Metallic foreign bodies of brain ventricles.

Unlabelled: Head injuries are often associated with intracranial foreign bodies that require decision making on the need for certain surgical treatment. Intraventricular foreign bodies are rare, so the question of surgical tactics is still open.

Objective: To summarize the experience of treating the wounded with intraventricular foreign bodies.

Isolated hypoglossal nerve neuropathy in vertebral dolichoectasia: Microvascular decompression by vessel transposition with Teflon cuff.

Background: A clinical case of isolated unilateral hypoglossal nerve (HN) neuropathy, which spontaneously occurred from vertebral artery dolichoectasia and was cured by a new method of microvascular decompression by transposition of the vertebral artery using the Teflon cuff.

Case Description: A young patient with an anamnesis of the disease for more than 4 years and complaints of a deviation of the tongue to the right and dysarthria was examined. MRI of the brain revealed compression of the medulla oblongata by an elongated, dilated, and deformed right vertebral artery.

[Stereotactic photodynamic therapy for recurrent glioblastoma. Case report and literature review].

We report a patient with recurrent glioblastoma in eloquent brain area. Stereotactic fluorescence biospectroscopy and stereotactic photodynamic therapy of tumor in opercular area of the left frontal lobe under neurophysiological monitoring were carried out. Literature data on this issue were analyzed.

[Tomography findings in optic nerve head and retina in differential diagnosis between normal-tension glaucoma and ischemic optic neuropathies].

Aim: to determine tomography findings in optic nerve head (ONH) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RFNL) that may be valuable for differential diagnosis between normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) and ischemic optic neuropathy (ION) outcome.

Material And Methods: Group 1 consisted of 17 patients (32 eyes) with NTG, group 2--17 patients (24 eyes) with ION outcome. The control group included 22 patients (22 eyes) with no sighs of optic neuropathy.

[Effects of blood flow properties on ocular hemodynamics].

Aim: to study the effects of blood rheology on ocular blood flow (OBF) parameters and estimated individual normal range of intraocular pressure (IOP).

Material And Methods: A total of 15 patients (15 eyes) taking warfarin were enrolled. Volumetric parameters and linear velocity of OBF under warfarin treatment and after its cessation were obtained by means of flowmetry (Paradigm's Blood Flow Analyzer) and color Doppler flow mapping (Voluson 730), respectively.