15. Combined Orbitofrontal Craniotomy

Awake craniotomy

From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, the Division of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Faculty of...

Awake Craniotomy: Lessons Learned

Awake craniotomy is still in its evolutionary stage and is generally successful in a highly motivated patient. The attending anesthesiologist must ensure that patient is optimally sedated and pain free yet readily arousable. In addition, it is essential to have a Plan B and C ready in case the first one fails. We adopted awake craniotomy technique in a 33 yr old male patient undergoing excision...

A Case of Craniotomy

woman, Roopa, aged 30, said to have been ill with her first confinement for 5 days and to be at the point of death. We found her a well nourished woman, of low caste, much exhausted ; her labour at full time, having come on 5 days before. By digital examination the presentation was found to be natural; the outer parts much swollen ; the pelvis small and the head firmly wedged in the same. As it...

Combined IL-15/IL-15R Immunotherapy Maximizes IL-15 Activity In Vivo

Wrong-site craniotomy.

In this is issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery, Cohen and colleagues 1 report on a systematic review of the medical and legal literature as well as media reports relating to wrong-side craniotomies. Included with their description of 35 reported cases, they have provided analysis of possible contributing factors. Not surprisingly, the most common contributing factor was a breakdown in communic...