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Daegu* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Sex Ratio*

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Tuberculosis* ; Tuberculosis, Miliary*

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Female ; Ovary* ; Teratoma*

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Weight Gain*

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Brain Abscess* ; Brain* ; Catheters*

We report a case of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in the cauda equina, which was associated with neurofibromatosis type I. The tissue specimen acquired from the mass of cauda equina was transformed from benign to malignant form within 3 months. We report this case with review of the literatures.
Cauda Equina* ; Neurofibromatoses* ; Neurofibromatosis 1 ; Peripheral Nerves*

OBJECTIVE: The three-dimensional computed tomographic angiography(3D-CTA) images are not commonly used than the conventional digital subtraction angiography(DSA) as a postoperative examination to identify a remnant neck or whether the parent and branching arteries and the cerebral aneurysm are clipped together. We suggest that the neurosurgeons themselves can reconstruct 3D images using 3D reconstruction program in their personal computers and evaluate the aneurysm neck clipping state more precisely than DSA. METHODS: Both 3D-CTA and DSA images were obtained postoperatively on 40 patients with 45 cerebral aneurysms. 38 aneurysms were clipped by single clip, 6 by double clips, and 1 by triple clips. We compared 3D-CTA images, which are made by easy and noninvasive method of the new software to ascertain postoperatively the perfection of aneurysm neck clipping performed with titanium clips, with DSA. RESULT: Out of the total 45 cerebral aneurysms clipped with titanium clips, 3D-CTA clearly showed the state of the clipped necks and the parent and branching arteries of 44 aneurysms in 39 cases. There were three cases in which the remnant necks were found in 3D-CTA, but two of them were not identified in DSA. There was one patient who had cerebral aneurysms requiring 3 clips, resulting in a poor view of the remnant necks since the clips covered the necks. CONCLUSION: In case using one or two titanium clips for the aneurysmal clipping, 3D-CTA may be a reliable alternative method to DSA in the postoperative evaluation to define the cerebral aneurysm neck and the surrounding vessels after clipping.
Aneurysm* ; Angiography, Digital Subtraction ; Arteries ; Humans ; Intracranial Aneurysm ; Microcomputers ; Neck ; Parents ; Titanium* ; Tomography, Spiral Computed*

A variety of procedures have developed for the surgical augmentation of collateral circulation to the brain in some cerebral or cerebellar lesions such as hemodynamic ischemic stroke, giant aneurysm of circle of willis or skull base tumor. Carotid endarterectomy and extracranial-intracranial arterial bypass (EIAB) are included in surgical revascularization (SR), and thrombolysis and transluminal percutaneous angioplasty and/or stenting (PTAS) are included in endovascular revascularization (ER). This article focuses the revascularization procedure related complications in patients treated with surgical or endovascular revascularization.
Aneurysm ; Angioplasty ; Brain ; Cerebral Revascularization* ; Circle of Willis ; Collateral Circulation ; Endarterectomy, Carotid ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Skull Base ; Stents ; Stroke

A 65-year-old man presented with simple neurogenic claudication for 3 yea rs. He chronically used steroid (betamethasone) medication for about 6 yea rs due to prurigo simplex. Imaging studies(myelography, CT, and MRI ) showed circumferential constriction of the central thecal sac at L5 by excessive epidural fat. After decompressive laminectomy and debulking of fat tissue, the symptom was subsided. The authors reviewed the literature relevant to spinal epidural lipomatosis.
Aged ; Constriction ; Humans ; Laminectomy ; Lipomatosis* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Prurigo