Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical study of an adult case of chordoid meningioma.

A 64-year-old male patient presented with generalized convulsions. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large meningeal tumor with some cysts in the right frontal region. Surgical resections were performed three times, and local radiation therapy was administered twice over a period of 8 years for the treatment of tumor recurrences.

Neurophysiological evaluation of the optimum target in gamma thalamotomy: indirect evidence.

Gamma thalamotomy has been useful for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, but it has disadvantages, such as a delayed clinical effect after irradiation and the inaccuracy of targeting because depth recording is not available. Therefore, we sought to determine the optimum target in gamma thalamotomy based on the results of conventional selective thalamotomy with reference to the AC-PC line. To obtain indirect support for the appropriateness of the optimum target, we performed depth recording around the region of the estimated optimum target based on the results of conventional thalamotomy.