Volume 19, Issue 3 (2014)

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Familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (Fahr’s disease)
Amir A. Mufaddel and Ghanem A. Al-Hassani

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Principles and practice of thrombolysis via telestroke
Fawaz A. Al-Hussain

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Early versus late surgical decompression for traumatic thoracic/thoracolumbar (T1-L1) spinal cord injured patients: Primary results of a randomized controlled trial at one year follow-up
Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Amin Niakan, Ali Haghnegahdar, Abtin Shahlaee, Soheil Saadat, and Ehsan Barzideh

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Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of pregabalin, venlafaxine, and carbamazepine in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy: A randomized, double-blind trial
Nazanin Razazian, Maryam Baziyar, Nasrin Moradian, Daryoush Afshari, Arash Bostani, and Marziyeh Mahmoodi

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Botulinum toxin type-A in the management of spastic equinovarus deformity after stroke: Comparison of 2 injection techniques
Ali H. Otom, Imad M. Al-Khawaja, and Khalid W. Al-Quliti

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Gender-specific differences in depression and anxiety symptoms and help-seeking behavior among gastroenterology patients in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Fahad D. Alosaimi, Omar A. Al-Sultan, Qusay A. Alghamdi, Ibrahim K. Almohaimeed, and Sulaiman I. Alqannas

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The interrelated effects of 2D angiographic morphological variables and aneurysm rupture
Tianlun Qiu, Guoliang Jin, and Wuqiao Bao

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Tolerability of propofol in Wada testing
Faisal A. Alsallom, Shobhit Sinha, Fahmi M. Alsenani, Fawziah A. Bamogaddam, Saeed H. Wahass, Aurora B. Canillo, and Khurram A. Siddiqui

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Incidentally diagnosed giant invasive sacral schwannoma: Its clinical features and surgical management without stability
Guray Togral, Murat Arikan, Askin E. Hasturk, and Safak Gungor

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Contralateral acute subdural hematoma occurring after evacuation of subdural hematoma with coexistent contralateral subdural hygroma
Hsiao-Lun Sun, Chih-Ju Chang, and Cheng-Ta Hsieh

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Joubert syndrome labeled as hypotonic cerebral palsy
Lubna H. Dekair, Hussein Kamel, and Haitham O. El-Bashir

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Sydenham chorea in a 5-year-old Saudi patient
Amer A. Lardhi

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The 8th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Association of Neurological Surgery: “Aspire, Inspire, Innovate” Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, April 15-17, 2014ONCOLOGY: From idea to clinical integration: a neurosurgical odysseyStereotactic robot-guided biopsies of brain lesions: experience with 4 casesSurgery for deeply located intracranial lesions under intraoperative MRI guidanceTMS: a non-invasive cortical mapping systemPilomyxoid astrocytomas: diagnosis, prognosis, and managementThe shift in the surgical management in craniopharyngiomaSPINE: Is there a light of hope: reconstruction of the severely injured spinal cord by using stem cells?Internal metal fiducials with intraoperative CT-navigation reduces radiation during cervical spine instrumentation with improved accuracyPediatric neck deformity: review of causes and managementSingle-stage combined posterior-anterior decompression and instrumented fusion for management of cervical pathologiesLeiomyoma of the neck and cervical spinePercutaneous fixation of thoracolumbar fractures: KFMC experienceSpinal cord tumor surgeries, transient paraplegia, and prevention with intra-operative neurophysiologyMorphometry of vertebra in the Saudi populationVASCULAR: Epidemiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage at a University Hospital in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaConcurrent solitaire FR use and carotid stenting in acute tandem carotid occlusion settingPediatric intracranial aneurysms: characteristics, presentation, management, and outcomeEarly abnormal transient hyperemic response test can help predict delayed ischemic neurogenic deficit in subarachnoid hemorrhageManagement of vein of galen malformation: The KFMC experiencePEDIATRICS: Minimal invasive craniosynostosis correction without the use of the helmet: Updates to the technique and avoiding complicationsIs shunt series x-ray necessary before revision of obstructed ventriculoperitoneal shunt?Predictors of postoperative infection after neurosurgical repair of open myelomeningoceleMultiloculated hydrocephalus in children: does neuroendoscopy make a difference?Duration of preoperative external ventricular drain in pediatric posterior fossa tumors – does it matter?The introduction of selective dorsal rhizotomy in Saudi ArabiaSelective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) in patients with spastic diplegia; state of the art neurosurgery with a neurophysiology perspectivePediatric skull base chordoma: report of 4 cases and review of the current literatureEndoscopic management of third ventricular arachnoid cyst mimicking aqueductal stenosisGENERAL AND TRAUMA: Management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension: A 19 year experienceMeasuring the immeasurable; lights on the Health Care Quality; Neurosurgery as an examplePrognostic quality of MRI in severe traumatic brain injury patientsIs ventricular drain sampling from the collecting chamber as accurate as the 3-way stopper? A prospective studyFUNCTIONAL: Surgery of medically intractable epilepsySacral neuromodulation in neurogenic bladder of incomplete spinal cord injuryElectrode–brain interface in globus pallidus internus deep brain stimulationPreventing lower cranial nerve injuries during fourth ventricle tumor resection by utilizing intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM)VNS Therapy, is it still a palliative modality in intractable epilepsy?
Amro Al-Habib

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Compressive myelopathy caused by isolated epidural myeloid sarcoma with systemic mastocytosis: Rare presentation of a hematological malignancy
Cyril J. Kurian, Indira Madhavan, Prabhalakshmi K. Krishnankutty, and Mekkattukunnel A. Andrews

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Developmental regression and irritability
Naif M. AlAnazy, Saad A. Al-Shahwan, Zeeshan Azmat, and Brahim Tabarki