A significant proportion of patients with spinal TB and severe motor deficits experience remarkable improvement after surgical decompression and hence should undergo surgery even though they may be suffering from paraplegia of considerable duration.

The younger age and unusual location are some of the rare features which need documentation and have not been described earlier. We propose that chordoid glioma is a variant of an ependymoma (WHO grade II) which arises from tanycytes and should be included in the WHO classification of brain tumors.

GKS is an effective modality of treatment for central AVMs, though relatively lower obliteration rates and higher complication rates are seen compared to AVMs at other locations.

and the World Spinal Column Society Executive Board-CONCLUSIONS: Based on the modifiable risk factors of depression in this study, it is recommended that the safety of neurosurgeons be ensured by providing appropriate safety measures for them to regain their confidence and hence reduce the incidence of depression.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The very small size of cerebral aneurysms is considered to be one of the limitations for endovascular treatment, with a high risk for intraoperative rupture. We report on treatment of very small saccular ruptured cerebral aneurysms by coil embolization. All the cases were of 2-mm aneurysms with at least 1 of the dimensions being less than 2 mm.