Stigmatising Attitudes Towards Mental Health Conditions Among Medical Students In Five South-Eastern European Countries.

Introduction: Stigmatising attitudes towards mentally ill people are present among healthcare professionals. The aim of the study was to evaluate medical students' attitudes in five medical schools from Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Serbia and to determine if psychiatry clerkship improves these attitudes.

Methods: In the first stage, the study included students from the first and final years of medical school; in the second stage, only final-year students were included; The Mental Illness Clinicians' Attitude Scale (MICA-2) and the Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-9) were used in this study.

Degenerative Spinal Stenosis and Ipsi-Contralateral Decompression: Presentation of a Surgical Technique and Clinical Cases.

Lumbar spinal stenosis is a widespread condition that significantly affects the quality of life in elderly individuals. Conservative therapy has a positive effect on patients whose primary symptom is pain. However, in severe cases with the presence of hypesthesia and paresis, surgical treatment comes into consideration.

Parasagittal meningeal hemangiopericytoma/solitary fibrous tumor: Two case reports and a literature review.

Background: Solitary fibrous tumor/meningeal hemangiopericytoma (SFT/M-HPC) is a rare neoplasm which accounts for around 1% of the intracranial masses. This pathology has a high risk for recurrence and metastasis to distant locations such as the liver, lungs, and bones. Precise diagnosis necessitates detailed histopathological examination.

Interdisciplinary Successful Revascularization of Traumatic Occlusion of the Right Common Carotid Artery.

Blunt carotid artery injury (BCI) poses a rare yet severe threat following vascular trauma, often leading to significant morbidity and mortality. We present a case of a 33-year-old male who suffered complete thrombotic occlusion of the right common carotid artery (CCA) following a workplace accident. Clinical evaluation revealed profound neurological deficits, prompting multidisciplinary surgical intervention guided by the Denver criteria (Grade I - disruption inside the vessel that results in a narrowing of the lumen by less than 25%; Grade II - dissection or intramural hematoma causing greater than 25% stenosis; Grade III - comprises pseudoaneurysm formation; Grade IV - causes total vessel occlusion; Grade V - describes vessel transection with extravasation).