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Hypocalcemic seizure in adult: Rare cause of lumbar fracture
27 January 2012
Abad Cherif El Asri, Ali Akhaddar, Hassan Baallal, Brahim El Mostarchid, Omar Boulahroud, Hatim Belfquih, Ibrahim Dao, Okacha Naama, Miloudi Gazzaz, Mohamed Boucetta
Bone fractures in epileptic patients may be associated with trauma either induced directly by a seizure or resulting from a fall or other accident resulting from the seizure . Muscular contractions ge...
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Progressive optic neuropathy caused by contact with the carotid artery: Improvement after microvascular decompression
27 January 2012
Russell G. Strom, Mohammad Fouladvand, Bidyut K. Pramanik, Werner K. Doyle, Paul P. Huang
Ectatic cerebral arteries may displace cranial nerves leading to their dysfunction. This is the mechanism felt to underlie most cases of trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, and glossopharyngeal ne...
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Conservative treatment of a ruptured inflammatory infectious aneurysm caused by neurocysticercosis
27 January 2012
Juan Manuel Marquez-Romero, Juan Manuel Santana-López, Dulce Anabel Espinoza-López, Fernando Zermeño
Intracranial infectious aneurysms (IIA) have been histologically proven to result from neurocysticercosis vasculitis . The subarachnoid inflammatory exudate of the cysts produces endarteritis, which m...
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Pineal germinoma with granulomatous reaction, often a pitfall in endoscopic biopsy. Report of two cases and review of the literature
27 January 2012
K. Schmalisch, G. Pantazis, F.H. Ebner, A. Bornemann, J. Honegger, M. Tatagiba
Tumours of the pineal region are rare and account for 0.5–2% of all intracranial lesions. There is a higher incidence in male than in female and they are 10 times more common in children than in adult...
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Overview of neurophysiology of movement control
27 January 2012
J.C. Rothwell
Abstract: The motoneuronal outputs from cortex and spinal cord have quite different patterns of organisation. The cortex consists of a highly intermixed mosaic of small output zones whereas the motone...
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