High-grade meningiomas are rare extra-axial tumors, frequently causing brain invasion and prominent brain edema. Patients harboring high-grade meningiomas occasionally present with behavior changes. Data about frequency and prognostic importance of preoperative behavior changes in patients with high-grade meningiomas is missing. 86 patients with primary high-grade meningiomas were analyzed. Sta...

Background & Objective: Gliomas are the most common type of primary intracranial tumors in adults. The expression of estrogen receptors varies in different grades of glial tumors, and some studies have suggested that this expression might have a prognostic value. It seems that estrogen receptor expression negatively correlates with the histological grade of gliomas. In the pres...

introduction: 99mtc-mibi has been proposed for use as an imaging agent for various tumors, including breast cancer, lung cancer, lymphomas, melanomas and brain neoplastic lesions. brain tumors are very common and radiotherapy being major part of treatment following surgery. after radiotherapy, deteriorating clinical status can be due to either radiation necrosis or recurrent tumor. computed tom...

nowadays brain tumors remain as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and are often treatment refractory. the grading of brain tumor has an important implication in clinical management. currently, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) is an important modality in evaluating and grading brain tumors. the aim of this study is  evaluation of metabolites in the differentiation of brain tumo...

background: rahbdoid tumor of kidney (rtk) is a childhood rare neoplasm, previously thought as a sarcoma variant of wilms’ tumor, but now is recognized as a distinct pathologic entity. method : we report a pathologically proved case of rtk, associated with brain mass in a 4.5-month-old girl that has referred for gross hematuria. shortly after initiating chemotherapy, because of retractile vomit...

background:: hypercoagulability has been reported in primary brain tumors which can lead to thrombotic complications.hydroxyethyl starch (hetastarch) is a synthetic colloid solution with adverse effects on blood coagulation. the aim of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of hetastarch in reducing thromboembolic events in these patients. materials and methods: in a double-blinded cl...

background & importance: insular lobe is located at the depth of sylvian fissure and is hidden by frontal, temporal and parietal lobes in close vicinity of internal capsule and basal ganglia and adjacent to the speech centers in the dominant hemisphere. thus, radical resection of insular gliomas can be even more difficult. brain mapping techniques can be used to maximize the extent of tumor rem...

Background & Importance: Insular lobe is located at the depth of sylvian fissure and is hidden by frontal, temporal and parietal lobes in close vicinity of internal capsule and basal ganglia and adjacent to the speech centers in the dominant hemisphere. Thus, radical resection of insular gliomas can be even more difficult. Brain mapping techniques can be used to maximize the extent of...

PURPOSE We evaluated the rim patterns of intracranial meningiomas on nonenhanced (NE) and contrast-enhanced (CE) 3-dimensional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3D FLAIR) imaging on 3-tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to clarify the associated imaging and pathological findings and the value of the rims in predicting tumor cleavability. METHODS Thirty-two patients with meningioma underw...

ependymomas are glial tumors originate from ependymal cells lining the ventricles and the central canal of the spinal cord. two thirds of ependymomas arise in the infratentorial or intraventriclesandone-third aredetected in supratentorial area. however supratentorial “cortical” ependymomas are veryuncommon. ependymomas are usually infratentorial, intraventricular tumor, including 2–9% of all ce...