Endoscopic third ventriculostom ...
Background Osteopetrosis is a heterogenous group of disorders characterised by a failure of normal bone maturation and abnormal bone sclerosis secon ...
Decreased incidence of myelomen ...
birth rate has focused on two areas: folic acid supplementation (1997) and changes in the national ultrasonography screening programme (2004). Myelo ...
Pediatric low-grade glioma surv ...
Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine pediatric low-grade glioma survivors' quality of life and late morbidity including motor, sensory ...
Idiopathic intracranial hyperte ...
Purpose Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a disorder associated with increased intracranial pressure without evidence of a space-occupyi ...
Morphometry of the pituitary gl ...
Purpose Chronic pituitary dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a sequela of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our aim was to rule out any late morp ...
MRI findings in children with t ...
Background Radiological studies on HIV infection in tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in children are limited to small, retrospective studies using CT fe ...
External hydrocephalus in infan ...
Purpose The cause of external hydrocephalus in infants is largely unknown. However, familial macrocephaly and delayed maturation of the arachnoid gr ...
The first posterior fossa decom ...
Over the past several decades, our understanding of the pathophysiology of hindbrain hernias has markedly increased. Additionally, with the advent o ...
Soft tissue sarcomas and centra ...
Objects We aim to evaluate the characteristics of pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who developed soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) a ...
Charles Prosper Ollivier d’Ange ...
Introduction Distinguished as an anatomist, pathologist, and clinician, the Frenchman Charles Prosper Ollivier d’Angers dedicated his life to accele ...
Tatsuji Inouye: the mind’s eye
Introduction The name Tatsuji Inouye is relatively unknown in the West. This prominent Japanese scientist was one of the first to thoroughly study t ...
SEM study on filum terminale wi ...
Objective To improve the understanding in pathology and provide steady proof for diagnosis and treatment of tethered cord syndrome (TCS), the ultras ...
Hieronymus Brunschwig (c. 1450– ...
Introduction The objective of this paper to offer an overview of the life and contributions of Hieronymus Brunschwig (also known as Jerome of Brunsw ...
The “T-construct” for spinopelv ...
15 patients treated for neuromuscular spinal deformities with an original spinopelvic construct using two sacral screws and two iliac screws. Result ...
Pediatric traumatic carotid, ve ...
Traumatic cerebral dissections are rare but potentially dangerous conditions that through improved diagnostics have recently gained increased intere ...
Transumbilical approach for ven ...
Introduction Improved cosmesis has been demonstrated using a transumbilical incision for placement of the peritoneal end of a ventriculoperitoneal s ...
Hemorrhagic moyamoya disease in ...
Objective The clinical presentation of moyamoya disease (MMD) typically includes cerebral ischemia in children and intracranial hemorrhage in adults ...
Operative treatment for microce ...
history, and physicians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries struggled to identify the etiology of this condition in order to better trea ...
Spinal anaesthesia and monitore ...
Objectives Monitored conscious sedation combined with spinal anaesthesia (MCSS) to repair myelomeningocoele (MM) has received little attention in th ...
Hydrocephalus in toddlers: the ...
of hydrocephalus in toddlers in our setting in order to determine the proportion of those who could benefit from endoscopic third ventriculostomy (E ...
Computed tomography-guided ster ...
Purpose The primary objective of this study was to report the results of author’s 18-year experience of diagnostic stereotactic biopsy procedures in ...
MGMT promoter gene methylation ...
Purpose Promoter methylation of the O6-methylguanine- DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) gene is widely recognized as an important predictive factor in th ...
Urgent surgery is needed when c ...
Purpose The phenomenon of cyst enlargement in terminal myelocystocele (TMC) patients has been mentioned in the literature. However, its clinical sig ...
Macrocephaly in neurofibromatos ...
Purpose Optic pathway gliomas, which occur in 15–20% of paediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1, are the most common central nervous syste ...
Ventriculoperitoneal shunt malf ...
Introduction Malfunction of cerebrospinal shunts is common and is due to multiple etiologies ranging from obstruction due to infiltrated brain tissu ...