Amr Mohamed
955 posts
@AmrNeurosurgery
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Wales, @CV_UHB🏴 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 #skullbase #pituitary #whatever_else. Father of 👧🏻👧🏻.
1/Does PTERYGOPALATINE FOSSA anatomy feel as confusing as its spelling? Does it seem to have as many openings as letters in its name? Are you pterrified of the pterygopalatine fossa (PPF)? Let this thread on PPF anatomy help you out.
Thrilled to see that my figure was chosen for the cover of the JNO, representing our team’s latest work on PI3KCA mutated meningiomas! @StanfordNsurg @OxfordSkullBase @sanj_jeyaretna @VratkoH
⚠️💀Hard core Skull Base course Alert💀⚠️ Very humbled to be invited. Please consider joining and bring your most challenging cases! eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-skull… @sanj_jeyaretna @AliQureishi2 @RajeevMathewENT
#MorcosChallenge We used R modified cranioorbital w/ Hakuba/Dolenc peeling&anterior clinoidectomy given visual decline. If was cavernous meningioma, would observe&GK if grows given resection can cause severe ophthalmoplegia @EvaWuMD @UTHNeuro @neurosurgatlas @nasbsorg @neurosurgA
1/Don't fall for the siren song of calling all bright round objects at the foramen of Monro colloid cysts! Like a true siren song, this may be a TRAP! If you hear the call of colloid—read this first Here's a thread about lesions here that can trap you--& how to avoid them...
Sub-specialty neurosurgery fellowships in Oxford are now open for application, Functional, Skull base, Oncology, Spine, Paediatric and Neurovascular! Deadline 1st Feb @e1v1m1 @OUHospitals For those interested in Neurovascular get in touch directly!
As a neurosurgeon I've taught about the Dunning-Kruger effect. But it isn't real. If you think it is, this will be an eye-opener. If you haven't heard about it before, you will still learn how false ideas can be useful and true ideas can be harmful. 🧵
