Publications by authors named "Eugen Slavik"
Introduction: Surgical treatment of chronic pain includes destructive procedures (neurectomy, rhizotomy, sympathectomy), often referred to as ablative, and accompanied by high morbidity and mortality rates.
Surgical Treatment Of Pain: During the past three decades, thanks to current knowledge on chronic pain mechanisms and technological developments, such as improved microsurgical and stereotactic techniques, guided by computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and neural tissue impendance monitoring, the majority of ablative procedures have been replaced by new methods. Among them, a few can be considered as selectively and minimally ablative (microsurgical spinothalamic cordotomy, dorsal root entry zone lesions, limited midline myelotomy) and others as neuroaugumentative procedures for neuromodulatory proceses (deep brain structures and spinal cord stimulation, drug-delivery systems).
Background: Traumatic delayed epidural hematoma (DEH) can be defined as insignificant or not seen on the initial CT scan performed after a trauma but seen on the subsequent CT scan as a "massive" epidural bleeding.
Case Report: We presented two cases of traumatic DEH after mild head injury. Both patients were conscious and without neurological deficit on the admission.