1. Introduction

   • D. Voth Mainz

   EditorialNotes Pages: 85 - 85

2. Surgical management of brain-stem cavernomas

   • Ulrich Pechstein
   • Josef Zentner
   • Johannes Schramm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 93

3. Multiple communicating intradural arachnoid cysts: usefulness of myelography and myelo-computed tomography using both lumbar and cervical punctures. Case report

   • Koji Osuka
   • Masakazu Takayasu
   • Yatuo Itohl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 94 - 98

4. Surgical indications and prognosis in spinal metastases

   • K. Nanassis
   • Chariklia Alexiadou-Rudolf
   • Reinhold-Alexander Frowein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 103

5. Idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus in adults: Result of shunting correlated with clinical findings in 18 patients and review of the literature

   • Riccardo Caruso
   • Luigi Cervoni
   • Maurizio Salvati

   OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 107

6. Usefulness of two-dimensional time-of-flight MR angiography combined with surface anatomy scanning for convexity lesions

   • Basant Pant
   • Masayuki Sumida
   • Tohru Uozumi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 108 - 113

7. Percutaneous radiofrequency rhizotomy of lumbar spinal facets: The results of 46 cases

   • Alp İ. Göçer
   • Erdal Çetinalp
   • Sebabattin Haciyakupoğlu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 114 - 116

8. Multiple meningiomas of the central nervous system without the stigmata of neurofibromatosis. Clinical and therapeutic study

   • Mehmet Turgut
   • Selçuk Palaoğlu
   • Muzaffer Eryilmaz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 123

9. Effects of nerve growth factor on acetylcholinesterase activity of the proximal stump of the transected sciatic nerve

   • Süleyman Baykal
   • Haydar Usul
   • Soner Darn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 124 - 127

10. Surgical removal of cavernous angioma in the medulla oblongata. A case report

    • Miyuki Abe
    • Akira Ogawa
    • Satoshi Takahashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 128 - 131

11. Primary Ewing's sarcoma of the temporal bone with intracranial, extracranial and intraorbital extension. Case report

    • Kayhan Kuzeyli
    • Fadil Aktürk
    • A. Eray Söylev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 134

12. Intracerebral Aspergillus abscess: Case report and review of the literature

    • Marco Artico
    • Francesco S. Pastore
    • Massimiliano Neroni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 138

13. Intraparenchymal schwannomas of the central nervous system: An additional case report and review

    • Etem Beşkonakh
    • Süleyman Çayli
    • Yildiz Yalçinlar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 144

14. Dissecting aneurysms of the anterior cerebral artery and accessory middle cerebral artery. Case report

    • Yasunari Otawara
    • Michiyasu Suzuki
    • Akira Ogawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 148

15. Book reviews

    • D. Voth
    • K. D. M. Resch
    • Peter Stoeter

    BookReview Pages: 149 - 152

16. Medicine and literature

    Legacy Pages: 153 - 153

17. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 154 - 155