objective ultrasonography is among the most general evaluating methods for central nervous system (cns) assessment, especially for detecting extra axial collection via anterior fontanel. there are few studies showing values of this technique in normal developing infants for detection of subarachnoid space width. association between age and sex and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) spaces are controvers...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa spinal hematoma is a rare and usually severe neurological disorder that, without adequate treatment, often leads to death or permanent neurological deficit. epidural as well as subdural and subarachnoid hematomas have been investigated in some studies. a 66-year-old man referred to our hospital because of acute onset paraplegia and incontinency star...

lumbar puncture is one of the most common methods for assessment of central nervous system. allen is illustrating the role of nurses in relation to probable fears about this technique. question: what is lumbar puncture? answer: this technique is proper method that one needle and trocar enter to subarachnoid space in lumbar spine. this method is most common diagnostic test for central nervous sy...

Acute traumatic brain injury is a worldwide public health crisis. Post-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a finding that is present at a frequency of 40% according to data from American TCDB (1,2). Among the mechanisms that have been implicated as causes of post-traumatic SAH is the cortical bleeding through the subarachnoid space. It is estimated that the incidence of post-traumatic SA...

The need for information about the fate of a spinal anaesthetic after its introduction into the spinal theca was early recognized (Miller, 1901), but many years elapsed before the problem was seriously studied by a number of workers, including Stout (1929), Kustner and Eissner (1930), Koster et al. (1936, 1938, 1939), Bullock and Macdonald (1938), and Shields (1942). In the main these workers a...