A 45-year-old woman presented with a headache and visual complaints. Brain MRI revealed a large mass in the right occipital cortex. The tumor was surgically removed and pathological examination showed papillary carcinoma originating from thyroid gland. She had a history of thyroid surgery 27 years ago indicating papillary thyroid cancer with central neck lymph node involvement followed by no ad...

Introduction: Colloid cyst of the third ventricle is a rare intracranial benign tumor. Traditionally, treatment is carried out by transcallosal or transcortical transventricular approach. Currently, the endoscopic treatment of these lesions is increasingly used. We reported our preliminary experience about three cases of colloid cysts treated by neuroendoscopy. Methods and Patients: We condu...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hydatidosis in Lorestan province during a 10 year period (2005-2014). We surveyed medical records of infected patients with hydatid cyst who had been operated in referral hospitals of Lorestan province, Iran. Several parameters were analyzed including age, gender, place of residency, hospitalization time, and the location of cysts. Cystic...

background: echinococcosis or hydatid cyst (hc) is considered as one of the major parasitic infections in iran that causes many health problems and economic losses in communities. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hc in patients referred to surgery wards of three hospitals in khorram-abad, the center of lorestan province in south-west of iran from 2002 - 2006. methods: to...

OBJECTIVE To describe an atypical clinical and radiological presentation of a brainstem epidermoid cyst in a child and to provide a review of the medical literature on brainstem epidermoid cysts in children. MATERIAL AND METHOD Review of medical records and operative notes of an unusual case of a patient with a brainstem epidermoid cyst. MEDLINE literature search using the terms brainstem, ep...

Abstract BACKGROUND Differentiating neoplastic and non-neoplastic brain lesions is essential to make management recommendations convey prognosis, but the distinction between tumors their mimics in practice may prove challenging. The aim of this study provide incidence tumor neuro-oncology setting describe patient subset. METHODS Retrospective adult patients referred Division Neuro-oncology for ...

BACKGROUND Oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome (OCCS) is characterised by orbital cysts and anophthalmia or microphthalmia, focal aplastic or hypoplastic skin defects, skin appendages, and brain malformations. The eye and skin abnormalities are well described but the neuropathological features less so. To date, 28 patients with an unequivocal diagnosis of OCCS have been reported, with a preponderanc...

Perivascular spaces (PVSs) of the brain, also known as Virchow-Robin spaces are pial-lined interstitial fluidfilled structures that surround the small vessels as they extend into the brain parenchyma. PVSs, which are smaller than 2 mm can be seen in all age groups.1,2 Occasionally, PVSs may become large, cause mass effect and be misdiagnosed as a cystic neoplasm. These giant spaces are most com...