Neurologically Asymptomatic Lumbar Traumatic Dislocation With Vascular Compression in a Patient With Ankylosing Spondylitis: Case Report.

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with high rates of severe thoracolumbar fractures, in many cases with neurological deficits. It is currently a point of debate as to whether the optimal surgical treatment is posterior fixation and fusion or combined approaches. Vascular injuries in this kind of fracture are a challenging issue to solve in the management of these patients.

Current use of Social Media in Neurosurgery in Spain.

Objective: To analyze the current situation in Spain of the use of Social Media in Neurosurgery.

Materials And Methods: We made an observational transversal study between February and March 2017, with a systematic search of the Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts from public and private neurosurgical units, scientific societies, peer-reviewed publications and patients groups in relation with Neurosurgical pathologies. We rank them according their popularity.

[The effect of age on the prognosis of patients with traumatic brain injury who undergo a craniotomy: analysis of a surgical series].

Introduction: In our setting, the ageing of the population has led to management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the later stages of life becoming an increasingly frequent problem.

Aim: To evaluate the association between age and the functional and survival prognosis of patients who have undergone surgery due to TBI.

Patients And Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of a series of 404 patients submitted to surgery between the years 2000 and 2015: 144 youngsters (12-44 years), 77 adults (45-64 years), 148 geriatric patients (65-79 years) and 26 'super geriatric' patients (> 80 years).

Anterior sacral meningocele presenting as intracystic bleeding.

Purpose: To report a case of anterior sacral meningocele with intralesional bleeding secondary to sacrococcygeal trauma. Likewise, there is a discussion about the physiopathology and the surgical approach to these types of lesions.

Methods: A 43-year-old man diagnosed with Marfan syndrome suffered sacrococcygeal trauma.

Treatment of chronic traumatic C7-T1 grade III spondylolisthesis with mild neurological deficit: case report.

Traumatic cervical severe spondylolisthesis is a rare and severe lesion which is typically associated with a spinal cord injury. Nevertheless, it occasionally has a pauci-symptomatic course which may delay its diagnosis. The authors report an exceptional case of a 33-year-old woman who had mild spasticity in her lower limbs and neck pain 9 months after a traffic accident.