BACKGROUND Posterior clinoid process (PCP) meningiomas are rare lesions. In close proximity to these lesions are the perforators from internal carotid artery and the oculomotor nerve, which need to be considered while deciding the appropriate surgical approach. CASE DESCRIPTION We describe a basal frontotemporo-orbito-zygomatic approach with splitting of the sylvian fissure to resect an eccen...

Central nervous system manifestations are common in infants suffering from protein energy malnutrition. Computed tomography was used to search for pathology in the brain that might explain these symptoms. Subjects were 40 infants with protein malnutrition. All had mental symptoms. The bifrontal index was taken as the best parameter for measuring central atrophy, and the width of the sylvian fis...

Twenty-two normal preterm and 10 full-term infants were studied by cranial computed tomography. The study included correlation of the gestational age and birth weight to the ventricular size, brain size, and the area of the sylvian fissure. The most relevant parameters were the bifrontal diameter, bifrontal index, and the transverse diameter of the brain. The incidence of visualization of the s...

The clinical significance of traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (TSAH) was studied in 20 head-injured patients. They were classified into mild (9) and severe (11) groups by their initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores. TSAH detected by computed tomography was localized in the Sylvian fissure in four of the nine mild group patients, but was also found in other basal subarachnoid cisterns in the ...

A retrograde approach to aneurysms located at the middle cerebral artery bifurcation which uses the superficial Sylvian veins as landmarks is described. Fifty patients with 51 aneurysms were operated on using this technique. This method made it easier for surgeons to decide where to enter the Sylvian fissure for dissection of the middle cerebral artery branches and to secure the parent artery.

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Sudakshina Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600072, India. E-Mail: [email protected] *1 Assistant Professor, 2 Professor. Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Medical College & Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Introduction: Language areas of brain show a beautiful anatomico-functional correlation. It has been often ass...

Melancholic depression is a biologically homogeneous clinical entity in which structural brain alterations have been described. Interestingly, reports of structural alterations in melancholia include volume increases in Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) spaces. However, there are no previous reports of CSF volume alterations using automated whole-brain voxel-wise approaches, as tissue classification a...

Intracranial lipomas are congenital malformations. These uncommon lesions have an incidence of 0.1 to 1.7% of all intracranial tumors. Most cases are located at midline and 5% are along the sylvian fissures. If symptomatic, seizures are the most common symptom. These tumors are slow growing and have favorable outcome. We report a case of a 25-year-old man whose CT and MRI revealed a lesion in r...