introduction: notochord. although histologically benign, these tumors are locally aggressiveand present significant managment challenges . there arew some studies onevaluated the location, age and gender of the patients with chordoma in tworeferral centers in tehran.chordoma cases but there was no study about iranian cases. in this study weskull base chordomas are rare neoplasms arising from th...

OBJECTIVE To report the surgical treatment of severe swallowing disorders associated with skull base surgery resulting in unilateral pharyngolaryngeal paralysis in pediatric patients. DESIGN Retrospective case review. SETTING Tertiary referral center for pediatric otolaryngology. PATIENTS Five infants undergoing swallowing rehabilitation surgery for severe dysphagia and aspiration resulti...

London’s Air Ambulance, London, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Figure 1 A) Displaced fracture causeing sagittal sinus thrombosis; B) Periosteal haematoma compressing right transverse sinus; C) Right Sigmoid Sinus thrombus forming under undisplaced right occipital / base of skull fracture. Hendrickson et al. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation...

Farm workers are at increased risk for animal-inflicted head injuries that are associated with significant morbidity and occasionally may be fatal. These injuries may cause permanent eye damage with or without concomitant skull base fracture. Here, we present a male farmer who suffered a cow attack that resulted in perforating orbital injury with comminuted frontobasal cranial fracture caused b...

A 45-year-old male was autopsied. He had fallen backwards from a two-stairs height to the ground and passed away. A skull fracture was detected in the left occipital area, extending up to the left side of the skull base. The patient's death occurred due to the very low thickness of the calvarial bones, which led to the aforementioned fracture, and in turn resulted in subarachnoid hemorrhage and...

Due to improvements in emergency resuscitation provided by rescue teams, more trauma victims who could have died due to sudden heart failure at the scene are brought to the hospital following resuscitation. Most of these patients present with major organ injuries and hypovolemic shock at the time of trauma. However, head trauma associated with sudden heart arrest is rare. Here, we report a case...

on the ground. A friend gave him a little brandy, and he performed the motions of deglutition ; he was then put into a doolie and taken to his house. I saw him a quarter of an hour after the accident, in company with Assistant Surgeon Stevens6n, r.a., and Assistant Surgeon Leader, of the Buffs. Perfectly insensible; breathing stertorous and slow; gurgling in wind-pipe; pulse about 100?full, har...