Penetrating spinal cord injuries caused by stab wounds are rare. Such injuries may result from a direct lesion of the neural elements of the spinal cord, cord infarcts or, more rarely, intradural or epidural hematoma. In the present study, two cases with spinal cord and L4 root injuries caused by a knife are presented. The first case, a 22-year-old male, referred to our emergency outpatient cli...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is accepted as a minimally invasive treatment for early gastric cancer, however, it is not widely used in the colorectum because of its technical difficulty. OBJECTIVE To determine the feasibility of using ESD for treating large superficial colorectal tumors. PATIENTS A total of 400 consecutive patients were treated by ESD for 405 lesions at...

Migraine can be a disabling disease if migraine attacks are frequent and severe (1). Frequent migraine requires preventive therapy by drug treatment (2) in combination with counselling, behavioural therapy or exercise. As in all chronic diseases, patients are inclined to search for the ultimate treatment that supposedly cures the condition. Here comes the attraction of surgical or interventiona...

BACKGROUND Glomus jugulare is a slowly growing, locally destructive tumor located in the skull base with difficult surgical access. The operative approach is, complicated by the fact that lesions may be both intra and extradural with engulfment of critical neurovascular structures. The tumor is frequently highly vascular, thus tumor resection entails a great deal of morbidity and not infrequent...

In the steppes of Eastern Europe, a whole series burials were uncovered in simple pits, which deceased buried on their backs, with legs tucked up, knees up. Their outstretched or half-bent arms lay along body, hands near hips, sometimes groin area. A flint knife-shaped blade was also discovered there. The bones richly dyed ochre. from Lukovsky I burial ground Mozdok district Republic North Osse...

The title and cover was enough to tempt me, as the book seemed like a humorous story about the life of a surgeon. But after reading, it was more than that.

BACKGROUND Previous research has suggested that the silicon BD Atomic Edge knife has superior performance characteristics when compared to a metal knife and performance similar to diamond knife when making various incisions. This study was designed to determine whether a silicon accurate depth knife has equivalent performance characteristics when compared to a diamond limbal relaxing incision (...

Many patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy continue to have seizures despite medical therapy. For these patients, one recourse is surgical resection of the mesial temporal lobe, with its attendant risks. Noninvasive treatment with Gamma Knife radiosurgery is under active investigation as a possible alternative to open surgery. Accumulated evidence from multiple studies shows radiosurgery ...