AIM We present a series of 16 patients who underwent occipitocervical fixation with occipital bone hooks used as a substitute for occipital screws for the treatment of occipitocervical instability. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this technique; instrumentation was started following the decompression with insertion of screws into lateral masses. At the occipital level, two symmetrical burr holes were...

BACKGROUND Lumbar puncture is often used for the diagnosis and treatment of subarchnoid hemorrhage, infection of Cerebro-spinal Fluid (CSF), hydrocephalus in neurosurgery department patients. It is general that paradoxical herniation followed by lumbar puncture is quite rare in decompressive craniectomy cases; the related reports are very few. Moreover, most of the paradoxical herniation cases ...

Background and Purpose: We have previously reported a model of cerebral hydrodynamics in the form of an equivalent electrical circuit. The aim of this work was to demonstrate that the model could predict venous flow patterns seen in the superior sagittal sinus, straight sinus and jugular vein in normal volunteers. Methods: An electrical equivalence model of cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) and cerebr...

Forty well-defined acute stroke patients were investigated for some cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) markers of cerebral damage. Myelin-basic protein (MBP), tau-fraction, albumin, IgG and transferrin were analyzed on two early occasions after onset of clinical symptoms. Patients with transitory ischaemic attack (TIA) had normal values for MBP both at first and second lumbar puncture. Patients with ce...

BACKGROUND Our aim is to detect the infection by Toscana virus (TOSV) and other Phleboviruses in the sera and cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) of patients with meningitis in Tunisia. We examined various species of phlebotomus present in Tunisia to determine whether or not a direct relationship exists between cases of meningitis and the viruses circulating in the insect vectors. METHODS Patients wit...

Forty well-defined acute stroke patients were investigated for some cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) markers of cerebral damage. Myelin-basic protein (MBP), tau-fraction, albumin, IgG and transferrin were analyzed on two early occasions after onset of clinical symptoms. Patients with transitory ischaemic attack (TIA) had normal values for MBP both at first and second lumbar puncture. Patients with ce...

In Alzheimer's disease (AD), besides the characteristic deterioration of memory, studies also point to a higher pain tolerance in spite of sensibility preservation. A change in the normal tau protein phosphorylation is also characteristic of AD, which contributes to the pathogenesis of the disease and is useful in early diagnosis. Kyotorphin (KTP) is an endogenous analgesic dipeptide (Tyr-Arg) ...

The present study examines the extent of spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption in healthy individuals in relation to physical activity, CSF production, intracranial pressure (ICP), and spinal CSF movement. Thirty-four healthy individuals aged 21-35 yr were examined by lumbar puncture and radionuclide cisternography with repeated imaging. ICP was registered before and after CSF drainage, a...

In India all types of nervous disease exist, but very few spinal tumours are reported. This does not mean that the incidence of spinal tumours in this country is a rare phenomenon. The diagnosis of a spinal tumour is made by the clinical symptoms of (1) the root cycle usually unilateral; (2) the Brown-Sequard syndrome; (3) the compression paraplegia, and by special clinical tests such as lumbar...

: Skull base fractures are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in head injury. Anterior cranial Fossa (ACF) skull fracture, leading to Cerebro Spinal Fluid (CSF) Rhinorrhea is one the most commonly encountered presentation ACF fractures. The key successful management such cases lies early diagnosis surgical before it leads meningitis avoidable mortality. To evaluate post traumatic CSF rhin...