Renal Embolism Associated with the Atrial Myxoma: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Renal embolisms due to cardiac myxomas are extremely rare; the clinical course, treatment, and prognosis of this disease are not established. A 69-year-old Japanese woman who underwent a nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma 3 years earlier was hospitalized with a right occipital lobe cerebral infarction. Her renal function suddenly worsened 3 days post-admission: her serum creatinine rose from 1.

A case of unruptured aneurysm of the internal carotid artery presenting as olfactory hallucinations.

Background: Olfactory hallucination, a symptom of medial temporal lobe epilepsy, is rarely associated with unruptured intracranial aneurysms.

Case Description: We encountered this situation in a 70-year-old woman with an unruptured aneurysm at the bifurcation of the internal carotid and posterior communicating artery. We were able to achieve epileptic control by craniotomy clipping and medial temporal lesionectomy.

Usefulness of embolization of the middle meningeal artery for refractory chronic subdural hematomas.

Background: Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is generally treated by burr hole irrigation. However, sometimes repeated recurrence is observed, and treatment may consequently become difficult. We examined the efficacy of embolization of the middle meningeal artery (MMA) for such cases.

Case of radiologically multicentric but genetically identical multiple glioblastomas.

Surgery was performed in a 65-year-old male patient with malignant gliomas at two locations in the left and right cerebral hemispheres that showed no apparent continuity in imaging studies. Slight differences in histopathological appearance were seen between the tumors, and multicentric malignant glioma was diagnosed. Detailed genetic examination showed both the left- and right-side tumors to be of the IDH-1 wild type with a p53 mutation at the same locus.