The Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery
Volume 15, No.2
October, 2011

Editorial

Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Khalaf Al Moutaery

Inside This Issue

Mohammed Abdulrahim

Original Articles

Mohammead Faheem, Muhammed Rafay Zafar, Hassan Othman

Ala  Arikat, Fahed Zairi, Richard Assaker

Cerebral hydatid cyst: Successfully managed

Youssef Fares, Mohamed El-Zaatari, Georges Haddad, Ali Kanj

Craniotomy for encapsulated chronic subdural haematoma

Mumtaz Ali, Zahid Khan, Seema Sharafat, Khalid Mahmood Khan

Clinical Studies

Pituitary adenomas: Correlation between size and hormone (GH & PRL) levels

Sudipta Kumer Mukherjee, R Hamid, KK Barua

Skull base pyramids: A new concept for less invasive strategy

Mohamed A Fahmy Zeid, Ahmed Genid, Eman El Azzab El Behery, Mohamed Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Hassan Khamis

Third ventriculoperitoneal cerebrospinal fluid diversion for management of hydrocephalus in adults

Hossam Ibrahim Maaty, Khaled Gareeb

Comparative Study
Anterior or posterior foraminotomy for unilateral cervical radiculopathy
Khaled Saeed Ebrahim, Amr El-Shehaby, Ahmed Darwish, Ahmed Faisal, Emad Ma'amoun

Retrospective Study

Dinesh Shukla, Raj Kumar, Ashok K Mahapatra

Prospective Study

Case Reviews

Intraventricular rupture of an intracranial dermoid cyst in a woman with pseudotumour cerebri

George A Carberry, Azedine Medhkour, Haitham Elsamaloty

Radiation-induced meningiomas

Waleed Abdelfattah Azab, Yousef Abdullah Al-Awadi, Mamdouh Saad Zaghloul Abdel-Razek

Paediatric multifocal recurrent spinal clear cell meningioma

Imed Ben Said, Kamel Bahri, Nidhal Matar, Ihsen Zemmel, Hafedh Jemel

Tension pneumocephalus in lateral position following posterior fossa surgery

Pralaya Kishore Nayak, Ashok Kumar Mahapatra

Micromultileaf collimator LINAC radiosurgery for large AVM-related trigeminal neuralgia

Christian HP Huehn, Faycal El Majdoub, Lars Wojtecki, Moritz Hoevels, Mohammad Maarouf

Case Reports

Spinal adenoid cystic carcinoma metastasis mimicking vertebral hydatidosis

Oumar Coulibaly, N Fatemi, R Gana, R Maaqili, F Bellakhdar

Hypertrophy of ligamentum flavum of the thoracic spine and spinal cord compression

Mammar Bouchakour, A Stambouli, M Bentifour, M Benamara, M Beloud

Growing skull fracture combined with schizencephaly

Ali Akhaddar, Philippe Mercier, Sylma Diabira, Dominique Fournier, Philippe Menei

Spinal venous thrombosis and cord infarction secondary to retropharyngeal abscess

Shreya Srinivas, VP Sivasamy, V Sawlani, AM Hussein

Multicentric primary cranial Ewing’s sarcoma

Deepak Kumar Singh, Vishnu Gupta, Susheel Acharya, Sanjeev Chopra, H Bagaria

Case Illustration

Total removal of an intact orbital hydatid cyst

M Gazzaz, AC Asri, B El-Mostarchid, M Jidal, M Boucetta

Neuropathological Feature
The 2007 WHO Classification of CNS Tumours, 4th Edition, Part IV/IV
Ibrahim S Tillawi
Book Reviews

Cavernous Malformations of the Brain and Spinal Cord (2010)

Giuseppe Lanzino, Robert F Spetzler

George I Jallo, Karl F Kothbauer, Gustavo Pradilla