Effect of transsphenoidal surgery on decreased visual acuity caused by pituitary apoplexy.

We treated 12 patients with pituitary apoplexy out of 103 patients with pituitary tumors from August 1994 to March 2008 in the Nishi-Kobe Medical Center. The male to female ratio was 1:2 and the average age was 43 years old, ranging from 19 to 73. The symptoms on presentation were a decrease of visual acuity in nine, headache in seven, endocrinological disturbance in six, visual field defect in seven, a febrile state in six, vomiting in four, oculomotor disturbance in two, abducens palsy in one, and transient altered consciousness in one.

Cranial fasciitis presenting with intracranial mass: a case report.

We describe a very rare case of cranial fasciitis presenting with intracranial mass in a 3-year-old girl. There was no palpable scalp mass. CT scan and MRI demonstrated an epidural mass adherent to the dura with destruction of the inner table of the skull.

Germinoma of the basal ganglia. An 8-year asymptomatic history after detection of abnormality on CT.

We describe a case of germinoma of the left basal ganglia. An 11-year-old boy, who demonstrated calcification of the left basal ganglia on CT scan following a head injury at the age of 3 years, presented with a weakness of the right upper extremity for 2 months. MRI demonstrated high intensity in the left basal ganglia on a T1-weighted image without enhancement as well as high intensity on a T2-weighted image.

Fully automated quantification of regional cerebral blood flow with three-dimensional stereotaxic region of interest template: validation using magnetic resonance imaging--technical note.

The previously reported three-dimensional stereotaxic region of interest (ROI) template (3DSRT-t) for the analysis of anatomically standardized technetium-99m-L,L-ethyl cysteinate dimer (99mTc-ECD) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images was modified for use in a fully automated regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) quantification software, 3DSRT, incorporating an anatomical standardization engine transplanted from statistical parametric mapping 99 and ROIs for quantification based on 3DSRT-t. Three-dimensional T2-weighted magnetic resonance images of 10 patients with localized infarcted areas were compared with the ROI contour of 3DSRT, and the positions of the central sulcus in the primary sensorimotor area were also estimated. All positions of the 20 lesions were in strict accordance with the ROI delineation of 3DSRT.