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Purpose Describe presentation and management of Chiari type 1 malformation. We report our surgical case series proposing a decision making scheme for helping surgeons decide which surgical procedure to perform and when. Methods We retrospectively examined a series of surgically treated patients with Chiari type 1 malformation. Treatment of...

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Purpose: Arachnoid cysts may present with symptoms deriving from cyst rupture, usually causing intracystic hemorrhage and subdural hematoma or hygroma. Rupture is usually caused by minor trauma, spontaneous rupture is an exceptional event, and 57 cases have been described in literature. We here present and discuss the largest series of...

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BACKGROUND: Bilateral lambdoid and posterior sagittal synostosis is a rarely encountered multisutural craniosynostosis accounting for 0.3%-0.7% of all craniosynostoses. It has been named "Mercedes- Benz Syndrome" (MBS) because of the bone ridges that resemble the Mercedes-Benz logo. The typical head shape is usually described as anterior...

Intraorbital schwannomas account for 1 to 4% of all orbital tumors, they can remain subclinical for years before usually manifesting with diplopia and progressive proptosis. We present a rare case of schwannoma of the right infraorbital nerve. The patient underwent biopsy and gross total resection of the tumor in two different surgical times....

Intraorbital schwannomas account for 1 to 4% of all orbital tumors, they can remain subclinical for years before usually manifesting with diplopia and progressive proptosis. We present a rare case of schwannoma of the right infraorbital nerve. The patient underwent biopsy and gross total resection of the tumor in two different surgical times....

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