Interesting case of lumbar disk rupture: duplicated right S1 nerve root with free disk sequester between inner root and dural sac.[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkBCZNKBSH8 480x385]http://www.y ...
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Laterally placed medulloblastoma in a young primagravida
Certain brain tumours like meningiomas can acutely present in pregnant females. This 19 years old primagravida had acute onset of severe headache and altered sensorium in 2nd trimester of preganancy. ...
Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
In Stroke 2010;41:2108-2129 Morgenstern et al. present recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrghage. The paper can be found here. I have tried to extract re ...
medullary atrophy and D7-D8 pseudocyst
A 66 year-old woman presented with spastic paraparesis and spastic-ataxic gait. She experienced a worsening in the last 3 months. What to do?
Suggest management
These are pictures of a 2 years old boy who was brought to doctor because his head appeared to be large. His head circumference is 54 cm. He has no neurological deficit and has no evidence of birth de ...
Prone position for posterior 3rd ventricular tumour
The classical infratentorial supracerebellar approach to posterior 3rd ventricular tumour is done in sitting position. The original approach was desribed by Victor Horseley and later by Krause. Stein ...
Vestibular Schwanoma
> Vestibular schwanoma is the most appropriate name for 8th nerve tumours arising in cerebellopontine angle. As the tumour grows it not only causes deafness but also involves 7th and 5th nerves. Ce ...
Can we prevent this?
A 14 years old boy sustained head injury as result of a brick accidently striking his head at a construction site. First NCCT head within few hours shows a small right frontal extradural haematoma. As ...
Cost effective and fast craniotomy in Meningiomas.
Trephine craniotomy is the fastest way to open the cranium. Trephine can be made almost on any part of skull. William B Scoville was a pioneer in practicing trephine craniotomy. His visit to Vellore i ...
See images of an infant who presented with large head
Bottom 2 images show posterior 3rd ventricular lesion with hydrocephalus. Rest of images reveal ventricular size reduction after endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
