metrizamide and Cerebellar-Diseases

A case of postoperative haemorrhage into the basal ganglia following decompression of the craniovertebral junction in a 35-year-old patient is presented. Similar cases in the literature of intracerebral bleeding remote from the site of surgery are reviewed and the possible pathogenesis of this unusual complication discussed.

Topics: Adult; Basal Ganglia Diseases; Cerebellar Diseases; Cerebral Hemorrhage; Cervical Vertebrae; Humans; Male; Metrizamide; Myelography; Postoperative Complications; Prolapse; Skull; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Topics: Adult; Cerebellar Diseases; Cerebellopontine Angle; Epidermal Cyst; Female; Humans; Metrizamide; Myelography; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Topics: Arnold-Chiari Malformation; Atrophy; Brain Diseases; Brain Neoplasms; Cerebellar Diseases; Cerebellum; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Cranial Fossa, Posterior; Cysts; Female; Hematoma; Humans; Image Enhancement; Infant, Newborn; Infections; Metrizamide; Skull; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Vascular Diseases

Seventeen cases with (obstructive) lesions in the region of the tentorial hiatus were examined with an EMI CT 1010 brain scanner, of which 8 had additional intrathecal metrizamide. Findings were compared with information received from angiographic studies and conventional contrast examinations of the intracranial CSF spaces and with CT scans of patients presenting with herniation at the tentorial hiatus. CT, including enhancement and intrathecal metrizamide, did not yield optimal information about exact localisation or infiltrative growth of lesions. A combination with conventional procedures was needed in order to obtain essential information.

Topics: Brain Neoplasms; Cerebellar Diseases; Cerebral Angiography; Cerebral Aqueduct; Cerebral Ventriculography; Constriction, Pathologic; Humans; Metrizamide; Radionuclide Imaging; Tomography, X-Ray Computed