Introduction: Central neurocytomas (CNCs) appear as a rare benign intraventricular lesions involving <0.5% of primary brain tumors. There are no consensus guidelines for the optimal management strategy, so that this entity still enigmatic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Hydrocephalus (HCP) remains one of the commonest pathologies treated in developing countries. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) has become the alternative to shunt-divergen procedures in the treatment of many pathologies of the cerebral fluid in the brain. Age has been considered a limitation to perform the procedure, we started to perform ETV In younger patients earlier than many other units.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Cranial meningiomas considered one of most frequently encountered primary intracranial tumors in our daily neurosurgical practice, represent about 36% of brain neoplasms.
Aim: In this cohort analysis, we investigated epidemiological features of brain meningiomas diagnosed at a single institution. Special highlighting has been dedicated to demographic features, foretelling radiological signs, and concomitant factors predictive of tumor atypia.
Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid fistula secondary to clival defect is a very rare condition. Only 2 cases are reported previously in the literature. We report a case of clival defect in a young male patient presenting with spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea which failed detection by conventional CT and MRI.
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