Injuries of the upper cervical spine: A series of 28 cases.

Background: There are very few published reports of upper cervical spine injuries from our country and there is a heavy bias towards operative treatment of these injuries. We present below our experience of upper cervical injuries over the last four years.

Materials And Methods: Twenty eight patients (20 males, 8 females) with upper cervical spine injury (including Occiput, Atlas and Axis) were treated and were followed-up for an average of 11.

Central nervous system fungal infection--a report of three cases.

Fungal infections of the central nervous system in three apparently immunocompetent patients are being reported. Two cases of cerebral aspergillosis presenting as intracranial granulomas such as rhinocerebral and intracranial forms, and one of cryptococcal meningitis could be successfully diagnosed by newer diagnostic modality such as antigen detection techniques. The case with cryptococcal infection had typical neuroimaging feature which helped to suspect the underlying diagnosis.