Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Anthony van Dyck; 3 ft. 8 9/64 in.x 3 ft. 1 1/64 in. (with added strips); oil on canvas

Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo

Anthony van Dyck; 3 ft. 3 1/4 in.x 2 ft. 5 1/64 in.; oil on canvas

The Martyrdom of Saint Peter, after Titian

Martino Rota; 1 ft. 3 25/32 in.x 10 45/64 in.; engraving

Saint Bernward of Hildesheim,

v.1. His life and times.--v.2. His works of art. Bibliography (p. 453-486).--v.3. Album.

Saint Michael the Archangel, half of a diptych

Ivory, Early Christian, 6C; 1 ft. 4 11/32 in.x 5 5/8 in.x 23/64 in.; carved ivory

Saint Anne with the Virgin and the Christ Child

Master of Frankfurt; 2 ft. 5 3/32 in.x 1 ft. 10 41/64 in.; oil on panel

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

4 27/32 in.x 2 11/64 in.x 1 1/32 in. (with base); gold, ronde-basse enamel, jewels

Head of a Crozier with Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon

1 ft. 51/64 in.x 4 59/64 in.x 2 3/4 in.; champlevé enamel, copper-gilt, glass paste

The Temptation of Saint Anthony Abbot

Joachim Patinir and Quentin Metsys; 5 ft. 1 1/32 in.x 5 ft. 8 7/64 in.; oil on panel

Saint John the Baptist

Follower of Mino da Fiesole; 1 ft. 7 31/64 in.x 1 ft. 3 3/4 in.x 7 1/4 in.; stucco, polychromed

Saint Eloy in His Goldsmiths' Workshop

Master of the Madonna of the Misericordia; 1 ft. 1 25/32 in.x 1 ft. 3 23/64 in.; gilt, tempera on panel

The Virgin with Saint James and Saint Dominic

Hans Memling; 4 ft. 3 3/16 in. x 5 ft. 2 63/64 in.; oil on oak

The Virgin with Saint James and Saint Dominic

Hans Memling; oil on oak

La philosophie de saint Bonadventure /

Printed in Belgium

Aspecto tumoral da cisticercose intracraniana: abordagem cirúrgica

The cerebral cysticercosis can produce intracranial hypertension by inflammatory obstruction of the basal cysterns or by expansive lesion in the cerebral parenchima or ventricular cavities. In the latter and in tumor cases the clinical picture is very similar and only after surgery can the etiology be determined. We present 11 operated cases of intracranial cysticercosis which presented the clinical picture of an expansive lesion. There were 7 females and 4 males with ages between 4 and 65 years. Nine patients were admitted because of headache, vomiting and visual disturbances suggestive of intracranial hypertension. One patient was admited with lymphocytic meningitis and another with focal seizures following hemiparesis. Five patients presented focal signs and six edema of the papilla. Epileptic manifestations were present in 45.5% of the cases. A plain X-ray films of the skull failed to reveal calcificatons, however signs of chronic hypertension were present in three cases. The electroencephalogram showed slow focal waves in 8 patients The spinal fluid examination revealed lymphocytosis in 4 cases, increased protein content in another 4 and complement fixation for cysticercosis was positive in 2 cases. The expansive lesions were localized by angiograph and ventriculography. In these the location was temporal in 4, frontal in 3, parietal in 2, in the third ventricle in one and in the fourth ventricle in another. At surgery we removed a large cyst from the cerebral parenchyma in six cases. Around the cyst a thick glial reaction was present. In the other cases the cyst was small but fixed to the ventricular trigone and produced dilatation of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle. In two cases we removed a solitary intraventricular cyst from the third and fourth ventricles. In the two children operated upon there were several small hard cysts involving the cerebral parenchyma which displayed intense gliosis. There were no postoperative complications.