Background: Skull fractures are very serious type of trauma occurring in 15% severe head injuries, and there is a consistent association between the presence cranial fracture higher incidence intracranial lesions, neurological deficit, poor outcome. Objectives were to study various patterns skull associated injuries. Methods: A prospective case series 50 patients with due injury was selected fr...

The authors describe the surgical anatomy for the endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA) to the ventrolateral skull base. The ventrolateral skull base can be divided into two segments: the upper lateral and lower lateral skull base. The upper lateral skull base includes the cavernous sinus and the orbit, while the lower lateral skull base includes the petrous apex, Meckel's cave, parapharyngeal sp...

BACKGROUND Cervical facet dislocation is the anterior displacement of one cervical vertebral body on another. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of skull traction through an anterior cervical approach in the treatment of severe lower cervical facet dislocation without vertebral body fracture. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty subjects with severe lower cervical facet dislocati...

Cerebral venous air embolism is sometimes caused by head trauma. One of the paths of air entry is considered a skull fracture. We report a case of cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma. The patient was a 55-year-old man who fell and hit his head. A head computed tomography (CT) scan showed the air in the superior sagittal sinus; however, no skull fractures were detected. Follow-up ...

A 15-year-old girl with right tibial osteosarcoma, diagnosed 22 months previously, developed right orbital and skull base metastases, with symptoms including painful protrusion of the right eyeball and severe visual impairment. She underwent embolization of the metastatic tumor, local irradiation, and chemotherapy followed by intralesional resection of the mass because extensive involvement of ...

AIM Compound elevated fracture of the skull is an unusual variety of fracture of the cranial vault that has been rarely described in the currently available literature. The authors describe three such patients with post-traumatic compound elevated skull fracture. The pertinent literature is reviewed, the injury mechanism is highlighted and the management issues are discussed in detail. CASE D...

A 73-year-old man presented with a loss of consciousness. He was comatose at the time of admission with a GCS of 5 and no localized neurological signs. Medical records indicated that the patient had undergone surgical treatment for esophageal carcinoma 2 years previously. Metastases developed in the reconstructed stomach tube and middle esophagus 6 months after surgery, and the patient had ther...

Purpose To report a case presenting with bitemporal hemianopia due to traumatic chiasmal syndrome after head injury, and to compare the findings with individual case reports published in the literature. Methods A detailed search was made in PubMed, MedIND, Taylor and Francis online and Wiley online library databases for individual case reports of traumatic chiasmal syndrome. All the case repo...