Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of mortality in developed countries. Cerebral parenchymal injury is evidenced by a significant percentage of patients. The most important structural lesion of the brain is the cerebral contusion, which is a complex and dynamic area, a result of the primary lesion and which is associated with ischemic and inflammatory phenomena that need to be known by the...

Direct cortical stimulation (DCS) is an intraoperative technique that uses electrodes placed directly on the exposed cortical surface of the brain to stimulate activity of functional areas by simultaneously recording the evoked responses peripherally. DCS is very precise and re‐ liable and can be considered the gold standard in brain mapping and intraoperative func‐ tional monitoring. Neverthel...

gamma knife is a new noninvasive method for treatment of patient with brain tumors. ‎another name of this procedure is steriotatic radiosurgery.‎‏ ‏this computerized advanced ‎technique was implicated by a team including neurosurgeon, neuroradialogist, oncologist, and ‎a nurse. this method is used for treatment of certain brain tumors and lesions. the benefits are ‎low risk of postoperative com...

The aim of the study is to develop an algorithm for diagnosing cavernous malformations (CM) functionally significant brain localizations. Material and methods. During randomization exclusion patients from general sample (329 patients) 69 were included in study. Patients divided into control groups. Results. Methods preoperative intraoperative diagnostic examinations with CM localizations, inclu...

Patients who undergo transsphenoidal pituitary tumor resection require a multidisciplinary team approach, consisting of a neurosurgeon, an endocrinologist, and nurses. Successful transsphenoidal surgery needs expert nursing care for early identification and prompt treatment of pituitary dysfunction and neurosurgical complications. Pituitary dysfunction includes adrenal insufficiency, diabetes i...

Streamline representation of major fiber tract systems along with high-resolution anatomical data provides a reliable orientation for the neurosurgeon. For direct visualization of these data in the surgical field applying heads-up displays of operating microscopes, wrapping of all streamlines of interest to render an individual object representing the whole fiber bundle is mandatory. Integratio...

A. H. Kaye, FRACS, Neurosurgery Senior Registrar M. Briggs, MSc, FRCS, Consultant Neurosurgeon Department of Neurological Surgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England. Requests for reprints should be sent to Mr A. H. Kaye. © 1982 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery 0301-620X/82/4086-0500 $2.00 Case 2. Computerised tomographic scan showing an intracerebral lesion in the left tem...

This book is aimed at the non-neurosurgeon involved in the immediate care of the head-injured patient. Written by neurosurgeons practicing in Malaysia and Australia, it draws heavily on North American and UK guidelines. The stated aim of the book is to provide advice to non-specialist clinicians, particularly in developing countries, who can use the evidencebased information in the book to deve...

For a pediatric neurosurgeon, one of the most frustrating experiences is managing a child with brainstem glioma. With a median survival of less than 12 months, these children are often managed with radiation therapy and sometimes with chemotherapy. Most tumors in the pediatric population are of diffuse variety (60-75% of the brainstem tumors) occurring in the pons and only a selective percentag...