[Spontaneous epidural hematoma with cervical localization--report of a case with etiopathologic analysis]. / Spontanes epidurales Hämatom mit zervikaler Lokalisation--Bericht über einen Fall mit ätiopathologischer Analyse.

A case of spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is reported. The 56-year-old man was hospitalized with neck pain followed by right sided Brown-Sequard syndrome at the level of C5-6 with a light rectovesical insufficiency and cervical sympathetic symptomatology. CT scan revealed right sided extradural high density mass. Following emergency operation removing the epidural hematoma ensured good recovery from the illness. The spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is rare emergency. The exact etiology is unknown. Etiology and pathophysiology of this unusual lesion are described.

[Remarks on the tactics and technic of transsphenoidal surgery for suprasellar pituitary adenomas]. / Bemerkungen zur Taktik und Technik bei transsphenoidalen Operationen suprasellärer Hypophysenadenome.

In case of large suprasellar hypophyseal adenomas, on which the author operates through the transphenoidal access after Cushing, he carries out peroperation air ventriculography. This enables him to demonstrate by means of the X-ray picture intensifier and a TV monitor the actuaL shape of the expansion during the operation, to visually control the tumour extirpation from the third ventricle and in this way make it safer. Ventriculography also enables the intraoperative appraisal of the radicality of the tumour extirpation. The artificially developed intracranial overpressure exerts a favourable influence on the radicality. None of the twenty patients operated on died from a hypothalamus lesion syndrome.