Case report: An epidural cavernous hemangioma mimicking a dumbbell-shaped neuroma.

Introduction And Importance: Spinal epidural cavernous hemangiomas are a rare occurrence. This particular case is made even more distinctive by the fact that the lesion mimicked a dumbbell-shaped neuroma. Moreover, it had a very unique localization (wholly epidural, at cervical-thoracic -C7-D1- level).

A Forgotten Tale from the Great War: General Lorenzo Bonomo and the Birth of Italian War Neurosurgery.

Little is known of the advances in battlefield medicine achieved in Italy before and during the Great War. Some deserve wider recognition; this is especially true for the field of neurosurgery. There are a limited number of historical records currently available, fewer still in English, and most of the systematic investigations on field surgery have been in the form of monographs within science history reviews, which obviously lack a strictly clinical perspective.

Assessing the real benefits of surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis without instability and spondylolisthesis: a single surgeon experience with a mean 8-year follow-up.

Background: The degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is one of the most commonly treated spinal disorders in older adults; despite its increasing frequency, it is not yet clear what the most effective therapy might be. The aim of this study is to investigate the very long term results of a homogenized cohort of patients suffering from lumbar spinal stenosis: the first subset of patients operated on with laminectomy and the second subset of patients was also advised to undergo laminectomy but never operated on.

Methods: Patients from both subgroups were advised to undergo surgery, according to the same criteria, in the period between 2000 and 2010 and were re-evaluated in the period between January and December 2016.

Trophic and neurotrophic factors in human pituitary adenomas (Review).

The pituitary gland is an organ that functionally connects the hypothalamus with the peripheral organs. The pituitary gland is an important regulator of body homeostasis during development, stress, and other processes. Pituitary adenomas are a group of tumors arising from the pituitary gland: they may be subdivided in functional or non-functional, depending on their hormonal activity.

A primary intraosseous cystic meningioma: Case report.

Introduction: This is a very rare case of intraosseous cystic meningioma. There have been no reports of similar cases in the last 30 years.

Presentation Of Case: A 62-year-old man, suffering from a swelling of the lateral wall of the left orbit was admitted to our hospital.