Background:A 61-year-old woman complained of rapidly progressing loss of vision in the right eye. Twenty months earlier, a temporal brain tumor had been partially resected, that appeared to be a malignantly degenerated fibroblastic meningioma, for which she had received postoperative radiation therapy. Ophtalmologic evaluation revealed no retinal abnormalities and no edema of the optic disc.
Background:A 40-year-old Asian man, living in The Netherlands for the last three years, presented with complaints of continuous abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea, which he had since a couple of days. On physical examination, his abdomen was swollen but soft and nontender.
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