5 results match your criteria: "Mohamed Vth University School of Medicine[Affiliation]"

Intracranial meningioma in children: different from adult forms? A series of 21 cases.

Neurochirurgie

August 2010

Department of Neurosurgery, hôpital des Spécialités, Mohamed Vth University School of Medicine, Rabat Institute, BP 6444, 10100 Rabat, Morocco.

Objective: Intracranial meningiomas are very rare in children, comprising only 0.4 to 4.1% of pediatric tumors and only 1.

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Objective: Spinal hydatid cyst is a serious form of hydatid disease affecting fewer than 1% of all patients with hydatid disease. We report 3 healthy patients who presented with progressive paraparesis attributed to a histologically proven intradural hydatid cyst.

Methods: There were 2 children (1 boy, 1 girl) and 1 adult with a mean age of 12 years.

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Sphenoid sinus aspergillosis simulating pituitary tumor in immunocompetent patient.

J Clin Neurosci

June 2009

Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital des Spécialités, Mohamed Vth University School of Medicine, BP 6444, Rabat-Instituts, Rabat 10100, Morocco.

Aspergillosis of the sphenoid sinus is rare in immunocompetent patients. It may be mistaken for a sellar region tumor. A 65-year-old, human immunodeficiency virus-negative man presented with a 3-week history of cranial nerve III paresis and visual deterioration.

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Cavernous sinus involvement of tuberculosis is rare; only seven cases have been reported in the literature to date. Many factors make the diagnosis difficult in this location, necessitating a surgical procedure. We report the case of a 45-year-old man who presented with a left cavernous sinus syndrome clinically.

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Background: Inflammatory pseudotumors usually affect the lung and the orbit. They occur extremely rarely in the spine. We encountered a case of intradural extramedullary IPT of the cervical spine in a pregnant woman that initially presented as an epidural hematoma in MRI.

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