1. Change of hands – change of format

   • D. Voth

   EDITORIAL Pages: 1 - 1

2. Minimally invasive techniques in neurosurgery: the transoral transpharyngeal approach to the brain

   • K. D. M. Resch

   REVIEW Pages: 2 - 25

3. Controversies in approaching the craniocervical junction

   • B. Y. Sheikh
   • Alaa El-Naggar
   • Akira Hakuba

   COMMENT Pages: 26 - 26

4. Gestalt anatomy

   • K. Sano

   COMMENT Pages: 27 - 27

5. Orbital and cerebral cavernomas: comparison of clinical, neuroimaging, and neuropathological features

   • Nedal Hejazi
   • Reinhard Classen
   • Werner Hassler

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 28 - 33

6. Posterior fossa epidural hematomas: observations on a series of 73 cases

   • M. Bozbuğa
   • Nail İzgi
   • Işik Gürel

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 34 - 40

7. Functional imaging in periventricular nodular heterotopia with the use of FDG-PET and HMPAO-SPECT

   • T. Morioka
   • Shunji Nishio
   • Masashi Fukui

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 41 - 44

8. Orthopedic and neurosurgical treatment of severe kyphosis in myelomeningocele

   • S. Fürderer
   • Christof Hopf
   • Dieter Voth

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 45 - 49

9. A new subtype of meningioma

   • H. Akdemir
   • Olgun Kontaş
   • Aydın Paşaoğlu

   NEUROONCOLOGY Pages: 50 - 53

10. Brain metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma

    • F. Ikawa
    • Katsuzo Kiya
    • Kaoru Kurisu

    CASE REPORT Pages: 54 - 57

11. Solid cerebral echinococcosis mimicking a primary brain tumor

    • Kimon Nanassis
    • C. Alexiadou-Rudolf
    • Konstantinos Grigoriou

    CASE REPORT Pages: 58 - 61

12. Variable attachment for the Mayfield head rest to fit on a Halo ring in the surgery of cervical spine injuries

    • J. Schröder

    TECHNICAL NOTE Pages: 62 - 64

13. BOOK REVIEWS

    Pages: 65 - 65