Biportal Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Clinical Results for 163 Patients.

Background: Biportal endoscopy spine surgery is an endoscopic procedure that uses 2 portals, 1 for the endoscope and 1 for the instruments. It provides an excellent and very versatile field of view, with the advantage of another portal to approach the most common degenerative lumbar pathologies.

Methods: We evaluated a retrospective series of patients who underwent biportal endoscopy with ≥1 year of follow-up.

Retrospective Evaluation of Thoracolumbar Injury Classification System and Thoracolumbar AO Spine Injury Scores for the Decision Treatment of Thoracolumbar Traumatic Fractures in 458 Consecutive Patients.

Background: Thoracolumbar Injury Classification System (TLICS) score and Thoracolumbar AO Spine Injury Score (TLAOSIS) are the scores preferred to classify and treat thoracolumbar fractures. Our study evaluates the reliability of both as guidelines for treatment.

Methods: Single-center and retrospective case series of 458 patients.

Thalamic abscess in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia successfully treated with an empiric antibiotic regime: case report and review of the literature.

Background: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant disease associated with neurological complications, including cerebral abscesses (CA). They tend to be unique, supratentorial and lobar. While the surgical intervention is a rule of thumb when treating and diagnosing the etiology of these lesions, this is not always possible due to dangerous or inaccessible locations.

Intraventricular cryptococcoma mimicking a neoplastic lesion in an immunocompetent patient with hydrocephalus: A case report.

Background: The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of cryptococcosis as one of the most common fungal infections of the central nervous system, stressing the consideration of a cryptococcoma within the list of differential diagnosis of intraventricular masses in immunocompetent hosts.

Case Description: We present the case of an immunocompetent 41-year-old female from Philippines with an intraventricular cryptococcoma due to , mimicking an intraventricular primary brain tumor, who had hydrocephalus. She was approached as having a neoplastic lesion and underwent surgical resection plus third ventriculostomy through endoscopy.

Occult Transorbital Intracranial Injury by Windshield Wiper Handle: Case Report and Review of Literature.

Background: We present the case of a 51-year-old male with an occult transorbital intracranial injury after a car accident. The identified foreign object was a windshield wiper handle. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported.

Thymoma dissemination through the thoracic intervertebral foramen: Pleural recurrence resulting in spinal cord compression.

Background: Spinal dissemination of thymic tumors is rare but should be considered in the differential diagnosis of thoracic dumbbell-shaped lesions and/or vertebral tumors, irrespective of the time since the initial diagnosis.

Case Description: A 63-year-old man, with a history of invasive type AB thymoma treated 21 years ago, newly presented to the hospital with a dumbbell-shaped T8-T9 lesion compressing the spinal cord. A review of the literature showed only 16 previous cases of thymic tumors with thoracic spine involvement.

Giant Dumbbell-Shaped Thoracic Schwannoma in an Elderly Patient Resected Through a Single-Stage Combined Laminectomy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy: Surgical Strategy and Technical Nuances.

Background: Dumbbell-shaped schwannomas involving the spinal canal, the intervertebral foramen, and the thoracic cavity are rare lesions. Surgical treatment represents a challenge, and there is no consensus regarding ideal management. Two major surgical routes have been used: combined laminectomy and open thoracotomy or posterolateral extrapleural approach with wide bone removal.

Spontaneous Regression of a Hypoglossal Neurinoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Background: Hypoglossal neurinomas are very rare intracranial tumors. The management choices include surgery, as the gold standard, and radiosurgery or a combination of both. Little is known about this condition and the behavior of this tumor.