Multiple cervical arcocristectomies for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy: surgical technique and results.

Object: In the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy, a posterior approach is recommended for patients with multilevel cervical stenosis. In this article the authors describe the multiple cervical arcocristectomy technique and results.

Methods: This surgical technique involves the removal of the upper half of the cervical laminae and was performed in 17 patients between 1997 and 2005 with a mean follow-up of 55 months.

[High flow"true" posterior communicating artery aneurysm due to hemodynamic effect in a patient with subclavian artery occlusion treated with angioplasty].

True posterior communicating artery aneurysms are extremely rare with incidence ranges from 0.1% to 2.8% of all aneurysms.

[Epidural hematoma at the vertex: case report].

We report the unusual case of a 37 years old man with an epidural traumatic hematoma at the vertex with intracranial hypertension symptoms. The diagnostic was achieved with coronal cranial tomographic scans and a craniotomy was performed for hematoma removal.

[Intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula draining into spinal cord veins: case report].

We present an usual case of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula with perimedullary and spinal cord venous plexus drainage and discuss its etiological, physiopathological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.