The Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery
Volume 12, No. 1
April, 2008
Editorial
Management of acoustic tumours - 2007
Donlin M Long
Review Article
Craniopharyngioma
SM Anil, Tetsuo Kanno, Shinya Nagahisa, Yoko Kato, Hirotoshi Sano
Original Articles

Differentiation of meningiomas from histologic mimics via the use of claudin-1
Saeed M Naguib, Ahmad M Ragab Shalaby

An intermet questionnaire to predict the presence or abscence of organic pathology in chronic back, neck and limb pain patients
Nelson Hendler, Allison Baker
Dandy-Walker malformation: Surgical treatment of 17 cases
Moussa Alaywan, Nassim Abi Chahine, Paul Hage, Antoine K Nachanakian
Surgery of petroclival tumours; A series of 45 cases
Ashok K Mahapatra, Deepak Agrawal, GD Satyarthee
Neuroendoscope assisted microneurosurgical clipping of aneurysms
SM Anil, Yoko Kato, Hirotoshi Sano, Takeya Watabe, Sekhar Amituendu
Clinical Studies
Implementing transcranial Doppler as confirmatory test in brain death criteria
Bassem Y Sheikh, Husam Al Jihani
Posterior fossa decompression in acute cerebellar infarction
Yasser Orz, Alaa El Naggar, Alaa Issa, Khaled Aref, Khaled Abdeen
Retrospective Study
Recurrence of pituitary adenomas: A 10 year survey
Majid Reza Farrokhi, Ehsan Ali Alibi, Fariba Ettenhadl
Anatomical Study

Radiographic measurements of the transverse diameter of the spinal canal at lumbar vertebrae L3 - L5
and
canal/ body ratio in normal adult Saudis
Abdul Rahman Al Anazi

Case Reviews
Surgical treatment of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation
Awni F Musharbash
Occipital condyle fracture with lower cranial nerve palsies in a patient with minor head injury
Ajay Garg, Atin Kumar, Faiz Uddin Ahmad, Ashish Suri
Intracranial Rosai-Dorfman syndrome mimicking meningioma
Raj Kumar, Pramod J Giri, Avadhesh Jaiswal, Tanu Agrawal, Lily Pal
Intracerebral chondroma
Rachid Gana, R El Maaqili, N El Fatemi, Fouad Bellakhdar
Cerebral aneursyms in childhood and adolescenece
Moncef Berhouma, Hafedh Jemel, Ihsen Zemmel, Nejib Khouja, Moncef Khaldi
Spinal cord compresion by extramedullary haemotopoietic tissue in a patient with B-thalassaemia
Ibrahim AA Sbeih, Omar M Abdelal, Mohammad H El Ghanem, Ali Ayyad
Anterior craniofacial resection of a rare tumour - Esthesioneuroblastoma (olfactory neuroblastoma) and literature review
Yousef Al-Awadi, Tarik Al-Sheikh, Husam Saleh, Khalid A Al-Abdulhadi, Anupama A Mallik
Case Reports
Rudimentary meningocele with intracranial connection and a glial component
Yahya Al Muazen, Saleh A Sowayan, Mohamed El Shawarby
Primary spinal extradural echinococcosis
Imane Youklif, A Naja, A Ouboukhlic, A El Kamar, Abdessamad El Azhari
Child abuse by insertion of insulin needles through fontanel
Essa Abdulgani, Homoud Al-Dashash, Jamila Murtada, Essam Al-Shail
Spinal cord compression caused by brucellar spondylodiscitisl
Brahim El Mostarchid, Naama Okacha, Ali Akhddar, Miloudi Gazzaz, Boucetta Mohamed
Infratemporal facial nerve schwannoma
Kamel Bahri, I Ben Said, A Sellami, S Benzarti, MK Chebbi
Intramedullary thoracic spinal cord metastases of cranial glioblastoma
Jawad Lrhezzioui, Abdelaziz Mansouri, Ibtissam Zrara
First global case of brain abscess caused by Kluyvera
Nassim H Abi Chahine, Fouad C Khoury, Claude M Afif, Antoine K Nachanakian