Sclerosing meningioma is a rare histological variant of meningioma, first described in the literature by Davidson and Hope 1989 as an invasive bulking mass consisted whorling collagen bundles with minimum percentage meningothelial resembling cells [1]. The showed very cases intramedullary location sclerosing meningiomas: our opinion, it mandatory to describe its clinical, surgical, immunohistoc...

A case of cervical (C) spinal intramedullary metastasis and multiple small brain metastases from papillary thyroid carcinoma was presented. Spinal metastasis caused posterior neck and left shoulder pain, dysesthesia in both legs, and motor weakness in both legs and left arm, though the brain metastases were asymptomatic. Both the spinal and brain metastases were successfully treated by frameles...

background : femoral shaft fractures are major causes of mortality and morbidity and are managed with intramedullary nailing (imn). in this study we compared the results of open and closed nailing in femoral shaft fractures. between 1993 and 2001 we managed 136 femoral shaft fractures by imn (81 closed and 55 open nailings) methods : in 120 patients with mean age of 36.2 years. the mean time of...

Intramedullary schwannomas are a rare form of spinal tumors. Here, we present case 61-year-old woman who was admitted to our hospital with complaints weakness in both lower extremities, numbness, urinary and defecation disorders, radiculating back pain. Physical examination revealed sensory motoric deficits the as well autonomical dysfunctions. Radiological imaging mass at level thoracic segmen...

*Associate Professor, **Resident, Department of Medicine, ***Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, ****Head of Department of Medicine, Sassoon General Hospital, Pune Received: 25.10.2012; Revised: 06.12.2012; Accepted: 27.12.2012 5 year old female , a housewife , presented with gradually progressing paraparesis since 2 yrs. There were no sensory or bowel and bladder symptoms. Tone wa...