A case of giant syringobulbia with syringomyelia extending to the upper dorsal region is reported. The case occurred in a 3.5-year-old girl who presented with a history of frequent bouts of severe pain in the lower neck and the shoulder blades. Simple decompression of the syrinx by open myelotomy resulted in prompt relief and reversal of symptoms.

The present study was done to study the effectiveness of Squash cytology as an intraoperative diagnostic tool for neurosurgical lesions. Forty Cases received from Department of Neurosurgery were randomly included in the study. The patients were from all the age groups with varying symptoms. Squash cytology showed 90% diagnostic accuracy when compared with histopathological Diagnosis. Thus it was concluded that squash cytology is a very effective tool for intra operative diagnosis of neurosurgical lesions.

The vertebral column is involved in less than 1% of all the cases of tuberculosis. It can associated with major neurological deficits due to compression of adjacent neural structures with significant deformity of spinal column. Therefore, early diagnosis and management of spinal TB has special importance in preventing these serious complications. In order to extract current trends in diagnosis and medical or surgical treatment of spinal TB we performed a review with patients admitted to our hospital between 2016 and 2017. Although the development of more accurate imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging and advanced surgical techniques have made the early diagnosis and management of spinal TB much easier, these are still very challenging topics. In this review we aim to discuss the diagnosis and management of spinal TB based on studies with acceptable design, clearly explained results and justifiable conclusions.

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