Microsurgical treatment of pediatric intracranial aneurysms: long-term angiographic and clinical outcomes.

Background: Pediatric aneurysms are rare and complex to treat. Long-term angiographic and clinical data after microsurgical or endovascular therapies are lacking.

Objective: To study the clinical and radiographic outcomes in aneurysms in pediatric patients treated with microsurgery.

Bacterial abscess of the medulla oblongata.

Isolated brainstem abscess, specifically, medullary abscess, is rare and often fatal. Diagnosis requires appropriate imaging and a high degree of clinical suspicion. Good outcomes are possible.

Spinal cord compression from traumatic anterior cervical pseudomeningoceles. Report of three cases.

Pseudomeningoceles rarely develop after cervical trauma; in all reported cases the lesions have extended outside the spinal canal. The authors report the first known cases of anterior cervical pseudomeningoceles contained entirely within the spinal canal and causing cord compression and neurological injury. The authors retrospectively reviewed the cases of three patients with traumatic cervical spine injuries and concomitant compressive anterior pseudomeningoceles.

The use of bone morphogenetic protein-6 gene therapy for percutaneous spinal fusion in rabbits.

Object: Fusion procedures in the lumbar spine have been performed in the US since 1911. Since that time, the indications and techniques for spinal fusion have evolved. Despite technical advancements, spinal fusion remains a major operation, and fusion nonunion rates of up to 35% are still reported.