Development of a nomogram for fetal Evans Index.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the fetal Evans Index and establish a nomogram for fetuses without any additional fetal anomalies detected during the prenatal period.

Methods: We conducted our research at Ankara City Hospital, including 894 patients who were admitted and evaluated between gestational weeks 16-40. These patients had no fetal anomalies detected in subsequent gestational weeks.

Endoscopy-Assisted Suturectomy: Can It be the Priority Choice in the Treatment of Metopic Synostosis?

Aim: To mathematically present the results of endoscopic assisted surgery in the treatment of metopic synostosis.

Material And Methods: We present a follow-up of the stages of treatment of 43 patients with metopic synostosis who underwent surgery in a multicenter retrospective study between 2018 and 2021. We developed the formula D3/((D1+D2)/2) based on the theory of "The Angle of a Triangle Opposite The Longest Side is the Largest Angle".

Arterial Supply of the Basal Ganglia: A Fiber Dissection Study.

Background: The basal ganglia, a group of subcortical nuclei located deep in the insular cortex, are responsible for many functions such as motor learning, emotion, and behavior control. Nowadays, because it has been shown that deep brain stimulation and insular tumor surgery can be performed by endovascular treatment, the importance of the vascular anatomy of the basal ganglia is being increasingly recognized.

Objective: To explain the arterial blood supply of the basal ganglia using white matter dissection.

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Overshadowed by Traumatic and Degenerative Spinal Diseases: A New Assessment Proposal.

Aim: Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a rare disorder among the elderly, characterized by gait disorder, dementia, and urinary incontinence. Considering the rareness of NPH and a lot of other pathologies, such as Parkinson's disease, lumbar spinal stenosis, and even aging cause similar symptoms, NPH is an underdiagnosed entity. However, the percentage of misdiagnosis is not given in the literature.

Growth hormone-releasing pituitary microadenoma overshaded by a macroadenoma: a case of double pituitary adenomas and review of the literature.

Objectives: Double pituitary adenoma is a rare entity that can pose a significant challenge. The incidence of double or multiple pituitary adenomas is ∼1% in autopsy cases and 0.4-1.

The effect of antiepileptic drugs on re-myelinization of axons: Phenytoin, levetiracetam, carbamazepine, and valproic acid, used following traumatic brain injury.

Objective: Traumatic brain injury is a major health and socioeconomic problem and the first cause of young death worldwide. For this reason, the prevention of post-traumatic brain injury and the research of new methods for it are important today. In this study, we aimed to determine whether the use of antiepileptic drugs contributed to axonal healing after traumatic brain injury.

Cerebral cavernous malformation presenting in childhood: a single-centered surgical experience of 29 cases.

Objectives: Cerebral cavernous malformations (CMs) are benign vascular hamartomas of central nervous system. Although they are mostly asymptomatic, they may occasionally result in life-threatening complications leading to surgical treatment. The main goal is to evaluate the surgical outcomes of operated pediatric cerebral CMs in our clinic and compare our results with the literature.

Investigation of the Effect of Alemtuzumab in an Experimental Spinal Cord Trauma Model in Rats.

Objective: Spinal cord injuries generate the most negative response to medical treatment among all general body injuries. This important morbidity is thought to be caused by a complex secondary damage mechanism. In the present study, we examined the neuroprotective effects of alemtuzumab in a spinal cord trauma model.

Protection from spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion damage with alpha-lipoic acid preconditioning in an animal model.

Background: This study aims to investigate whether preconditioning with alpha-lipoic acid has any protective effect in neuronal damage in an experimental spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion injury model.

Methods: Eighteen adult male New Zealand rabbits (2.4-3.

A comparison of water-based and land-based core stability exercises in patients with lumbar disc herniation: a pilot study.

Purpose: To determine and compare the effects of core stability exercise programs performed in two different environments in lumbar disc herniation (LDH) patients.

Method: Thirty-one patients who were diagnosed with LDH and were experiencing pain or functional disability for at least 3 months were randomly divided into two groups as land-based exercises or water specific therapy. Also, 15 age-sex-matched healthy individuals were recruited as healthy controls.