12 research outputs found
Blogs for neurosurgeons
Blogs are useful tools to research and to disseminate information. As they allow people who do not have specific knowledge on the building of sites to post content on the internet, they turned out to be very popular. In the past years, there has been a rapid expansion of blogs on several subjects and nowadays there are over 156 million blogs online. Neurosurgery was not out of this wave, and several blogs related to it can be found on the internet. The objective of this paper is to describe, in general, the functions of a blog and to provide initial guidance for the creation and the adequate use of neurosurgical blogs. Some interesting blogs and their features are also listed as examples
Gliomatosis cerebri: Diagnostic considerations in three cases
Clinical symptoms and radiologic characteristics of gliomatosis cerebri
(GC) are non-specific and the condition may be confused with other
central nervous system diseases. We report three patients with GC; all
the three patients had involvement of more than three lobes and the
deep white matter, as well as bilateral involvement. Differentiation of
GC from other neurologic diseases involving diffuse white matter may be
difficult. However, the diagnosis can be based on the combination of
radiologic and histopathologic features