The Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery
Volume 12, No. 2
October, 2008
Editorial
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Khalaf Al Moutaery
Review Articles

Management of vestibular schwannomas: Current state of the art
Y Arkha, S Yomo, PH Roche, JM Thomassin, J Regis

Hemispherectomy
Alaa Eldin Elsharkawy, Heinz Pannek, Falk Oppel

Brain metastases: Surgery, radiosurgery and whole-brain radiation therapy
Najeeb Ashraf Ahmad, Nizar Al Amiri, Ueber J Miola, Khalaf Al Moutaery, Ch. B Ostertag

Intracranial arteriovenous malformations
SM Anil, Yoko Kato, Syuel Inizu, Minoru Yoneda, Hirotoshi Sano
Original Articles

Kyphoplasty: State of the art
Sami Salem, Nassim Abi Chahine, Moussa Alaywan, Fouad El-Khoury, Antoine K Nachanakian

Application of rigid endoscope to the microsurgery of anterior circulation cerebral aneurysms
Li Xiao Xiong, Yoko Kato, Rakesh Kumar Luhana, Minoru Yoneda, Hirotoshi Sana
Clinical Studies
Compound depressed skull fractures overlying dural venous sinuses
Mohammad Taghyan, Abdel Hai Moussa, Radwan Nouby
Surgical management of symptomatic suprasellar arachnoid cysts
Kamel Bahri, Jalel Kallel, Ihsen Zammel, Hafedh Jemel, Moncef Khaldi
Giant pituitary adenomas:  Surgical outcome in a series of 127 cases
Sumit Sinha, Chitra Sarkar, BS Sharma, Ashok K Mahapatra
Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy for treatment of palmar and axillary hyper-hidrosis:
A review of 23 procedures
Mohamed Awad Mohamed Ismail
Clinical improvement after untethering procedure of secondary tethered spinal cord (TSC) vs. primary TSC
Hassan Kadri, Alhakam A Mawla
Distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms, traumatic and non-traumatic
Li Xiao Xiong, Yoko Kato, Hirotoshi Sano, Tetsuo Kanno
Prospective Study
Management strategy of depressed skull fractures
Taha Al-Derazi, K Das, PK Gupta, BA Thajudeen, J Ravindra
Histopathological Study

Histopathological findings in chronic pharmacoresistant temporal epilepsy:
A pathognomonic combination of lesions maintaining neuron injury?
Raydeh Al Khani, Fawaz Assaad

Case Reviews
Neurinoma of cauda equina assoicated with normal pressure hydrocephalus
Abad Cherif El Asri, Okacha Naama, Miloudi Gazzaz, Brahim El Mostarchid, Mohamed Boucetta
Primary melanotic progonoma of skull
Mohammed Benzagmout, Said Boujraf, Noureddine Oulali, Khalid Chakour, Mohammed El Faiz Chaoui
Gamma knife surgery for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia targeting the neurovascular contact zone:
the Cairo International Medical Centre initial experience

Raef Farouk Ahmed Hafez
Asymptomatic posterior fossa subdural effusion
Manish Kumar Kasliwal, Ashok K Mahapatra
Mixed germ cell tumours of the pineal region
Mubasher Ahmed, Joudah Al-Maghrabi, John P Girvin, Saleh S Baeesa
Conus medullaris ganglioglioma
Mohamed Barbarawi, Qudsieh Suhair, Sondos Saa'd
Case Report
Acute epidural haematoma following ventriculoperitoneal shunt in an adult
Faiz Uddin Ahmad, Deepak Agrawal, Manmohanjit Singh, Ashok K Mahapatra