A 74-year-old female presented to an outside medical facility with gradual decline in neurological status over a period of 6 to 8 weeks. The patient’s symptoms began with headache and progressed to confusion, altered sensorium, escalating ataxia, and expressive aphasia. The patient was transferred to our medical center. Review of the patient’s past medical history was negative for head trauma, ...

Technical advances in neurosurgery follow a general philosophy favouring less invasive means of managing surgical disease. We describe a patient with a symptomatic type I Chiari malformation managed by posterior fossa decompression using endoscopic techniques. Technical considerations, including drawbacks of the procedure, are discussed.

SUMMARY Continuous electrocardiography was performed during eighty operations on the posterior fossa of the skull and fifty-seven other neurosurgical operations, all in the sitting position. There was little difference between the two groups in the incidence of arrhythmia before operation and during the surgical approach; more serious irregularities were almost entirely confined to periods when...

Posterior fossa extradural haematoma is known for the vague signs and symptoms and a notorious course that varies from recovery to sudden death. The incidence of posterior fossa epidural hematomas among intracranial epidural hematomas has been reported from 4% to 7%. Subsequently, PFEDH with low GCS or the haematoma of more than 10 ml were subjected to evacuation. Since the volume of the poster...

DECLARATION This thesis titled " Posterior Fossa Giant Solid Hemangioblastomas " is a consolidated report based on a bonafide study of the Department of Neurosurgery, has been invaluable and I am extremely grateful and indebted for his contributions and suggestions, which were of invaluable help during the entire work. He will always be a constant source of inspiration to me. I owe a deep sense...

It is well known that head injuries with a linear skull fracture in infancy sometimes cause a growing skull fracture') with or with out a leptomeningeal cyst.') This condition, however, is mainly located in the supratentorial portion of the cranium. Leptomeningeal cysts in the posterior fossa are rare, and to our knowledge, there have been only four cases reported in the literature. The leptome...

A series of 6 patients with arachnoid cysts of the posterior fossa who were treated surgically is presented. The diagnosis of the nature of the lesion and of the exact location within the posterior fossa could not be established on a clinical basis. CT scanning is the best method for diagnosing the lesion and for observing the postoperative evolution. Treatment consisted of removing the cyst wa...

OBJECTIVES The central location and complex neurovascular structures of the posterior cranial fossa make tumor resection in this region challenging. The traditional surgical approach is a suboccipital craniotomy using a microscope for visualization. This approach necessitates a large surgical window and cerebellar retraction, which can result in patient morbidity. With the advances in endoscopi...