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Fusionless posterior hemivertebra resection in a 2-year-old child with 16 years follow-up
We present the case of a 2-year-old patient with congenital scoliosis due to a lumbar hemivertebra. The current gold standard treatment of such an abnormality would be hemivertebra resection and short level po...
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Open AccessDuplication of 7q34 is specific to juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas and a hallmark of cerebellar and optic pathway tumours
Juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas (JPA), a subgroup of low-grade astrocytomas (LGA), are common, heterogeneous and poorly understood subset of brain tumours in children. Chromosomal 7q34 duplication leading to f...
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Epidural malignant lymphomas of the spine: collected experiences with epidural malignant lymphomas of the spinal canal and their treatment
Retrospective study of 13 patients treated by the authors.
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Level of consciousness and age as prognostic factors in aneurysmal SAH
The prognostic value of the level of consciousness and the patient's age for the outcome of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is studied in 74 patients admitted on day (D)0 to D3 after aneurysm rupture.
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Tectal plate gliomas Part III: Apparent lack of auditory consequences of unilateral inferior collicular lesion due to localized glioma surgery
The authors present one of their cases operated on for intrinsic tectal plate glioma. The complete resection of the right inferior colliculus (I.C.) had no apparent auditory consequences.
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Tectal plate gliomas. Part I: Microsurgery of the tectal plate gliomas
A series of 12 patients with tectal plate gliomas, is presented treated by direct surgery. Mean age was 19 years. All patients presented with signs of raised intracranial pressure and supratentorial hydrocepha...
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Tectal plate gliomas part II: CT scans and MR imaging of tectal gliomas
CT scans and MR images were analized in 12 patients with histologically proved tectal plate gliomas. In an attempt to identify the nature of these lesions, their radiological characteristics were correlated wi...
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Multiple intracranial melanoma metastases treated with surgery and radiosurgery with long term control
A case of malignant melanoma with multiplex brain metastases is described, where both surgical and radiosurgical treatment was applied. Due to CNS manifestations the patient was operated on in two sessions. Fi...
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Abscess formation in Rathke's cleft cyst
Two patients are discussed who presented at our Institute with endocrine dysfunction and sellar enlargement. CT scans revealed intra and suprasellar expanding lesions with ring enhancement. The postoperative h...
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Surgical management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms personal experience with 37 cases and discussion of the indications
The authors report a series of 37 cases of unruptured aneurysms, admitted and operated upon over a 5 year period (1985–1990), which represents an incidence of 18% of the total number of aneurysm patients opera...
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Non-Destructive neutron activation analysis of zircons from different genetic types
Twelve zircon samples representing different genetic types from Australia, China, Egypt, Hungary, Korea and Nigeria were examined using the neutron activation techniques. The study of the trace elements encoun...
