Most of the site will reflect the ongoing surgical activity of Prof. Munir Elias MD., PhD. with brief slides and weekly activity. For reference to the academic and theoretical part, you are welcome to visit  neurosurgery.tv

The patient came with complain of severe neck pain with radicular syndrome to the left upper limb with weak grip and extension left hand with the left triceps muscle and hypalgesia of the thumb of the left hand for three weeks. MRI showed huge extrusion of C5-6 with left sided location. The patient was operated the next morning and the radicular signs disappeared promptly after surgery and the power normalized, but the tingling sensation of the thumb decreased in intensity.