The Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery
Volume 10, No.1
April, 2006
Editorial
Message from the Editor
Khalaf Al Moutaery

Editorial
The first Cochrane collaboration entity in the Middle East: The Bahrain branch of the UK Cochrane centre
Zbys Federowicz, Amani Al Hajeri


Review Articles
Experience with anterior petrosal approach for aneurysms of mid-basilar artery
Yoko Kato, Satyendra Kumar, Hirotoshi Sano, Minoru Yonedo, Junich Hayashi, S Imizu, Katsuhiko Akashi, Nobuo Kiya, Tetsuo Kanno
Spinal cord injury in paediatrics
Imad Kanaan
Original Articles

Interstitial radiosurgery for the treatment of hypothalamic hamartomas
Christoph B Ostertag, A Schulze-Bonhagei

Infection of cerebrospinal fluid shunt
Taha Al-Derazi, Khalifa BuRashid, ThajuDeen B, Joseph Ravindra, K Das
Clinical Studies
Posterior lumbar interbody interfusion with threaded titanium cages in low grade spondylolisthesis
Y Elhenaway, I Ramadan
Effect of small dose intravenous dexmedetomide and/ or local anaesthetic infiltration on
haemodynamic responses to skull pin placement
Adelazeem A El Dawlatly, Khalid Abdullah, Sherif Al Watidy, Zain Jamjoom, Waled R Murshid, Bilal Delvi
Non-traumatic spinal cord compression in children: 45 cases
A Chellaoui, K Ibahioin, H Ghannane, A Lakhdar, A Naja, A Sami, A Achouri, A Ouboukhlik, A El Kamar, A E Azhari
Comparative Study
Surgical vs medical treatment of SSICH
Nasser M Sayed Ahmed, Walid A Badwy, Hamed B Ibrahim, Nazir Ahmad, Saeed G Babayo
Anatomical Study
Radiological anatomy of the sella turcica and spehnoid sinus
Bassem Y Sheikh, Mohamed F Zahran
Case Reviews
Congenital spinal anomalies and occult dysraphism
M Nasser MG Abdel Gawad, Nasser Turki Al Subai, Khalid
Lumbosacral perineural cyst
Nasser M Sayed Ahmed, Walid A Badwy, Hamed B Ibrahim
Diagnosis and management of ituitary abscess
S Hilmani, A Taha, A Lakhdar, A Nja, A Sami, M Achouri, A Ouboukhlik, A El Kamar, A El Azhari
Cervical Ewing's sarcoma presenting as neurinoma
Riad Rebai, Mourad Bouaziz, Lobna Ayedi, Hafedh Ben Ali, Mohamed Ghorbel, Saoua Chaari,
Imed Chabchoub, Mohamed Zaher Boudawara, Habib Ben Mansour
Case Rports
A rare, late complication in a hemisphreectomised patient: A brucella abscess in the contrlateral hemicranium
Fuad S Haddad, Elias Bitar, Georges F Haddad
Radiatrion-induced intraventricular meningioma
Mohamed Al-Balooshi, Boleslaw Lach, Ahmed Alkhani
Intrasellar chordoma
Falah B Maround, Lori McDonald, Tom Smith, Jacob Jacob, Gordon Mathieson, Peter Bartlett Gerald Murray, Greg O'Brien

Partial involution of a right thalamic glioma
Azedine Medhkour, Michael T Koltz

Ventricular terminalis cyst in an adult: MR imaging
Ahmed H Ismail, Nawal Al Adwani, Ibrahim Al Shebrien, Mohamed Al Thagafi, Mujtaba Khan
Sacral extradural meningeal cyst
Munir Nasser, Ibrahim Al Ahmed
Abstracts - 3rd Emirates Neurosciences Conference, Dubai, UAE