Abstract Brucellosis is one of the most important zoonosis. It causes significant economic and medical problems in countries throughout the world, including Iran. According to the available literature, brucellosis rarely causes intracranial space-occupying lesions. In this case study, we reported an intracranial mass in a 52-year-old male who were affected with brucellosis. The patient was ref...

background & importance: disc herniation is defined as the prolapsed of material disc into the spinal canal. if the disc fragment is free in spinal canal, it is called sequestration disc fragment. occasionally, alteration in sequestration disc fragment makes the diagnosis of the disc herniation, challenging. case presentation: we reviewed a rare case of the cervical sequestrated disc herniation...

BACKGROUND Large areas of restricted diffusion in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory are highly predictive of severe and potentially space-occupying MCA stroke. A reduction of diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) lesions occurs in 20% to 40% of acute stroke patients with early reperfusion. METHODS We report of a patient with a severe stroke syndrome who was treated with early moderate hypothe...

The patient was a 45-year-old man with a progressive headache. Evaluation in detail revealed it as a case of left lateral ventricular space occupying lesion (SOL) resembling choroid plexus papilloma. A left parietal craniotomy was done and the lesion was removed completely through intraparietal approach. Surgical removal resulted in complete symptomatic relief. Histopathology revealed that it w...

Pancreatic hamartoma is an extremely rare, non-neoplastic, mass-forming lesion that may be mistaken for malignancy, and the pre-operative diagnosis is particularly challenging. The published literature contains only 23 cases of pancreatic hamartoma. The majority of the cases reported patients with a single benign tumor-like disease that received a pancreatectomy. Immunohistochemical findings co...

Primary spinal melanoma is a very rare condition: to date < 60 cases have been reported in the literature. A 48-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of upper- and lower-extremity numbness. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a space-occupying lesion at the C2-C6 level. This was confirmed as a melanoma by immunohistochemistry. Cerebral MRI showed multiple lesions with the s...

An inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare benign lesion consisting of fibrous tissue and inflammatory cells. Although it can appear anywhere in the body, the most common site for this lesion is the lung.1 The hepatic counterpart was first described in 1953 by Pack and Baker.2 Since then only about 50 cases have been reported in the literature.3 The clinical and pathologic features have been well de...

Introduction Prior to the widespread advent of frameless stereotaxy, intracranial tumour surgery relied upon a 3-D conceptualisation of anatomy from pre-operative imaging. External anatomical landmarks such as the coronal suture and auricle helped guide the placement of a craniotomy. Bone flaps were often planned with a margin for error, particularly when locating non-lobar tumours. The choice ...