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A young woman of 26 years attended eye OPD with the complaints of complete and rapid loss of vision of her righ eye and progressive dimness of vision of left eye, frontal headache and nausea for last two months. On eye examination, she was found to have no perception of light to her right eye.
Diabetes mellitus is a disease with no definite cure. In recent years, stem cell transplant has led to treatment of various diseases including diabetes. We sought to report a type 1 diabetic patient with a brain mass, diagnosed as transitional meningioma, after a fetal hematopoietic stem cell
Background: Multiple intracranial meningiomas account for <10% of all meningiomas. Familial multiple meningiomas have been linked to germline mutations in two genes: neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and SWIch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (SWI/SNF)-related matrix-associated actin-dependent regulator of
A 57-year-old man with a history of multiple recurrent atypical meningiomas (World Health Organization grade II) had several surgical resections including γ knife resection of the parafalcine meningioma, followed with a stereotactic radiosurgical ablation. Despite these treatments, an MRI scan
We describe a unique case of prolonged nausea and vomiting following posterior fossa craniotomy for removal of a meningioma. No apparent neurological or gastrointestinal causes were discovered except for a delayed gastric emptying time. The symptoms gradually resolved along with normalization of the
To review the outcomes of patients with optic nerve sheath meningiomas (ONSM) treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy.
Patient characteristics, treatment, and outcomes were analyzed for all patients with primary and secondary ONSM treated from 2001 to 2012. Clinically significant visual
We reported a rare case of multiple cavernous angioma accompanied with a convexity meningioma. A 41-year-old female developed generalized convulsion on October 8, 1985. Plain computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a round heterogeneous density mass in the right parietotemporal region, which was
Intracranial tuberculoma generally presents as either solitary or multiple lesions in the brain parenchyma. These are characterized by a ring-enhancing area on either computerized tomography scans or magnetic resonance images. A 66 year-old female with a history of breast carcinoma at 41 years,
BACKGROUND
Intracranial primary collision tumors of different histologic types are rare, and their occurrence is still unclear.
METHODS
We describe a 66-year-old female who presented with headache, nausea, and vomiting. Magnetic resonance imaging scan showed that there were 2 primary intracranial
Meningiomas and breast cancers are common tumors among women in the fifth to seventh decade. However, metastasis from breast cancer to an intracranial meningioma is rare. A 63-year-old woman presented with headache, nausea and vomiting, and progressive right hemiparesis for one month. She had
A 61-year-old normotensive woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of severe headache and nausea. She has had a limp due to the poliomyelitis in her childhood. Three days before admission, she had a headache without unconsciousness. On admission, she was almost alert. Her vital signs were
Low-grade adenocarcinoma arising from the endolymphatic sac is an uncommon tumor that is characterized clinically by hearing loss and radiologically by temporal bone destruction. The authors report a case of low-grade adenocarcinoma of endolymphatic sac origin that mimicked a posterior fossa
We reported a case of migraine with aura associated with meningioma. A 66-year-old female visited to our department in 1985, with occipital throbbing pain following visual hallucination and nausea. She had been diagnosed as migraine. CT scan, magnetic resonance image and angiography showed a right
BACKGROUND
Central nervous system (CNS) solid cavernous hemangiomas are rare extra-axial anomalies that may sometimes resemble meningiomas. Due to their complex vascular nature, accurate preoperative diagnosis is important to avoid disastrous hemorrhage during operation. To the best of our knowledge