The Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery
Volume 13, No.1
April, 2009
Editorial
Message from the PANS President
Mohamed T Joharji
Review Article
An overview in stereotactic radiosurgery
Anil SM, Kanno Tetsuo, Kato Yoko, Nagahisa Shinya, Sano Hirotoshi
Original Articles
Surgical clipping of ruptured anterior circulation cerebral aneurysms: KFMC experience
Alaa Farag, Yasser Orz, Mahmoud Al Yamany

Hypoglossal-facial anastomosis, tricks and trade
Moussa Alaywan, Jihad Khoury, Nizar Al-Amiri, Khalaf Al Moutaery, Antoine K Nachanakian

Clinical Studies
Experience with peripheral nerve injury in upper extremities
Mohamed Kassem, Hatem Badr, Ashraf Abdel Monem, Mohamed Safwat
Management of lumbar far lateral disc herniation
Awni Musharbash, Qusai Saleh, Mohammed Abo-Elrub, Walid Maani
Treatment of large vestibular schwannomas:
Towards a compromise between recurrence and facial function preservation
M Laghmari, A El Ouhabi, S Derraz, A El Khamlichi

Postoperative mental functions in patients with frontal meningiomas
Ro Yong Han, Yoko Kato, SM Anil, Tetsuo Kanno, Hirotoshi Sano

Carbon Fibre cage vs. autograft for anterior cervical discectomy and interbody fusion:
Graft morbidity and clinical outcome
Mahmoud Taha, Laura MacNally, Anreas Kemeny, Matthias Radatz

Time-level relationship of oxidative stress in experimental head injury
Ahmed R Almutairi
Prospective Studies
Study for cerebral perfusion by SPECT scanning in hydrocephalus: Pre & post shunt surgery
PK Nayak, K Naveen, CS Bal, AK Mahapatra
Prognostic value of admission serum albumin levels in patients with head injury
SS Dhandapani, D Manju, S Vivekanandhan, BS Sharma, AK Mahapatra
Anatomical Study
Morphometric analysis of the vertebral artery groove of the first cervical vertebra (atlas)
Akram M Awadalla, Fathy Ahamed Fetouh

Technical Note

Stereotaxic gamma knife surgery in treatment of critically located pilocytic astrocytoma: Preliminary result
Raef FA Hafez
Case Reviews
Local recurrences of meningeal solitary fibrous tumour with loss of CD34 expression:
A diagnostic challenge with prognostic relevance during a 9-year follow-up and literature review

SA Kuhn, J Walter, M Brodhun, C Ewald, R Reichart, R Kalff
Intradural neurenteric cyst of hte cervical spine
Mamdouh Abdel-Razek
Von-Recklinghausen's disease and spine canal ectasis: An exceptional complication and a new therapeutic approach
Jawad Lrhezzioui, Evelyne Emery, Mihaela Irimia, Jean-Francois Mallet
Single stage repair and reconstruction of trigonocephaly and fronto orbito ethmoidal encephalocele
Moustafa Al Khalil, Abdul Majeed Kavarodi, Rami Assad, Usaikimi Iqbaseimokumo
Bilateral astrocytomas:
Clinicoradiological characteristics and endoscopic management

Sanjay Behari, Vivek Vaid, Namit Singhal, S Jaypal Reddy, Deepu Banerji
Cystic menginoma
Mamdouh Abdel-Razek, Yousef Al-Awadi, Ali Abo Al-Hassan
Congenital epiedermoid cysts of the anterior fontanel
Mehdi Darmoul, Kais Toumi, Mohamed Habib Bouhaouala, Hichem Ben Rhouma
Transsphenoidal encephalocele presenting as complex partial seizure disorder
SMQ Zaman, S Selvapandian, Matthew J Chandy
Mixed oligodendroblioma - meningioma: A rare collision tumour
Vyom Bhargava, Nitu Kumar Das, Lily Pal, Harcharan Singh Sohal, Sanjay Behari
Case Reports
Tuberculoma as expansive process of the cerebellopontine angle: A rare presentation
Rachid Gana, N El Fatemi, Y Arkha, R El Maaquili, N El Abbadi, Fouad Bellakhdar
Primary malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of cranial vault
Saeed H Hashmi, Adebao A Olumide
Post traumatic bilateral facial palsy causing severe psychosocial impairment
Faiz Uddin Ahmad, Ashish Suri, Ajay Garj, Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, Veer Singh Mehta
Contrast agent neurotoxicity mimicking subarachnoid haemorrhage
A Nedim Hadzikaric, Ibrahim Al Luwimi