Temporal muscle haematoma as a cause of suboptimal haemicraniectomy: case report.

Objective: To call attention to an unusual complication of decompressive haemicraniectomy in the treatment of malignant haemispheric infarction.

Method: We describe a case in which partial decompression occurred despite large craniectomy. Complete decompression followed resection of the temporal muscle.

Lumbosacral angiolipoma: case report.

We present a case of a 46-year old woman with a ventral epidural angiolipoma at the lumbosacral level with erosion of the sacrum. About ninety cases of spinal angiolipomas have been previously described in the literature, most of them situated on the thoracic region, dorsal to the dural sac. Angiolipomas can be radically excised with a good prognosis even in the presence of bone erosion.

Clinical presentation and survival of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients of a university general hospital in a developing country.

From January 1995 to August 1997 we evaluated prospectively the clinical presentation, laboratory findings and short-term survival of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients who sought care at our hospital. After providing informed, written consent, the patients were interviewed and laboratory tests were performed. Information about survivorship and death was collected through September 1998.