OBJECTIVE To assess the survival rate and functional outcome in elderly patients with space occupying supratentorial infarction who underwent hemicraniectomy compared with those who received medical ...

Of all patients with back pain, less than 2% will undergo surgery for a herniated disc in the lumbar spine. In back pain patients who also have leg pain (sciatica), doctors and therapists use a ...

Coma scales have been developed for evaluating depth of consciousness and helping in prediction of outcome. This last issue is best assessed by several other clinical and neurophysiologic tests. For ...

Reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain, but in three patients these postures were a presenting feature of hepatic coma, and ...

Decompressive neurosurgery is recommended for patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) who have large parenchymal lesions and impending brain herniation. This recommendation is based on limited ...

Background: Cerebellar contusion, swelling and herniation is frequently encoutered upon durotomy in patients undergoing retrosigmoid craniotomy for cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors, despite using ...

1 Department of Molecular Medicine and Development, University of Siena, Siena, Italy 2 Department of Pediatric Oncology, Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy Haberland syndrome or ...

Brain herniation is the movement of brain parenchyma from one cranial compartment to another. The key cranial compartments include left and right supratentorial compartments and the posterior fossa, ...

1 Department of Pediatric Radiology, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China 2 Department of Pediatric Emergency, Guangzhou Women and Children’s ...

ABSTRACT: Influenza-associated encephalopathy (IAE) can perform as varying patterns of neuroimaging. Central brain herniation (CBH) secondary to IAE is rare; it may be a bad prognosis. Here, we ...