Calcified Intracranial Tumour

Cardiac calcified amorphous tumour

Calcified amorphous tumour (CAT) is an unusual nonneoplastic cardiac mass that may mimic malignant tumour of the heart (1) or vegetation (2). We report a 43-year-old female with type 1 diabetes and end-stage diabetic kidney disease on haemodialysis, who underwent transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) in the setting of pyrexia and negative blood cultures. No valve-related vegetation was identi...

Intracranial calcified deposits in neurofibromatosis.

Three patients with the central type of neurofibromatosis, who on CT showed multiple subependymal calcified deposits, are presented. The literature on intracranial non-tumourous calcifications in neurofibromatosis is briefly reviewed. On the basis of our findings and the literature, it is proposed that such intracranial calcified deposits may be part of the neurofibromatosis syndrome and are ca...

Calcified pulmonary tumour with dyspnoea.

Rare Case of Intracranial Calcified Hydatid Cyst

Cerebral hydatid disease is a rare manifestation of echinococcosis, constituting significant fraction of all intracranial mass occupying lesions. We report a case of 12-year-old boy, a shepherd by occupation, who presented to us with headache, vomiting and giddiness. A calcified intracranial cystic mass was found on radiological investigations and it was surgically excised totally, with no post...

Calcified intracranial hydatid cyst: case report.

We present a 26-year-old patient who did farming related work had an asymptomatic intracranial hydatid cyst. A calcified intracranial cystic mass was found on radiological investigations and the patient underwent surgery. The mass was totally excised. The histopathology result reported a hydatid cyst. There were no postoperative complications. Calcification is quite rare in cerebral hydatid cys...