A com is a common site for aneurysms. Most of patients turn out to have one dominant A1, the other side being hypoplastic. Whichever side has dominant A1, most of us approaxch aneurysm from that side ...
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Radiation side effects.
Radiotherapy is an accepted treatment after surgery in grade 2 gliomas of brain. Addition of whole brain radiotherapy to surgery prolongs the life of patients. Apart from hair loss which occurs soon a ...
Cervicomedullary syrinx
These 4 pictures show alarge syrinx extending from medullary region to lower cervical cord. Axial Ti weighted pictures are with (right side) and without(LEft side) contrast. There is no evidence of Ch ...
Scenic Venue of 2013 Syringomyelia meeting
An adult male having Chiari-1 with syringomyelia. Patient underwent bony decompression at foramen magnum and syringosubarachnoid shunt at upper dorsal level(Karam Chand operation) in January 2013.Lege ...
Interesting cervicomedullary lesion
A 42 yrs old male presented with features of raised intracranial pressure for last 2 months. Apart from papilloedema he had no deficit. MRI brain revealed cervicomedullary cystic lesion with hydroceph ...
Colloid cyst of brain- acute presentation
Episodic headache in colloid cysts is quite common. It may remain silent and may be just a postmortem finding as happened with father of modern neurosurgery- WH Cushing. Severe headache followed by un ...
Temporal profile of contusion brain
Top picture---- CT head on 28/12/2012 Bottom picture- CT head on 30/12/2012 A young man with head injury had this small left frontal contusion. He is being treated conservatively and is stable. A repe ...
Brain abscess as first manifestation of congenital heart disease
A teenaged boy presented with fever and generalised seizures of 2 weeks duration. Patient also had features of raised intracranial pressure. Finger nails showed marked clubbing. The parents of child w ...
Evolution of chronic subdural haematoma
Top- CT head 2/11/2012 Middle- CT head 21/12/2012 Bottom- CT head 22/12/2012 A 55 yearsold male sustained head injury resulting in B/L SAH and thin SDH on left side9(Top picture). Subsequently SAH res ...
Some tips to keeping neurons healthy and avoiding Alzheimer
Practical steps to avoid loosing cognitive functions -Never fix correct time on your wrist watch, keep it few minutes ahead/back so that addition and substraction excercises remain alive.While visitin ...
