Publications by authors named "C Baurand"

Therapeutic indications vary in patients with a malignant glioma of the brain and must be envisaged differently according to whether the patients is operable or not. These are the following possibilities according to previously defined criteria:

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The authors report their experience about 60 patients who suffered of a spondylolisthesis and who were treated by a surgical procedure. A posterior approach has been used for all the patients. After a brief review of the clinical and radiological features of the disease, the authors emphazise the advantages of the posterior approach; only this technique allows a correct access both to the bone and the nerve roots lesions.

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About 4 cases of arterio-veinous malformations located within the occipito-cerebello-mesencephalic dihedral (which is this region of the brain including the cistern of Galen and the surrounding formations : the quadrigeminal bodies forwards, the splenium of the corpus callosum upwards, the upper face of the cerebellum and the pedonculus cerebellaris superior below) the authors related their own experience. These 4 cases are detailed from a clinical point of view. Them, a synthetic study is undertaken in which a comparison is done between the literature and the clinical features encountered : headache, sub-archnoid hemorrhage, impairment of consciousness, clinical features such as cranial nerve impairment, nystagmus motor impairment, cerebellar deficit, hydrocephaly.

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