Introduction : To prevent spinal lesions during surgery we can use somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) to monitor the patients who are under surgery particularly the ones under the spinal cord surgery. Case Report: The following case refers to the monitoring of a 23 year – old youth with the use of Intraoperative SSEP who has been under the operation of tumor removal with the diagnosis of...

Purpose: To report a case of unilateral severe visual loss and bilateral optic disc cupping secondary to brain metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma Patient and findings: A 48 year-old woman presented with severe visual loss of left eye without redness or pain or any systemic findings .Clinical findings included decreased visual acuity of left eye to 4 m CF and (+3) positive Marcus-Gunn refle...

Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma(MC) was first described in 1959. MC is a rare tumor arising in bone or soft tissue which is composed of well differentiated cartilage with in a proliferation of primitive mesenchymal cell. MC occurs most often in the second and third decades of life. The prognosis is poor, local recurrence and metastases are frequent. A 32 year old, white female consulted a ...

    Introduction: Ostoid osteoma is a benign bone tumor characterized by pain especially at night, which is relieved with aspirin. Hand is an uncommon site of this tumor. Here a case of ostoid osteoma in middle phalanx is reported. Case Report: The patient of the present case study was a 26-year-old woman referred due to a pain in her left ring finger. The diagnosis was made pre-operatively thr...

Introduction: The differential diagnosis of idiopathic and syringomyelia associated scoliosis is important because corrective surgery for scoliosis associated with syringomyelia prior to management of syringomyelia can be dangerous. There are important imaging indicators for diagnosis of syringomyelia associated with scoliosis. A few of these indicators have been assessed in our study. Methods...