Prognostic factors in traumatic brain injuries in emergency department.

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in young adults. The Extended Glasgow Outcome Score (GOSE) has been introduced to assess the global outcome after brain injuries. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the prognostic factors associated with GOSE.

Perioperative routine EEG can reliably predict de novo seizures after supratentorial craniotomy.

Background: The contributing risk factors in development of seizure after supratentorial craniotomy, the optimal duration of prophylactic antiepileptic therapy, the high-risk patient to treat, and the drug of choice are subjects of debate as is the gold standard diagnostic tool for patient screening. Combining routine electroencephalography (EEG) with clinical data to identify high-risk patients and determine the ideal time of recording after surgery was the goal of this study.

Methods: In this prospective cohort, 59 patients were evaluated with three EEG recordings after different intervals of supratentorial craniotomy due to different etiologies and were followed for 9 months for development of seizures.

Adjunctive treatment of myxopapillary ependymoma.

Myxopapillary ependymoma are rare tumors and optimal therapeutic strategy is remained controversial. The main treatments for myxopapillary ependymoma tumors include surgery and radiotherapy. Hence, the present study aimed to review adjuvant treatment of myxopapillary ependymoma, focusing on spinal myxopapillary ependymoma.