Neurosurgery became a separate surgical subspecialty relatively recently when compared to other branches of medicine. The adequate number of neurosurgeons per capita has always been a debate. In 1977 the "Study on Surgical Services for the United States" report (SOSSUS) proposed that the number PDF
Brain imaging is one of the main obstacles of modern disease diagnostics since it has to allow accurate and quantitative measurements on a living organ that is placed in adults (in neonatal humans' skull penetration is somewhat easier) inside a bone cage. Inside is the brain, PDF
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a disease of the central nervous system which affects the white matter and causes demyelination. JC polyomavirus (JCV) causes a lytic infection of oligodendrocytes in this condition. In 2009 a study of 400 healthy blood donors was conducted, PDF
Lesions within the right middle cerebral artery distribution commonly result in one or another variant of left hemineglect syndrome with sensory or attention deficits derived from damage within the posterior branches serving occipital, temporal, and parietal brain regions. PDF
The aim of this paper is to analyze the extended transcavernous – petroapical subtemporal approach by microanatomical dissection for exposure of structures in the petroclival region with a maximum drilled of the petrous apex. PDF