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Editor’s Page January – March 2011                                                 
 
St.M. Iencean, Editor 
Clinical Emergency Hospital “Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu” Iasi, Romania 
E-mail: mirceasteffan@yahoo.com 
 

Romanian Neurosurgery - 2011 

This first issue of Romanian Neurosurgery for 2011 allows us to announce you that our 
journal has maintained for this year its B+ category given last year by National Council for 
Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSIS); also from January our journal was included 
in Directory of Open Access Journals ( DOAJ ), an international database  allowing increase the 
international visibility of  Romanian Neurosurgery.  
(www.doaj.org/doaj?func=byTitle&hybrid=&query=R ) 

  We have fulfilled our promise to publish some articles in advance: first online articles on our 
site (www.roneurosurgery.eu) before the printed issue and also this year we will continue the 
quarterly publication of Romanian Neurosurgery. 

  This January - March issue starts with an interesting case report of a patient operated in her 
childhood by Professor Dimitrie Bagdasar, 72 years ago, allowing a brief historical overview of 
the one who was the pioneer of modern neurosurgery in Romania. 

   A comprehensive and extensive review of  neuroprotection in traumatic brain injury  is 
presented by G. Onose et al. showing its importance for reductions in the extent of brain damage 
and consequent significant neurological recovery after traumatic brain injury. 

   Several important original articles  are included on different topics.  
   Pendefunda presents a retrospective study about transcranial doppler exploration and 

vasodilators therapy in acute ischemic stroke of 328 patients and shows a highly significant 
correlation between the increased rate of risk factors for the early outcome of an ischaemic stroke 
and the pursuit of the reactivity index to prevent a major stroke.  

   Abrudan, Florian et al. studied the surgery of high grade gliomas based on 433 cases of high 
grade cerebral glioma operated during 10 years at Neurosurgery in Cluj and this study confirms 
other results from literature that long term postoperative outcome after radical surgical resection 
are better than the results of either partial resection or simple biopsy. 

    Ciurea, Tascu et al. have analyzed thirty one cases of colloid cysts operated and they 
concluded that the microsurgical approach is the best treatment for third ventricular colloid cysts 
because of the possibility of total resection of the cyst, good control of the bleeding source during 
the procedure  and a better exposure of the anatomical landmarks compared with the endoscopic 
approach. 

   An original article of Gramada, Dumitrescu et al. shows which are the steps to get the 
ethiological diagnosis of brain metastases whose origin is unknown  and Ciurea, Tascu et al 
present a series of 317 cases in children with intracranial arachnoid cysts over a period of 10 years 
and conclude that there is no best treatment in intracranial arachnoid cysts, and each case must 
be analyzed separately.  

  There are also two interesting case reports: a rare case of severe craniocerebral trauma with 
penetrating head injury (Iordache  et al.) and two case diagnosed with direct carotid-cavernous 
fistula and glaucoma (Petraru  et al).  This issue ends with selected abstracts from the 3rd annual 
conference “Ortho posturo gnosis” (rehabilitative medicine)  taken  place in Iasi, December, 
2010. 

   The Editorial Office hope you enjoy reading the content of this first issue for 2011. 
 

Romanian Neurosurgery (2011), XVIII, 1, 5