The use of a three-dimensional endoscope for different skull base tumors: results of a preliminary extended endonasal surgical series.

Background: The evolution of skull base surgery over the past decade has been influenced by advancement in visualization technology. Recently, as a result of such improvements, three-dimensional (3-D) scopes have been widely used during endoscopic endonasal approaches. In the present study, we describe the use of 3-D stereoscopic endoscope for the treatment of a variety of skull base lesions.

[Endoscopic ventriculocisternostomy complications in 108 hydrocephalic patients].

Objectives: Several reports have been published in relation to complications, sometimes fatal, associated to endoscopic ventriculocisternostomy (EVC). The objective of this study was to determine the range of complications using this surgical technique in a series of 108 patients.

Methods: A retrospective and descriptive study was performed on 108 hydrocephalic patients: 76 children and 32 adults.

Spinal intradural arteriovenous fistula with unusual presentation: case report and literature review.

Object: The authors present their experience with a Cervical Spinal intradural arteriovenous fistula (AVF) with unusual clinical presentation in a pediatric patient and review of the international literature on this condition.

Methods: A 5-year-old girl was found by her parents in bed screaming and talking inappropriately. Later on, she calmed down and complained of occipital, back and neck pain.

Depressed skull fracture in Ping Pong: elevation with Medeva extractor.

Introduction: The bones of the skull of the newborn and nursing infants, in general, possess great malleability. For this reason, the depressed fractures occurring at this age are called "Ping Pong" or "Green Stick" fractures. The treatment of these fractures is surgical according to different authors, although some of these fractures that happen in childbirth can elevate themselves spontaneously.