THE frequent discovery of tears of the dura mater septa associated with subdural cerebral haemorrhage, in foetuses dying during the course of labour, was one of the most striking features of this investigation. Out of 168 fresh foetuses the tentorium cerebelliwas found torn in8i (48 per cent.), associated with tearing of the falx cerebri in five cases and with subdural cerebral haemorrhage in a...

Gorlin-Goltz syndrome, also known as basal cell nevus syndrome, is an uncommon autosomal dominant hereditary disorder; which is characterized by numerous basal cell carcinomas, maxillary keratocysts and bones malformations. It results from a mutation of the PATCHED gene. The estimate incidence for a general population is 1/50000 to 1/150000. We present a 30 year-old woman, with no similar famil...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of intracranial anaplastic hemangiopericytoma (AHPC) were analyzed. The pathological examination showed that there was a great number of irregularly arranged tumor cells with nuclear atypia, and mitotic properties were commonly seen providing support for clinical staging, therapy and prognosis judgment. Eighteen cases of intracranial AHPC proved by oper...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Postmortem imaging with CT or MR is emerging as an effective technique to augment forensic autopsy. Expected findings on postmortem imaging of the brain may mimic pathologic processes in the living brain, leading to potential misdiagnosis. The purpose of this study is to describe the array of CT findings that can be expected to be present within the brain after death. M...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is a relatively benign inherited neurological disorder (Bell, 1935). Clearly affected subjects have slowly progressive weakness and atrophy of certain distal muscle groups; within an affected family others who carry the gene may show only minor or insignificant clinical abnormalities, such as pes cavus, slight weakness of foot dorsi-flexion, or absence of the Achille...

Non-pathological intracranial calcification is common in the pineal, choroid plexus and in the falx cerebri and is readily recognizable by their positions. Large calcifications can occur in a pinealoma, in the choroid plexus in tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis and at the falx with a meningioma. Healed granulomas, especially tuberculosis and parasites, can produce small single or scatter...