Extradural hematoma (EDH) identified more than 14 days after head injury is classified as a chronic extradural hematoma (CEDH).1 A CEDH is an elusive lesion2 and is rarely encountered in current clinical practice. This article describes an unusual case of a large bifrontal CEDH associated with superior sagittal sinus injury. A concise review of cases available in literature in the post-computed...

Introduction: Extradural hematoma is a common pathology in our department. The natural history of small-volume usually towards resorption. In rare cases, the calcifies and compresses brain. We report an extradural 15-year-old boy who had road traffic accident on February 2011. brain CT-scan performed following day revealed small right frontal hematoma. During hospitalization, he fever 40 degree...

Congenital arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may occur in any organ. Skin AVMs are common, but AVMs of the chest wall or extradural space are uncommon. We report a patient with an extensive AVM that involved skin, chest wall, and extradural space. Definitive treatment of such an AVM is difficult. A 23-year-old man presented with progressive lower extremity weakness. A large cutaneous 'haemangi...

Twenty consecutive patients undergoing elective transurethral resection of the prostate were allocated randomly to one of two groups. Group I (n = 10) received lumbar extradural analgesia with 0.5% bupivacaine. Group II (n = 10) received general anaesthesia with spontaneous respiration, using 60% nitrous oxide and 1-2% halothane in oxygen. There was a significant inhibitory effect on platelet a...

The occipital condyle fracture is rare injury of the craniocervical junction. Meningeal spinal cysts are rare tumors of the spinal cord. Depending on location, these lesions may be classified as extradural and subdural, but extradural spinal cysts are more common. We present the case of a 15-year-old girl who suffered from avulsion occipital condyle fracture treated with use of "halo-vest" syst...

The use of MR imaging in the evaluation of spinal tumors has been well documented [1-4]. Once a mass is recognized , images in multiple planes and multiple signal sequences are used for better definition, especially of its location. For the most part, the same neuroradiologic criteria used in CT, conventional myelography, and CT-myelography are used for this purpose. This report describes a new...

Dermoid cysts of the head and neck are rare congenital benign tumors. According to the literature they represent about seven percent of all dermoids and less than one percent of all intracranial neoplasms. Extradural dermoid cysts are very rare. We report a case of intracranial extradural dermoid cyst of mastoid bone. We believe that this is the second documented extradural dermoid cyst, the fi...

Twenty patients undergoing major abdominal surgery were allocated randomly to receive either general anaesthesia with low-dose fentanyl plus intermittent systemic morphine for postoperative pain or the same general anaesthetic plus extradural analgesia during and following surgery (local anaesthetics from before skin incision until 24 h after skin incision plus extradural morphine 4 mg every 12...

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast-like fungus found in avian excreta, soil, and decayed wood [1]. The respiratory tract is the primary route of cryptococcal infection from yeast inhalation, and the infection can disseminate to most other organs [2, 3], although the main target organs are the lungs and the central nervous system (CNS) [4]. The most common manifestations in cases o...

Extradural spinal arachnoid cysts are rare lesions, which may become symptomatic due to mass effect. Multiple cysts are even rarer of which few are reported to date. A 17-year-old male with acute onset urinary retention and progressive paraparesis is presented. Magnetic resonance imaging of spine revealed multiple spinal extradural arachnoid cysts located dorsal to the spinal cord, causing mass...