Endoscopic endonasal transclival approach for resection of a pontine cavernous malformation.

Symptomatic cavernous malformations in the ventral region of the pons are difficult to access surgically. The authors present a case of a 46-year-old woman with a 10-year history of sudden and transitory diplopia and right hemiparesis, followed by five more episodes of mild right hemiparesis. Brain MRI showed a 2.

Risk Factors for Graft Infection After Cranioplasty in Patients with Large Hemicranial Bony Defects.

Objective: To identify infection incidence and related risk factors in patients who underwent cranioplasty (CP) after unilateral decompressive craniectomy (DC).

Methods: CP after DC was performed in 45 patients from April 2011 through January 2012. The covariates studied were compared with occurrence versus nonoccurrence of infection.

[Decompressive craniectomy for treatment of intracranial hypertension secondary to large ischemic cerebral infarction: analysis of 34 cases].

Unlabelled: The large ischemic cerebral infarction (LICI) is a blood supply loss of a large area in the brain, mainly on the middle cerebral artery. Is possible that evolutes a major edema, intracranial hypertension and death in about 80% of the cases.

Objective: To evaluate the results of a decompressive craniectomy on the treatment of the secondary intracranial hypertension to LICI, comparing to other results of medical literature already published.

[Transspheinoidal transpalatal meningoencephalocele].

Transspheinoidal meningoencephalocele is a rare presentation of dysraphism of the neural tube. It is characterized by the herniation of the neural tissue through a bony defect in the sphenoid bone. The clinical presentation is variable.