radical resection of a pathological lesion along with the preservation of eloquent cerebral tissue is the principle goal of neurosurgery. brain lesions are usually diagnosed by conventional magnetic resonance imaging (mri), but this method is unable to describe the relationship between lesions and neighboring specific white matter (wm) tracts. diffusion tensor tractograghy (dtt) is a new sophis...

 Carcinosarcoma is a rare type of cancer that is composed of a mixture of sarcomatous and carcinomatous elements. Pulmonary carcinosarcoma has a 25% five-year survival rate with a prognosis poorer than other non-small cell lung carcinomas. Herein, we report a case of pulmonary carcinosarcoma and its 18F-FDG PET/CT findings. A 61-year-old male patient presented with brain symptoms, including hea...

abstract background: a tumefactive lesion of central nervous system (cns) is defined as a mass-like lesion with a size greater than 2 cm in brain (magnetic resonance imaging) mri. neuroimaging may help to distinguish the nature of a tumefactive lesion and therefore can prevent an unnecessary brain biopsy. method: in this paper, we have emphasized on determining the nature of a cns tumefactive l...

trauma is the most common reason in 1-34 years olds. in patient with multiple traumas, the head is the most common involved part. the importance of computed tomography (ct scan) in diagnosis of brain trauma is well established and ct of the brain is a choice method. finding lesion in brain traumatic patient is very important so goal of this study is finding of brain ct scan in traumatic patient...

background: limited data available about the mechanisms of dysphagia and areas involving swallow after brain damage; accordingly it is hard to predict which cases are more likely to develop swallowing dysfunction based on the neuroimaging. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between brain lesions and dysphagia in a sample of acute conscious stroke patients. materials and m...

SUMMARY Tuberculoma of the central nervous system is one of the rare and unusual form of Tuberculous in Iranian children, that often present with mass lesion. This is report A 14 months old boy, admitted because ahd fever, irritability, anorexics had right side hemiplegia for two months. Positive finding was tuberculin test and CT brain scan with 2 hyperdenc mass (Ring Shaped) in the posto-m...

objective primary central nervous system lymphoma (pcnsl) is an extremely rare condition in childhood. we report the first case of pcnsl in a child in iran. clinical presentation a nine-year-old boy was referred to mofid hospital with the history of headache of four months and seizure of 2 months duration. magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed a hyper-intense lesion in left fronto-pa...

a young known case of multiple sclerosis was evaluated with chief complaint of gradually progressed left lower limb weakness over 3 weeks. pathologic examination of a mass in brain magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme (gbm). given the importance of the definite diagnosis of malignant glioma and its effect on patient’s management, gbm should be considered...

abstract urinary retention, a rare childhood problem which is most commonly caused by urinary tract infection. however, neurological neoplasm must also be considered in differential diagnosis. we report here a 3 year old girlthat was referred to the pediatrics department of kashan university of medical sciences (kaums) with a history of urinary retention for 10 days. by insertion of a foley cat...