Incidental pituitary macroadenoma: a population-based study.

Epidemiologic analysis of incidental macroadenoma is limited to autopsy studies and case series. There are no published data about prevalence of incidental pituitary macroadenoma in living patients. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of incidental pituitary macroadenoma.

Intracranial Wegener's granulomatosis.

We describe an atypical neurologic presentation of Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) with striking meningeal and cerebral involvement, responding to immunosuppressive therapy. WG may cause treatable intracranial complications in the absence of nasal or renal disease and without cerebral angiographic abnormalities, CSF pleocytosis, or a positive assay for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies.

Use of the delayed mask for improved demonstration of aneurysms on intraarterial DSA.

Purpose: We retrospectively explored the use of the delayed mask technique for intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (IADSA) to demonstrate the anatomy of aneurysm necks.

Methods: The delayed mask technique was utilized in 22 patients who had craniotomies for aneurysms demonstrated at angiography. The operative notes were compared to the angiographic findings of both the traditionally masked IADSA and the delayed mask IADSA.

Postinfarction seizures. A clinical study.

We retrospectively studied 90 patients with postinfarction seizures to determine the clinical features (onset, number, type), prognosis, and electroencephalographic and computed tomographic findings; we included infarctions of all etiologies. Thirty-three percent of the 90 seizures appeared early (within 2 weeks after the infarction), and 90% of the 30 early seizures appeared within 24 hours after the infarction. Seventy-three percent of the 90 seizures occurred within the first year, and only 2% occurred greater than 2 years after the infarction.