Most of the site will reflect the ongoing surgical activity of Prof. Munir Elias MD., PhD. with brief slides and weekly activity. For reference to the academic and theoretical part, you are welcome to visit
neurosurgery.fr
The patient started to
complain of numbness of the right lower leg 7 months ago, then the
left and became with paraparesis more pronounced in the right side
with hypalgesia 2 cm above the nipple both sides. MRI done showed a
mass well circumscribed at the level D2-3 anterior to the spinal
cord more to the right. The patient was operated and the lesion was
a calcified schwannoma, which was removed in one piece with the
satellite rootlet after releasing the dentate ligament in the right
side.
The patient in the next day
01-September-2005 regained full power of his lower extremities and
he was complaining only of the wound site pain.
