A Comparison of Subgaleal Active Drainage and Subdural Passive Drainage and an Analysis of Factors Affecting Chronic Subdural Hematoma Outcomes.

Aim: To analyze and to compare the factors that influence the recurrence of chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) among patients treated with subdural non-suction-assisted passive drainage, subgaleal suction-assisted active drainage, and without drainage.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 87 surgical patients with a diagnosis of CSDH treated between 2007 and 2018 using patient records from the neurosurgery archive of our faculty. The patients were divided into three groups: drainfree group (group A), subdural passive drainage group (group B), and subgaleal active drainage group (group C).

The effects of protein kinase C activator phorbol dibutyrate on traumatic brain edema and aquaporin-4 expression.

Background: Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the major water channel in the central nervous system. Brain edema emerges from increased AQP4 expression in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cell line studies have shown that the protein kinase activator phorbol ester exerts a suppressive effect on AQP4 and water permeability.

Analyses of clinical prognostic factors in operated traumatic acute subdural hematomas.

Background: Traumatic acute subdural hematoma is the most lethal of all head injuries.

Methods: In this study, 113 patients with the diagnosis of posttraumatic acute subdural hematoma, who were operated between 1998 and 2006, were reviewed retrospectively. Statistical analysis was performed to detect any effects of the variables of age, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score on admission, time interval between the trauma and operation, and abnormality in the pupil reaction on the disease mortality and morbidity.

[Epidemiological study in head injury patients].

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the hospital-based epidemiological data of the head injury patients who admitted to our Emergency Surgery Department.

Methods: The records of the patients (284 males [66%], 146 females [34%]; mean age 30+/-19) with head injury who admitted to our Emergency Surgery Department between 01.01.

[Penetrating transorbital intracranial foreign body].

We report a seven year-old boy who suffered left orbital penetration of an industrial sewing machine needle. The needle passing through the left orbit and sphenoid bone at the posterior was extending into the layers of the dura of the left temporal lobe. In this patient, we preferred surgical approach and there was no complication after surgery.