Items tagged “neurosurgery”
38 results found
Case
Anaplastic meningioma with recurrence
Published
22 Feb 2015
95% complete
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MRI
Article
Midline shift
Midline shift is one of the most important indicators of increased intracranial pressure due to mass effect.
Pathology
Any intra-axial or extra-axial lesion (tumor, hemorrhage, abscess, etc.) has the potential to exert mass effect on the brain parenchyma and cause lateral shift of the midline ...
Case
Glioblastoma NOS (24 hour post-operative MRI)
Published
06 Jun 2016
58% complete
MRI
Case
Subarachnoid hemorrhage - ruptured anterior communicating aneurysm
Published
04 Jul 2016
92% complete
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Case
Large posterior fossa hemorrhage from arteriovenous malformation
Published
04 Jul 2016
100% complete
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DSA (angiography)
Article
Shunt-dependency in symptomatic aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage score
The shunt-dependency in symptomatic aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SDASH) score is a harmonized score for the prediction of hydrocephalus requiring shunting after subarachnoid hemorrhage. The tool is employed in the acute phase to predict which patients will require shunting, rather than to...
Case
Multiple myeloma
Published
06 Dec 2017
73% complete
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Tension pneumocephalus
Published
04 Jan 2018
95% complete
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Article
Raised intracranial pressure
Raised intracranial pressure is a pathological increase in the intracranial pressure and is a medical emergency.
Clinical presentation
The symptoms and signs of raised intracranial pressure are often non-specific and insidious in onset:
headache
drowsiness
anorexia
visual disturbances
bl...
Case
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Published
15 Mar 2020
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MRI
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Subdural drain
Subdural drains (SDDs) are inserted as a neurosurgical procedure to manage subdural hygromas 1 and chronic subdural hematomas 2. The drain is ideally closed system 1. It may, for example, be a Jackson-Pratt catheter3 or subdural evacuating port system 4.
To insert a SDD, a skin incision is mad...
Case
Intrathoracic migration of subduroperitoneal shunt
Published
07 Jun 2020
94% complete
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Pterional approach (neurosurgery)
The pterional or fronto-temporo-sphenoidal approach is one of the most frequently performed neurocranial craniotomy/craniectomy approaches and allows access to numerous important supratentorial anatomical substrates of vascular and neoplastic pathology.
History
It was originally described and ...
Case
Extraventricular neurocytoma
Published
22 Jan 2021
98% complete
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Pathology
MRI
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Epidural abscess - spinal
Published
14 Mar 2022
89% complete
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MRI
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Intraosseous meningioma
Published
14 Mar 2022
69% complete
Nuclear medicine
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Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation
Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation is a scoliosis restorative method employed since 1983. Principally this procedure is used in any situation requiring posterior spinal instrumentation with rigid fixation like fractures and retrolisthesis. Contrary to Harrington rods, this procedure is much better...
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Arteriovenous malformation of the brain
Published
20 Feb 2024
95% complete
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