OBJECTIVE Intracranial hemangiopericytomas (HPCs) are rare tumors with aggressive behavior, including local recurrence and distant metastasis. We conducted this retrospective study to evaluate the efficacy of grossly total resection and adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for these tumors. METHODS A total of 13 patients treated for intracranial HPC from January 1995 through May 2013 were included in t...

Intracranial dermoid tumors represent a rare clinical entity accounting for 0.1-0.7% of all intracranial tumors. Their location in the posterior fossa is uncommon. We report a 16-year-old male patient who presented with clinical signs of increased intracranial pressure and cerebellar symptoms. The CT scan revealed a median cystic lesion of the fourth ventricle causing an active triventicular hy...

Intracranial schwannomas are benign tumors that arise from Schwann cells. Since it is well known that optic and olfactory nerves do not have a Schwann cell sheath, schwannoma should not develop from these nerves. We report a very unusual case of a 73-year-old female who presented with generalized seizures and had radiological features of an intracranial aneurysm. Additional imaging showed an ex...

Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma is a rare skeletal tumor. Of the extraskeletal sites, the intracranial location is the most common, followed by the orbit and the soft tissues. First described by Lichtenstein and Bernstein in 1959, the histological feature is biphasic consisting of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells admixed with islands of cartilaginous tissue. Most intracranial tumors are meningeal-...

Intracranial multiple germ cell tumors (GCTs) are rare. In this article, we reported a case of intracranial multiple GCTs in an 18-year-old boy with symptoms of psychosis for 8 months also. Tumors in the pineal, sellar region, corpus callosum, bilateral lateral ventricles and fourth ventricle were confirmed by enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and stereotactic biopsy. Immunohistochemica...

We report the case of a 44-year-old man who experienced a fatal and untreatable delayed vasospasm after resection of a recurrent temporal IV grade primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). The histological analysis demonstrated a rare rhabdoid variant of the tumor with a diffuse myxoid degeneration; molecular investigations demonstrated an upregulation of IL-1β and IL-6 expression in the recurren...

Introduction: Germinomas are malignant intracranial germ cell tumors, usually found in pineal region. These tumors are exquisitely sensitive to radiation. Whole ventricle radiation (RT) with a boost field to the primary tumor is the standard treatment for localized germinomas. RapidArc radiotherapy is considered an excellent technological advance that shows great potential for producing highly ...

A method of intracranial transplantation of the tumor induced by adenovirus type 12 in syrian hamster has been described. The incidence of intracranial tumor development was 86 (90.5 %) out of 95 animals and the average survival time and tumor size at death were 15.1 days and 4.1 mm in diameter respectively. The consistency of the days of death after intracranial transplantation of the tumor wa...

Introduction: Meningiomas and retroperitoneal sarcomas are two distinct rare tumors, with an incidence of 2 and 0.4 cases per 100,000 respectively. Case Report: We report the case of a 39 year old woman with a history of intracranial meningioma who was found two months later to have a large retroperitoneal sarcoma on CT scan after presenting to the emergency department complaining of abdominal ...

Dr. Kutsal Devrim Seçinti Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Nöroşirürji Anabilim Dalı Phone : + 90 (312) 508 25 98/2793 E-mail address : [email protected] Hemangiopericytoma is an uncommon, highly vascular tumor of pericyte origin that may occur anywhere capillaries are found. These tumors are usually located in the musculoskeletal system, retroperitoneum and the skin. Their intracranial...