Percutaneous burrhole trephination of the skull: a study of 519 cases.

We want to report on our experiences with the percutaneous trephination using a 2.35 mm round dental drill with serrated saws around it, a "Rosenbohrer". It is a methodically similar activity as described by J.

[Intracranial chordoma. Case report of a destructively growing chondroid chordoma in the area of the sella turcica].

Evaluating the literature a short survey is given about chordomas of intracranial localization. A case of a chondroid chordoma growing destructively in the base of the skull is described. Because of the localisation in the region of the sella turcica the first diagnosis was an adenoma of the hypophysis or craniopharyngioma.

[Therapy of traumatic hemobilia].

Haematobilia is caused by a pathological linking of the arterial vascular system and intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts. This report presents the case of a traumatic haematobilia in a child. Possibilities to achieve safe diagnosis are discussed and suggestions for treatment are considered.

[Vein of Galen malformation in a newborn infant with clinical symptoms of a cardiologic emergency].

We report on the management of one term newborn infant with a malformation of the Vena Galeni. The baby suffered from cyanosis and intractable congestive heart failure without evidence of congenital heart malformation at his second day of life. The diagnosis was established by two-dimensional sonography and Doppler examination.

[Psychologic adjustment process following high cervical spine paralysis and its support by a bedside reading apparatus].

The process of psychological adjustment, which has to go on after high levelled lesions of the cervical spinal cord, passes through several phases. It needs a lot of empathy, plenty of time for confidential talks and psychological knowledge as well as an individualizing cooperation between the several levels and stages of combined treatment during rehabilitation. We could give this process a considerable advance by a (half-) automatic bedside-projection of belletristic literature, which can be continuously read on a screen from long film strips by means of a modified Pentacon system.