Idiopatthic intracranial hypertension [IIH] a clinical study of diagnosis, therapeutic, and prognostic factors

In this study, forty-two patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension were diagnosed and managed medically and surgically with emphasizing on the predisposing factors, the presenting symptoms, the clinical signs and the diagnostic procedures [ophthalmological and radiological]. Medical treatment was tried in thirty cases with improvement in twenty cases, no improvement in four cases and deterioration occurred in six cases. Surgery by lumboperitoneal shunting procedure was done in twelve cases with improvement in seven cases, no improvement in three cases and deterioration occurred in two cases

Posterior fossa dermoid cysts: clinical and radiological diagnosis and surgical treatment

Ten cases has posterior fossa dermoid cysts were clinically diagnosed during the period from Jan. 1986 to Jan. 1995 in Al-Azhar neurosurgery Department. Brain CT scan was the main radiological diagnostic tool used in the diagnosis of these cases. MRI brain scan was done for one case only. All the patients were submitted to surgical treatment via a suboccipital posterior fossa craniectomy. The histopathological study has confirmed the diagnosis. The clinical and radiological findings were analysed, the results and the follow up were recorded