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Romanian Neurosurgery Editor’s Page May 2010 
 
St.M. Iencean, Editor 
Clinical Emergency Hospital “Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu” Iasi, Romania 
E-mail: mirceasteffan@yahoo.com 
 

Dear Romanian Neurosurgery Reader, 

For starters I would like to announce that Romanian Neurosurgery is classified by National 
Council for Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSIS), in the C category and the 
CNCSIS accreditation automatically ensure acceptance by the Romanian College of Physicians 
of our journal. The articles published in our medical journal will receive 25 credits per each 
article according to criteria and rules for credit forms of continuing medical education of 
Romanian College of Physicians.   

The previous issue of our journal started the presentation of neurosurgical personalities who 
contributed to the development of Romanian neurosurgery. This issue begins with a paper of 
Ciurea and Palade who present the Professor Thoma Ionescu and his numerous contributions in 
the field of surgical arts and his significant contributions to neurosurgery: the surgery of cervical 
sympathetic chain, his personal approach for decompresive hemicraniectomies; also he was the 
promotor of spinal anesthesia with his famous cervical and thoracic spinal puncture for spinal 
anesthesia. The journal continues with a historical overview about the development of military 
neurosurgery and of the personality of General MD PhD Iacob Gr. Mircea and his contributions 
as pioneer of military Romanian neurosurgery . 

In this issue, a very comprehensive review by the team of Professor Zhengsong Huang from 
Sun Yat-sen University, China on Neuroform stent-assisted coil embolization presents this 
procedure and their experience to treat 39 cerebral aneurysms. The Neuroform Microdelivery 
Stent System is designed to prevent the rupture of an intracranial aneurysm. This system is for 
use with embolic coils for the treatment of wide neck intracranial aneurysms that cannot be 
treated by surgical clipping. Adam, Pevzner and Gepstein’s review on the nucleoplasty presents 
this treatment of discogenic leg pain using bipolar radiofrequency device for vaporising a volume 
of nucleus pulposus.  

Other interesting topics here are: the second part of the endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal 
approach for sellar and parasellar lesions by Tataranu, Gorgan et al.; a presentation of embolic 
materials for cerebral endovascular therapy by Chiriac, Poeata et al.; an analysis of the results of 
neuronavigation-guided percutaneous radiofrequency thermocoagulation in the treatment of 
trigeminal neuralgia by Ivanov et al.; and a therapeutical - imagistic correlation regarding 
intracerebellar hematomas by Albert et al. 

There are several very interesting case reports: a giant hyperostosis secondary to neglected 
Pott’s puffy tumour and its surgical repair (Florian et al.), a non-traumatic spontaneous 
rhinorrhea generated by a giant atypical meningioma of left posterior fossa (Iacob et al.), the 
radiographic features of a posttraumatic occlusion of the vertebral artery (Tudorache, Haba et 
al.), surgical management for a giant extracranial liposarcoma (Pruna, Gorgan et al.) and a 
presentation of two cases of bone marrow tissue implant into cervical spinal cord injury. 

We are convinced you will find all of them interesting and we hope you enjoy this issue of 
Romanian Neurosurgery, and welcome your continued help to publish four issues this year. 

 
Romanian Neurosurgery (2010), XVII, 2, 135