Five patients are described in whom a benign or malignant thoracolumbar tumour, producing increased level of cerebrospinal fluid protein, was associated with hydrocephalus or papilloedema or both. A review of the clinical and laboratory features in these and 40 published cases underlines the difficulty in explaining the increased intracranial pressure in such patients. Slow absorption of cerebr...

Benign Intracranial Hypertension Benign Intracranial Hypertension (BIH) has been reported in 1 in 1000 children receiving GH treatment. It is possibly due to the increase in salt and water retention that sometimes happens when starting GH treatment. In this condition, the pressure inside the head increases and children may complain of headache, loss of vision, nausea or vomiting. BIH usually de...

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) is most commonly caused by trauma, aneurysms, other vascular lesions, and infrequently malignant tumors such as gliomas or metastasis; however, benign intracranial tumors such as meningiomas or schwannomas are an uncommon cause. Vestibular schwannomas, accounting for approximately 8% of all intracranial tumors and 80% of Cerebellopontine Angle (CPA) neoplasms are t...

Primary intracranial malignant melanoma is a very rare and highly aggressive tumor with poor prognosis. A 66-year-old female patient presented a headache that had been slowly progressing for several months. A large benign pigmented skin lesion was found on her back. A brain MRI showed multiple linear signal changes with branching pattern and strong enhancement in the temporal lobe. The cytologi...