A select group of patients should be considered for primary surgical excision of AVM, specially those where excision will not lead to added deficit. To achieve that some neurosurgeons haqve to special ...
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A common case scenerio- see pictures and opine
A 54 years old male presented with upper motor neuron quadriparesis and neck pain of insidious onset for last one month. He had received 6 months treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis one year back. Th ...
STICH II (Surgical Trial in Lobar Intracerebral Haemorrhage) recruiting patients
We got the following information from Miss Gillian Kenyon, STICH II Secretary:
The Rules of the Game
In the first chapter of Frank Vertosicks book “When the Air Hits Your Brain” an older colleague tells him the following rules of neurosurgery during his first day as a resident: 1. You ain ...
Simple surgical technique for brain tumour surgery
A 21 years old man presented with features of raised intracranial pressure. Right temporal trephine craniotomy was done with 5.25 cm trephine( having adjustable dura guard). Epidermoid was excised rad ...
i-Neurosurgery
Three apples- one eaten, one falling and one bitten have changed the whole world. If you have to make, it is not necessary that your parents have to be rich and famous, Mr Obama and Mr Steve Jobs prov ...
Ideal surgery for Chiari-1 with syringomyelia.
Preoperative MRI of a 14 years old boy showing tonsils below foramen magnum and syrinx extending from cervical to lower dorsal spinal cord.
Minimal Invasive Neurosurgery
These are pictures of a female child showing characterstic suprasellar epidermoid with hydrocephalus. The diagnosis is apparent because of nonenhancing nature, restricted diffusion and the site of tum ...
Neurosurgery- a high risk career
The article in NEJM from MGH. Boston, highlights the high risk associated with practice of neurosurgery as a speciality. My own thinking on this subject is as follows-"99% Risk of being sued, 100 ...
Large tumor in young woman - how would you proceed?
On of our members has uploaded the following case:
