Objective. Subdural hygroma is reported to occur in 5%-20% of all patients with closed head trauma, the treatment is controversial and in symptomatic cases surgical drainage is need. We report on a new case with remote acute epidural hematoma (AEH) after subdural hygroma drainage. Case Presentation. A 38-year-old man suffered blunt head trauma and had diffuse axonal injury grade III in CT scan....

The effect of adding 6% dextran to a lignocaine solution containing adrenaline was studied in 27 neurosurgical patients during modified neuroleptanaesthesia. Before trepanation they received infiltration anaesthesia of the scalp at the site of the proposed operation. For a period of 1 h following injection plasma concentrations of adrenaline were measured by high pressure liquid chromatography ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the key predictive factors of radiation-induced cranial nerve palsy in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHOD AND MATERIALS From November 1998 to December 2007, all consecutive patients with newly diagnosed NPC who were curatively treated with radiotherapy and subsequently developed radiation-induced cranial nerve palsy (RICNP) were included in our study. ...

the autonomic nervous system consists of a vast range of nerves and ganglions. anatomical studies have demonstrated that the sympathetic innervations of the head and neck are affected by the neurons that ramify from the cranial cervical ganglion (ccg). the ccg is the end of the sympathetic cervical trunk, which runs with the vagal nerve during its cervical course. in this study sixteen adult (2...

  Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a common childhood infectious disease in developing countries. It may be associated with various life threatening intra-cranial or extra-cranial complications. We report a 10 year-male child with a rare combination of right sided unsafe CSOM, mastoiditis, Bezold abscess, sigmoid and transverse sinus thrombosis, and bilateral abducens nerve palsy and ...