Nasal gliomas are rare benign congenital midline tumors composed of heterotopic neuroglial tissue. They have potential for intracranial extension through a bony defect in the skull base. Neuroimaging is essential for identifying nasal lesions and for determining their exact location and any possible intracranial extension. Computed tomography is often the initial imaging study obtained because ...

Address for Correspondence: Sunil Mathew, MBBS, Post-graduate student in Anatomy, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore – 560034. Mob: +91-7899513297 E-Mail: [email protected] Extradural meningioma occurs as extracranial extension of intracranial tumor. In this series we present two uncommon cases of extracranial meningioma extending into the infratemporal fossa (ITF). One patient present...

IN a case of orbital optic nerve glioma without intracranial extension, Davis (1940) removed the tumour through a skin incision at the lower orbital margin, cutting the optic nerve near the apex of the orbit and behind the globe and thus retaining the eye. Verhoeff (1922) found that, even when the tumour was partially removed by the orbital route leaving some intracranial portion, no orbital re...