Chordoid gliomas of the third ventricle.

Background: Chordoid glioma is a rare slow-growing tumor of the central nervous system. Available world experience includes no more than 200 cases (lesion of the third ventricle in absolute majority of cases). Recognition and treatment of chordoid glioma are currently difficult problems due to small incidence of this disease.

[Central diabetes insipidus after resection of sellar-suprasellar tumors: prevalence and predictors of manifestation].

Central diabetes insipidus is a neuroendocrine disorder caused by disturbances in antidiuretic hormone release. The last one is responsible for fluid and electrolyte balance regulation. The most common cause of diabetes insipidus is resection of sellar-suprasellar tumors followed by damage to hypothalamic nuclei responsible for antidiuretic hormone release, disruption of antidiuretic hormone transportation from hypothalamus or its release by neurohypophysis.

[Primary sellar neuroblastoma (clinical case and literature review)].

Neuroblastoma is a malignancy developing from the embryonic neuroblasts of sympathetic nervous system. Primary sellar neuroblastomas are extremely rare (there are currently only 11 case reports in the literature). Possible development of neuroblastoma in sellar region expands differential diagnosis of local processes due to inclusion of neuroblastoma into the spectrum of suspected tumors.

[Use of chemotherapy in the treatment of aggresive pituitary adenomas].

To clarify the concept of 'aggressive pituitary adenoma' using analysis of the current concepts, as well as to determine the optimal treatment algorithm for this disease and the place of chemotherapy in this treatment. Pituitary adenomas comprise from 10 to 15% of intracranial neoplasms. Despite the fact that pituitary adenomas are benign neoplasms, in 25-55% of cases they demonstrate invasive growth, growing into the surrounding structures (sphenoid sinus, cavernous sinus, etc.

[Breast cancer metastasis into a giant hormone-inactive pituitary adenoma adenoma. (Clinical case and literature review)].

Brain metastases of various types of cancer are diagnosed in 8-10% of all cancer patients. In the world literature, only 30 cases of cancer metastasis to the pituitary adenoma are described. This article presents yet another observation of a patient with breast cancer metastasis into the hormone-inactive pituitary adenoma at the Burdenko neurosurgical center, Russia The patient underwent endoscopic endonasal transsphenoid removal of the neoplasm.

[Transient enlargement of craniopharyngioma cysts after stereotactic radiotherapy and radiosurgery].

Unlabelled: Stereotactic radiotherapy/radiosurgery (RT/ES) is an effective technique for treating craniopharyngiomas (CPs). However, enlargement of the cystic part of the tumor occurs in some cases after irradiation. The enlargement may be transient and not require treatment or be a true relapse requiring treatment.

[Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea in primary treatment of large and giant prolactinomas with dopamine agonists].

Unlabelled: At present, pharmacological therapy of prolactinomas with dopamine agonists (DAs) is considered the treatment of choice. In most cases, giant prolactinomas respond to treatment with dopamine agonists and decrease in size during the first months of the treatment. One of the rare but dangerous complications of conservative treatment of prolactinomas with invasive growth is cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea.

Analysis of the influence of absorption on spatial field structures of morphology-dependent resonances in cylindrical microparticles.

Morphology-dependent resonances in cylindrical microparticles are investigated and the properties of particle matter considered. The spatial structures of resonance modes inside microparticles are studied. It is shown that the resonant mode with a lesser quality factor can have a higher value of internal field intensity inside microparticles.

Thermal effect of pumping intensity on the active medium of a neodymium:glass microlaser.

We theoretically investigated the influence of pumping intensity radiation on the active medium of a neodymium:glass microlaser. The pumping radiation in the neodymium:glass microlaser causes heating of the active medium to the softening temperature. The time necessary for the heating is estimated; it changes from fractions of nanoseconds to hundreds of microseconds.

Heating and destruction of metallic particles exposed to intense laser radiation.

The heating of a laser-irradiated solid aluminum particle to boiling or to temperatures that exceed boiling is analyzed theoretically and numerically by solution of the heat-transport equation. Two different criteria of particle destruction are considered. The temperature distributions inside the particles depending on the intensity values and particle sizes are presented.