World Neurosurg
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Review Biography Historical Article
Spinal Traumas and their Treatments According to Avicenna's Canon of Medicine.
Spinal Traumas have been categorized as disabling diseases that cause irretrievable personal and social problems. Having conducted a rather comprehensive diagnosis of the anatomy of the backbone and spinal cord as well as their functions, Avicenna (Ibn Sina, 980-1037) stated the levels and kinds of spinal impairments that are caused by spinal traumas in his great masterpiece Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine). ⋯ Avicenna had used the following methods to treat spinal traumas: food and drug therapy and regimental therapies such as massage, phlebotomy, cupping, dry sauna, and surgery. The authors of the present article review the bases of Avicenna's viewpoints regarding spinal traumas and their treatment.
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Coexisting complex visual field defects and serious ophthalmologic comorbidities make the management of the pituitary macroadenomas more challenging. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) magnetic resonance imaging that tracks neural fibers in the white matter has been used recently to visualize the impact of different pathologies on cranial nerves. This study explains application of anterior optic pathway tractography for patients with ophthalmologic comorbidities and pituitary adenoma. ⋯ Visual pathway DTI tractography is a promising adjunct to the standard perimetry in preoperative assessment of pituitary macroadenoma with serious ophthalmologic comorbidities. It also may be useful in the intraoperative determination of the optic pathway decompression and for following the visual outcome of these patients after surgery.
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Comparative Study Observational Study
The Impact of Neurosurgical Complications on Patients' Health Status: A Comparison Between Different Grades of Complications.
The aim of this article is to investigate the frequency of neurosurgical complications according to Landriel-Ibañez Classification and their impact on patients' health status. ⋯ Our study highlights the impact of neurosurgical complications on patients' life and contributes to the debate on how define and classify adverse events because a classification only based on treatment seems to be not adequate.
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Papillary tumor of the pineal region (PTPR) is a rare neuroectodermal tumor that was first described in 2003 and formally codified by the World Health Organization in 2007. Limited reports suggest surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment; however, the role of multimodality therapy is not well defined. We evaluated our institutional experience in the treatment of PTPR. ⋯ Our institutional experience confirms a recent multicenter retrospective series showing excellent survival but high risk of local recurrence for PTPR. Our findings suggest that radiotherapy provides durable local control, particularly when administered in the adjuvant setting after GTR.