[Report of a new case of Cobb syndrome. Meningo-spinal cutaneous angiomatosis].

The authors present a 47 years old female patient with cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis or Cobb's syndrome of thoracic location. This entity, included in the primarily mesodermic phacomatose, is extremely rare, and only 17 cases have been sufficiently documented in the literature on the subject. The rare association with vertebral haemangioma of the same metameric level was present in this patient.

[Jugular chemodectoma with Garcin syndrome].

The authors present an exceptional case of chemodectoma jugulare with important invasion of the skull base involving all the cranial nerves on one side and conforming Garcin's syndrome. Practically all the possible ways of spreading were followed by the tumor, with involvement of the posterior, middle and anterior fossas of the skull base and also orbit, middle ear and neck. The clinical and histopathological difficulties in the diagnosis, especially when the chemodectoma has only neurological signs, are stressed.

[Tumors of the sellar region and the cavernous sinus. Evaluation of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic orientation].

Two cases of infrequently seen tumors of the cavernous sinus and the clivus regions are presented. One of them was a chordoma and the other, a myeloma, and both were approached by the transphenoidal route. The clinical picture and the diagnostic procedures are reviewed, and the several surgical approaches to these regions are discussed.

[Actinomycotic cerebral abscess. Apropos of a case].

A case of an actinomycotic brain abscess in an adult patient apparently free of systemic infection is presented. The rarity of this etiology of brain abscess is underlined. The patient was treated by complete surgical excision and prolonged antibiotic therapy with penicillin.