Authors: Alberto Feletti Matteo AlicandriCiufelli Giacomo Pavesi
Publish Date: 2016/04/23
Volume: 158, Issue: 6, Pages: 1203-1204
Abstract
We have been pleased to see that our short technical note recently published in Acta Neurochirurgica aroused interest curiosity and debate 1 We would like to thank Prof Andrè Grotenhuis for his thorough rigorous and compelling comment on our paper 2 His excursus through philosophical and ethical considerations is fascinating and sharable We totally agree with the profound meaning of his editorial which is the reminder of the Hippocratic lesson “primum non nocère” Therefore we will limit our brief letter to the answer to his technical questionsAs Prof Grotenhuis we were also puzzled about the imaging of our patient at first Comparing the initial MRI that the patient had 8 years prior to admission and the one immediately before operation the cyst enlargement is clear Also the enlargement of the third ventricle downward displacement of the floor and the dilation of the lateral ventricles thinning of corpus callosum which is displaced upward are
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