[A case of subclinical frontal lobe abscess as a complication of sinusitis].

Nowadays suppurative complications of sinusitis are uncommon in orderto widespread treatment with antibiotics. Intracranial complications include bacterial meningitis, encephalitis, brain abscess, epidural or subdural abscess and sinus thrombophlebitis.The 13-40% of all brain abscesses are sinogenic complications.

[Percutaneous ventriculoatrial shunt: experience with 179 cases].

Background And Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess the impact of percutaneous placement of a distal catheter on treatment results in patients with hydrocephalus undergoing ventriculoatrial shunt (VA) implantation.

Material And Methods: This retrospective study included 184 patients aged 14-80 years (mean: 48 yrs) with hydrocephalus who were treated with VA shunt between 1990-2003. In 179 patients the cardiac catheter was introduced by catheterization of the internal jugular vein, rarely the subclavian or external jugular vein, using the Seldinger technique and standard equipment for central vein catheterization.

Endodermal cyst of the cervical spinal cord with associated partial fusion of the vertebrae.

A case of a 43-year-old woman with an intradural endodermal cyst at the C4 spinal cord level is presented. The lesion manifested with progressive neck pain and weakness of lower extremities. The presumptive diagnosis of extramedullary benign cystic lesion was established after MRI examination.