LSS is a degenerative condition prevalent in the general population 50 years of age and older, and decompressive surgery for LSS is now the most commonly performed spinal surgery in patients age 65 years and over.6,8 The reported success rates of decompressive surgery vary, reflecting the poor scientific quality of the clinical literature, which consists mostly of uncontrolled, nonrandomized, s...

BACKGROUND Cervical disc disease is a common and occasionally disabling condition, occurring as a natural consequence of aging in the vast majority of the adult population. Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty (PEN) has been used to deliver highly concentrated drugs for chronic neck pain and to prevent scarring in cases refractory to conventional epidural blocks. However, the clinical course after...

Large hemispheric infarctions have malignant course and constitute a major cause of severe morbidity and mortality after stroke. The medical management is usually not effective in these cases. Decompressive craniectomy is a salvage therapy for medically refractory ICP. This paper discusses the merits and demerits of decompressive craniectomy for large hemispheric infarctions. Hemicraniectomy is...

Spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) is an abnormal localized accumulation of fat tissues in the epidural space. It is strongly related with steroid administration. The symptoms of SEL are various and range from back pain to paraplegia. In severe cases, decompressive laminectomy is the choice of treatment. A 32-year-old woman who had been under long-term steroid administration after suprasellar tu...

Klíčová slova impresivní fraktura – epidurální hematom – komplikace – uchycení hlavy – bod Abstract The standard three or four-point pin fixation systems immobilizing the head are common procedure for intracranial surgery. Intraoperative epidural hematoma complicated with depressed skull fracture resulting from pin headrest is a rare but devastating complication. Early diagnosis via computed to...

Intradural cement leakage after percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) is a rare clinical picture. We report a 64-year-old woman with osteoporotic compression fracture of the L2 vertebral body developing monoparesis and monoparesthesia after PV. The diagnosis of intradural cement collection with spinal cord damage was evidenced by clinical and neuroradiographic investigation. After decompressive surg...

Lumbar puncture is performed routinely for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, despite lumbar puncture being classically contraindicated in the setting of raised intracranial pressure. We report the case of a 30-year-old female with known idiopathic intracranial hypertension who had cerebellar tonsillar herniation following therapeutic lumbar puncture. M...

Malignant middle cerebral territory infarction represents 5 to 10% of all brain infarctions. Its mortality is 80%, due to brain herniation and it is not reduced by medical treatment. Decompressive hemicraniectomy reduces mortality to 12%, and the subsequent quality of life of patients is acceptable. We report two male patients aged 61 and 54 years, with a malignant middle cerebral territory inf...