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We report a 31-year-old man with multiple large, non-enhancing intracerebral lesions exerting significant mass effect. Following debulking, histopathological analysis revealed abundant amorphous non-amyloid eosinophilic material, while liquid chromatography mass spectrometry revealed κ light chains and immunoglobulin A heavy chains, leading to the diagnosis of multiple intracerebral light-and-heavy chain aggregomas. Localized intracranial deposits of non-amyloid immunoglobulin may rarely mimic space-occupying intracranial neoplasms and should be considered in the differential diagnosis., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

We report a 50-year-old woman with a chondromyxoid fibroma of the occipital bone, who presented with a cerebellar hemorrhage due to invasion of the adjacent sinus. Chondromyxoid fibromas are benign cartilaginous tumors. However, this case represents the first example, to our knowledge, of a chondromyxoid fibroma invading the transverse-sigmoid junction, resulting in intracranial hemorrhage. Our report highlights that the location of an intracranial chondromyxoid fibroma is an important factor in guiding surgical management., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)