Successful treatment of relapsing neuro-Sweet's disease with corticosteroid and dapsone combination therapy.

abstract：:Syncope is a rare symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a common tumor in Taiwan. We describe two patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma who presented with frequent syncopal attacks five months before the diagnosis was made. We postulate that the mechanism of syncope is involvement of the glossopharyngeal or vagal nerv...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lin RH,Teng MM,Wang SJ,Yeh TP,Liao KK,Liu HC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Medicaid patient population and health care costs for spine surgeries among these patients have increased since 2010. Hospital length of stay (LOS) contributes appreciably to hospital costs for patients undergoing primary lumbar spine surgery (PLSS). The aim of this study was to identify independent risk ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Dominguez JF,Kalakoti P,Chen X,Yao K,Lee NK,Shah S,Schmidt M,Cole C,Gandhi C,Al-Mufti F,Bowers CA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral Symmetrical Calcifications (B.S.C.) in cerebro represent calcium deposits usually found in the basal ganglia and/or dentate nucleus. They can be the result of diverse disorders, but can also present themselves without any underlying disease. Most often they are asymptomatic, but if the calcifications are ext...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Smit L,van Wijk RM,Rico RE,Sitalsing AD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension is the most common cause of intracerebral haemorrhages (ICHs), yet the short-term impact factors associated with hypertensive intracerebral haemorrhages (HICHs) in patients who undergo different surgical treatments are still unknown. MATERIALS AND METHODS:All consecutive patients with acute HIC...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Zhao Z,Wang H,Li Z,Wang X,Zhang W,Feng K,Fan J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) often occurs in the supratentorial white matter including corpus callosum. However, spinal leptomeningeal metastasis in cases of supratentorial GBM has been reported to be rare and there is usually a long interval between the cerebral lesion and the spinal seeding. We report here a case o...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Witoonpanich P,Bamrungrak K,Jinawath A,Wongwaisayawan S,Phudhichareonrat S,Witoonpanich R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressively debilitating disorder resulting in reduced quality of life (QoL). Along with the motor symptoms of PD, non-motor symptoms of PD such as pain, restless leg syndrome (RLS) depression also occur. These exacerbate the worsening QoL and must be promptly diagnosed and tre...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Rana AQ,Qureshi ARM,Rahman N,Mohammed A,Sarfraz Z,Rana R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of those cranial nerves subserving taste is common in the Guillain-Barré syndrome, yet seldom reported are disturbances of taste. This may reflect relative sparing of taste fibers, which are small thinly myelinated fibers. However, the true incidence of taste disturbances in GBS is probably underestimated ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Soria ED,Candaras MM,Truax BT

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:32 patients with the chronic progressive form of the multiple sclerosis were treated with high doses of cyclophosphamide and prednisone during 20 days, to produce immunosuppression. The effect of treatment was measured by scoring three different Kurtzke scales just before treatment (1), just after treatment (II), and ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Hommes OR,Prick JJ,Lamers KJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several neurodegenerative disorders show olfactory dysfunction. In patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), olfactory impairment is probably due to the involvement of the temporal and orbitofrontal lobes. We hypothesized that due to the disrupted areas in FTD, there would be an impairment in smell identif...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Orasji SS,Mulder JL,de Bruijn SF,Wirtz PW

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the CNS is reported in which a complete and stable disappearance of an enhancing mass lesion on the CT scan after treatment with dexamethasone was followed by the occurrence of a high-grade malignant lymphoma in the opposite hemisphere 18 months later. The long-lasting and...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Pohl P,Oberhuber G,Dietze O,Vogl G,Pallua AK,Plangger CA,Huber H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Spinal intramedullary tuberculosis is a rare disease. This study aims to acquaint readers with its clinicoradiological features and emphasizes the importance of early treatment in intramedullary spinal tuberculosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Retrospective analysis was conducted from 1985 to 2006 over a period o...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Ramdurg SR,Gupta DK,Suri A,Sharma BS,Mahapatra AK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this hospital-based study is to get an insight into the efficacy and tolerability of antiepileptic drugs (AED) in Omani epileptic patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS:All Omani patients (aged 14 years and above) suffering from epileptic seizures for at least 2 years and followed-up by board-certified ne...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Hanssens Y,Al-Asmi A,Al-Busaidi I,Deleu D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Depression is more common in Parkinson's disease (PD) than other chronic and disabling disorders. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and identify potential risk factors influencing depression in 519 consecutive nondemented Chinese PD patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Depression was assessed using the ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Zhu J,Lu L,Pan Y,Shen B,Xu S,Hou Y,Zhang X,Zhang L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to concurrently examine the specific motor, cognitive and affective contributions to self-reported FOG symptoms. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Ninety-six patients with Parkinson's disease completed the validated freezing of gait questionnaire and had their motor function scored on section three of the Unif...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Shine JM,Naismith SL,Lewis SJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under an operative view, an aneurysm of the vertebral artery is located behind the lower cranial nerves. To prevent neurological deficits we employed electrophysiological monitoring while clipping an aneurysm of the vertebral artery. A 64-year-old woman had suffered a sudden severe headache in the morning. Computed to...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Ishikawa M,Kusaka G,Takashima K,Kamochi H,Shinoda S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide stroke incidence seems to decrease in high income countries but to largely increase in low and middle countries. The mean age of stroke onset also seems to be gradually increasing in many developed countries, which is consistent with the third epidemiological transition in the world, being characterized by a...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Shiue I

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the added effect of 6 months of erythropoietin (EPO) administration in patients suffering from diabetic neuropathy with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) managed with gabapentin. Twenty diabetic patients with mild to moderate CKD were included; 12 in gabapentin and 8 in EPO+gabapentin g...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Hosseini-Zare MS,Dashti-Khavidaki S,Mahdavi-Mazdeh M,Ahmadi F,Akrami S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify complications of mastocytosis that impact the nervous system across a large cohort. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In this retrospective series, we reviewed the electronic medical records of adult patients with a diagnosis of mastocytosis who were referred to a Neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN f...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Smith JH,Butterfield JH,Pardanani A,DeLuca GC,Cutrer FM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The frequency of suboccipital injections to treat headaches has increased. The third segment of the vertebral artery is located in the suboccipital triangle and its main muscular branch, the suboccipital artery of Salmon (SAS), supplies blood to the suboccipital muscles. The purpose of this study was to radi...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Macchi V,Porzionato A,Morra A,D'Antoni AV,Tubbs RS,De Caro R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to investigate the genetic predisposition of haptoglobin (Hp) genotype as a predictor for cerebral vasospasm (CV) after acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) in the Egyptian population. This permits CV risk factors stratification of patients with aSAH. Hence, it will guide the treatment plan an...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Ateia AM,Elbassiouny A,El-Nabi SH,Fahmy NA,Ibrahim MH,El-Garawani I,Geba KM,Khalaf M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To analyze the somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in neurologically asymptomatic Chiari malformation-associated scoliosis (CMS) patients with and without syringomyelia as compared with those in idiopathic scoliosis (IS) ones, and to identify whether the deformities have...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Shi B,Qiu J,Xu L,Li Y,Jiang D,Xia S,Liu Z,Sun X,Shi B,Zhu Z,Qiu Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri was found in a 38-year-old Chinese man living in Hong Kong who presumably acquired the infection from swimming in a hot spring in neighbouring China. Amoebic cysts were identified in tissue taken from a brain abscess. The patient responded to surgical draina...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Wang A,Kay R,Poon WS,Ng HK

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:For patients with medically unresponsive trigeminal neuralgia (TN), surgical options include micro vascular decompression (MVD), radiofrequency rhizotomy (RF), and stereotactic radio surgery (SRS). Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating condition that can be associated with TN, but is not amenable to tre...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Holland MT,Teferi N,Noeller J,Swenson A,Smith M,Buatti J,Hitchon PW

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in genetic research have led to the localization and identification of the causative gene defect in a large number of neurological diseases. This paper describes some of the basic principles of molecular genetics and the strategies that have been followed in the search for the gene for facioscapulo...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Brouwer OF,Wijmenga C,Frants RR,Padberg GW

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of cholesterol granuloma of the temporal bone is described presenting as a cerebellopontine tumor. This lesion seemed to arise from an inflammatory process obstructing pneumatized cells. It consists of extradural granulation tissue and must be distinguished from intradural epidermoid cyst, which is, in...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lunardi P,Missori P,Salvati M,Licastro G

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is a frequent disease in neurosurgical practice. However, a considerable recurrence rate keeps this condition challenging to treat. We aimed to provide a simple tool for risk assessment in these patients. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective analysis of surgically treated pa...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Suero Molina E,Borscheid L,Freistühler M,Zawy Alsofy S,Stummer W,Schipmann S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for multiple sclerosis (MS) recommend the time from initial presentation to first neurological evaluation to be no longer than 6 weeks, and a further 6 weeks until any necessary investigations are completed. The aim of this study was...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Adamec I,Barun B,Gabelić T,Zadro I,Habek M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Digital subtraction angiography is the gold standard for diagnosis of vascular pathology. The value of angiography of non-target vessels following mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is unknown. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Consecutive patients treated with mechanical thrombectom...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Foreman PM,Wirtz MM,Fong R,Goren O,Schirmer CM,Dalal S,Weiner G,Griessenauer CJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lafora disease (LD) is an autosomal recessive inherited form of progressive myoclonic epilepsy with dementia and ataxia, usually presenting in the second decade of life and inexorably progressing until death. Neuropathological hallmarks are Lafora bodies, intracytoplasmic inclusions that can be found in neurons and in...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Boccella P,Striano P,Zara F,Barbieri F,Sarappa C,Vacca G,de Falco FA,Striano S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cranial nerves (CN) cavernous malformations (CMs) are lesions that are isolated from the CNs. The authors present three cases of CN CMs, for which MR was demonstrated to be critical for management, and surgical resection produced good outcomes for the patients. Surgical removal is the recommended course of a...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Rotondo M,Natale M,D'Avanzo R,Pascale M,Scuotto A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00