Background: Epidermoid cyst is an uncommon intracranial lesion. The most common location is the cerebello-pontine angle (CPA). Unusual locations include intra-ventricular, sellar and supra-sellar regions as well as extra-axial in the temporal region. Patients and Methods: Ten patients were retrospectively included in this study. All patients were diagnosed and treated in Zagazig University hosp...

background and importance: our learning curve during two decades of neurosurgical practice has been changed from an abstractive to a more meaningful and conductive state. in cases of fifth nerve neurinoma, pre-operative anatomopathologic diagnosis could lead us to a pre-planned program during and after the surgery to get the safe surgical result. case presentation: representation of two complex...

abstract   a cystic acoustic neurinoma almost entirely consists of a cystic component and is a well recognized subtype of acoustic schwannoma. we report a case of a 40-year- old male patient who presented with clinical features of a left cerebello-pontine angle mass lesion and ct scan findings mimicking the diagnosis of an epidermoid cyst. however intraoperative and histopathological findings w...