Atypical meningioma is a type of intermediate-grade meningioma (grade 2) according to the WHO classification. The occurrence of glioblastomas at the same site of resection of a meningioma is extremely rare and the causes of this type of mutations should be investigated. We present a case of a 54-year-old patient who five years after resection of a left parietooccipital atypical meningioma presented with a glioblastoma at the same site.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVertebral fractures remain a diagnostic challenge nowadays. The first and most common diagnosis needed to be ruled out is osteoporosis. Other diagnoses to rule out involve pathological fractures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Central nervous system tumours comprise a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with great histological diversity. Despite the rising prevalence of these tumours in developing countries, some places like Mexico and Latin America have no representative studies that show the real impact of these tumours in our population.
Objective: To describe the characteristics of the primary and secondary tumours of the central nervous system in the last 20 years in a Mexican institution.
This paper reports the testing of a lightweight wearable stereoscopic display during neuroendoscopies and endoscope assisted neurosurgeries. The viewers tested were a binocular (for the surgeon) and a monocular system (for the instrumenting nurse), whose optics are specially designed for wearable, portable applications and comprise a color corrected refractive magnifying system.
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