meningiomas are rare tumors of posterior fossa. delayed intracranial hemorrhage is a rare complication of surgeries in this territory. herein, we report a case of status epilepticus as a result of delayed motor cortex hemorrhage, complicating resection of a meningioma arising from foramen magnum.

Introduction: Meningioma is the most frequent primary tumor in central nervous system (CNS), representing 33.8% of all intracranial tumors. Breast cancer (BC) among women, 25.2% malignancies females.

neurofibromatosis type 2 is an inherited disease. the main manifestation of the disease is the development of symmetric, non-malignant brain tumors in the region of the cranial nerve viii usually as schwannoma. we report here a 20-year-old woman with primary intracranial malignant nerve sheath tumor located in the left cerebellopontine angle. histologically, the tumor showed malignant spindle c...

Intracranial germ cell tumors are a heterogeneous group of lesions which occur in children and adults. Within the classification of intracranial germ cell tumors, there are a variety of different tumor types which carry different prognoses. The diagnosis of an intracranial germ cell tumor usually requires histological information, but a subgroup of tumors will secrete specific tumor markers, in...

Jugular foramen schwannomas are a rare event with an estimated 200 cases reported in the literature. These tumors represent only 2.9% to 4% of all intracranial and less than 1% temporal bone lesions [1,2].