J Neurosurg Sci
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Forty eight, patients under fourteen years of age, with severe head injury, who were admitted to the Children's Hospital, over a a period of 4 years were studied. During the same period 2500 children with head injury admitted, an incidence 2% approx. ⋯ The literature is also reviewed and a few conceptions regarding treatment, age of the patients in various series and intracranial haematomas were reconsidered. Extradural and subdural haematomas are excluded from this particular study.
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We report on two cases of cervical epidural abscess (CEA). Their clinical presentation included fever, neck pain and symptoms of neural compression, and the presence of epidural abscess was documented by surgery. ⋯ None of the other currently used imaging modalities could provide the same information alone. The role of these techniques in diagnosing this condition is discussed.
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An isolated oculomotor nerve palsy is very rarely the presenting sign of a pituitary adenoma. It may occur slowly due to mechanical compression or rapidly, secondary to pituitary apoplexy. ⋯ We report a case of a pituitary adenoma presenting with an isolated, partial oculomotor nerve palsy in the setting of apoplexy. The pathophysiology, prognostic factors and MRI findings of this entity are discussed.
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The authors have presented the current state of surgical therapy of malignant gliomas underlining the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and stereotactic surgery, preparation for surgery, mortality, morbidity, prognostic factors, and complications. Particular attention was placed on cell kinetic studies. Of the methods used in this study we would like to recall those of flow cytometry associated with administration of BUdR and utilization of the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 associated with immunohistochemical techniques.