and severity of contusion. The purpose of this study was to compare and evaluate these
current surgi...
Pages: 336-340
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5460-11.0
AIM: To deal with postoperative CSF rhinorrhea, we developed a new technique using titanium/aneurysm clips to envelope the diaphragm
defect to avoid postoperative CSF rhinorrhea.
MATERIAL and METHODS: From January 2007 through December 2010, we used a new technique of clipping diaphragm defects to...
Pages: 341-345
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.5527-11.0
AIM: An image fusion of 3-dimensional (D) digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and magnetic resonance (MR) images, DSA-MR fusion, can
simultaneously visualize both information of the vasculature provided by 3D DSA and of the soft tissues provided by MR images. The authors
assessed the usefulness ...
Case Report
Pages: 346-348
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3082-10.3
Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is an extremely rare congenital anomaly, characterized with optic nerve hypoplasia and absence of septum
pellucidum and/or pituitary dysfunction. In addition to classical findings of SOD, we report for the first time an 11-year-old boy, with
encephalocele extending to t...
Pages: 349-352
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3187-10.2
We report a rare case of simultaneous cranial subarachnoid and spinal subdural hematoma (SDH) in a 42–year-old man who was on Warfarin
therapy after cardiac bypass surgery. Computed tomography at presentation revealed a cranial subarachnoid hemorrhage, and spinal Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (...
Pages: 353-359
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3389-10.1
Paraganglioma affecting the cauda equina region is very rare and can be misinterpreted as an ependymoma which is more common at this site.
A 38-year-old woman with a paraganglioma in the cauda equina is presented. MRI revealed a well-circumscribed, intradural, extramedullary
tumor nodule with the ...
Pages: 360-361
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3521-10.2
A 47-year-old female patient who experienced urinary urgency after having stretching exercises of her legs is presented. Stretching of the legs
are thought to be responsible for conus medullaris tethering which in turn causes urinary complaints. What is interesting in this case is that
her complai...
Pages: 362-364
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3553-10.2
Teratomas are rare congenital tumors. Teratomas frequently occur in adult ovaries, but can be located primarily in the sacrococcygeal zone and
intracranial compartment in newborns. Teratomas are rare in the head and neck region. Teratomas arise following a sequence of cells derived
from more than ...
Pages: 365-367
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3567-10.0
Chronic abdominal pain without a structural or metabolic gastroenterological etiology can be extremely challenging to diagnose. Patients
presenting with an associated radicular pattern of pain may alert the clinician to a possible structural neurological cause of the symptoms. We
present the case ...
Pages: 368-370
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3556-10.2
Intracranial hematoma rarely presents between two dural layers of pachimeninges. Here, we present a case of an interdural hematoma with
similar appearance to an epidural hematoma. A 51-year-old man presented with a left temporal contusion following a motor vehicle accident.
After craniotomy and co...
Pages: 371-373
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3162-10.2
Agenesis of internal carotid artery (ICA) is rare. Association of agenesis with abnormal arterial communication between the cavernous segment
of the carotid arteries is extremely rare. We present a case of a middle-aged woman who presented with sudden onset severe holocranial
headache. She was inv...
Pages: 374-377
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3634-10.0
We describe a rare case of cerebral abscess in an immunocompetent 67-year-old male with Gemella morbillorum as the causative agent.
Gemella morbillorum is an aerobic gram positive coccus and is deemed to be a normal inhabitant of the oral cavity. The aim of this report is
to introduce Gemella morb...
Pages: 378-381
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3638-10.3
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) presents a major challenge for a neurosurgeon as the most common primary malignant tumour of the central
nervous system. The median life span after the diagnosis still remains between 6 months to 1 year even after gross total excision of the
tumour. However, few patie...
Pages: 382-385
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3644-10.1
Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) associated with intra-axial tumours is extremely uncommon and is usually seen in association
with intratumoural bleed. Tumours located near the ventricle or subarachnoid spaces have a higher propensity for SAH compared to
intraparenchymal lesions. Low-grade tumours r...
Pages: 386-388
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3645-10.0
Although osteochondroma is the most common benign bone tumor, the lumbar spine is anuncommon localization for solitary osteochondroma.
Solitary lumbar osteochondromas rarely affect the neurological structures, because most of the lesions grow out of the spinal canal. We report
a 48-year-old patien...
Pages: 389-392
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3690-10.0
Osteoma is a benign, slowly growing tumor that mainly occurs in the bones and cavities of the middle third of the face, representing the most
frequent benign tumor of the paranasal sinuses (3). It rarely originates primarily from the orbit. Most of these lesions develop in the fourth to
fifth deca...
Pages: 393-397
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3771-10.0
Transorbital intracranial injuries due to a wooden foreign body traversing superior orbital fissure is an extremely rare condition. A 9-year-old
boy was struck by a tree branch in the left eye while playing in the garden two months ago. On physical examination, the patient had only a
hypertrophic ...
Letter to Editor
Pages: 398
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.4296-11.1