background neurosurgical treatment and the severity of head injury (hi) can have remarkable effect on patients’ neuropsychiatric outcomes. objectives this research aimed to study the effect of these factors on cognitive functioning, general health and incidence of mental disorders in patients with a traumatic brain injury (tbi). patients and methods in this descriptive, longitudinal study, 206 ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan 2 Faculty of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan 3Department of Neurosurgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA 4Departments of Neurosurgery, Physiology, and Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine,...

Nanotechnology define the science and engineering providing entirely new tools and capabilities, concerned with the design, synthesis, characterization and application of materials and devices that have a functional organization in at least 1 dimension on the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) capable to interact with cells and tissues at a molecular sub cellular level with a high degree of f...

Neurosurgery journals have played an active role in improving the quality of the neurosurgical literature. This role has expanded to improve the quality of care by incorporating an evidence-based view of neurosurgery practice. Neurosurgery journals have facilitated the organization of knowledge into clinically useful forms via the publication of meta-analyses and dissemination of clinical pract...

Turgay BULUT, Mehmet Ali EKİCİ*, Bülent TUCER, Seyit Kaan BAŞARSLAN, Kağan KAMAŞAK, Ali KURTSOY Department of Neurosurgery, Kayseri Training and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey Department of Neurosurgery, Şevket Yılmaz Training and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medic...

Introduction: Infective endocarditis is well known to produce neurologic complications from septic emboli, which mandates a multidisciplinary approach between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. However, literature is not clear as to the optimal interval length between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.Presentation of Cases: The first case involves a 60-year-old woman with significant past medical...