Ganglion cell tumors (GCT) are divided into two subtypes : gangliocytoma and ganglioglioma. Intramedullary gangliocytomas are extremely rare. A 20-year-old male patient with pain of neck, who also had a previously known neuroendocrine tumor of lung, was operated for mass found in the cervicomedullary junction with a presumptive diagnosis of metastases. Only partial resection could be performed....

Surgery for spinal intramedullary tumors remains one of the major challenges for neurosurgeons, due to their relative infrequency, unknown natural history, and surgical difficulty. We are sure that safe and precise resection of spinal intramedullary tumors, particularly encapsulated benign tumors, can result in acceptable or satisfactory postoperative outcomes. General surgical concepts and str...

Central neurocytoma is a rare neuroectodermal tumor found in young adults. These tumors are generally located in the lateral or third ventricles. Extraventricular neurocytoma in the spinal cord is extremely rare. We report on two patients with primary spinal neurocytomas who presented with progressive numbness and weakness in the limbs. Both patients had intramedullary masses between the medull...

A 21-year-old woman presented with an intramedullary spinal cord germinoma and a history of gait disturbance and elimination disorder. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging demonstrated two isolated lesions, one located within the medulla between T9 and T11, and another at the cauda equina (L2 to L3 levels). After partial reduction of the intramedullary mass, histological findings revealed that the t...

Twenty-six patients with suspected lesions of the spinal cord were studied before and after administration of gadolinium-DTPA to assess whether contrast enhancement was useful in the MR evaluation of intramedullary disease. Nine patients had primary tumors, six had benign syringes, three had multiple sclerosis with cord involvement, three had thrombosed vascular malformations, three had probabl...

background : femoral shaft fractures are major causes of mortality and morbidity and are managed with intramedullary nailing (imn). in this study we compared the results of open and closed nailing in femoral shaft fractures. between 1993 and 2001 we managed 136 femoral shaft fractures by imn (81 closed and 55 open nailings) methods : in 120 patients with mean age of 36.2 years. the mean time of...