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A 24-year-old, right-handed male patient presented with a 1-month history of continuous tingling paresthesia involving left medial hand and fingers accompanied by clumsiness of left hand and fingers. The pain...
Yaşargil has brought a paradigm shift to neurosurgery with the use of the microscope. Recent advances in radiosurgery and endoscopic surgery have challenged in microscopic surgery in the neurosurgical field....
Idiopathic spinal cord herniation (ISCH) is a rare disease. It especially occurs at the thoracic level through a ventral dural defect without a definite pathophysiology. More patients have been diagnosed...
Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) is a well-known method for treating spinal diseases in which adjacent segment disease (ASD) is a representative complication. To correct ASD, posterior fusion is extended...
Contrast-induced encephalopathy (CIE) is a rare and unexpected complication after coil embolization to treat cerebral aneurysm. A 66-year-old woman underwent secondary coil embolization with iodixanol for recanalization of the left...
Primary intramedullary meningeal melanocytoma is an extremely rare tumor that occurs in the spinal cord. To our knowledge, 29 cases have been reported. We report a case of intramedullary meningeal...