Hernia de disco toracica operada por toracoscopia videoassistida / Herniated thoracic disc operated through video-assisted thoracoscopy

A detailed description of the surgical steps od the first five patients with herniated thoracic disc operated on through videoendoscopic technique at our institution are described below: This is an optimal approach to the spine through a ventral route with minimally ivasive technique. This surgical modality allows for superb illumination, visualization and magnification and permits relatively easy manipulation and dissection of delicate amatomic structures through small openings and with the use of high resolution endoscopes. Fast recovery is usual and the patients were discharged on the 3rd ou 4th postoperative day, some of them claiming of intercostal pain for more 24 to 48 hours. No cases of infection were observed.

Epidemiologia das lesoes cirurgicas raque-medulares. I. Frequencia dos processos expansivos neoplasicos. / Epidemiology of surgical spinal-medullary injuries. I. Frequency of neoplastic expansive process

Os autores apresentam a frequencia dos processos expansivos neoplasicos raque-medulares em numero de 700 casos entre 4.090 casos de processos cirurgicos coletados ate 1980. Sao analisados apenas 579, pois 121 nao tem informacoes histologicas.O material focaliza o enorme numero dos metastaticos e mostra que sem eles a grande maioria dos processos sao benignos

Abscesso intra-raqueano epidural. Levantamento de 23 casos. / Spinal epidural abscess. Report of 23 cases

Os autores apresentam um levantamento de 23 casos de abscessos intra-raqueanos epidurais da Disciplina de Nerocirurgia da Escola Paulista de Medicina, entre 1947-1981, sendo analizados 14 casos