Presence of glioma stroma mesen ...
Purpose High-grade gliomas are closely related to the mesenchymal phenotype which might be explained by unorthodox differentiation of glioma cancer ...
Development of an acute obstruc ...
Purpose Previous animal models of obstructive hydrocephalus that was frequently combined with subarachnoid inflammation are not suitable for investi ...
The histone deacetylase inhibit ...
Purpose Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACis) are a promising class of anticancer agents for the treatment of brain tumors. HDACis can increase th ...
Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome—a ...
Purpose There are some reports of so-called Alice-in- Wonderland syndrome mostly concerning differential diagnosis, association with a variety of infe ...
Glioblastoma multiforme with ve ...
Glioblastoma occurs rarely in pediatric patients (0.6–7.9% of all glioblastomas). Symptom duration is about 3–5 months prior to diagnosis with a dis ...
Aggressive large cell medullobl ...
monthold boy who presented with acute non-communicating hydrocephalus caused by a small tumor in the fourth ventricle. He became brain-dead immedia ...
Mycophenolate mofetil-induced p ...
Introduction Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) is a syndrome characterized with increased intracranial pressure, normal cerebrospinal fluid content (CSF), a ...
Ectopic recurrence of a craniop ...
This 15-year-old girl was operated due to an ectopic recurrence of a craniopharyngioma along the previous surgical route. She presented with a sella ...
Comment to the paper: palliativ ...
neurodegenerative illness is a relatively unexplored challenge. In this issue of CNS, Lupashko and coauthors report the use of epilepsy surgery to e ...
Rapid onset aggressive vertebra ...
Introduction Vertebral haemangiomas are generally benign asymptomatic vascular tumours seen commonly in the adult population. Presentations in paedi ...
Posttraumatic cerebral infarcti ...
common occurrence and usually no complications, posttraumatic cerebral infarction has rarely been reported. Such infarction is characterized by occl ...
Palliative functional hemispher ...
Purpose Palliative epilepsy surgery is considered for patients that would benefit from surgical therapy for intractable epilepsy but are not candida ...
Video-assisted microsurgical tr ...
Purpose This paper outlines the perspectives of transoral craniosurgery for anterior craniovertebral junction (CVJ) compressive abnormalities in the ...
Harvey Cushing’s early experien ...
intracranial lesions posed a greater diagnostic challenge for physicians during the early twentieth century. At the time, an intracranial neoplasm w ...
Spontaneous regression of septu ...
Introduction Spontaneous regression of pilocytic astrocytoma after incomplete resection is well recognized, especially for cerebellar and optic path ...
Comment on Salman M: Posterior ...
We review a paper by Dr. Salman on the role and timing of posterior fossa decompression in Chiari 2 malformation (C2M) associated with myelomeningoc ...
Posterior fossa decompression a ...
deformity of the hindbrain. The posterior fossa and cerebellum are small in CII. The cerebellar atrophy is associated with cognitive and motor defic ...
Children with tethered cord syn ...
Purpose The term “tethered cord syndrome” (TCS) illustrates, according to the literature, both a separate diagnosis, as well as a combination of sym ...
Visual field loss in children w ...
Aims To identify visual field deficits in a group of children with syndromic craniosynostosis. Methods Kinetic visual field examination and visual e ...
Split calvarial bone grafting i ...
Purpose The material of choice for filling cranial defects is autologous split calvarial bone. Up to now, the thin calvarial bone and lack of diploi ...
Radiation-induced tumors in chi ...
Background Radiation-induced tumors (RIT) are increasingly recognized as delayed complications of brain irradiation during childhood. However, the t ...
Natural history and progression ...
moyamoya disease (MMD) were reviewed to analyze the natural history and the predictive factors for progression to bilateral MMD. Methods Forty out ...
Unique challenges faced by pedi ...
Introduction At the turn of the twentieth century, diagnosis of pediatric intracranial lesions frequently relied exclusively on the subtle, nonspeci ...
Solitary infantile myofibromato ...
Infantile myofibromatosis is a mesenchymal disorder of early childhood characterized by the formation of tumors in the skin, muscle, viscera, bone, ...
The effect of age on arterioven ...
Objective Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are the most frequently encountered structural cause of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in childho ...