[Abdominal CSF pseudocyst recurrence in a 14-year-old patient with ventricular-peritoneal shunt].

Abdominal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pseudocyst is a rare complication of ventricular-peritoneal shunt (VPS) but needs to be considered in every patient with abdominal complaints or signs of intracranial hypertension (IH). The pathogenesis of pseudocysts remains unclear. Diverse predisposing factors have been proposed such as previous abdominal surgeries, multiple VPS revisions, infections, history of necrotizing enterocolitis, and nonspecific inflammatory processes.

[Loss of consciousness after a minor trauma revealing an aneurysm rupture in a child].

In pediatrics, concussions are common after falls and are often banal. However, it is important to identify situations where a particular inquiry is essential. Cerebral hemorrhage and aneurysms, although more common in adults, can also occur the young.

The importance of being a spinal neurosurgeon: evaluation of spinal surgery in Belgium between 2000 and 2005 and the creation of the Belgian Neurosurgical Spine Society.

Background: As the scope of neurosurgical spinal operations has broadened widely, spinal neurosurgery is certainly the one of the fields of neurosurgery where the most changes are observed. Increasing health costs and an aging population will make this issue even more crucial in the future.

Methods: We reviewed the number of spinal procedures performed by neurosurgeons in Belgium between 2000 and 2005.

Benign intracranial hypertension with recurrent spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea treated by laparoscopic gastric banding.

We present the case of a 45-year-old woman presenting with a spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhoea. A CSF leak, arising from a posterior ethmoidal left cell, was closed using an underlay procedure with a turbinate composite graft with applied fibrin glue. Twenty-three months later the CSF rhinorrhoea recurred.

Uncommon magnetic resonance imaging observation of lumbar subdural hematoma with cranial origin.

A patient with a history of pain, paresthesias, and weakness in both legs is reported. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine demonstrated subacute subdural hematoma. Brain MRI obtained 1 day later because of progressive headache showed hemorrhagic cortical metastasis and extensive subdural hematoma.