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Editor’s Page 

Dear Romanian Neurosurgery Reader, 

 I am pleased to introduce the first editor’s notes of the Romanian Neurosurgery journal. 
We will try to publish four issues of our journal this year; we have received an increasing 

number of excellent submissions and to support our aim to publish as many high –quality 
articles, we will therefore revise the instructions to authors and we will publishe these in next 
issue, but as soon as on the site of the journal. The articles are published in advance online before 
being assigned to a print issue, ensuring that the final version of your paper is published in the 
next issue; our site is http://www.roneurosurgery.eu. 

The February issue starts with historical paper on Professor Constantin Arseni who in the 
20th century spent most of his professional life studying neurosurgery in Romania and published 
the first comprehensive neurosurgical works in our country. 

This is followed by an extensive article on brain monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury; 
the BrainIT group worked collaboratively on developing standards for collection and analyses of 
data from brain injured patients. In this study they have shown that it is feasible to collect the 
BrainIT dataset from multiple centres in an international setting with IT based methods and that 
the accuracy of the data collected is greater than or equal to 94%. 

There are several original studies dealing with different aspects of unruptured arteriovenous 
malformations of the brain, meningioma association with different cell types, the first part of a 
study on endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach in the management of sellar and 
parasellar lesions, the second part of a study on decompressive craniectomy and its indications 
and a histological study of the diagnostic value of silver nitrate staining in cerebral astrocytic 
tumors. 

More clinical studies, case reports and technical notes of interest are also included, on subjects 
such as: microsurgical approach in a thoracic meningioma in eldery and complete tumour 
resection using the operating microscope, a case of a medial temporal arterio-venous 
malformation and its surgery, atlanto-axial distraction with complete spinal cord injury, multiple 
small meningiomas with transitory stroke like symptoms and others. The management of a 
polytrauma patient with severe traumatic brain injury in a multidisciplinary approach based on 
trauma protocols is presented, also a case of traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis and a case of a 
giant frontal and cerebellopontine angle epidermoid cyst are presented. 

The Editorial Office hope you enjoy reading this issue; I remenber you we need your help to 
publish four issues this year. 

 
Romanian Neurosurgery (2010), Volume XVII, February 
 
St.M. Iencean 
Editor-in-Chief 
E-mail: mirceasteffan@yahoo.com