Romanian Neurosurgery EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Dr St. M. Iencean, MD, PhD [email protected] EXECUTIVE EDITOR Al. Chiriac, PhD ASSISTANT EDITORS B. Costachescu A. Iordache ADVISORY BOARD - ROMANIA Professor D. Adam, Romania Professor G.B.I. Iacob, Romania Dr. Fl. Exergian, Romania Dr. Al. Lupsa, Romania Professor St.I. Florian, Romania Professor I. Poeata, Romania Professor R.M. Gorgan, Romania Dr. Al. Tascu, Romania ADVISORY BOARD - INTERNATIONAL Professor M.A. Arraez, Spain Professor P. Mertens, France Professor V. Astarastoae, Romania Professor B.K. Misra, India Professor H. Bertalanffy, Germany Professor D.F. Muresanu, Romania Professor J. Brotchi, Belgium Professor L. Pendefunda, Romania Professor P. Courtheoux, France Professor S.C. Robertson, USA Professor J.P. Houtteville, France Professor M. Samii, Germany Professor Y. Kato, Japan Professor J. Schramm, Germany Professor U. Kehler, Germany Professor M. Sindou, France Professor Christopher M. Loftus, USA Professor B. Sutter, Austria Dr. M.R. Mahmud, Nigeria Professor F. Umansky, Israel Professor J.Cl. Marchal, France Professor T.T. Wong, Taiwan EMERITUS EDITORIAL BOARD FOUNDING EDITOR Professor A.V. Ciurea, Romania _Professor Constantin Arseni_ Dr. H. Ples, Romania, Formed Editor _Professor Al. Constantinovici, Former Editor_ ROMANIAN NEUROSURGERY Vol. XXXIII | No. 3 September 2019 Copyright © 2019 Romanian Society of Neurosurgery & London Academic Publishing All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery or the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal. ISSN 1220-8841 (Print) ISSN 2344-4959 (Online) First Printing September 2019 London Academic Publishing Ltd. 27, Old Gloucester Street WC1N 3AX London, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] www.lapub.co.uk www.journals.lapub.co.uk www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/roneurosurgery Company Reg. No. 10941794 Registered in England and Wales The opinions expressed in the published articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not reflect the opinion of the editors or members of the editorial board. CONTENTS 150 years since the birth of Harvey Williams Cushing 227 H. Ples, H. Berceanu Anatomical localization of intracranial grade II meningiomas in 232 North-Eastern Romania. Our 25-years experience A.I. Cucu, Claudia Florida Costea, Mihaela Dana Turliuc, Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc, B.Costachescu, Roxana Popescu, Gabriela Florenta Dumitrescu, Anca Sava, Daniela Maria Tanase, R. Arbore-Sorete, I. Poeata Syringobulbia and syringomyelia in a case with Chiari 0 239 malformation successfully treated by posterior fossa reconstruction. Case presentation and literature review R.B. Sandu, M.I. Pantiru, M. Cosman,I. Poeata Learning curve in rat dissection for experimental sciatic nerve 243 repair Marin Andrei, Marin Georgiana Gabriela, Dobrete Nicoleta Amalia, Enescu Dan Mircea Neurosurgery in the elderly patient 249 Gabriel Iacob “The Silk Road” via subarachnoid cisterns. Cerebrospinal fluid 260 dissemination of meningiomas A.I. Cucu, Mihaela Dana Turliuc, Claudia Florida Costea, B. Costachescu, Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc, B. Dobrovat, Camelia Margareta Bogdanici, Daniela Maria Tanase, Gabriela Florenta Dumitrescu, Anca Sava, I. Poeata A rare case of metastatic esthesioneuroblastoma 268 Emilia Marciuc, M. Barcan, S. Popa, B.I. Dobrovat, R.M. Popescu, R. Buga, D. Haba Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. A brief review 272 D. Adam, D. Iftimie, Cristiana Moisescu 3D patient specific implants for cranioplasty. A multicentre study 277 A. Ladaru, H. Moisa, A.V. Ciurea Our experience with a single stage bilateral approach for 283 treatment of bilateral middle cerebral artery aneurysms A. Chiriac, Georgiana Ion, Z. Faiyad, I. Poeata Primary central nervous system sarcomas. Clinical, radiological 287 and pathological features in our institution Wael K. Zakaria, Ahmed N. Taha, Mohamed State Tentorial dural arteriovenous fistulae presenting as transient 295 ischemic attack. Case illustration Marco Zenteno, Mohamed M. Arnaout, Angel Lee, Amit Agrawal, Mohammed Maan AbdulAzeez, Hayder Ali Al-Saadi, Osama M. Al-Awadi, Samer S. Hoz, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar Quality and reliability of information available on YouTube 299 videos pertaining to transforaminal lumbar epidural steroid injections Aysel Gürcan Atci, Ibrahim Burak Atci Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea in a patient with 305 Pallister–Hall syndrome Milicevic Mihajlo, Aleksic Vuk, Ilic Rosanda, Scepanovic Vuk, Stanimirovic Aleksandar, Paunovic Aleksandra, Milic Marina, Nedeljkovic Zarko, Matteo Sacco, Grujicic Danica Bilateral traumatic basal ganglia haemorrhage, a rare entity. 310 Experience at single institute with review of literature Vibhu Shankar Parashar, Vivek Kumar Kankane, Gaurav Jaiswal, Tarun Kumar Gupta Risk factors for preoperative and postoperative late seizure in 316 supratentorial meningiomas. A retrospective analysis of 63 patients Rahsan Kemerdere, Mehmet Yigit Akgun, Orkhan Alizada, Sureyya Toklu, Burak Tahmazoglu, Taner Tanriverdi 322 A case report of retrograde suction decompression of a large paraclinoid aneurysm Ahmed Mohamed Khalil, Yashuhiro Yamada, Katsumi Takizawa, Yoko Kato, Ahmed Ansari 326 Spinal epidural angiolipoma causing spinal cord compression. A case report A. Khelifa, I. Assoumane, S. Bachir, L. Berchiche, A. Morsli Overview of neurosurgical capacity in St. Lucia 329 Emil Zhalmukhamedov, Christopher Magloire, E. Maidyrov, Aleric Soans, Latisha Elijio, Nikita Nossov, Shameea Mahbub Ewing’s sarcoma of the mobile spine. Three unusual observations 332 A. Khelifa, I. Assoumane, S. Bachir, L. Berchiche, N. Benmedakhene, T. Bennafaa, A. Morsli 337 Supratentorial hemangioblastoma without von Hippel-Lindau syndrome in an adult. A rare case report Oguz Baran, Omur Kasimcan, Aydin Sav, Hakan Oruckaptan 345 Guidelines for authors Romanian Neurosurgery (2019) XXXIII (3): pp. 227-231 DOI: 10.33962/roneuro-2019-038 www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/roneurosurgery 150 years since the birth of Harvey Williams Cushing H. Ples1, H. Berceanu2 1 “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, ROMANIA 2 Elias Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, ROMANIA The first practitioner physicians of modern neurosurgery are Sir William Macewen, (1848-1939) with 21 surgical interventions, and Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916) who performed 10 skull surgeries in 1886. (1) During this time, the most important character in the development Keywords of neurosurgery was Harvey Cushing. The complex personality of neurosurgery, Harvey Cushing becomes evident after reading the monumental Harvey Williams biography written by John Fulton. Cushing was a genius with exemplary Cushing determination, working strength and an extraordinary perseverance. Like any genius, he was a difficult person, hard to collaborate with. These difficulties were minor in the light of his great achievements. (2) It seems a sacrilege to criticize a human being who almost by himself abolished the terrible spectre of the “cerebral fungus” which was the Corresponding author: common result of surgeries performed in that era. H. Ples Harvey Williams was born on April 8, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio, and “Victor Babes” University of died on October 7, 1939 in New Haven, Connecticut. Between 1887 and Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, 1891 he studied at Yale College, and continued his studies and Romania graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1895 cum laude. He [email protected] studied for four years at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore under the famous surgeon W.S. Halsted. (1) His collaboration with Halsted influenced Cushing’s career. Halsted used local anaesthesia with cocaine in the vicinity of nerves. After he injected his own hand, he developed a cocaine addiction, which kept Scan to access the online version him away from his patients and the operating room. This allowed young Cushing to take on responsibilities closer to those of a senior surgeon, helping him advance in his career. (7) Harvey Cushing also trained brain surgery techniques with Theodor Kocher in Bern and Charles Scott Sherrington in Liverpool. During his collaboration with Kocher, the “Cushing reflex” was described, which highlighted the relationship between blood pressure and intracranial pressure. He also studied intracranial pressure with Kocher. Together with Sherrington he had contributions to the cortical localization of brain centres (10). H. Ples, H. Berceanu 228 Cushing’s best friend was Osler, the famous father of American internal medicine, and one of four professors who founded the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Cushing won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 with his book “Life of Sir William Osler”. He was a surgeon in the same hospital from 1902 to 1912. (3) In 1903 he obtained the title of Associate Professor in surgery. (6) Cushing managed neurological cases. In 1904 he presented “The Special Field of Neurological Surgery” with a great amount of enthusiasm in front of the Medical Academy in Cleveland. (1) He became chief surgeon at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Cushing joined Yale in 1933. (3) Cushing came from two generations of physicians. He married his childhood sweetheart, Katharine S. Crowell, on June 10, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio. They had five children: two boys and three girls. One of his daughters married James Roosevelt,