Cerebral venous thrombosis is a treatable and under-recognised cause of a benign intracranial hypertension syndrome, and may also cause focal signs, seizures, and depression of consciousness.

The cases are reported of two patients who developed benign intracranial hypertension after the withdrawal of the novel non-ergot derived dopamine agonist CV 205 502 (quinagolide).

absract intracranial invasion of cellular blue nevus (cbn) from the skin is extremely rare and such a condition with malignant transformation is even rarer. a case of meningeal melanoma with malignant transformation which was derived from an ota nevus is presented in this report. a21-year-old man with a neurocutaneous syndrome since childhood was referred with headache and mild left hemiparesia...

Intracranial solitary fibrous tumors (ISFTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms originating in the meninges and constitute a heterogeneous group of rare spindle cell tumors that include benign and malignant neoplasms of which hemangiopericytoma is nowadays considered a cellular phenotypic variant. ISFT usually shows benign or indolent clinical behavior. We describe two cases of ISFT managed in our ...

Note Pituitary adenomas are common benign monoclonal neoplasms accounting for approximately 15% of intracranial tumors, while occult adenomas are discovered in as many as 25% of unselected autopsies. Pituitary tumors are usually benign, but cause significant morbidity due to their critical location, expanding size, and/or inappropriate pituitary hormone expression. True malignant behaviour with...

The diagnostic value of membrane glycolipid biochemistry index, the lipid-bound sialic acid (LSA) and total sialic acid (TSA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was evaluated in 30 intracranial and 65 gastrointestinal tumors. The plasma LSA, TSA and red cell membrane sialic acid (R-SA) in were determined according to the method of Sevenmerhulm. Our results showed that the levels of LSA and TSA in CSF...