Medulloblastoma – an overview

The authors intend to present in this paper the most actual trends and perspectives in the challenging field of medulloblastoma multimodal treatment.The data collected from the medical literature and augmented with personal experience, outline a scientifical and pragmatic conduct of medical thinking and action.The epidemiology, clinical presentation, neuroimaging modalities, pathology and therapy (surgical, XRT and chemotherapy) regardind this medical issue are thoroughly glanced and outlined

Modern methods of endovascular approach to cerebral arteriovenous malformations

The article is a review of major historical events in the development of the methods of endovascular approach of arteriovenous malformations (AVM) starting with the first cerebral angiography performed on a dog in 1926, Serbinenko’s embolization techniques of cerebral vascular lesions using detachable balloons in 1974, ending with January 1991 when the first embolization with GDC (Guglielmi detachable coils) was done on a brain aneurysm. It’s considered that there are approximately 1,100 patients diagnosed with cerebral arteriovenous malformation treated with GDC each month

3D patient specific implants for cranioplasty: A multicentre study

This article presents a multi-centre study cohort study on 50 patients with cranial defects of multiple etiologies (trauma, decompression, tumour surgery, etc.) operated in 10 hospitals. In all patients the neurosurgeon repaired the cranial defect using 3D printed and CNC milling and drilling grafts or Patient Specific Implants, from two world known manufacturers, custom made in accordance with the data obtained from the patient’s 3D CT reconstruction

Intraventricular meningioma in 4 years old child: Case presentation

Meningiomas represent a rare entity in pediatric population. Also, in small children, intracranial tumors can reach giant dimensions with minimal neurological findings due to some special features of the brain and cranial vault at this age. The main diagnosis tool is the MRI. We choose to present the case of a 4 years old child with a giant intraventricular meningioma.&nbsp