Sport-Related Structural Brain Injury and Return to Play: Systematic Review and Expert Insight.

Background: Sport-related structural brain injury (SRSBI) is intracranial pathology incurred during sport. Management mirrors that of non-sport-related brain injury. An empirical vacuum exists regarding return to play (RTP) following SRSBI.

Stereotactic radiosurgery XX: ocular neuromyotonia in association with gamma knife radiosurgery.

Unlabelled: We report three patients who developed symptoms and signs of ocular neuromyotonia (ONM) 3-6 months after receiving gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS) for functioning pituitary tumours. All three patients were complex, requiring multi-modality therapy and all had received prior external irradiation to the sellar region. Although direct causality cannot be attributed, the timing of the development of the symptoms would suggest that the GKS played a contributory role in the development of this rare problem, which we suggest clinicians should be aware of as a potential complication.

The use of ionising radiation for the purpose of arresting external haemorrhage from an intracranial mass lesion.

External bleeding from any form of tumour of the central nervous system is unusual. We present a case where this difficult problem was controlled by the use of Gamma Irradiation from a focused delivery system.

Diagnosis and management of optic nerve sheath meningiomas.

Optic nerve sheath meningiomas account for a third of all intrinsic tumours of the optic nerve. Despite their classification as histologically benign tumours they cause progressive visual loss that often leads to blindness if left untreated. Recent therapeutic advances have increased the treatment options available to clinicians but patient management remains controversial.