[Application of expanders in surgical treatment of an infant with large myelomeningoradiculocele].

In the article authors describe application of expanders for effective closure of skin defect after surgical removal of large myelomeningoradiculocele in an infant.

[The topographic anatomical basis for ventriculosinusal shunting in hydrocephalus in nursing and young infants].

The peculiarities in the structure and topographic anatomical relations of the superior longitudinal, lateral, and sigmoid sinuses were studied on block preparations of the posterior cranial fossa of 14 children under 3 years of age who died from somatic diseases. It was shown that intrasinus inclusions preventing catheterization of the sinus (bands and septa) were absent at the junction of the first angle of the sigmoid sinus with its descending part. The authors recommend this area for shunting operation--ventriculosinusotomy--in progressive hydrocephalus.

[Surgical treatment of suprasellar cerebrospinal fluid cysts].

The authors discuss 18 child patients with suprasellar cysts containing cerebrospinal fluid; 16 of them were operated on. The following types of interventions were performed: ventriculocisternostomy, ventriculoatriostomy, excision of the cystic walls through a transventricular-transcortical, combined subfrontal and transcallosal, and only a subfrontal approaches; shunting operations--cystoatriostomy and cystoperitoneostomy. Excision of the walls of the cyst is preferable.

[Shunt surgery in occlusive processes in the posterior cranial fossa of children].

Shunting of the cerebrospinal fluid by drainage systems of various design was conducted in 64 children aged from 4 months to 14 years with occlusive processes in the posterior cranial fossa. The occlusion was caused by a tumor in 57 cases and by an arachnoid cyst in 7 cases. All children were related to the high risk group, i.

[Elastic properties of the cerebrospinal system and cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in intracranial hypertension and normotensive hydrocephalus in adults].

Time course of changes of the CSF and the elastic properties of the cerebrospinal system were studied in 25 patients with normotensive hydrocephalus and in 26 patients suffering from benign intracranial hypertension. In 66% of cases with the normotensive hydrocephalus syndrome and in 60% of those with benign intracranial hypertension CSF resorption resistance and the elasticity gradient increased. Shunting operations proved effective in such cases.