introduction: cardiovocal hoarseness (ortner’s syndrome) is hoarseness of voice due to recurrent laryngeal nerve involvement secondary to cardiovascular disease. recurrent laryngeal nerve in its course (especially the left side) follows a path that brings it in close proximity to numerous structures. these structures interfere with its function by pressure or by disruption of the nerve caused b...

Twenty patients with intracranial hematoma (ICH or IVH) were treated with direct infusion of urokinase through a catheter. Reduction of hematoma volume was observed within a few days. Twelve patients showed good or excellent outcome. No infection or rebleeding was observed.

Spinal epidural hematoma, a potentially devastating problem, requires rapid diagnosis and urgent surgical intervention. Two types of spinal epidural hematoma have been described in the literature: traumatic and nontraumatic.1 Traumatic spinal epidural hematoma has been attributed to spine surgery,2 epidural catheter placement,3 lumbar puncture,4 and chiropractic manipulation.5 Nontraumatic, or ...

Introduction: Cardiovocal hoarseness (Ortner’s syndrome) is hoarseness of voice due to recurrent laryngeal nerve involvement secondary to cardiovascular disease. Recurrent laryngeal nerve in its course (especially the left side) follows a path that brings it in close proximity to numerous structures. These structures interfere with its function by pressure or by disruption of the nerve caused b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Tada (ABC/2) formula has been used widely for volume assessment of intracerebral hematoma. However, the formula is crude for irregularly shaped hematoma. We aimed to compare the accuracy of the ABC/2 formula with open source software Slicer. METHODS Computed tomographic images of 294 patients with spontaneous intracerebral hematoma were collected. Hematoma volumes w...

background: intracerebral  hemorrhage (ich) is the  most fatal subtype  of stroke.  despite  limited effective therapy, there  is no  accepted clinical grading  scale to  predict  in- hospital  mortality,  especially  in developing  nations.  the purpose  of this study was to assess the  predictors  of in- hospital mortality among a sample of iranian patients  with spontaneous ich for use at th...

twenty patients with intracranial hematoma (ich or ivh) were treated with direct infusion of urokinase through a catheter. reduction of hematoma volume was observed within a few days. twelve patients showed good or excellent outcome. no infection or rebleeding was observed.

Objective: To find out the correlation between size of traumatic extradural hematoma (EDH), Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and outcome of the patients. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted in the department of Neurosurgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, from January 2004 to January 2005. Materials and Methods: Total patient...

Figure 1 CT-scan showed right frontal extra-axial collections suggesting an acute extradural hematoma (white arrows) associated to chronic subdural hematoma (black arrows). However, craniotomy showed that the supposed chronic subdural hematoma was a typical subdural empyema. This image illustrates the possible association between epidural hematoma and subdural empyema in patients with craniofac...