Extradural spinal angioma was diagnosed in the lomber region of a patient who referred to neurosurgical clinic with signs and symptoms disc herniation. The venous mass compressing L2-3 roots bilaterally coagulated by bipolar made an uneventuall recovery. This case is reported literature reviewed reiation rarity angiomas difficulties diagnose.

We report a case of an elderly man who presented with hemiparesis and plain CT scan findings highly suggestive of an extradural hematoma as the underlying cause. This patient was later found to have dural metastases secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma. Dural metastases are rare, usually presenting as dural mass, but may also present as chronic subdural or extradural hematoma on non contrast CT ...

The structural features of the venous system of seals, including such specialties as a caval sphincter, a huge posterior caval vein and hepatic sinuses, venous plexuses and a huge extradural intravertebral vein, are described and functional aspects of these features in relation to diving habits are discussed. A number of old concepts are discarded and new ones are proposed, particularly with re...

Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) are aggressive childhood malignancies and are difficult to treat. Primary intraspinal PNETs are rare. These patients have poor prognosis with short survival time even after surgery and chemoradiation. As there are no standard guidelines exist for the management of these tumors, a multidisciplinary approach has been employed with varying success. Accordin...

Twenty-one patients for vagotomy with gastroenterostomy or pyloroplasty were allocated randomly to postoperative analgesia with either morphine by injection or continuous extradural nerve block. In terms of clinical assessment and A-a Po3 difference measured before and after operation, extradural nerve block was found to reduce the degree of postoperative lung dysfunction. It is concluded that ...

In neurosurgical practice, extradural or subgaleal drains are commonly placed and connected to a vacuum system. Several reports have described severe bradycardia or arterial hypotension, or both, after connection of negative suction pressure to the extradural or epicranial drains following craniotomy. We encountered an unusual complication with the use of the vacuum drain after an elective aneu...

We report the first case of a young patient who presented with the features of Horner's syndrome following a spinal extradural hematoma resulting from a ruptured arterio-venous malformation (AVM). Since there were features of early compressive myelopathy as well, urgent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the spine revealed features suggestive of an extradural hematoma in the cervico-thora...

A case is reported of an uneventful continuous extradural block in spite of unrecognized dural perforation. Although the perforation was recognized later during the block, the dura was probably pierced during the insertion of the catheter and only later the terminal hole came to lie in the subarachnoid space. Consequently both extradural and subarachnoid spread of the injected local anaesthetic...

OBJECTIVE Removal of the anterior clinoid process (ACP) is an essential process in the surgery of giant or complex aneurysms located near the proximal internal carotid artery or the distal basilar artery. An extradural clinoidectomy must be performed within the limits of the meningeal layers surrounding the ACP to prevent morbid complications. To identify the safest method of extradural exposur...

It has been suggested that the extensive longitudinal extradural spread of local anaesthetics in the elderly is attributed to decreased leakage through the intervertebral foramina. We have examined radiologically, in 53 patients, the relationship between leakage of iohexol through the thoracic intervertebral foramina and age. Iohexol was injected through an extradural catheter advanced 5 cm cep...