Neurologically Asymptomatic Lumbar Traumatic Dislocation With Vascular Compression in a Patient With Ankylosing Spondylitis: Case Report.

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with high rates of severe thoracolumbar fractures, in many cases with neurological deficits. It is currently a point of debate as to whether the optimal surgical treatment is posterior fixation and fusion or combined approaches. Vascular injuries in this kind of fracture are a challenging issue to solve in the management of these patients.

Spontaneus involution of meningioma. Case report and literature review.

Meningiomas are tumors of the cerebral meninges, with slow growth and usually benign, whose treatment is essentially surgery. They have progesterone receptors, and to a lesser extent estrogen, which sometimes causes them to have growth or involution linked to hormonal treatment. Its spontaneous involution is extremely rare.

Current use of Social Media in Neurosurgery in Spain.

Objective: To analyze the current situation in Spain of the use of Social Media in Neurosurgery.

Materials And Methods: We made an observational transversal study between February and March 2017, with a systematic search of the Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts from public and private neurosurgical units, scientific societies, peer-reviewed publications and patients groups in relation with Neurosurgical pathologies. We rank them according their popularity.

Anterior sacral meningocele presenting as intracystic bleeding.

Purpose: To report a case of anterior sacral meningocele with intralesional bleeding secondary to sacrococcygeal trauma. Likewise, there is a discussion about the physiopathology and the surgical approach to these types of lesions.

Methods: A 43-year-old man diagnosed with Marfan syndrome suffered sacrococcygeal trauma.

[Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to petrous endostosis].

Arterial neurovascular compression is hypothesised to be the main cause of primary trigeminal neuralgia. Although it is the most common cause, other pathologies, such as tumours in the cerebellopontine angle, can cause trigeminal pain. We report a case of a 44-year-old female patient with right trigeminal neuralgia without satisfactory response to medical treatment.

[Reversible porencephalic cyst related to shunt dysfunction].

Introduction: The surgical treatment of hydrocephalus is one of the most commonly procedures of modern pediatric neurosurgical practice, and cerebrospinal fluid shunts are the main means of treatment of hydrocephalus, being independent of site of obstruction and ventricular shunt complications are frequent, especially in children. The most common complications are shunt obstructions, mechanical disconnections, overdrainage and infection.

Case Report: A 7.

[Intraventricular arachnoid cyst].

INTRODUCTION. Intracranial arachnoids cysts are considered benign developmental anomalies that occur within the arachnoid membrane and generally contain clear and colourless fluid resembling cerebrospinal fluid. The prevalence of these cysts is higher in the first two decades of life, and the incidence is widely quoted as approximately 1% of all space-occupying intracranial lesions.

[Cervical lymphatic metastasis of an intracranial meningioma].

Introduction: Meningioma is the most common primary intracranial tumor, accounting for around a third of all primary brain tumor. In most cases, they are benign neoplasms that start in the cells of the arachnoid mater. Meningiomas are typically slow growing; however they can metastasize in 0.

[Paediatric neurocysticercosis: two case reports].

Introduction: Neurocysticercosis, caused by the larvae of Taenia solium, is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system in humans. Considered an endemic parasitosis in developing countries including Latin America, Asia and Africa while in Europa, the cases of neurocysticercosis are anecdotal.

Case Reports: We report two cases of neurocysticercosis in children of non-Spanish origin who presented with seizures, with the initial diagnosis of brain tumors both were treated with surgery; later, to be the diagnosis of neurocisticercosis antiparasitic therapy was administered.

[Chronic subdural hematoma in young patients].

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyse demographic, clinical and radiological findings and surgical results in a series of chronic subdural haematomas (CSDH) in young adult patients.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study included 42 patients under 40 years of age who were diagnosed and surgically treated for a CSDH during a 30-year period (1982-2011).

Results: Of the 42 cases analysed, 32 were males and 10 were females, and the mean age at diagnosis was 29.

[Intracranial tuberculoma mimicking malignant tumour].

Introduction: Tuberculous involvement of the central nervous system is uncommon in western countries. Brain tuberculoma is a granulomatous inflammatory process than in rare occasions can simulate a malignant neoplasm.

Case Report: A 81-year-old man regarding symptoms of several weeks of evolution of numbness affecting upper limb and right face.