The state of art of awake craniotomy in Latin American countries: a scoping review.

Background And Objective: Awake craniotomy (AC) is a valuable technique for surgical interventions in eloquent areas, but its adoption in low- and middle-income countries faces challenges like limited infrastructure, trained personnel shortage, and inadequate funding. This scoping review explores AC techniques in Latin American countries, focusing on patient characteristics, tumor location, symptomatology, and outcomes.

Methods: A scoping review followed PRISMA guidelines, searching five databases in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Immunohistochemical Expression of Ki-67, Dopamine D1 and Dopamine D2 Receptors in Meningiomas in a Tertiary Institution in Mexico.

Objectives Meningiomas (MNGs) are the most common intracranial tumors found in the adult population. While most intracranial MNGs may be surgically removed, a subset of patients remains ineligible for conventional treatment. This is either because of a lack of surgical access or due to atypical, anaplastic or invasive characteristics of the tumors.

Following the light in glioma surgery: a comparison of sodium fluorescein and 5-aminolevulinic acid as surgical adjuncts in glioma resection.

Gliomas are molecularly complex neoplasms and require a multidisciplinary approach to treatment. Maximal safe resection is often the initial goal of treatment and extent of resection (EOR) is an important prognostic factor correlating with both progression-free-survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Postoperative patient outcome is also a critical and independent prognosticator and high EOR must not be achieved at the expense of good functional outcome.

Blood pressure at hospital admission and outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage.

Introduction: The importance of the admission blood pressure (BP) for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) outcome is not completely clear. Our objective was to analyze the clinical impact of BP at hospital arrival in patients with primary ICH.

Material And Methods: We studied 316 patients (50% women, mean age: 64 years, 75% with hypertension history) with acute primary ICH.

Isolated vein thrombosis of the posterior fossa presenting as localized cerebellar venous infarctions or hemorrhages.

Background And Purpose: Cerebellar venous infarction or hemorrhage due to isolated venous thrombosis of the posterior fossa is a rare form of intracranial vein thrombosis that can be unsuspected in clinical practice.

Methods: We studied 230 patients with intracranial vein thrombosis, identifying 9 (3.9%: 7 women, mean age 34 years) with neuroimaging or histopathologic evidence of localized posterior fossa vein thrombosis causing parenchymal injury limited exclusively to the cerebellum.