[Transient ischemic attacks with intracranial tumors (author's transl)].

Transient ischemic attacks are not only the consequence of cerebral atherosclerosis. A woman of 48 years had transient ischemic attacks because of a meningeom narrowing the internal carotid artery. A steal syndrome in tumor vessels of a glioblastoma must be presumed in a man of 67 showing initial hemisyndrome with first transient, later on remaining palsy.