Tolkachev V.S.

A rare case of cerebral venous circulation disorder in a female patient with peripheral cancer metastasis of the right lung upper lobe to the area of precentral and postcentral gyri of the left cerebrum hemisphere in the immediate post- surgical period is present. It has been shown that the diagnostics of impaired circulation throuth the superficial cerebral veins is rather complicated due to the lack of clinical symptoms specificity and poor sensitivity of neurovisualization methods.

The article contains domestic and foreign data reflecting epidemiological peculiarities of traumatic injuries of spine and spinal cord, their character and incidence among various population groups with respect to gender and age parameters. The study outlines spine and spinal cord injury structure with regard to modern classification schemes, introduces injury incidence data, specifies indexes of lethality in spine and spinal cord injuries.

Aim: to demonstrate the necessity of modern methods of morphological verification in the differential diagnostics of primary and secondary neoplastic lesion of spinal cord. It is shown that histogenesis of tumor cells should be regarded from the viewpoint of comparative assessment of traditional and complementary methods of morphological verification that outlines the necessity of complex differential morphological diagnostics with apparent priority of immunohisto-chemical methods for the verification of final diagnosis of metastatic lesion in a rarely seen localization.

We demonstrated a successful case of surgical treatment of the patient with metastatic lesion of upper cervical spine with respect to multidisciplinary approach. We performed simultaneous two-stage surgical intervention, the first stage being occipitospondylodesis by multi-segment construction; and second —tumor resection from expanded combined access. It has been stated that the proposed surgical tactics allows performing curative resection in one surgical session without neurological deficit buildup in the postoperative period.