In the field of neurosurgery, like in other surgical specialties, the last decades have brought major achievements. The series of revolutionary discoveries has started during the last century in the fifties, with stereotactic radiosurgery, then continued with the implementation of operative microscope (during the seventies), the endovascular embolisation in the nineties and finally with the maj...

1 Staff of Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2 Staff of Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3 Supervisor of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 4 Coordinator of Multidisciplinary ...

1 Division of Neurosurgery, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2 Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, MO, United States, 4 Department of Neurosurgery, University o...

This overview of neurosurgery in India during the last six decades gives a holistic perspective of the phenomenal advances made. Neurosurgical education, the change in clinical spectrum of diseases and their presentation, evolution of various subspecialties and societies, the state of research, the issues peculiar to India, including the urban-rural health divide, the increasing role of informa...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Koc University Medical School, Sariyer, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey 2 Engineering Center for Orthopaedic Research Excellence (E-CORE), Departments of Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Colleges of Engineering and Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA 3Departments of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Bilim University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Spine...

Santa Casa Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medical Science of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil: Resident of Neurosurgery; Professor of Neurosurgery; Neurologist at Biocor Hospital; Neurosurgeon. Spontaneous epidural hematoma (SEH) is a rare condition, which, in most cases, requires surgical treatment due to neurological worsening that occurs within the first 12 hours aft...