Intracranial hemorrhages are important clinical events necessitating early diagnosis and treatment as they might cause significant mortality and morbidity. Knowing clinical signs is important in early diagnosis. In this study we present an 18 year old male patient who had admitted to our clinic with a history of jumping into the sea that resulted in a head trauma nearly two months ago and who d...

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BACKGROUND Traumatic clival epidural hematoma is an extremely rare reported entity. CASE DESCRIPTION We describe the case of a 26-year-old woman involved in a car accident who presented with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 13, bilateral abducens palsy, bilateral numbness on the mandibular territory of the trigeminal nerve, and left hypoglossal palsy. Radiological examinations revealed a clival ...

Plasma cell tumors of the skull base are rare in neurosurgical practice. True solitary osseous plasmacytoma of the skull base without development of multiple myeloma is extremely rare. We report a case of typical Gradenigo's syndrome, including left abducens nerve palsy, left facial pain and paresthesia in V1 and V2 distribution of trigeminal nerve caused by solitary osseous plasmacytoma of the...

Background and Importance Intraosseous schwannoma is a relatively rare clinical entity that typically arises in vertebral and mandibular bone. Intraosseous schwannoma located entirely within the petrous bone is exceedingly rare, and only two cases have been reported to date. Clinical Presentation A 47-year-old Asian man was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of double vision. Neuro...

Meningitis is a rare and potentially serious complication in children with temporal bone fractures. We present an unusual case of 7-year-old girl pneumococcal meningitis complicated by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage following transverse fracture the left bone. She had otorrhea resolved spontaneously early stage hospitalization. At 4 days post-discharge, patient returned headache, fever, neck...