Combined supracerebellar infratentorial and right occipital interhemispheric approach to falcotentorial junction meningioma: A case report.

Background: Falcotentorial meningioma is a rare tumor of pineal region, arising from the dural folds where the tentorium and falx meet. Due to the deep location and near closeness to significant neurovascular structures, gross-total tumor resection in this area can be complicated. Pineal meningiomas can be resected using a variety of approaches; however, all these approaches are associated with a significant risk of postoperative complications.

Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 mutation is associated with reduced levels of inflammation in glioma patients.

Glioma patients with mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase have improved survival; this could be in part due to the suppressive effect of mutant IDH on the level of chronic inflammation. This study aimed to prospectively analyze the association of IDH1 mutation status with preoperative levels of blood inflammatory markers: neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), C-reactive protein (CRP), and red cell distribution width (RDW) in gliomas. Receiver operating characteristic curves for cutoff value determination, various bivariate tests, and survival analyses (Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression) were performed.

Pregnancy in women after successful acromegaly treatment, including surgical removal of pituitary adenoma and postoperative therapy using lanreotide acetate.

Acromegaly is one of the most common syndromes in pituitary adenomas. Naturally, women with this condition have trouble with their reproductive function. The difficulty in diagnosing acromegaly progression in pregnancy is that there is also production of placental growth hormone observed, making it impossible to differentiate from neoplastic growth hormone production using conventional methods of investigation.