Intracerebral schwannomas are rare tumors of the CNS. We report a rare case of intracerebral schwannoma, presenting as a cystic and solid frontoparietal mass, arising in a 16-year-old girl. The patient presented seizures and headache. Neuroradiologic findings showed a left frontoparietal lesion with cystic and tissular components. The tumor was removed through a left frontoparietal craniotomy. ...

the brain parenchyma, and this requires prompt administration of high dose antibiotics and surgical drainage. Brain abscesses frequently arise secondary to hematogenous dissemination, by direct inoculation (trauma or surgery), by contiguous dissemination from an extracranial site or as a complication of meningitis. However, the development of a brain abscess at the site of a prior intracerebral...

Neuro-inflammation plays an important role in the recovery of brain injury after stroke. Microglia/macrophage is the major executor in the neuro-inflammation, which can be polarized into two distinct phenotypes: injurious/toxic classical activation (M1 phenotype) and protective alternative activation (M2 phenotype). Here, we investigated whether intracerebral administration of interleukin-4 (IL...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Increasing evidence suggests that inflammatory mechanisms are involved in the intracerebral hemorrhage-induced brain injury. We evaluated the prognostic role of the peripheral leukocyte counts and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS Patients with acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage were retrospectively identifie...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The use of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) for acute ischemic stroke is controversial among emergency physicians. We survey emergency physicians to determine (1) the proportion of emergency physicians resistant to using rt-PA in the ideal setting because of the risk of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage; (2) the proportion of emergency physicians resistant to ...