Portal:Questions for the Final Examination in Neurosurgery (1LF, GM)


 * 1) Intracranial metastases. Indications.
 * 2) Intracranial meningiomas
 * 3) Brain ischemia. Cause, therapy modalities.
 * 4) Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in adults
 * 5) Intracranial aneurysm: treatment modalities
 * 6) Subarachnoid hemorrhagie: aneurysm and AVM - clinical signs and management
 * 7) Inflammatory intracranial deseases (bacterial meningitis, brain abscess)
 * 8) Cranial fractures. CSF leakage. Carotido-cavernous fistula.
 * 9) Spinal cord traumatic syndromes
 * 10) Principles of stereotactic surgery, indications (extrapyramidal deseases)
 * 11) Peripheral nerves injury: classification, nerve regeneration, timing
 * 12) Surgery of pain
 * 13) Gamma knife - principles and indications
 * 14) Prevention of secondary spinal cord damage. Indications for urgent decompression.
 * 15) Peripheral nerves entrapment syndromes. Peripheral nerves tumors.
 * 16) Cervical spine degeneration, its consequencies for neural structures. Indications.
 * 17) Trigeminal neuralgia. Clinical signs, therapy.
 * 18) Gliomas (classification, symptoms, diagnosis, therapy)
 * 19) Surgical approaches to the brain and spinal cord
 * 20) Brain edema: types, therapy
 * 21) Extradural (epidural) hematoma
 * 22) Difuse brain injury: concussion and diffuse axonal injury
 * 23) Acute and chronic subdural hematoma
 * 24) Brain herniation syndromes
 * 25) Injury of lower extremity nerves: clinical signs
 * 26) Tumors of the 4th ventricle and cerebellum in adults (glioma, ependymoma, hemangioblastoma)
 * 27) Congenital anomalies (Chiari malformation, craniosynosthosis, meningocele, encephalo/myelo-meningocele)
 * 28) Injury of upper extremity peripheral nerves: clinical signs
 * 29) Degeneration of lumbar spine. Signs, indications
 * 30) Infratentorial tumors in childhood
 * 31) Cauda equina tumors. Clinical signs, diagnostics
 * 32) Brain contusion and traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage
 * 33) Spinal tumores. Classification, clinical signs, indications
 * 34) Injury of spine and spinal cord
 * 35) Principles of epilepsy surgery
 * 36) Acoustic neuroma
 * 37) Classification of closed brain injury
 * 38) Hydrocephalus. Classification, symptoms, diagnostics, therapy
 * 39) Sellar region tumors
 * 40) Consciousness, evaluation
 * 41) Lumbar radicular syndromes. Neurogenic claudications. Cauda equina syndrome
 * 42) Cervical radicular syndromes. Cervical myelopathy.