1682-606X/$ see front matter Copyr http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fjs.2013. Summary Spinal subdural hematoma (SSDH) is a rare but potentially devastating complication of cranial surgery. This study presents two cases of SSDH after posterior fossa surgery. The first case was a 44-year-old man who harbored a fourth ventricle metastatic adenocarcinoma, and the second case was a 4-year-old boy with a ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Posterior fossa tumors are the most common brain tumors in children. Surgeons usually remove these tumors via a midline incision through the posterior vermis of the cerebellum. Though often effective, this surgery causes hypotonia, ataxia, oculomotor deficits, transient mutism, difficulty in swallowing and nausea. To date, there is no animal model that mimics these complications...

Introduction: Surgery for cerebellar hemangioblastoma can be challenging because of the tumor's location in posterior fossa and its inherent nature hypervascularity. Solid HGB show characteristics arteriovenous malformation, internal decompression, or piecemeal resection, harbor risk potentially devastating intraoperative bleeding swelling. Indocyanine green (ICG) is widely used visualizing flo...

BACKGROUND Cystic masses in the posterior fossa are ominous appearing lesions with broad differential diagnosis. Giant tumefactive perivascular spaces (GTPS) are rarely occurring pathological findings in the posterior fossa with unclear etiology and ill-defined long-term prognosis. CASE DESCRIPTION We present a case of a 15-year-old male diagnosed with posterior fossa GTPS. The patient remain...

A 29-year-old woman with acute lancinating headache, throbbed nuchal pain and subacute paraparesis underwent brain MRI in supine position that depicted: the absence of the cisterna magna, filled by non herniated cerebellar tonsils and compression of the brain stem and cisternae of the posterior fossa, which are aspects of the impacted cisterna magna without syringomyelia and without hydrocephal...