Metastasis to the skull-base particularly affects patients with carcinoma of the breast and
prostate. Clinically, the key feature is progressive ipsilateral involvement of cranial nerves. Five …

Objective: To determine the presentation, incidence, and severity of seizures in follow-up of
patients treated for primary brain tumors. Methods: A total of 234 consecutive patients …

Dural metastases are found at autopsy in 8–9% of patients with advanced systemic cancer.
They arise either by direct extension from skull metastases or by hematogeneous spread. …

RESULTS In the total set of 93 tumor samples, tumor-to-cortex ratios calculated on MET-PET
and FDG-PET were highly positively correlated (Fig. 1, Spearman rho= 0.77, p< 0.0001). …

OBJECTIVE: The natural history of the supratentorial low-grade glioma (LGG) of the adult is
variable, and its malignant transformation is hardly predictable. Because positron emission …

✓ The aim of the present study was to determine whether routine integration of positron
emission tomography (PET) with 18 F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in the planning of …

BACKGROUND Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18 F‐2‐fluoro‐2‐deoxy‐D‐glucose
(FDG) is widely applied to the study of gliomas. The histology of most gliomas is regionally …

Brain metastases are the most frequent neurological complication of cancer and the most
common brain tumour type. Lung and breast cancers, and melanoma are responsible for up to …

We report a 25-year old immunocompetent woman with a high grade primary non-Hodgkin‘s
lymphoma of the central nervous system (PNHL-CNS) in whom the administration of …

Chronic meningitis is characterized by a progressive, subacute onset of lepomeningeal
disease and persisting cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormalities such as elevated protein level …