Neurosurgeons have long used various image-guided systems, such as fluoroscopy, ultrasound, and threedimensional (3-D) stereotaxy in an attempt to more accurately localize intracranial targets (34). The development of advanced neuroimaging techniques over the years has provided the neurosurgeon with increasingly more accurate and precise tools to aid in the microsurgical treatment of intracrani...

BACKGROUND An intrathoracic meningocele is a relatively rare disease, and it commonly accompanies neurofibromatosis type 1. Patients tend to have no symptom but if its size is too large and compresses a lung and neighboring organs, it needs shunt drainage or surgical resection. CASE PRESENTATION Herein, we present the case of a 52 year-old female patient with huge intrathoracic meningoceles a...

World-renowned neurosurgeon, Professor Saleem Abdulrauf, has been featured in several medical journals for his successful "Awake Brain Aneurysm Surgery". Regarded as a "world first", this surgery, involves clipping un-ruptured brain aneurysms while patients are awake. Only one or two neurosurgery centres worldwide are capable of this. Performing the surgery while the patient is awake lowers ris...

background: the key challenge is how to encourage and retain health professionals in their work location. there is a list of policy options for the purpose but applying an appropriate and effective set of strategies requires a country level research. our study aimed to identify retention strategies for neurosurgeons and examine both the importance and feasibility of the identified strategies us...

Ž . A decision support system for the prognosis at 24 h of head-injured patients of the intensive care unit ICU , based on Ž . Bayesian belief networks, is constructed by model selection methods applied to a database 637 cases of seven clinical and laboratory variables. Its performance is compared to other systems, including a simpler belief network that assumes conditional independence among t...

Hydrocephalus is a common problem in Neurosurgery and Neurology. The usual treatment is the installation of a Ventricular Peritoneal Shunt (VPS). Infection is the most frequent and serious complication. With the aim to identify risk factors associated with infection in the post surgery of VPS in pediatric patients from Carlos Van Buren Hospital a case control study between 1998-2008 was done. C...

The decision to transfer a patient with a head injury to a neurosurgical department is usually made during a referral telephone call. The referring doctor describes the patient's condition to the neurosurgeon who then decides whether or not the patient needs to be transferred. Failure to inform the neurosurgeon adequately, may result in a disastrous decision to transfer an unstable patient. Alt...