BACKGROUND We classified iatrogenic retinal break formation during 20-gauge pars plana vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy into three types according to the mechanism of development, and evaluated the association of each type with postoperative complications. This is the largest series of such patients published to date. METHODS This was a retrospective comparative study of 760 ...

Various operative techniques are available for the treatment of craniosynostosis. The patient's age at presentation is one of the most important factors in the determination of the surgical modality. Minimally invasive suturectomy and postoperative helmet therapy may be performed for relatively young infants, whose age is younger than 6 months. It relies upon the potential for rapid brain growt...

A 41-year old male was presented to the Emergency Department as a case of generalized tonic clonic seizure. The Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) was 15/15 with minimal right side weakness (4.5/5). Imaging of the brain showed a large (5.0 £ 4.5 £ 4 cm) intra-axial left frontal tumor with extension in the frontal horn of the ventricle and with mild degree of surrounding edema. No anomalies were identifie...

A 52-year-old man with massive hemoptysis underwent a left upper lobectomy. He suddenly reported a severe headache and lost consciousness on postoperative day 4. Computed tomography of the brain demonstrated a subarachnoid hemorrhage due to right vertebral artery dissection. Fortunately, he recovered well with intensive neurosurgical treatment. Vertebral artery dissection sometimes develops fol...

OBJECTIVE To compare the postoperative complications of intracapsular tonsillectomy using a microdebrider with traditional electrodissection tonsillectomy. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary care pediatric referral center. PATIENTS The medical records of 2944 patients undergoing tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy at our institution between January 1, 2002, and Ma...

Abstract Introduction: Subdural hematoma is the most common type of hemorrhage as a shunt complication following ventriculoperitoneal procedures. This caused by rupture bridging veins between dura mater and brain due to suddenly developing decrease in intracranial pressure. On other hand, mechanism late epidural hemorrhage, shunt, could not been clarified very clearly. Case Presentation: A 7-ye...

INTRODUCTION Although tonsillectomy has a very long history as one of the most common surgical procedures in childhood, post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage is not uncommon and occasionally life threatening. Although primary post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage that occurs within 24 hours of surgery is often caused by insufficient intraoperative hemostasis, delayed hemorrhage is frequently related to the rej...

AIM Factors affecting the development of postoperative hydrocephalus patients who underwent surgery after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage were retrospectively assessed. MATERIAL AND METHODS 201 cases, who underwent aneurysm surgery in our clinic after subarachnoid hemorrhage between 2008 and 2013, were retrospectively assessed. Twenty-one cases with hydrocephalus development were retrospec...