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SUBMITTER: Feola A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9602305 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feola Alessandro A De Simone Mariavictoria M Ciamarra Paola P Sica Stefania S Buonomo Carmela C Carfora Anna A Campobasso Carlo Pietro CP
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 20221017 10
Chronic encapsulated intracerebral hematoma (CEIH) is a rare solid mass characterized by the presence of a fibrotic capsule that can present a variety of signs and symptoms due to the mass effect and hydrocephalus. It may be caused by post-traumatic or spontaneous bleeding as related to an adjacent aneurysm, angiomas or neoplasms. Differential diagnosis must be applied in order for it to mimic neoplasm or a vascular malformation. Several cases of CEIH have been reported but only a few of them ha ...[more]