BACKGROUND Pseudotumor cerebri or idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a known complication of morbid obesity that often requires neurosurgical intervention for worsening symptoms. Placement of a lumboperitoneal shunt (LPS) is one of the treatment options, but in a morbidly obese patient it can be technically challenging. We describe the use of 3-mm instrumentation for assistance in placing ...

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver is a focal mass consisting proliferation of plasma cells and other inflammatory cells. This rare disease should be . included in differential diagnosis in patients with hepatic mass in imaging studies, which to avoid surgery. Case Report. A 49 years old woman admitted in Shohada Hospital with epigastric pain the imaging studies was done (U.S.-C. T). Two S...

INTRODUCTION Inflammatory pseudotumor of spleen is an extremely rare benign condition of uncertain etiology that presents with nonspecific symptoms or as an incidental finding in patients studied by other processes. Since the first description in 1984 by Cotelingam and Jaffe, only 114 cases have been reported. PRESENTATION OF CASE We present a case of a fifty-six years old woman with a spleni...

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiological profile for pediatric pseudotumor cerebri. METHODS A retrospective case series was identified from a geographically limited region of 205,765 children aged 2-15 years at the only tertiary care pediatric hospital with all pediatric neurologists and ophthalmologists. Health records identified 35 children with ICD9 code 348.2 (benign intracranial hypert...

Background: Pulmonary lesions called “inflammatory pseudotumors” were known for many years and were regarded as part of a spectrum of lesions called “plasma cell granulomas” (1-5) Various terms were applied: inflammatory pseudotumor, plasma cell granuloma, plasma cell pseudotumor, xanthomatous pseudotumor, pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic proliferation, and inflammatory myofibrohistiocytic pro...

Eleven obese young women with idiopathic pseudotumor cerebri were studied with high-field-strength (1.5 T) MR imaging to demonstrate increased water content in the brains of such patients. Heavily T2-weighted studies were obtained for 10 patients, and balanced (long TRs, short TEs, spin density, proton density) pulse sequences were obtained for four patients. We examined the studies of morpholo...