Does endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy through clipping procedure have early effects on electrocardiographic parameters?

Background & Objectives: Hyperhidrosis is a pathologic condition of excessive sweating in amounts greater than physiologic needs. Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) is a globally accepted treatment modality for primary palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis. ETS also has distinctive effects on the heart, circulatory and respiratory systems.

Anterior mediastinal angiomyolipoma.

Angiomyolipomas are benign, solitary, noninvasive mesenchymal tumors. They most often arise in the kidney. Extrarenal presentations of these tumors are in skin, orophaynx, abdominal wall, gastrointestinal tract, heart, lung, liver, uterus, penis, and spinal cord.

The effects of clipping on thoracic sympathetic nerve in rabbits: early and late histopathological findings.

Background: The clipping of the thoracic sympathetic nerve, which has been a technique used for approximately the past 10 years, has rapidly become popular because of its "bring-back" claim. However, the information regarding the mechanism behind this claim is based on investigator's comments and has not been proven by objective research, such as the histopathological examination of the clipped nerve and/or ganglion. We aimed to evaluate sympathetic regeneration and degeneration after clip removal.

[Hydatid cyst disease mimicking metastatic lung disease: a case report].

Pulmonary hydatid cysts usually present as a single lesion, whereas multiple cases are rare. It is not easy to distinguish hydatid cyst and nodular lesions radiologically. Chest radiograph of a 22 years-old male patient who was admitted due to right sided chest pain, revealed bilateral pulmonary nodules.

Is T3 and T6 sympathetic clipping more effective in primary palmoplantar hyperhydrosis?

Objective: Our aim was to establish a standardized approach for patients with palmoplantar and axillary hyperhidrosis and to compare patient satisfaction and complication rates for two different operations.

Materials And Methods: Between 2008 and 2010, 30 patients underwent conventional T3/4 clipping (group A), and 30 underwent only T3 and T6 clipping (group B). Both groups were compared with regard to compensatory sweating (CS), complications, patient satisfaction and recovery of plantar hyperhidrosis.

The influence of specific factors on postoperative morbidity in young adults with bronchiectasis.

Background: Surgical treatment of bronchiectasis is associated with acceptable mortality and morbidity rates. To date, few reports on the prediction of postoperative morbidity using some preoperative measures have been presented. We present our results regarding the influence of some specific factors on postoperative morbidity on young adult patients who were treated surgically for bronchiectasis.

Effect of ligamenta flava hypertrophy on lumbar disc herniation with contralateral symptoms and signs: a clinical and morphometric study.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine whether ligamentum flavum hypertrophy among disc herniated patients causes contralateral pain symptoms. For this reason we measured the thickness of the ligament in disc herniated patients with ipsilateral or contralateral symptoms.

Material And Methods: Two hundred disc herniated patients with ipsilateral symptoms as group I were compared with five disc herniated patients with only contralateral symptoms as group II.

Comparison of unilateral posterior lumbar interbody fusion and bilateral posterior interbody fusion with simple discectomy at degenerative disc herniations.

Objectives: To evaluate the early results of unilateral posterior lumbar interbody fusion technique in lumbar discectomy cases compared with simple discectomy and bilateral posterior interbody fusion cases using visual analog scale (VAS) and Oswestry outcomes instruments and radiological and physical examinations.

Methods: The control group had 40 patients who underwent simple discectomy. In group one, 8 patients had recurrent disc herniations and facet joint hypertrophy, 21 patients had degenerative disc disease and facet joint hypertrophy.

Is age a prognostic factor of postoperative outcome of lumbar disc herniation operations?

Objective: To evaluate the influence of the patients age on preoperative symptoms and outcome.

Methods: The general data, symptoms, signs, and neurological examination findings were recorded from 511 patients between 2000 and 2006 at Vakif Gureba Hospital and Afyon Kocatepe University Neurosurgery Departments, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. The mean follow-up of the patients was 44.

Spirometric changes after pleural decortication in young adults.

Background: The collection of pleural fluid and thickened pleura restrict the movement and expansion of lung. The main treatment strategy is lung decortication for the thickened pleura. The aim of this study was to investigate lung functions before and after pleural decortication in young adults.

Neurosurgical gossypiboma radiologically mimicking a lumbar abscess.

Lumbar discectomy is the most common operative technique at neurosurgery clinics around the world. The complications of lumbar disc operation include infections, dural tear, bleeding, vascular, and intestinal injuries. Infectious complications of lumbar disc surgery are superficial and profound tissue infections, meningitides, and epidural abscess.

Spontaneous regression of lumbar disc herniation.

We present 3 cases of spontaneous regression of lumbar herniated disc. The disc regression correlated with clinical improvement documented by MRI studies. Although the phenomenon of spontaneous disappearance of decrease in size of herniated disc fragments is well known, the exact mechanism underlying this process remains unclear.

Intra-radicular lumbar disc herniation: report of two cases.

Study Design: A case report.

Objectives: To report two cases of intra-radicular disc herniation.

Setting: Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Afyon, Turkey, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey and Yeditepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey.

The evaluation of 13 patients with intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatidosis.

Cases of intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts are very rare. We identified 13 patients with intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts in our clinic over 12 years. Four patients had extrapulmonary cysts only; nine patients had both intrapulmonary and extrapulmonary cysts.

Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst.

The case of 16-year-old boy with a spinal extradural arachnoid cyst is presented. An extradural arachnoid diverticulum extending from T10 to L1 was excised totally with hemilaminectomy. Surgery caused prompt improvement of the neurological deficit.

A case of Foster Kennedy syndrome without frontal lobe or anterior cranial fossa involvement.

Foster Kennedy syndrome is a very rare syndrome which includes ipsilateral optic atrophy and central scotoma, anosmia, contralateral papilledema, and, occasionally, ipsilateral proptosis. A large frontal lobe, olfactory groove, or medial third sphenoidal wing tumor, usually a meningioma, creates this syndrome. In this report, the author presents a case of metastatic cerebral tumor with Foster Kennedy syndrome but without frontal lobe or anterior cranial fossa involvement.

Surgical management of craniocerebral gunshot wounds.

Thirty-nine cases operated on because of gunshot wounds in our clinics the years 1976-1986 have been investigated. Factors contributing to mortality and outcome were evaluated. All the principles of emergency medical care and of surgical treatment of penetrating wounds should be applied to those patients with craniocerebral gunshot wounds in whom surgery is indicated.

Primary Ewing's sarcoma of the skull: follow-up with bone scanning.

The authors report and discuss an extremely rare case of primary Ewing's sarcoma originating in the flat bones of the skull. The case was followed up by serial bone scanning during the postoperative period. A subclinical recurrence was detected as a focus at the original site 2.

Intradural disc herniations pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment.

The relatively rare occurrence and uncertainty about pathogenesis of intradurally displaced disc herniations stimulated an anatomico-pathological study into intradural disc herniations. The relation between the ventral dura and posterior longitudinal ligament in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions were examined macroscopically and microscopically, and ventral and dorsal dural thickness was compared in 20 adult autopsies on patients who died from various causes; in addition, 20 late abortions and newborn cadavers were investigated in the same way. In this study, a total of 40 autopsies has shown that the ventral dura is most frequently and firmly attached to the posterior longitudinal ligament at the L4-L5 level and these adhesions may be congenital.