One of the negative factors civilization around world is significant growth injury rate. The manifestations latter include suicidal acts that occur in process social and individual life. Sometimes people commit suicide because having incurable diseases. Alcohol addiction contributes to risk. To share with general medical community rare case trauma which seemed fatal but resolved favorably, thou...

The base sledge microtome presents a hazard to the operator due to the length of blade that is exposed. Manipulation of the carriage requires hand movements close to the knife edge and serious lacerations may result. A simple, effective guard has been devised, suitable for knives which have screw holes for handles at both ends. It consists of two perspex end-pieces (Fig. I), attached to the kni...

The Gamma Knife Check software is an FDA approved second check system for dose calculations in Gamma Knife radiosurgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and the stability of the commercial software package as a tool for independent dose verification. The Gamma Knife Check software version 8.4 was commissioned for a Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and a 4C unit at the Univer...

BACKGROUND: Due to their involvement with critical neurovascular structures, tumors located in the cranial base present challenges to neurosurgeons and are associated with high morbidity and mortality. METHODS: Rates of tumor control, complications, patient outcomes, and recurrences were extracted and summarized from two decades of our surgical and radiological treatment follow-up and review of...

UNLABELLED According to the Public Health Institute of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina there were 132 newly diagnosed patients with cervical cancer in 2008. AIM The aim of this article is to present the incidence of precancerous changes on the cervix and cervical cancer as well as the incidence of the use of conization as the type of treatment for cervical patients. METHODS The num...

BACKGROUND While most meningiomas are benign, aggressive meningiomas are associated with high levels of recurrence and mortality. A single institution's Gamma Knife radiosurgical experience with atypical and malignant meningiomas is presented, stratified by the most recent WHO classification. METHODS Thirty-one patients with atypical and 4 patients with malignant meningiomas treated with Gamm...

Starting from October 1-st, 1926, when Dr. Harvey Cushing was the first to apply electrocoagulation, the pioneer invention of Wiliam Bovie (1), surgical smoke has become an integral component of the atmosphere of the operating room. Thanks to technological progress in the twentieth century it was possible to use a laser or harmonic knife in the field of surgery. Undoubtedly, this facilitated th...

This paper proposes a cake-cutting protocol using cryptography when the cake is a heterogeneous good that is represented by an interval on a real line. Although the Dubins-Spanier moving-knife protocol with one knife achieves simple fairness and truthfulness, all players must execute the protocol synchronously. Thus, the protocol cannot be executed on asynchronous networks such as the Internet....

Standard treatment of cerebral alveolar hydatid disease consists of open brain surgery and systemic albendazole. We describe a patient with inoperable cerebral alveolar hydatid cysts on whom gamma knife radiosurgery was used instead of open brain surgery. Because of the size of the multicystic lesion, the gamma knife procedure was done in two sessions. Repeated courses of albendazole were given...

Vestibular schwannomas are common, and gamma knife radiosurgery is a treatment option of symptomatic tumors. Hydrocephalus may be a complication of gamma knife treatment of vestibular schwannoma, though the cause-and-effect relationship can be debated because tumors can cause hydrocephalus without treatment. We present an MR imaging study of an unusual case of communicating hydrocephalus after ...