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RESULTS: Only a disproportionate small number of the patients who arrive at the emergency

room claiming head injury require neurosurgical intervention (4.8% in our study). The majority
of the CT scans who are performed as emergency procedure have no pathological findings
(53.4%).

CONCLUSION: The general surgeon with the appropriate education is able to evaluate the

patients with head injury.

16. Georgios K. Matis, Apostolos J. Tsiouris, Michail A. Karanikas, Theodossios A. Birbilis, Danilo

O. de A. Silva, Olga I. Chrysou, Antonio Bernardo, Philip E. Stieg. Traumatic Brain Injuries and
Diffusion Tensor Imaging – A review. Recent Patents on Medical Imaging. [BSP/RPTMI/E-
Pub/00002] 2011;Volume 2 Issue 1, ISSN:1877-6132,p:36-50.

http://eurekaselect.com/97703/article DOI: 10.2174/1877613211202010036 [Scopus]

Abstract: Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) constitute a major public health problem. The

armamentarium of current neuroimaging includes many techniques, and diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI) is one of the most prominent ones. Presently, it is used for studying mild,

moderate and severe TBI in humans (children, adolescents and adults), as well as in animals.
The main focus of DTI is the white matter tracts. Herein, the authors briefly present the

philosophy, the applications and the findings of the current global research in this field and
shed light on the potential future utilization of this technology. Furthermore, recent patents in
manipulating acquired TBI images are reviewed with special emphasis being placed on the

innovation of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus.

17. Porpodis K, Karanikas M, Zarogoulidis P, Kontakiotis T, Mitrakas A, Esebidis A, Konoglou M,

Domvri K, Iordanidis A, Katsikogiannis N, Courcoutsakis N, Zarogoulidis K. A case of typical
pulmonary carcinoid tumor treated with bronchoscopic therapy followed by lobectomy. Case
report. J Multidiscip Healthc 2012:5 47–51. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S29709. Epub 2012 Feb 16.

PMID: 22396625 [PubMed] [Scopus]

Abstract: Carcinoid bronchopulmonary tumors represent approximately 25% of all carcinoid

tumors and 1%-2% of all lung neoplasms. The most common symptoms are: persistent cough,
asthma-like wheezing, chest pain, dyspnea, hemoptysis and obstructive pneumonitis. We
present a case of a young adult diagnosed with a typical carcinoid tumor. The diagnosis was

established on the basis of imaging examination and bronchoscopic biopsy. The patient was
treated with bronchoscopic electrocautery therapy to relieve the obstructed airway, followed

by surgical lobectomy in order to entirely remove the exophytic damage. This approach was

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