ALLMedicine™ Craniotomy Center

May 16th, 2021 - Sclerosing extramedullary hematopoietic tumour is a rare tumour which can occur in certain myeloproliferative diseases, typically myelofibrosis. Typically these tumours present as a discrete retroperitoneal mass or masses, however they can occur i...

May 15th, 2021 - Intraoperative cytological examination and cyto-histologic correlation of papillary glioneuronal tumors have rarely been described in detail in the literature. A 23-year-old female presented at our institution with seizure-like activity, and a 3.0...

May 13th, 2021 - A nulliparous patient in her early 20s was referred to a fertility specialist for fertility preservation, before commencing chemo-radiation therapy for a recently diagnosed malignant brain tumour. Two weeks prior, she had presented with seizures a...

May 12th, 2021 - Purpose/Aim: Cerebellopontine angle (CPA) oligodendrogliomas are very rare, and only 3 preoperative cases have been confirmed. Secondary cerebellopontine angle oligodendrogliomas after radiation therapy are exceptionally rare, and no other cases h...

May 7th, 2021 - Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) has led to a paradigm shift in perioperative care through multimodal interventions. Still, ERAS remains a relatively new concept in neurosurgery, and there is no summary of evidence on ERAS applications in cr...

Nov 7th, 2017 - : Although there are numerous publications addressing venous thromboembolism and its prevention in neurosurgery, there are relatively few high-quality studies to guide decisions regarding thromboprophylaxis. In patients undergoing craniotomy, we r...

Nov 4th, 2015 - What is the optimal role of biopsy in the initial management of presumptive low-grade glioma in adults? Adult patients with imaging suggestive of a low-grade glioma. Stereotactic biopsy is recommended when definitive surgical resection is limited...

May 16th, 2021 - Sclerosing extramedullary hematopoietic tumour is a rare tumour which can occur in certain myeloproliferative diseases, typically myelofibrosis. Typically these tumours present as a discrete retroperitoneal mass or masses, however they can occur i...

May 15th, 2021 - Intraoperative cytological examination and cyto-histologic correlation of papillary glioneuronal tumors have rarely been described in detail in the literature. A 23-year-old female presented at our institution with seizure-like activity, and a 3.0...

May 13th, 2021 - A nulliparous patient in her early 20s was referred to a fertility specialist for fertility preservation, before commencing chemo-radiation therapy for a recently diagnosed malignant brain tumour. Two weeks prior, she had presented with seizures a...

May 12th, 2021 - Purpose/Aim: Cerebellopontine angle (CPA) oligodendrogliomas are very rare, and only 3 preoperative cases have been confirmed. Secondary cerebellopontine angle oligodendrogliomas after radiation therapy are exceptionally rare, and no other cases h...

May 7th, 2021 - Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) has led to a paradigm shift in perioperative care through multimodal interventions. Still, ERAS remains a relatively new concept in neurosurgery, and there is no summary of evidence on ERAS applications in cr...

Feb 26th, 2019 - Surgical outcomes seem as good whether the primary surgeon is involved in more than one case simultaneously or not, a large study showed. However, there were signals of greater risk in overlapping surgery for cardiac bypass and in higher risk case...

May 16th, 2018 - ANSWER The image shows a large, convex hyperdensity within the left parietal region. This is a textbook image of an acute epidural hematoma.

Aug 2nd, 2017 - Andrew N. Wilner, MD: I am Dr Andrew Wilner, and I am here with Dr Christopher Streib, director of stroke operations at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Today we are going to be speaking about the treatment of malignant cerebral infarct...

Jul 24th, 2017 - A Senate Republican bill that largely repeals and replaces the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with coverage provisions that would save billions of dollars but swell the ranks of the uninsured was voted down decisively tonight, 43 to 57. The defeat of t...

Jul 24th, 2017 - The Republican-controlled Senate today voted along party lines to resume debating how to fulfill their long-standing promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Vice President Mike Pence cast his vote to break a 50-50 tie in favor...