Posttraumatic epileptic seizures have an incidence of about 10% in series of severe head
injuries. Control of “early seizures”, ie those occurring in the first week after injury, is mandatory…

The present report reviews 57 (out of 65) cases of spinal intramedullary cavernomas collected
from the literature, plus one personal patient. Almost 70% of all patients were women. …

Subdural intramedullary and extramedullary cavernous angiomas are rare vascular malformations.
A case of cavernoma of the cauda equina affecting a 46-year-old man is reported. He …

Fragility functions are developed to predict the method of repair required for older reinforced
concrete beam-column joints damaged due to earthquake loading. The results of previous …

The authors report a study conducted in three Italian neurosurgical centres on 158 patients
admitted after a minor head injury and with CT findings of a hitherto asymptomatic significant …

… Pagni CA (2002) La stimolazione della corteccia motoria nel morbo di Parkinson. Un’alternativa
alla stimolazione del subtalamo. Presented at the symposium: La neuromodulazione ei …

A detailed review, based on the literature and the author’s own series, is given of the incidence
of both early and late epilepsy following head injury related to age, severity and other …

… Pagni and Canavero have presented an unusual “cluster” occurrence of spinal epidural
angiolipoma, an issue that bears scrutiny. Increased awareness of this lesion in differential of …

The c-MET proto-oncogene encodes the tyrosine kinase receptor for hepatocyte growth
factor (HGF), also known as scatter factor, a powerful mitogen and motility factor for epithelial …

… This has been summarized by Cassinari and Pagni 4 . According to Penfield et al. , cortical
lesions, whether of SI, SII, or elsewhere, do not obliterate the ability to perceive pain, and …