Introducción: El hemiespasmo facial primario (HFP) se produce por la hiperexcitabilidad del nervio facial y sus núcleos de origen como consecuencia de la compresión vascular. La cirugía de descompresión neurovascular se ...

BACKGROUND Maximal safe resection of brain tumors affecting language areas has been a matter of increasing interest worldwide in the last decades. Functional MRI, tractography, and awake cranial surgery are standard ...

Surgical management of vestibular schwannomas has improved over the last 30 years. Whereas in the past the primary goal was to preserve the patient's life, today neurological function safeguarding is the main objective, ...

Irreversible facial palsy, generally post-traumatic or postsurgical, can have devastating consequences for the patient from a functional, aesthetic, and psychological point of view. Among all of the reconstructive techniques, ...

No abstract available.

Background: Suboccipital lateral approach is a common practice in neurosurgery to expose the region of the cerebellopontine angle. Postcraniectomy headache (PCH) is one of the most frequent complications that diminish the ...

Third nerve palsy is a rare complication of transsphenoidal surgery and has been merely mentioned in different studies, but there is not any rigorous analysis focusing on this particular complication. The purpose of this ...

Objective: To analyze and find risk factors associated with developing transient diabetes insipidus (DI) using a multicenter case series after trans-sphenoidal surgery. Methods: Medical records of patients who underwent ...

Calcifying pseudoneoplasm of the neuroaxis (CAPNON) is a rare, slow growing, and generally benign fibro osseous mass that can emerge throughout the entire central nervous system (CNS). When diagnosed, prompt surgical ...