The 8th of June is World Brain Tumor Awareness Day. This was first instituted by the German Brain Tumor Association in the year 2000 and is an annual tribute to patients of brain tumors and their families.A diagnosis of brain
Leisure Reading
HA! Leisure reading, like anyone has even time for that. When I finished medschool and residency, I entered the world armed with the knowledge and skills and the unbridled confidence of a young doctor. And a healthy disdain for the
Atlas and Axis
The Atlas and Axis bones are 2 of the most distinct bones in the spine. Also the first and second bones of the neck so they are often referred to as C1 and C2. And since they lie just below
Spine. 101.
The spine is a wonderful thing. Its flexible, yet strong, made of all of the possible types of connective tissue – bone, ligaments, cartilage, fibre and closely associated with enough muscle and tendon to consider the muscles an integral component
Decisions, decisions…
What makes a doctor come to a conclusion about a diagnosis and a treatment? What determines the need for a surgery or whether some other modality of treatment is an option?Is surgical decision making binary? The internet is a scary
What is it we do?
If you act like you know what you’re going, you can do anything you want – except neurosurgery.
Surgical Technology – Brain stem tumor in a child
This story, which a patient’s family has been gracious enough to let me write, is of a boy with a brain tumor. In the brainstem. This is where we as neurosurgeons used every little bit of technology available in neurosurgery
Stroke of Bad Luck Part 2…
… or where we discuss what to do. Let’s begin small and first focus on the transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs. These as we saw were blockages of smaller vessels in the brain that the body manages to clear away
Stroke of Bad Luck. Part 1
The brain is a wondrous thing. It is the source of joy, and greed, sloth, envy, pride, wrath, lust and gluttony, and any other sins one could think of. But every once in a while things don’t go as planned.
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia or tic douloureux is the condition where patients experience severe pain along one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve (V nerve). This is not an uncommon disorder but patients often present after multiple consultations for dental disorders