Saturday, December 8, 2012

PGI NEUROSURGERY PAPERS

BENIGN NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS 1. POSTERIOR PLAGIOCEPHALY 2. AVM: INDICATIONS OF STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY 3. EVALUATION OF A PATIENT OF REFRACTORY EPILEPSY FOR SURGERY 4. NON PHARMACOLOGICAL OPTIONS IN MANAGEMENT OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 5. GENE THERAPY: CURRENT APPLICATIONS 6. MANAGEMENT OF GIANT INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS 7. MANAGEMENT OF HYPONATREMIA 8. NPH 9. DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR PARKINSONS DISEASE 10. CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA 11. VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATIONS- CLINICAL FEATURES AND TREATMENT 12. PHARMACOTHERAPY OF MALIGNANT CEREBRAL EDEMA 13. VASOSPASM FOLLOWING SAH: MECHANISM AND PHARMACOKINETICS 14. CEREBRAL PROTECTION CURRENT STATUS 15. MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE STROKE 16. FETAL NEUROSURGERY CURRENT STATUS 17. STEM CELL THERAPY IN NEUROSURGERY 18. PATHOLOGY OF TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS 19. INCIDENTAL INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS 20. MANAGEMENT OF SPONTANEOUS CSF RHINORRHOEA 21. LUMBAR CSF: IN DIAGNOSIS OF CNS DISEASES 22. AV MALFORMATION OF BRAIN: TREATMENT OPTIONS 23. PRESURGICAL EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURES 24. CAVERNOMA OF BRAIN MANAGEMENT 25. MYCOTIC ANEURYSMS- PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT 26. INTRACAVERNOUS ANEURYSMS- TREATMENT OPTIONS 27. SODIUM VALPROATE 28. MANAGEMENT OF RAISED ICP- REFRACTORY TO MEDICAL TREATMENT 29. GAIT CONTROL THEORY FOR PAIN- CURRENT STATUS 30. MOYA MOYA DISEASE 31. CHEMOTHERAPY OF FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF BRAIN 32. MEDICALLY REFRACTORY EPILEPSY- CLASSIFICATION, PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT 33. TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA-RELEVANT ANATOMY AND NON MEDICAL TREATMENT 34. SAH- ROLE OF RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS WITH MERITS AND DEMERITS 35. CSF FISTULAS- CLASSIFICATION AND TREATMENT 36. POOR GRADE SAH- MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES 37. SLIT VENTRICLE SYNDROME 38. MERITS OF COILING AND CLIPPING IN MANAGEMENT OF CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS 39. MANAGEMENT OF UNRUPTURED ANDURYSMS 40. BRAIN EDEMA – PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 41. PARACLINOID ANEURYSMS- CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT 42. RAISED ICP- CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS 43. PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS IN NEUROSURGERY 44. HYPERTENSIVE ICH- CURRENT TRENDS 45. BENIGN INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION 46. FUSIFORM INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS 47. THE FUTURE OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY 48. FRAMELESS STEREOTAXY 49. GAMMA KNIFE VS X KNIFE- MERITS AND DEMIRTS 50. AVM: INDICATIONS FOR STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY 51. POSTERIOR PLAGIOCEPHALY 52. RADIOSURGERY FOR TUMORS OF CP ANGLE 53. EVALUATION OF A PATIENT OF REFRACTORY EPILEPSY FOR SURGERY 54. CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME 55. INTRAOPERATIVE RUPTURE OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS 56. CSF RHINORRHEA: CLASSIFICATION, EVALUATION AND INDICATIONS FOR SURGERY 57. CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS- RADIOLOGICAL EVALUATION 58. DANDY WALKER SYNDROME 59. TRIPLE H THERAPY 60. PARACLINOID ANEURYSMS- MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES 61. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE AND THE NEUROSURGEON 62. SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SPASTICITY 63. NF2 AND NEUROSURGEON 64. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROMES PRODUCED BY FLUOROSIS HEAD TRAUMA 1.MANAGEMENT OF RECURRENT SDH 2.POSTTRAUMATIC EPILEPSY 3.CHRONIC SDH- PATHOGENESIS 4.CRANIOCEREBRAL EROSION- PATHOGENESIS AND MANAGEMENT 5.ROLE OF CPP IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEAD INJURY PATIENTS 6.NEURAL BASIS OF PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE 7.PATHOGENESIS OF BRAIN EDEMA IN HEAD INJURY 8.DAI- PATHOLOGY 9.SEVERE HEAD INJURY- CURRENT TREND IN MONITORING AND TREATMENT 10.INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE WAVES 11.BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS OF HEAD INJURY 12.BARBITURATE COMA IN HEAD INJURY 13.TRAUMATIC SAH 14.NON HEMORRHAGIC VASCULAR LESIONS IN HEAD TRAUMA- 2821 RANGACHARY 15.ORGANISATION OF SERVICES FOR NEURAL TRAUMA CLINICAL NEUROSURGERY 1.DD, INVESTIGATIONS AND MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS FOR UNILATERAL NON AXIAL NON PULSATILE PROPTOSIS 2.CLASSIFICATION OF ENCEPHALOCELES 3.CLINICAL FEATURS, DD AND MANAGEMENT OF NPH 4.NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF FLUOROSIS 5.ENUMERATE AND COMMENT ABOUT TREATMENT OPTIONS IN TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 6.CLINICAL APPROACH TO UNILATERAL PROPTOSIS 7.DISCUSS THE DIFFERENT TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR AVM 8.DESCRIBE NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS 9.DD OF UNILATERAL FOOT DROP 10.DISCUSS THE CAUSES FOR RECURRENT PARAPLEGIA 11.CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME 12.CLINICAL FEATURES OF SYRINGOMYELIA 13.INTERNUCLEAR OPTHALMOPLEGIA 14.PARIETAL LOBE LOCALIZATIONS 15.THIRD NERVE PALSY- CLINICAL LOCALIZATION 16.CRUCIATE HEMIPLEGIA 17.GAIT ATAXIA- CLINICAL LOCALIZATION AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS 18.HIGH CERVICAL CORD COMPRESSION-CLINICAL MARKERS 19.PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY 20.RESPIRATORY PATTERNS IN COMATOSE PATIENTS WITH THEIR LOCALIZATION SIGNIFICANCE 21.BRAINSTEM LESION- CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS AND LOCALIZATION 22.DISCONNECTION SYNDROMES 23.FALSE LOCALIZATION SIGNS 24.EYE SIGNS IN INTRINSIC BRAIN STEM PATHOLOGY 25.PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER 26.WERNICKE’S APHASIA 27.DEMENTIA IN NEUROSURGICAL PRACTISE 28.CORTICAL BLINDNESS INFECTION 1.PATHOGENESIS OF HYDATID INFECTION OF CNS 2.MANAGEMENT OF INTRACRANIAL FUNGAL GRANULOMA 3.PATHOLOGY OF NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS 4.PARASITIC INFESTATIONS OF BRAIN 5.PATHOGENESIS OF BRAIN ABSCESS 6.LIFE CYCLE AND PATHOLOGY OF TENIA SOLIUM INFESTATION 7.PATHOGENESIS OF NEONATAL BRAIN ABSCESS 8.BRAIN ABSCESS- PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT 9.NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS- CLINCIAL MANIFESTATIONS AND TREATMENT 10.RECURRENT MENINGITIS 11.INTRACRANIAL LESIONS IN HIV PATIENTS 12.FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF THE CNS DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 13.DISC SPACE INFECTION 14.BRAIN ABSCESS IN CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE- PATHOGENESIS AND MANAGEMENT HISTORY OF NEUROSURGERY 1.WALTER DANDY 2.WILDER PENFIELD 3.NOBEL LAUREATES IN NEUROSCIENCES AND NEUROSURGERY 4.THE FUTURE OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY 5.SIR VICTOR HORSLEY NEUROANATOMY 1. DESCRIBE THE BLOOD SUPPLY OF THE CORD 2. ANATOMY OF THIRD VENTRICLE 3. ANATOMY OF MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE 4. MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY OF ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY 5. MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY OF FLOOR OF FOURTH VENTRICLE 6. ANATOMY OF CVJ 7. DRAW A LABELLED CROSS SECTION OF THE PONS AT THE LEVEL OF 6TH NERVE NUCLEUS 8. COMMISSURAL FIBRES IN BRAIN 9. SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS ANATOMY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 10. ANATOMY OF PICA 11. JUGULAR FORAMEN – SURGICAL ANATOMY 12. THE LIMBIC SYSTEM 13. THE MLF 14. DRAW A NEAT FULLY LABELLED DIAGRAM OF A TRANSVERSE SECTION OF MEDULLA OBLONGATA TO SHOW STRUCTURES INVOLVED IN THROMBOSIS OF PICA 15. MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY OF CHOROIDAL FISSURE 16. SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA 17. DRAW A LABELLED DIAGRAM OF SPINAL CORD AT UPPER THORACIC LEVEL 18. INTERNAL CEREBRAL VEINS 19. EMBRYOLOGY OF CVJ 20. CAVERNOUS SINUS: DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS SURGICAL TRIANGLES 21. ANATOMY OF ANT CHOROIDAL ARTERY 22. DRAW A NEAT LABELLED DIAGRAM OF A TRANSVERSE SECTION OF THE MID BRAIN AT THE LEVEL OF SUPERIOR COLLICULUS 23. MACKLE’S CAVE ANATOMY OF 24. DESCRIBE THE DEEP VENOUS SYSTEM OF THE BRAIN 25. DEVELOPMENT AND BLOOD SUPPLY OF ODONTOID PROCESS 26. OPTHALMIC ARTERY- ANATOMY 27. EPICONUS, CONUS AND CAUDA EQUINA- ANATOMY AND CLINICAL LOCALIZATION 28. BASAL GANGLIA- ANATOMY AND CONNECTIONS. DISCUSS PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF PARKINSONS DISEASE 29. LOWER HALF OF PONS- CROSS SECTIONAL ANATOMY 30. MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY OF ICA FROM CAROTID CANAL TO BIFURCATION OF ICA 31. DRAW AND LEVEL VARIOUS VIEW OF VENTRICULAR SYSTEM 32. DISCUSS THE ANATOMY AND CONNECTIONS OF THALAMUS 33. CIRCLE OF WILLIS- ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS 34. OPTIC PATHWAYS- ANATOMY 35. VEIN OF LABBE- ANATOMY 36. OCCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS- ANATOMY 37. THE INTERNAL CAPSULE- ANATOMICAL DETAILS WITH A DIAGRAM 38. THE SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS 39. ROSENTHAL FIBRES 40. CEREBELLAR NUCLEI- ANATOMY 41. INTERNAL ACOUSTIC MEATUS – ANATOMY 42. PARACLINOID REGION- ANATOMY 43. DEVELOPMENT AND BLOOD SUPPLY OF CBF 44. INTERVERTEBRAL DISC: ANATOMY AND COMPOSITION 45. FACIAL NERVE-ANATOMY AND LOCALIZATION 46. AQUEDUCT OF SYLVIUS- ANATOMY 47. DRAW A LABELLED DIAGRAM OF THE AUDITORY APPARATUS 48. LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM 49. TENTORIAL HIATUS NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1. CONTROL AND REGULATION OF ADENOHYPOPHYSEAL FUNCTION 2. CEREBRAL AUTOREGULATION 3. CEREBRAL SALT WASTING SYNDROME 4. MANAGEMENT OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS 5. BRAIN DEATH 6. DISCUSS THE PATHOLOGY OF DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY 7. BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER 8. NEWER ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS 9. VASOSPASM IN INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY 10. GROWING FRACTURE OF THE SKULL 11. INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING 12. DRAW TRANSVERSE SECTION THROUGH THE BRAIN STEM AND MARK THE STRUCTURES INVOLVED IN DEVELOPMENT OF DECEREBRATE RIGIDITY 13. NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF PSYCHOSURGERY 14. NEURAL REGULATION OF URINARY BLADDER 15. MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL 16. INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE WAVES 17. BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS OF HEAD INJURY 18. DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION – NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS 19. PHARMACOLOGY OF BACLOFEN 20. BRAIN MAPPING 21. NEUROGENIC PULMONARY EDEMA 22. EVIDENCE BASED NEUROSURGERY 23. EXCITATORY NEUROTRANSMITTERS 24. PHARMACOKINETICS OF DILANTIN 25. SUPRANUCLEAR REGULATION OF OCULAR MOVEMENTS 26. BRAIN STEM AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL 27. SIADH 28. NEURONAL DEATH MECHANISMS 29. PATHOLOGY OF BRAIN EDEMA 30. CLINICAL APPROACH TO PATIENT WITH HYPONATREMIA 31. SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION 32. CABERGOLINE 33. PHYSIOLOGY OF MICTURITION 34. PERINAUD SYNDROME 35. MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION FOR CRANIAL NEURALGIAS: NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS 36. AUTOREGULATION OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW 37. BASIS OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR MOVEMENT DISORDERS 38. CONJUGATE EYE MOVEMENT- MECHANISM 39. DECEREBRATION- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 40. ENDORPHINS 41. BALLOON OCCLUSION TEST 42. PATHOLOGY OF EPENDYMOMAS 43. CSF- CIRCULATION AND ABSORPTION 44. MUSCLE TONE – PHYSIOLOGY 45. HYPOTHALAMIC CONTROL OF PITUITARY 46. WALLERIAN DEGENERATION 47. VERTICAL GAZE- ANATOMY AND PATHWAYS 48. SPASTICITY- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 49. CEREBRAL GLUCOSE METABOLISM 50. CEREBELLAR MUTISM 51. NEURAL TRANSPLANTATION IN NEUROSURGERY 52. DORSAL COLUMN STIMULATION 53. DOWNBEAT NYSTAGMUS- ANATOMICAL DETAILS 54. CEREBRAL INFARCTION- PATHOGENESIS 55. NEURONAL REGENERATION 56. GENE THERAPY: CURRENT APPLICATIONS 57. SODIUM VALPROATE 58. MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION FOR CRANIAL NEURALGIAS- NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS 59. AUTOREGULATION OF CBF 60. GAIT CONTROL THEORY OF PAIN- CURRENT STATUS 61. SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS 62. NEURAL TRANSPLANTATION IN NEUROSURGERY 63. NEURAL PLASTICITY 64. KLUVER BUCY SYNDROME 65. MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEXES 66. NON DOMINANT PARIETAL LOBE: FUNCTIONS AND LOCALIZATION 67. PLATEAU WAVES 68. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SPASTICITY 69. MELATONIN 70. NEURAL PROSTHESIS 71. OXYGEN FREE RADICALS 72. FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS 73. NITRIC OXIDE IN NEUROSURGERY 74. CLONAZEPAM 75. BALLOON OCCLUSION TEST FOR NEUROSURGERY 76. SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL: TECHNIQUE, INTERPRETATION AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 77. DOPAMINE AND THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF PARKINSONISM 78. INNERVATION OF THE PUPIL AND ITS CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS 79. THE PAIN PATHWAYS 80. NEURORADIOLOGY 1. MR SPECTROSCOPY (GB133) 2. DISCUSS THE INDICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS OFMR IMAGING IN HEAD INJURIES 3. FUNCTIONAL MR IMAGING 4. DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING 5. SPECT: CURRENT APPLICATIONS IN NEUROSCIENCES 6. TELEMEDICINE IN NEUROSURGERY 7. INTRAOPERATIVE MRI 8. TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER 9. DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING (GB132) 10. CYBERKNIFE 11. CT ANGIOGRAPHY (NOTES) 12. INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGING APPLICATIONS 13. PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY 14. INDICATIONS OF CT IN HEAD INJURY PATIENTS 15. PRINCIPLES OF MRI (GB129) 16. HELICAL/SPIRAL CT SCAN 17. COILS AND STENTS- CURRENT APPLICATIONS IN NEUROSURGERY 18. TRANSVENOUS APPROACHES FOR VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATIONS 19. INTRAOPERATIVE EVOKED POTENTIAL RECORDING- HAS IT MADE SURGERY SAFE 20. RADIONECROSIS 21. FUNCTIONAL NEURONAVIGATION- APPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS/ IMAGE GUIDED NEUROSURGERY 22. ACUTE STROKE- RADILOGICAL EVALUATION (GB 1012) 23. LYMPHOMAS OF BRAIN RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS 24. PET IN NEUROSURGERY 25. NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY 26. RADIOISOTOPES IN NEUROSURGERY 27. BRAIN OXYMETRY 28. FRAMELESS STEREOTAXY SPINE 1. SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF ANT CERVICAL DISC SURGERY 2. DISCUSS THE ROLE OF ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT VERSUS SURGERY IN MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL AVM 3. THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT OF SYRINGOMYELIA 4. INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL CORD TUMOURS: CLINCIAL FEATURES AND PRINICPLES OF MANAGEMENT 5. BASIC GOVERNING MANAGEMENT OPTIONS IN ACUTE CERVICAL SPINE INJURIES 6. MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY IN SPINAL SURGERY 7. DESCRIBE ANATOMICAL BASIS OF SPINAL INSTABILITY 8. VERTEBROPLASY AND KYPHOPLASTY 9. DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF CAUDA EQUINA AND CONUS LESIONS 10. ENDOSCOPIC LUMBAR DISCOIDECTOMY 11. TETHERED CORD SYNDROME- CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL FEATURES 12. SURGICAL APPROACHES IN UPPER THORACIC SPINE 13. SPINAL AV FISTULAS 14. FRACTURE DISLOCATIONS OF C1C2 VERTEBRAE 15. CHIARI MALFORMATIONS WITH MYELODYSPLASIA: CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS AND MANAGEMENT 16. SPINAL INJURIES: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT 17. CERVICAL OPLL- TREATMENT OPTIONS 18. CLINICAL DIFFERENCES IN INTRAMEDULLARY AND EXTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL CORD TUMOURS 19. MANAGEMENT OF TUBERCULOUS ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATIONS 20. ARTIFICIAL DISC: APPLICATIONS, LIMITATIONS AND RATIONALE 21. SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS 22. LAMINOPLASTY 23. ODONTOID FRACTURES- CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT 24. OCCULT SPINAL DYSRAPHISM- CLASSIFICATION, PRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT 25. CLASSIFICATION, PRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF OPLL 26. CLASSIFY SPLIT CORD MALFORMATIONS 27. CONTROVERSIES IN FUSION FOR SINGLE LEVEL CERVICAL DISCECTOMY 28. HANGMAN’S FRACTURE 29. INTRAMEDULLARY, INTRADURAL EXTRAMEDULLARY AND EXTRADURAL SPINAL LESIONS- CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL LOCALIZATION 30. TUBERCULOSIS OF SPINE- MANAGEMENT 31. LOCKED FACETS IN SPINAL INJURIES- DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT 32. SPINAL CORD INJURY- PATHOLOGY 33. CONGENITAL DERMAL SINUS 34. SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 35. CORDOTOMY 36. DORSAL COLUMN STIMULATION 37. INTERVERTEBRAL DISC- ANATOMY AND COMPOSITION 38. ATLANTO AXIAL JOINTS AND LIGAMENTS- ANATOMY 39. SPONDYLOLISTHESIS –CLASSIFICATION AND TREATMENT 40. FAILED BACK SYNDROME 41. LOWER CERVICAL SPINE- SURGICAL STABILIZATION 42. SURGERY IN SPINAL INJURIES 43. LUMBAR CANAL STENOSIS- DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA AND SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OPERATIVE NEUROSURGERY 1. PSYCHOSURGERY 2. SURGICAL OPTIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMAS 3. ENDOSCOPIC APPROACH TO ANTERIOR THIRD VENTRICLE- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES 4. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ENDOSCOPIC APPROACHES IN INTRAVENTRICULAR TUMOURS 5. CRITICAL COMMENTS ON CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION PROCEDURES 6. SURGERY FOR INSULAR GLIOMAS 7. INTRAOPERATIVE RUPTURE OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM 8. PRESIGMOID APPROACH 9. INDICATIONS FOR CHRONIC DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION OTHER THAN PARKINSON’S DISEASE 10. CAROTID ENDARTERCTOMY- CURRENT STATUS 11. APPROACHES TO SURGERY FOR MEDIAL TEMPORAL SCLEROSIS 12. SURGERY FOR CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 13. ROBOTIC NEUROSURGERY 14. RECENT ADVANCES IN ENDOVASCULAR TECHNIQUES 15. PREVENTIVE NEUROSURGERY 16. POSTERIOR THIRD VENTRICLE- SURGICAL APPROACHES 17. INTRAOPERATIVE HEMOSTATIC AGENTS 18. SURGICAL APPROACHES FOR AMYGDYLOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY 19. SURGICAL APPROACHES FOR JUGULAR FORAMEN LESIONS 20. FRONTOTEMPOROORBITOZYGOMATIC CRANIOTOMY: STEPS AND INDICATIONS 21. ANTERIOR THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY 22. DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIOTOMY 23. SURGICAL APPROACHES TO THE CLIVUS 24. SURGICAL APPROACHES TO LESION AT FORAMEN MAGNUM 25. SURGERY FOR CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA 26. MIDFACIAL APPROACHES 27. SURGICAL APPROACHES TO ORBIT 28. TECHNIQUES OF PRESERVATION OF SEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE IN ACOUSTIC NEUROMA SURGERY 29. UNILATERAL CORONAL CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS- SURGICAL OPTIONS 30. SURGICAL APPROACHES TO SECOND THORACIC VERTEBRAE 31. LAMINOPLASTY 32. BASILAR TOP ANEURYSMS- SURGICAL APPROACHES 33. AWAKE CRANIOTOMY 34. APPROACHES TO CAVERNOUS SINUS TUMOURS 35. NEUROSURGERY AT ROOT ENTRY ZONES (note) 36. PETROCLIVAL MENINGIOMS- SURGERY OF 37. SURGERY FOR PARKINSONS 38. ENDOVASCULAR MANAGEMENT FOR ANEURYSMS 39. CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT 40. IMPLANTED DRUG THERAPIES IN NEUROSURGERY 41. VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION 42. SAFE ENTRY ZONES IN BRAIN STEM 43. FIBRINOLYTIC SYSTEM IN NEUROSURGERY 44. RECONSTRUCTION AFTER SKULL BASE SURGERY 45. TRANSPETROSAL APPROACHES FOR SKULL BASE SURGERY 46. CAROTICOOPTHALMIC ANEURYSMS- SURGICAL STEPS FOR CLIPPING 47. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF COLLOID CYST (GB 665) 48. SURGERY FOR PITUITARY APOPLEXY 49. CURRENT TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMOR RESECTION BEFORE AND DURING SURGERY TUMOURS 1. MOLECULAR GENETICS OF GLIAL TUMOURS OF BRAIN- ITS IMPACT ON MANAGEMENT 2. PATHOLOGY OF MEDULLOBLASTOMAS 3. CENTRAL NEUROCYTOMA- PATHOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (GB612) 4. ROLE OF TUMOUR MARKERS IN PINEAL TUMOURS 5. MANAGEMENT OF A SOLITARY CEREBRAL METASTASIS FROM A KNOWN PRIMARY 6. MANAGEMENT OF BRAIN STEM GLIOMA 7. MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR PROLACTINOMAS 8. PATHOLOGY OF ATYPICAL MENINGIOMA 9. CHIASMAL SYNDROME (CLINICAL FEATURES IN ALL THE THREE TYPES) 10. COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA 11. TEMOZOLAMIDE (GB602) 12. MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOME OF CRANIAL CHORDOMAS 13. PRIMITIVE NEUROECTODERMAL TUMOURS 14. DISCUSS TREATMENT OPTIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PINEAL REGION TUMOURS 15. RADIOSURGERY FOR TUMOURS OF CP ANGLE 16. MGMT (METHYL GUANINE DNA METHYL TRANSFERASE) IN GLIOBLASTOMAS 17. PRIMARY CNS LYMPHOMA 18. PHARMACOTHERAPY OF FUNCTIONAL PITUITARY TUMOURS 19. CLINICAL FEATURES AND MANAGEMENT OF A PATIENT WITH PITUITARY APOPLEXY 20. CLINICAL FEATURES OF FORAMEN MAGNUM TUMOURS 21. DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOURS (GB591) 22. HISTOPROGNOSIS OF GLIOMAS OF BRAIN 23. MANAGEMENT OF OPTIC PATHWAY GLIOMAS 24. CUSHING SYNDROME- INVESTIGATION AND MANAGEMENT (GB646 & 654) 25. MEDULLOBLASTOMA: PROGNOSTIC FACTORS (DIARY) 26. TREATMENT OF PERISYLVIAN GLIOMAS 27. MALIGNANT GLIOMAS TARGETED THERAPY 28. PATHOLOGY OF CHORDOMAS 29. MANAGEMENT OF GIANT PITUITARY ADENOMAS (RT3-1680) 30. ONCOGENES AND CNS TUMOURS 31. MANAGEMENT OF BRAIN STEM CAVERNOMAS 32. PATHOLOGY OF HEMANGIOPERICYTOMAS 33. BRAIN STEM GLIOMAS- PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT 34. GLOMUS JUGULARE TUMOURS- CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT (GB 678-682) 35. MANAGEMENT OF RECURRENT CRANIOPHARYNGIOMAS 36. SUPRASELLAR MENINGIOMAS 37. RECENT ADVANCES IN NON SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF GLIOMAS 38. CLINOICAL MENINGIOMAS- PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT 39. ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA

Friday, June 5, 2009

WHO IS DEAF?

 
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TWINS AT PLAY

Sometimes its quite entertaining to visit Dept of Radiodiagnosis. I went to follow my case and my colleague was doing an ultrasound abdomen of a pregnant ladies.

BELLS PHENOMENON

This fellow is an operated patient of superficial parotidectomy for pleomorphic adenoma. He developed infranuclear facial nerve palsy in his postoperative period. Just look at the movement of his left eye, a classic presentation of Bells phenomenon.

DERMOID CYST

 
This 60 year old Maa ji, presented with a gradually increasing swelling over her left temporal area for last 20 years. She did not have any complaint except for swelling and occasional headache. We did a CT scan head to rule out any intracranial extension. Her cyst was removed under General anaesthesia and on biopsy was proven to be a dermoid cyst.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

UMBILICAL PROLAPSE OF VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT

 

Hydrocephalus is quite a common problem. The most popular way to treat is third ventriculostomy if patient is having obstructive hydrocephalus. This lady was a case of tubercular meningitis with non obstructive hydrocephalus. She was operated for Ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Patient was recovering well in follow up for 6 months. At 8th month, she suddenly presented with complaint of a white tube protruding from her umbilicus. For our horror, it was a VP shunt prolapse through umbilicus. The interesting point is the knots she threw on the shunt (easily visible in the picture). She was worried with the CSF drops from the shunt end and so she threw knots on it. Only God knows, how did she not develop any meningitis by shunt infection!!!!!!
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FAT ATROPHY

 

Continuation of the fat atrophy title
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FAT ATROPHY

 
This is a classic example of fat atrophy. This guy reported in Dept of Plastic Surgery with complaints of hollowness in cheek. He had no significant history except for some nondocumented upper respiratory tract infections in the last one year. Unfortunately, patient didnt report in follow up but definitely a classic one.
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ACCESSORY NIPPLE

 

This is not very rare, though I found it first in my life. This fellow is a case of osteosarcoma and the incidental finding is an accessory nipple on right side. Interesting............
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