Publications by authors named "Awadesh K Jaiswal"
Article Synopsis
- - This study focuses on rare cervical sympathetic chain schwannomas (CSCS), aiming to find radiological indicators that could prevent misdiagnosis and help in choosing surgical methods based on tumor characteristics.
- - Researchers analyzed 21 cases, classifying tumors based on their proximity to the carotid sheath, which helped correlate with surgical procedures like vessel ligation and outcomes.
- - Results showed a strong agreement among radiologists on a new tumor classification, highlighting that tumor type influences the need for artery ligation and postoperative complications, underscoring the importance of effective preoperative planning.
Background: Patients with a renal transplant are an ever-increasing demographic. Their life expectancy is also on the rise and thus malignancies or tumors in these cases are more frequent. These patients are often on immunosuppressive drugs that are known to cause changes in the microvasculature, especially of the deep white matter.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dysraphic lesions in adults, presenting clinically as tethered cord syndrome (TCS), are relatively rare, and their optimal management remains controversial.
Patients And Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of our pediatric database over a period of last 7 years to focus on the adult TCS. Our aim was to determine the clinicoradiological and etiopathological differences between adult and pediatric patients as well as to determine the results of surgery in adult TCS.
Background: The outcome associated with the treatment of poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is rather discouraging. Even then, some patients may survive; however, the long-term outcomes and the patterns of recovery of these survivors have not received much attention in the literature.
Methods: A total of 85 patients (mean age 53.
Objective: To study factors influencing oro-facial herpetic eruptions (HEs) in patients undergoing retromastoid suboccipital craniectomy for vestibular schwannomas (VS).
Methods: A retrospective analysis of the prospectively collected database (from July 2014 to December 2015). A total of 87 patients underwent retromastoid suboccipital craniectomy for VS at our center.
Xanthogranuloma is a rare lesion of the sellar-suprasellar region. We describe a case of suprasellar xanthogranuloma in whom serial MRI revealed features that have not been previously described--development of dural tail, vascular encasement and intra-axial lesions in posterior fossa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFlntracranial mesenchymal chondrosarcomas (MC) and especially those that originate in brain parenchyma, are rare. A diagnosis of MC can be challenging to make on squash cytology. We describe cytomoprhology of solid cystic extraskeletal intraparenchymal MC in a 22-year-old male.
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- A 55-year-old woman presented with simultaneous congenital irreducible atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) and a cervical intramedullary astrocytoma, leading to severe neurological symptoms like spastic quadriparesis and pain.
- Lateral radiographs and MRI confirmed AAD and the presence of a tumor in the cervical spine, prompting surgical intervention including suboccipital craniectomy and laminectomy to relieve pressure on the spinal cord.
- Post-surgery, while some symptoms improved, issues like quadriparesis and sphincter disturbances persisted, but the structural stability of the spine was successfully maintained.
Background: The occipitocervical contoured rod (CR) stabilization for use in craniovertebral junction (CVJ) pathologies is an effective and economical technique of posterior fusion (PF).
Aims: The various indications for CR in CVJ pathologies are discussed.
Settings And Design: Retrospective analysis.
Object: Clinicoradiological differences and outcome following surgery in pediatric patients (< or = 16 years of age) with congenital irreducible atlantoaxial dislocation (IAAD) and reducible atlantoaxial dislocation (RAAD) were analyzed.
Methods: Ninety-six patients (57 with IAAD and 39 with RAAD) were categorized as follows: Grade I, no deficits except hyperreflexia or neck pain (six patients); Grade II, minor deficits but independent for activities of daily living (25); Grade III, partially dependent (30); and Grade IV, totally dependent (35). Patients with RAAD underwent direct posterior fusion, and those with IAAD were treated with transoral decompression and posterior fusion.