Meningioma is the commonest primary intracranial tumor in adults, with majority being benign. Malignant meningioma exceedingly rare and carries a poor prognosis because of its tendency for local recurrence distant metastasis. We present case 53 years old male anaplastic malignant meningioma, which recurred after excision radiotherapy later metastasised to pleura, bones brain. Keywords: Metastat...

A newborn baby had an orbital-intracranial benign teratoma radically excised with preservation of the eye. Three years later she developed recurrent proptosis, and reoperation showed an invasive orbital tumour that histologically was a malignant germ-cell neoplasm. The relationship of the two tumours is discussed. Malignant change in a benign orbital-intracranial teratoma of the newborn has not...

introduction: schawannomas (neuromas, neurilemmomas) are benign tumors originating from showann cells or nerve fiber sheet cells. they are solitary, encapsulated tumors usually attached to, or surrounded by a nerve. case report: we present a case of left hypoglossal nerve schwannoma in a 19 year old man who was admitted with progressive left tongue atrophy. conclusion: schwannoma of the hypoglo...

INTRODUCTION Meningiomas are the most frequent group of intracranial tumours, accounting for around a third of all primary brain tumours. In most cases, they are benign neoplasms that start in the cells of the arachnoid mater and may be located in the intracranial and spinal cavities. AIM To perform a review of the information available on intracranial meningiomas that allows us to update cur...

Benign intracranial hypertension or pseudotumour cerebri is a syndrome of increased intracranical pressure and bilateral papilloedema in a patient with normal or small ventricular systems in the absence of space-occupying lesions. No intracranial infection, hypertensive encephalopathy, or hypercapnic respiratory failure is found, and the cerebrospinal fluid content is normal. It has been descri...

1.1 History Historically, several terms have been used to depict pseudotumor cerebri (PTC). In the late 1890's, Quincke (1893, 1897) was the first to describe and name this syndrome "meningitis serosa" patients suffering from headache, impaired visual acuity and papilledema. He related the symptoms to a state of elevated intracranial pressure and presumed it was caused by increased secretion of...