Intracranial abscess coexistent with a high grade glioma, without prior surgical intervention, is an unusual occurrence. This paper presents two such cases with abscess surrounding the glioblastoma in an immunocompromised individual and abscess within the glioblastoma in an immunocompetent patient. Adjuvant therapy was tapered as per each patient's clinical response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRuptured intracranial aneurysms in infants are very rare but if missed can lead to poor outcomes. Spontaneously dissecting false aneurysms have been described only in a handful of cases. We report a case of a three-month old girl with deteriorating neurological function due to a ruptured distal middle cerebral artery pseudoaneurysm.
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