Cavernous haemangioma of the frontal bone

A 28-year-old female presented with a progressive right frontal mass. CT scan and plain films showed an osteolytic lesion in the right frontal bone. Surgery consisted of total resection of the lesion and cranioplasty. The postoperative source was uneventful. Histological examination revealed a cavernous haemangioma of the diploe. In view of this observation and the literature review, aetiology, clinical, radiological and therapeutic aspect of this rare entity are discussed

Cerebral infection by candida albicans

We present a case of cerebral infection by candida albicans in a previously healthy 64-year-old man who had symptoms indicative of raised intracranial pressure without fever. Computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple cerebral granulomas. Diagnosis was made after stereotactic biopsy. The patient's symptoms improved progressively with decrease in the size of lesions after antifungal therapy. No lesions were detected outside the central nervous system. However, he died 3 weeks later from pulmonary embolism. Candida albicans of the central nervous system is uncommon and occurs rarely in immunocompetent patients. As the neurologic sings and symptoms are vague, most cases of cerebral candidiasis are diagnosed just before death or during postmortem study. We have reviewed the main clinico-pathologic features of neurocandidiasis

Transient mutism following removal of cerebellar tumor in a child

to report a case of cerebellar mutism after surgery for posterior fossa tumour n a child. Mutism after posterior fossa surgery is a well described, although rare entity. Most of these tumours are located in the cerebellar vermis and/or extending to the hemispheres. The authors report a case of cerebellar mutism in a 9-year-old Moroccan boy who underwent surgical removal of a vermian medulloblastoma. The child became mute 24 hours postoperatively. He was fully alert without pyramidal signs and without lower cranial nerve palsies. His psychiatric examination was normal. The postoperative computed tomography images revealed nothing remarkable. He was mute for three weeks. Cerebellar mutism should be recognized as an important side effect of surgery