ABSTRACT
Chronic subdural hematoma of the posterior fossa is an uncommon entity, and spontaneous lesions are very rarely described, occurring mostly during anticoagulation therapy. The association of the posterior fossa chronic subdural hematoma with spontaneous parenchymal hemorrhage without anticoagulation therapy was never related in the literature, to our knowledge. We describe a case of a 64 year-old woman who suffered a spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage, treated conservatively, and presented 1 month later with a chronic subdural posterior fossa hematoma.
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Cerebellar Diseases/complications , Cerebral Hemorrhage/complications , Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic/etiology , Cranial Fossa, Posterior , Craniotomy , Female , Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic/diagnosis , Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic/surgery , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Hemangioblastomas of the spinal cord are rare lesions, and those located at the cauda equina are even rarer. Most commonly these tumors are present in patients with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome. We describe here the case of a 48 years old woman with a pure radicular hemangioblastoma, not associated with VHL, presenting with radicular pain, diagnosed with magnetic ressonance imaging (MRI) and submitted to total resection with a very good outcome. To our knownledge, this is the second report to describe the MRI aspect of histologically proved hemangioblastoma of the cauda equina in a patient without clinical criteria for VHL.
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Cauda Equina , Hemangioblastoma/diagnosis , Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms/diagnosis , Adult , Female , Hemangioblastoma/surgery , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
Extradural hematoma (EDH) is a frequent lesion, with an incidence varying from 0.2 to 6% in patients admitted to hospital due to traumatic head injury. The higher incidence is found in patients with more severe injuries. The association of EDH with subperiosteal intraorbital hematomas is rarely reported, and we were not able to find in the literature any report of traumatic bilateral intraorbital hematomas and EDH. We report this case of a 32 year-old man with bilateral intraorbital (subperiosteal) hematoma associated with unilateral EDH. The lesions were treated surgically, but unfortunately with an unfavorable outcome.
