Remote Hemorrhagic Complications of Glioma Surgery: Systematic Review of the Literature and Report of a Case of Distant Wounded Glioma Syndrome, a Rare Neurosurgical Complication.

Background: Hemorrhage following glioma resection usually happens in tissues that were surgically manipulated. Remote bleeding is a rare and serious complication that is still poorly understood. Distant wounded glioma syndrome is a special type of this complication, where bleeding happens in a glioma lesion that was not surgically manipulated.

Cervicothoracic Lordosis Can Influence Outcome After Posterior Cervical Spine Surgery.

Background: Previous studies on the correlation between cervical sagittal balance with improvement in quality of life showed significant results only for parameters of the anterior translation of the cervical spine (such as C2-C7 SVA).

Objective: We test whether a new parameter, , can predict clinical success in this type of surgery.

Methods: The focused group involved patients who underwent surgical treatment of cervical degenerative disk disease by the posterior approach, due to myelopathy, radiculopathy or a combination of both.

A simple scoring system for predicting early major complications in spine surgery: the cumulative effect of age and size of surgery.

Objective: To analyze the cumulative effect of risk factors associated with early major complications in postoperative spine surgery.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 583 surgically-treated patients. Early "major" complications were defined as those that may lead to permanent detrimental effects or require further significant intervention.

Quantitative computed tomography and cranial burr holes: a model to evaluate the quality of cranial reconstruction in humans.

Current methods to evaluate the biologic development of bone grafts in human beings do not quantify results accurately. Cranial burr holes are standardized critical bone defects, and the differences between bone powder and bone grafts have been determined in numerous experimental studies. This study evaluated quantitative computed tomography (QCT) as a method to objectively measure cranial bone density after cranial reconstruction with autografts.

[Nonpituitary tumors of the sellar region].

The pituitary gland, sella turcica and the parasellar region can be involved by a wide variety of lesions, including benign and malignant neoplasms as well as a wide variety of non neoplastic tumor-like lesions. Clinical and radiological aspects could help in the differential diagnosis of these lesions. Nevertheless, in many cases only the histopathological analysis could establish the definitive diagnosis.

Stereotactic computed tomography-guided brain biopsy: diagnostic yield based on a series of 170 patients.

Background: Stereotactic CT-guided biopsy is a valuable and safe procedure for diagnosing intracranial lesions. The objectives of this article are to analyze the diagnostic yield in a series of stereotactic CT-guided brain biopsies and to evaluate whether predictive factors may influence diagnostic yield.

Methods: The medical records of a series of patients who underwent stereotactic CT-guided brain biopsy from 1993 to 2005 in a neurosurgical center were reviewed.

Early surgical treatment of nonsyndromic craniosynostosis.

Background: Craniosynostosis, a premature fusion of cranial sutures, can happen as an isolated defect (nonsyndromic) or as part of a syndrome. It may lead to raised intracranial pressure and deformity of both the cranial and facial skeletons. Early surgery is usually the best treatment choice.

Holmes tremor in association with bilateral hypertrophic olivary degeneration and palatal tremor: chronological considerations. Case report.

Hypertrophic olivary degeneration (HOD) is a rare type of neuronal degeneration involving the dento-rubro-olivary pathway and presents clinically as palatal tremor. We present a 48 year old male patient who developed Holmes' tremor and bilateral HOD five months after brainstem hemorrhage. The severe rest tremor was refractory to pharmacotherapy and botulinum toxin injections, but was markedly reduced after thalamotomy.