Publications by authors named "Shoutarou Itou"

A 71-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Angiographies revealed neither aneurysms nor vascular anomalies. However, these images elucidated the occlusion of the left cervical internal carotid artery as well as developed leptomeningeal anastomoses through the ipsilateral posterior cerebral artery, which resulted in blood perfusing the ipsilateral middle and anterior cerebral artery territories.

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Background And Importance: The authors report a rare case of multiple intraosseous inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors presenting with an aggressive clinical course.

Clinical Presentation: A 60-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of headache and 2 weeks of jaw pain. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a homogeneously enhancing mass in the right parietal bone with subcutaneous and intracranial invasion.

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A 52-year-old man underwent resection of an oligodendroglioma in the left frontal lobe, followed by chemoradiation therapy in 1989. He presented with a de novo aneurysm arising from the feeding artery of a recurrent malignant glioma in 2009. Serial follow-up magnetic resonance imaging showed no tumor progression until 19 years after the initial diagnosis.

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Objective: We report a rare case of gamma knife radiation-induced cavernous hemangioma.

Clinical Presentation: A 35-year-old man underwent resection of a left vestibular schwannoma and gamma knife radiosurgery (maximal dose, 24 Gy; marginal dose, 12 Gy) for the residual schwannoma. Follow-up magnetic resonance images showed no tumor progression.

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A 55-year-old woman presented with multiple calvarial cavernous hemangiomas manifesting as right frontal swelling. Craniography and computed tomography showed an osteolytic lesion. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated multiple intraosseous lesions, and radioisotope bone scintigraphy identified even more numerous lesions.

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