[Surgical technique in operations for brainstem gliomas].

The article presents an MRI-based classification of brainstem gliomas into focal, cervicomedullary, dorsal exophytic and diffuse ones. This classification provides the basis for specifying indications for surgical treatment and outcome. The article also presents the most frequent approaches to the midbrain, pons and medulla oblongata.

[Clinical course and results of surgical treatment of epidermoid and dermoid tumors].

Seventeen cases (7 males and 10 females) of intracranial epidermoid tumours and one case (a male) of intracranial dermoid tumours were described. The patients with epidermoids represented 1.7% and the patients with dermoids represented 0.