Burr-hole craniostomy with closed-system drainage is a safe and effective method for the management of chronic subdural hematoma. However, contralateral acute subdural hematoma has been reported to be a rare and devastating complication. Only 3 cases have been described in the literature. Herein, we reported an 80-year-old male with chronic subdural hematoma and contralateral subdural hygroma. ...

Case I. Robert M. was 4 years old when first seen at the Children's Hospital of Michigan because of headache, drowsiness, vomiting, and unsteadiness on his feet of 6 weeks' duration. He had been delivered with forceps after a long difficult labor. He still carried prominent forceps markings behind each ear and a deep scar over the occiput. During the first few months of life he developed a mark...

discussion splenic artery aneurysm is a very uncommon cause of page kidney and to our knowledge, it was the first case of its kind ever reported in the literature. introduction the page kidney is a rare phenomenon that refers to hypertension resulting from any external compression of a kidney by a hematoma, tumor, lymphocele, or urinoma. the activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone syste...

OBJECTIVES The onset of chronic subdural hematoma may be associated with direct or indirect minor injuries to the head or a poorly repaired vascular injury. Endothelial progenitor cells happen to be one of the key factors involved in hemostasis and vascular repair. This study was designed to observe the levels of endothelial progenitor cells, white blood cells, platelets, and other indicators i...

AIM Chronic subdural hematoma is a frequently encountered entity in neurosurgery in particular in elderly patients. There in a high variance in the treatment in literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS We report our experience of percutaneous evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma in 28 patients. RESULTS From January 2007 to July 2009, 28 patients underwent percutaneous evacuation. ...

Chronic encapsulated intracerebral hematoma is a unique type of intracerebral hematoma accompanied by a capsule that is abundant in fragile microvasculature occasionally causing delayed regrowth. A 37-year-old man who had undergone radiosurgery for an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) causing intracerebral hematoma in the left parietal lobe presented with headache, vomiting, and progressive trun...

A 25-year-old man underwent an excision of a thigh mass under general anesthesia without any complication. After the operation, he developed oxygen desaturation requiring a jaw thrust maneuver. A rapidly expanding hematoma on the right side of the neck was formed shortly after the application of the maneuver. The patient was returned to the operation room for a neck exploration. Damage to the f...

www.japi.org © JAPI • VOL. 54 • AUGUST 2006 replacement therapy in patients of chronic renal failure who develop subdural hematoma on hemodialysis. We suggest that the possibility of subdural hematoma should be entertained in those patients of chronic renal failure on CAPD who present with altered behavior, headache and restlessness. Early diagnosis and prompt surgical management may prove very...

Chronic subdural hematoma may be defined as hematoma within the subdural space, limited by a fibrous envelope and covered on the arachnoidal surface by mesothelium. Clinically, it is characterized by symptoms which appear, after a variable latent period, following cerebral trauma. Marked physical debility aand psychopathic changes may ensue, and it is only the comparatively recent understanding...

Spinal epidural hematoma, a potentially devastating problem, requires rapid diagnosis and urgent surgical intervention. Two types of spinal epidural hematoma have been described in the literature: traumatic and nontraumatic.1 Traumatic spinal epidural hematoma has been attributed to spine surgery,2 epidural catheter placement,3 lumbar puncture,4 and chiropractic manipulation.5 Nontraumatic, or ...