An exceptional case of intracranial plasma cell granuloma, located in the right frontoparietal convexity in a 16-year-old boy is reported. Reports of these rare inflammatory lesions locate them primarily in the lungs and in other regions of the body, and only exceptionally in the nervous system; indeed, only three intracranial cases and one other arising from the spinal meninges have been repor...

MR imaging revealed a small posterior fossa occupied by the occipital lobes and a profoundly small cerebellum (Fig 1). The tentorial incisura was heart-shaped. Sagittal sections demonstrated hypoplastic cord-like cerebellar tonsils herniating through the foramen magnum into the upper cervical canal and an elongated poorly-formed fourth ventricle (Fig. 2). Other findings were a smallsized pons w...

Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is an infrequent multisystem disease. At least two major criteria or one major and two minor criteria must be present to make the diagnosis. However, the most important criteria are the presence of basal cell carcinomas, odontogenic keratocysts, palmar and/or plantar pits, and ectopic calcification of falx cerebri. It is necessary to identify the syndrome early due to its ...

Abstract Intracranial chondromas are benign, slow-growing, cartilaginous tumors, which comprise only about 0.2% of all intracranial tumors. The majority of these lesions occur at the base of the skull, where they are thought to arise from residual embryonic chondrogenic cells along the basal synchondrosis. Very rarely, they may also originate from the convexity dura, falx cerebri, or the brain ...

Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is an autosomal dominant and a rare hereditary disease. Diagnosis of this syndrome is based on major and minor criteria. We report a Gorlin-Goltz syndrome in a 25-year-old male who was presented with progressive pain of maxilla and mandible over 5 years. The pain was diffuse and compatible with expansile cyst in alveolar ridges on panoramic radiography. In physical examina...

A 75-year-old woman presented with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with positive results for anti-myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPO-ANCA). Corticosteroid therapy was successfully introduced. However, 7 months later, magnetic resonance imaging revealed marked swelling in the falx cerebri and high density regions were apparent on gallium scintigraphy, leading to dia...

Extra medullary plasmacytomas occurring as solitary (primary) tumours or secondary manifestations of multiple myeloma most often involve the upper airways and paranasal sinuses. The skull is one of the rarest sites of extra medullary plasmacytoma. Myelomatous deposits in dural reflections distant from the bony skull, i.e. tentorium and falx, are rarer, and probably result from dissection along ...

To evaluate the prevalence of anterior cerebral artery infarcts in the context of transfalcial herniation, 1100 cerebral CT scans were reviewed. Three patients had acute intracranial hemorrhages resulting in transfalcial herniation and subsequent focal ipsilateral paracentral lobule or superior frontal gyrus infarcts. The infarcts are presumed to have resulted from compression and compromise of...