BACKGROUND Surgicel is an oxidized cellulose preparation that is widely applied in neurosurgery due to its hemostatic effect and good tissue compatibility. Tumor-like lesions induced by Surgicel application in cerebral surgery have been rarely reported, especially for intracranial hemorrhage debridement surgery in patients with hypertension. CASE PRESENTATION This case report describes a rare...

Central nervous system (CNS) cryptococcosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that typically occurs in patients with reduced immunological function, such as patients with AIDS, patients receiving organ transplants, or patients receiving corticosteroid and immunosuppressive therapy. CNS cryptococcosis rarely occurs in immunocompetent patients. CNS cryptococcosis is characterized by meningitis...

This cross sectional study was carried enrolling 47 subjects with suspected solid liver mass, in the Department of Radiology and Imaging, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, over a period of twelve months. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of transabdominal ultrasonography in the diagnosis of solid SOL in the liver. Majority of the respondents (42.55%) were foun...

A 13-year-old girl was referred to the pulmonary clinic by her pediatrician for a nonproductive cough and abnormal spirometry and chest radiograph. The patient had been well until 4 weeks earlier, when she developed an upper respiratory tract infection characterized by sinus congestion, sore throat, nonproductive cough, and low-grade fevers. Her symptoms all resolved after a few days except for...

From the Division of Neurosurgery (Drs. El-Watidy, A. Jamjoom, Z. Jamjoom), King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh and Department of Neurosurgery (Or. Selen), Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital, Hafer AI-Batin. Address reprint requests and correspondence to Or. A. Jamjoom: Consultant Neurosurgeon, Division of Neurosurgery, King Khalid University Hospital, p.a. Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Ar...

Background: SurgicelTM is an oxidized cellulose preparation that is widely applied in neurosurgery due to its hemostatic effect and good tissue compatibility. Tumor-like lesions induced by Surgicel® application in cerebral surgery have been rarely reported, especially for intracranial hemorrhage debridement surgery in patients with hypertension. Case presentation: This case report describes a r...

INTRODUCTION The central nervous system involvement in Behçet's disease occurs in 5-30% of cases. The diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri is even rarer (only 22 cases reported worldwide). PURPOSE To emphasize the importance of differential diagnosis in a case of pseudotumor cerebri in the context of ocular inflammation. METHODS V.A.V.R., a 31 year old female, was diagnosed with pan-uveitis on ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation (HT) is the most important complicating factor after treatment with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator. In this study, we used multimodal magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the incidence and severity of reperfusion-based HT in spontaneously hypertensive rats after ischemia/reperfusion. METHODS Twenty male spontaneously...

INTRODUCTION In rare instances, demyelinating disorders manifest as tumefactive lesions that simulate brain tumors. We report a patient with a space-occupying lesion in the parietal lobe, which presented a serious diagnostic dilemma, between a rare tumefactive demyelinating disease, such as Balo concentric sclerosis and a glioma. This case report highlights important diagnostic clues in the dif...

Two studies were carried out in which 27 and 23 patients respectively with renal space-occupying lesions were assessed by different techniques and the results compared. Instead of proceeding to renal arteriography after the lesion had been found on urography, radionuclide and ultrasound scanning were used in the first study to clarify the nature of the lesions, while in the second study compute...