Intraventricular Meningiomas: A Series of 42 Patients at a Single Institution and Literature Review.

Background: Primary intraventricular meningiomas (IVMs) make up 0.5%-5% of all intracranial meningiomas and represent one of the most challenging lesions in neurosurgery.

Methods: Between 1990 and 2013, 42 patients (30 female, 12 male; mean age, 43.

Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis can be presenting manifestation of breast carcinoma.

Introduction: Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LC) is a serious complication occuring in solid cancer patients with rather poor prognosis.

Case Report: We presented a 47-year-old woman with the 6-month history of diffuse headache, nausea and visual obscuration. Initially, clinical status and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicated syndrome of idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Pediatric glioblastoma: a single institution experience.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate characteristics of childhood glioblastoma multiforme, effectiveness of treatment modalities, and detect factors related to outcome.

Methods: A detailed analysis was performed on a series of 15 patients treated between 2000 and 2013, based on their clinical, radiologic, pathologic, treatment, and follow-up data.

Results: Median survival time of children with glioblastoma was 13.

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the oculomotor nerve.

We present the short-term follow-up magnetic resonance (MR) studies and 1H-MR spectroscopy in a child with malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the oculomotor nerve associated with other less aggressive cranial nerve schwannomas. The tumor revealed perineural extension and diffuse nerve involvement besides rapid growth. 1H-MR spectroscopy was helpful in excluding an intra-axial neoplasm with exophytic growth, mainly due to the absence of creatine and N-acetyl aspartate peaks, and markedly elevated choline peak.