A night course taken almost 25 years ago sparked an interest in Leonardo da Vinci that has become a passion for a London, Ont., neurosurgeon. Dr. Rolando Del Maestro now boasts one of the largest collections of da Vinci artifacts in North America.

Multi-agent models for virtual reality and methods of construction for intelligent man-machine interface on their base are discussed. The main results are the development of human-machine interface on the base of virtual reality models for multi-agent robotic systems, assisting to neurosurgeon, computer animated agencies and for remote monitoring and multi-agent control of large territories and...

OBJECTIVE To analyse inter-observer variation between a neuroradiologist and neurosurgeon in the MRI diagnosis of lumbar nerve root compression. Although lumbar MFI is primarily analyzed and reported by a radiologist, neurosurgeons often analyse it independently as they have sufficient clinical background as well as radiological expertise to diagnose most spinal pathologies on Magnetic Resonanc...

A case of frontal sinusitis with osteomyelitis its posterior wall producing lobe brain abscess is presented, whereby the dehiscence was exposed by external sinostomy an ENT surgeon and then, through dehiscence, drained a neurosurgeon. This uncommon technique draining where no bone craniotomy required. approach yields least damage to cerebral tissue as very close sinus drain has travel minimal i...

Introduction. The first surgical operations on the nervous system in Russia began to be carried out at end of 19th century. neurosurgical clinic Soviet was opened Petrograd basis trauma institute 1921. In late 1920s Department Neurology and Neurosurgery function Faculty Medicine North Caucasian Medical State University Rostov-on-Don. During Great Patriotic War, neurosurgery took shape as an ind...

A neurosurgeon working in a developed Western Country rarely encounters hydatid disease in his field of practice. Eight such cases were operated at Lahore-Neurosurgical Centre between December 1976 and December 1978. The need for establishing precise pre-operative etiological diagnosis is emphasized to avoid rupture and seeding at the time of operation.