Neuro 1
This is the name of the horseshoe or pin fixation device for neurosurgical cranial positioning.
What is the Mayfield?
There are this many pairs of cranial nerves.
What is 12?
There are this many vertebrae in the normal adult spine.
What is thirty-three?
This condition results most often from a fractured skull or blow to the head.
What is an epidural hematoma?
This is the area where autologous bone graft is usually procured for anterior cervical fusion.
What is the iliac crest?
These instruments are numbered 1 through 5.
What are Penfield Dissectors
This is the name of the most distal area of the spinal column.
What is the Coccyx?
This is the anatomical structure or area that the distal catheter is most often inserted for a V-P shunt procedure.
What is the Peritoneal Cavity?
This procedure treats compression of the median nerve by a transverse ligament.
What is a carpal tunnel procedure?
What is a Transphenoidal Hypophysectomy?
This instrument may be used for a burr-hole cranial perforation if no power is available.
What is a Hudson Brace?
This structure produces cerebrospinal fluid (CFS).
What is the choroid plexus?
This is the largest part of the human brain.
What is the cerebrum?
This a congenital defect that is the premature cranial suture closure.
What is Craniosynostosis.
This term describes a primary benign tumor that arises from the protective coverings of the brain.
What is a meningioma?
This instrument is used for scalp hemostasis and retraction, and resembles a Crile or a Kelly hemostat except the curve is to the side.
What is a Dandy?
This is another name for the first cervical vertebra (C-1).
What is the Atlas?
This is the lowest part of the brain stem and contiguous with the spinal cord.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This procedure treats vertebral compression fractures using trocars and PMMA.
What is Kyphoplasty?
This is the tough outer layer that encases the intervertebral disc material.
What is the annulus fibrosis?
This instrument is used to extract pieces of the nucleus pulposus in a discectomy.
What is a pituitary rongeur?
The network of connected arteries at the base of the brain.
What is the Circle of Willis?
These are the names of the aqueducts and foramina.
What is Monro, Sylvius, Madgendie, and Luschka?
This surgical approach to a pituitary adenoma is used rather than a traditional craniotomy.
What is the Sphenoid Sinus?
This congenital defect is when arteries and veins connect causing blood to divert away from the brain.
What is Arteriovenous Malformation?