introduction many conditions can mimic psychiatric symptoms. amongst them, intracranial mass and space occupying lesions have a significant importance. aggression and hallucination are seen in association with a basal frontal lesion, and may mimic psychotic syndromes. case presentation a 37-year-old man with no previous mental illness presented with a month history of headache, blurred vision, ...

introduction recently acinetobacter baumannii isolates have emerged as a problematic infectious agent that causes meningitis in neurosurgical patients. colistin has been used successfully for the treatment of a. baumannii meningitis but colistin resistant isolates have been reported worldwide. case presentation two isolates of a. baumannii were cultured during a five-day period from cerebrospin...

purpose: to evaluate of proton therapy (pt) for neurosurgery patients and is also to explain the need for this system in iran. methods: a literature review was conducted (1984–2016). the strategy included a combination of keywords including proton therapy, neck, neurosurgery, brain, head, tumor, spine, arteriovenous malformation (avms), cervical and spine in database of pubmed. new generation p...

Background and Aim: Brain mapping is a study of the anatomy and function of the CNS (central nervous system). Brain mapping has many techniques and these techniques are permanently changing and updating. From the beginning, brain mapping was invasive and for brain mapping, electrical stimulation of the exposed brain was needed. However, nowadays brain mapping does not require electrical stimula...

Department of Neurological Surgery, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, 4Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 1Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, 3Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angel...

Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, 1Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea, 3Department of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, MI, 4Dep...

background brain abscess is an infrequent complication of meningitis, including cases caused by gram-negative enteric bacteria and klebsiella in neonates. brain abscess in neonates associated with high morbidity and mortality.recently, incidence of the disease is increasing because of increased predisposing factors. patients and method three cases of brain abscess in neonates are reported, 2 of...

background: observational studies, rather than randomized trials, revealed that statins might be associated with other benefits. objectives: the present study aimed at evaluating the preventive effects of lovastatin when used as a prophylactic agent for early and late infective complications after surgery. patients and methods: a total of 149 patients undergoing elective intracranial and spinal...