Survival Outcome and Prognostic Factors of Primary Spinal Cord Lymphoma.

Aim: To identify the predictive factors associated with the survival of patients with a diagnosis of primary spinal cord lymphoma (PSCL).

Material And Methods: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was used in this study, which involved 254 patients with PSCL. Data on the patients' age, sex, race, pathology, Ann Arbor stage, adjuvant therapy, and year of diagnosis were collected.

Successful treatment of a massive sinus thrombosis in a Chinese woman with antithrombin III deficiency: a case report and review of the literature.

: The incidence of antithrombin III (AT III) deficiency is very rare. The most common complication of AT III deficiency is deep venous thrombosis, which causes a low incidence of intracranial sinus thrombosis. We presented a 31-year-old Chinese woman patient who had a family history of AT III deficiency admitted to our hospital.

[Complications of endoscopic third ventriculostomy for hydrocephalus].

Objective: To explore the complications of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for hydrocephalus and examine their preventions.

Methods: From September 2008 to September 2013, ETV was offered for obstructive hydrocephalus (n=15) and communicating hydrocephalus (n=5). And the prevention and treatment of common complications were analyzed.