Therapy

• Intracranial pressure therapy, Symptoms after treatment (headache)
• Biopsy and if necessary Tumor resection
• Radiation, chemotherapy
• Anti-convulsive therapy
• Shunt with valve for draining of the fluid (external drainage)

Tips, tricks & cases

The acute increase of the brain stem intracranial pressure in the great occipital foramen, is of great importance: sudden restlessness, often loss of consciousness, light-rigid pupils and danger of breath paralysis

Disk prolapse

Misalignment of inter vertebral disk tissues in the spinal cord.

Possible causes:
Usually a combination of different causes plays a role:

• Frequent work endangering the spinal cord by high and continuous load
• Sudden, damaging body movement
• "psychosocial" pressure by loading "crushing" life situation

Symptoms (lumbar disk prolapse)

• Sudden pain in the Lumbar area, "lumbago"
• High movement restrictions
• Pain, e.g. in a leg
• possibly intestine disturbance, erectile dysfunction - > emergency, immediate OP