OBJECTIVE
This study was designed to elucidate the requirements for angiographic evaluation in blunt head injuries, the timing of angiography, and the selection of appropriate therapeutic approaches.… (More)
We report three cases of oesophageal complications due to pressure necrosis secondary to screws post anterior plate fixation of the cervical spine. Two of the patients were treated using primary… (More)
OBJECTIVES
To determine whether proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), a newer radiographic technology, would be useful in the evaluation of the thalamus of patients in vegetative states… (More)
The pathogenesis of ischemic brain lesions with traumatic hematoma is multifactorial. It has been suggested that the presence of subdural hematoma in patients with severe head injury is associated… (More)
Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central…
2013
A 30-year-old man with brainstem cavernoma experienced hemorrhage and was operated in 2008. Six months after the operation, the patient presented with new complaints of left arm tremor namely Holmes'… (More)
AIM
Lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a common disease of advanced age characterized by progressive changes in the intervertebral disc and associated structures. There have been great efforts… (More)
Bilateral traumatic abducens nerve palsy is a rare condition. We report a case associated with cervical spine flexion injury. This may be the first such case report, as no similar case was found in… (More)
STUDY DESIGN
This case report shows an intramedullary thoracic spinal cord abscess secondary to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a 7-year-old boy with chronic progressive paraparesis and hypesthesia… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To study a series of patients with traumatic peripheral nerve injury during the past 10 years in Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty/Istanbul/Turkey.
METHODS
The chart review of 802 patients was… (More)
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of synthetic growth hormone on healing process of reversible injured spinal cord. The rat was selected for the experiment in preference to larger… (More)