Application of fluorescein sodium in breast cancer brain-metastasis surgery.

Objective: Surgical resection serves an important role in the multidisciplinary treatment of cerebral metastases (CMs). Conventional white-light, microsurgical, and circumferential stripping of CMs is standard neurosurgical procedure, but is associated with a high recurrence rate. Based on this outcome, there is an urgent need for a new surgical strategy, such as fluorescence-guided resection, for CMs, in order to achieve total removal.

Postoperative functional status in patients with supratentorial superficial low-grade glioma.

Background: We investigated the functional status of adult supratentorial superficial low-grade glioma (ASS-LGG) after surgery and analyzed its relevant factors to guide the therapeutic strategy and improve the life quality of these patients.

Methods: Clinical materials from January 2008 to December 2010 in 104 adults with ASS-LGG were analyzed retrospectively. The follow-up period ranged from 6 months to 1.

Application of fluorescein sodium in the resection of vermis pilocytic astrocytomas.

Background: Pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) are slow growing neoplasms and usually located at the cerebellum. There has been certainty regarding the truthful benefit of surgical resection for patients with PA. Gross total resection (GTR) of PAs, especially those being situated in deep regions, remains a surgical challenge.

Intracranial extraaxial ependymoma in children: a rare case report and review of the literature.

Intracranial extraaxial ependymomas (IEAEs) are extremely rare. We present a pediatric patient with IEAE misdiagnosed as a meningioma preoperatively, successfully treated surgically with a favorite outcome. The literature about IEAEs was briefly reviewed.

Atypical meningioma of sylvian fissure with a 20-year history: a rare case report.

Atypical meningiomas of sylvian fissure are extremely rare. We reported a case of sylvian fissure atypical meningioma with a 20-year history. The tumor was excised subtotally, thereafter a postoperative radiation therapy was done.

CSF fistula through the left lumbar region in adult following a ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery: a rare case report.

A cranial spinal fluid fistula through left lumbar region following a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is an extremely rare complication. We report a 25-year-old man who presented with the leakage of clear fluid from the left lumbar region, 3 years after a VP shunt surgery. Computerized tomography scan of abdomen revealed that the distal end of the catheter penetrated into the inner layer of the wall of left lumbar region.