[Fetal therapy--evaluation of ventriculo-amniotic shunts in the treatment of hydrocephalus].

Objective: The aim of the study was to establish optimal diagnostic and therapeutic scheme and to assess the efficacy of intrauterine therapy of hydrocephalus.

Material And Methods: The study was carried out between 1992-2012 on the total of 222 fetuses with hydro- cephalus, using Orbis-Sigma and ACCU-Flow valves (168 cases) and Cook8 shunts, according to a strictly defined diagnostic and therapeutic scheme.

Results: In the first stage of the study (between 1992-2001), a total of 168 fetuses with prenatally diagnosed hydrocephalus received intrauterine therapy In 91.

Visual symptoms in McCune-Albright syndrome--case report.

McCune-Albright syndrome is a rare complex genetic disorder. It is diagnosed on the basis of bone lesions--fibrous dysplasia, accompanied by at least one additional symptom: hyperactivity of endocrine glands or cafe au lait skin spots. We present symptoms, clinical picture and diagnostic procedure in a 15-year-old patient with visual disorders in the course of McCune-Albright syndrome.

Neuroendoscopic techniques in the treatment of arachnoid cysts in children and comparison with other operative methods.

Objective: The authors intended to evaluate the application of neuroendoscopic techniques for the treatment of arachnoid cysts in children and compare it with other operative methods.

Methods: The analysis covered the results of treatment of 44 children with arachnoid cysts who were subjected to neuroendoscopic procedures and 62 patients who underwent other operations.

Results: The neuroendoscopic treatment of arachnoid cysts was very effective because of low rate of reoperative treatment (six out of 44 patients), no need to change the operative method (40 effective out of total 44 operative procedures), and low rate of persistent worsening (none of 44 patients worsened).

Influence of neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomy on the size of ventricles in chronic hydrocephalus.

Our intention was to compare the clinical outcome after surgical treatment of chronic hydrocephalus between patients who were subjected to neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomy and patients who underwent shunt implantation. At the Department of Neurosurgery of the Research Institute of Polish Mothers' Memorial Hospital from 1999 to 2001, 29 children, of an average age of 7 years (+/-7.1 years SD), underwent successful neuroendoscopic procedures, and from 1992 to 1994, 59 children, of an average age of 2 months (+/-1.

[A comparison of neuro-endoscopic techniques with other surgical procedures in the treatment of arachnoid cysts in children].

The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of neuroendoscopic techniques (in comparison with other surgical procedures) in the treatment for arachnoid cysts in children. The analysis was performed on results of treatment 22 children with arachnoid cysts submitted to neuroendoscopic procedures. The group consisted of 6 girls and 16 boys, aged from 1 day to 18 years (mean age 5.