Bilateral post-traumatic hygromas in patient with frontotemporal dementia.

Background: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a highly disabling neurologic disorder characterized by behavioral alterations and movement disorders, involving patients with a mean age of 58 years. We present a unique case of a patient suffering from FTD who developed post traumatic bilateral hygromas.

Case Description: A 52-year-old male patient, with an history of head trauma 3 months before, was admitted to our department for recurrent motor seizures.

Delayed brain reexpansion in schizophrenic patient affected by trabecular type chronic subdural hematoma.

Background: Chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) represents a complex and unpredictable disease, characterized by high morbidity and mortality, especially in elderly patients. Factors affecting the postoperative brain reexpansion along to cSDH recurrence have not been yet adequately investigated. The authors presented the case of a schizophrenic patient affected by trabecular type cSDH that presented a delayed brain reexpansion despite a craniotomy and membranotomy.

Navigation-assisted extraforaminal lumbar disc microdiscectomy: Technical note.

Background: Extraforaminal lumbar disc herniation (ELDH) amounts of 7%-12% of all lumbar disc herniations. Although they have already been widely described, an optimal treatment is still under discussion in the literature.

Objective: We describe a novel application of navigation using 2D/3D imaging system to plan an adequate surgical trajectory and performing a neuronavigated microdiscectomy in ELDH that has not been previously described.