We report the case of previously healthy 14 years old male who presented high grade fever and headache. There was a history of convulsion at age of 7 years, so MRI Brain was done. It was suggestive of a central nervous system neoplasm. Our patient had only two days of fever which is an unusual presentation of a neoplasm. The paper should be of interest to the clinicians as neoplastic fever as c...

Recent years, the emerging new imaging techniques not only show the detailed and complete aspects of brain neoplasm, but also promote clinical doctors using new techniques, such as CT three-dimensional reconstruction, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to research the mechanism of those diseases in the aim of better treatment....

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine possible effects of implementing a national query program on site-specific cancer mortality rates. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 2,874 query letters were sent out by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan between January 2009 and December 2011 to medical certifiers who reported "neoplasm with uncertain nature" on the de...

Endovascular embolization or embosurgery of brain tumors can be used to reduce neoplasm vascularity prior to surgical resection. Two challenges with embosurgery relate to insufficient perfusion pressure into the tumor and inadvertent escape of infused agents into parenchymal branches of the adjacent brain. This report describes a multi-catheter and coil technique to improve tumor perfusion and ...

Brain metastases (BM) are the most common intracranial neoplasm in adults. Initially considered as an essentially terminal stage of advanced cancer, BM increasingly being recognized emerging area clinical interest. Their epidemiological characteristics have changed significantly, including increased incidence tumors frequently associated with BM, such lung and breast cancer or melanoma, but als...

Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by the infiltration of blood and bone marrow immature monocytes, in which extra-hematopoietic localization uncommon. We report case 69-year-old-man with highly likely ectopic brain CMML involvement MRI. Without possibility cerebral biopsy negative infectious disease assessment, high-dose cytara...

OBJECTIVE Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors are aggressive neoplasms of the central nervous system occurring mainly in the early childhood and rarely in adults. We described a case of this tumor in an 18-year-old male patient without previous medical history. MATERIAL AND METHODS The neoplasm was localized in the right frontotemporal area of the brain and was totally excised. The specimen was...

Two children, age seven and 16 years, are described with the abrupt onset of a pure motor hemiplegia as the initial manifestation of a brain stem neoplasm. Subsequent rapid neurological deterioration localized the lesion to the brain stem and glioblastoma multiforme was diagnosed by surgical biopsy. It is suggested that brain stem gliomas with this unusual presentation are likely to be highly m...

Brain tuberculosis is still prevalent in many developing countries, especially Asian countries. Tuberculomas should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of enhancing intra-axial lesions of the brain. Brain tuberculomas can present in many different clinical and radiological patterns clinically like headache, fits, cranial nerve palsies and very rarely as brain tuberculomas. We des...