Background: In this study, we analyze our institutional experience and personal impressions using minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) to describe our learning curve and how experience influenced different parameters of the surgical procedure.
Methods: The study was conducted prospectively and included the first consecutive 152 patients treated with MISS techniques. Patient demographics, surgical data, length of hospital stay, and clinical outcome were reviewed.
Objectives: The objective of our study is to evaluate the impact of neurosurgical operative treatment on the performance status assessed by the Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) in patients with HGG for the first, for the second intervention and for the different age groups.
Methods: A group of 425 patients operated consecutively for high-grade gliomas were included in this study. The performance status was evaluated preoperatively and 15 days postoperatively with the KPS.
Background: The presence of traumatic intraventricular hemorrhage (tIVH) on an admission CT scan is related to a worse outcome and increased mortality in patients with moderate and severe TBI. Currently, there is no available data regarding the predictive value of the appearance of tIVH as a delayed finding on follow-up CT scan. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence, associated risk factors, and prognosis of delayed tIVH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The microanatomical parameters of the premamillary artery (PMA) for the different configurations of the posterior communicating artery-adult (aPComA), hypoplastic (hPComA) and foetal (fPComA) were assessed and analysed. A comparative study with relevance to the neurosurgical practice has been carried out.
Method: Red-coloured latex was injected in 35 human cadaver brains and a microanatomical dissection was performed.
Over the period January 1988 to January 1998, in the clinic of emergency neurology and neurosurgery of the University Hospital "Queen Giovanna"--Sofia a total of 348 patients with brain tumors are hospitalized. Of them 329 cases are subjected to operation, and in 19 no surgery is undertaken. Forty-four patients with metastatic brain tumors are operated, and in 14 no operation is done.
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