Abstract Background: Adjacent treatment fields are commonly used in external beam radiation therapy, such as mantle and inverted-Y fields for the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and craniospinal fields used in the treatment of medulloblastoma and head and neck tumors when the lateral neck fields are placed adjacent to the anterior supraclavicular field. In each of these situations, there is a p...

A patient with an uncommonly situated congenital intradural arachnoid cyst is reported. The cyst extended from the cervical spinal canal into the posterior cranial fossa and was posterolateral to the spinal cord. The patient's initial complaint was urinary hesitancy. The location of the cyst is unique and the presenting complaint rare.

Seventeen neuraxis tuberculoma cases diagnosed and treated at Hacettepe University Medical Central between 1965 and 1988 were reviewed. Thirteen of these patients were explored surgically and all except two who died received anti-tuberculous chemotherapy in the postoperative period. In four patients who received aggressive medical treatment without surgical intervention. this treatment led to r...

Background and Objectives: Medulloblastoma are a highly malignant tumor of the central nervous system, very frequent in childhood, but remains rare adulthood. This study aims to analyze frequency, clinical therapeutic aspects adults medulloblastomas. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data from record adult’s patients treated for medulloblastoma between January 2000 December 2015 Radiation on...

Dear Editor, We read with some disquiet the article published by your journal entitled “Epidemiology, Management and Treatment Outcome of Medulloblastoma in Singapore” by Chan et al.1 It succinctly reviewed the 39 paediatric patients with medulloblastoma seen over a 9-year period in Singapore, and made 2 statements: 1. The clinical outcomes seen “were inferior to reported outcomes in establishe...

Sixteen cases of hepatoma presenting as craniospinal metastasis without obvious hepatic involvement were reviewed. Metastatic spread of hepatoma to the cerebrum was found in one case, to the cranium in six cases, and to the vertebrae in nine cases. All of these cases had midly abnormal liver function when first evaluated. Of those patients with hepatoma, 56% had evidence of hepatomegaly. Alpha ...