Abstract：
:Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic, suppurative, and slowly progressive granulomatous disease caused by a group of filamentous gram-positive anaerobic bacteria belonging to the normal flora of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary tracts. It may involve several organs; however, spinal cord compression has rarely been reported. We report a 7-year-3-month-old girl who suffered from neck pain with restricted movement, poor appetite, body weight loss, mild right limbs weakness, and a non-tender neck mass. Histopathology of the neck mass revealed sulfur granules of actinomyces. Since actinomycosis was strongly suspected, she was treated with high dose of parenteral penicillin G followed by oral penicillin with complete recovery. The unusual features of our case suggested that actinomycosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis of neck mass and cervical spinal cord compression.
journal_name
Brain Devjournal_title
Brain & developmentauthors
Hung PC,Wang HS,Chiu CH,Wong AMdoi
10.1016/j.braindev.2013.08.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-08-01 00:00:00pages
634-6issue
7eissn
0387-7604issn
1872-7131pii
S0387-7604(13)00240-4journal_volume
36pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:As a treatable cause of CNS dysfunctions in the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), low-zinc-status in addition to hypoglycemia has been investigated in experimental rat models. During the premating period female rats of an ethanol group and a control group received 30% ethanol (E) and water (W), respectively. During pregna...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(82)80070-3
更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We present the clinical and neuropathological findings in a female patient with early onset Cockayne syndrome and a chromosomal anomaly (47XXX). The girl was the only child of healthy, unrelated parents. She was born with a birth weight of 1,930 gm. She had progeroid facial features with bilateral cataracts. A diagnos...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(12)80282-8
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(96)00557-8
更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Body movements (BMs) during sleep in patients with age dependent epileptic encephalopathy (ADEE) were studied polysomnographically in order to clarify the underlying mechanism of intractability and the age dependent trend. Twenty patients were divided into two groups according to the prognosis of convulsions. In the g...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(86)80066-3
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The authors report a case of early infantile epileptic encephalopathy (EIEE) associated with hemimegalencephaly. The etiological factors in previously published cases of EIEE are reviewed and attention is focused on the high proportion of cases associated with neuronal migration disorders. We suggest that idiopathic c...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(12)80356-1
更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A servo system including a microwave generator was applied to raise a rat's body temperature at a pre-set rate. Using this system the effects of age and the temperature elevation rate upon febrile seizures in rats were studied. The relationship between the brain GABA content and hyperthermia was also studied. From the...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(12)80307-x
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2009.01.005
更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 6-month-old girl developed West syndrome and it remitted in association with valproate-induced hepatic dysfunction. Plasma -alanine elevated after valproate hepatotoxicity, which seemed to be a possible cause of remission. The patient has been seizure-free with normal electroencephalogram for 12 months without any a...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(02)00037-2
更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Glucose transporter type I deficiency syndrome (GLUT-1 DS) is an inborn error of glucose transport characterized by seizures, developmental delay, spasticity, acquired microcephaly and ataxia. Diagnosis is based on the finding of low cerebrospinal fluid glucose, in the absence of hypoglycemia, and identification of GL...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2009.04.013
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type：
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2020.07.008
更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2005.07.002
更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a 22q13.3 deletion syndrome. Most PMS patients show global developmental delay and some of them suffer from developmental regression. The deleted region contains ARSA, which is responsible for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). Here we report an extremely rare case of PMS characteriz...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type：
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2020.02.003
更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A female was diagnosed as a late variant form of infantile Krabbe disease at 1 year and 3 months because of the late onset of regressive clinical course, decreased motor nerve conduction velocities, high cerebrospinal protein concentration and partial deficiency of galactocerebrosidase (15.6%) in the cultured skin fib...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(88)80045-7
更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Choline kinase beta gene (CHKB) mutations have been identified in Megaconial Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (MDCMC) patients, a very rare inborn error of metabolism with 21 cases reported worldwide. We report the case of a Spanish boy of Caucasian origin who presented a generalized congenital muscular hypotonia, more i...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2015.05.008
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Glucose transporter type1 (GLUT-1) deficiency may be rare, but it is a preventable cause of severe learning difficulties; and therefore there is an urgency in making an early diagnosis. Suspicions must be roused when intractable seizures occur in infancy. These may be associated with acquired microcephaly and developm...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(03)00058-5
更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Here we describe two patients with 5p- syndrome who suffered from epilepsy characterised by stimulus-induced epileptic spasms manifesting as head nodding. In patient 1, a series of spasms were exclusively triggered by eating, and were associated with diffuse high-voltage slow waves on ictal EEG, particularly presentin...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2015.08.002
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Factors useful to predict seizure frequency and duration of antiepileptic treatment of children with benign partial epilepsy and rolandic spikes were retrospectively evaluated in 72 patients seizure-free for at least 5 years and off antiepileptic drugs for at least 2 years. Three groups were considered: Group I, 11 pa...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(87)80049-9
更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 2-month-old Japanese girl exhibited tonic seizure, agenesis of the corpus callosum, lacunar chorioretinopathy, vertebral anomalies, electroencephalographic abnormalities and a malignant tumor. Autopsy revealed a hepatoblastoma and severe brain malformations consisting of callosal agenesis, arhinencephaly, marked pol...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(85)80119-4
更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Childhood leukodystrophies are a growing category of neurological disorders in pediatric neurology practice. With the help of new advanced genetic studies such as whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), the list of childhood heritable white matter disorders has been increased to more than one h...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2017.01.001
更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Valproic acid (VPA) is a widely used and well-tolerable antiepileptic drug in epileptic patients. However, VPA has many side effects dose-dependent or non-dose-dependent. It is reported that VPA treatment may lead to biotin deficiency and low serum and liver tissue biotinidase enzyme activity (BEA). Major clinical man...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2008.07.008
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute encephalitis with refractory repetitive partial seizure (AERRPS) is a peculiar type of post-encephalitic/encephalopathic epilepsy. Here we report an analysis of AERRPS in a series of children and propose an effective treatment option for seizure control in these children. METHODS:We retrospectively rev...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2008.09.010
更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Altered maternal micronutrients (folic acid, vitamin B(12)) are suggested to be at the heart of intra-uterine programming of adult diseases. We have recently described interactions of folic acid, vitamin B(12) and docosahexaenoic acid in one carbon metabolism that is considered to play a key role in regulation oxidati...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2011.01.002
更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The autosomal recessive form of primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a rare disorder characterized by head circumference of at least 3 standard deviation below the mean. The MCPH exhibits genetic heterogeneity with thirteen loci (MCPH1-MCPH13) identified, and associated with variable degree of intellectual disability. It ha...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2017.07.003
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The abducens nucleus directly innervates the lateral rectus muscle and plays a role in controlling conjugate horizontal eye movements. Although the neuronal cytoarchitecture of the abducens nucleus has been extensively investigated in various species of vertebrates, few studies have been undertaken in humans...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2011.12.009
更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Eighteen children with diplegic form of cerebral palsy (CP) underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of the enlarged occipital horns of both lateral ventricles found on previous computerized tomography (CT). In 16 of them squint was present. MRI in flow attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and turbo spin ec...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0387-7604(01)00178-4
更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sixty patients (age-range one month to 14 years) with other types of epilepsy than infantile spasms were treated with clonazepam. Disappearance of seizures and normalization of abnormal EEG with disappearance of seizures were recognized in 77% and 50%, respectively. Seizures disappeared in 71% of the patients with gen...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We describe two brothers with isolated Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM). Interestingly, brain stem dysgenesis and abnormal gyral pattern were also observed in the sibs. They presented with psychomotor retardation and macrocrania. Both suffered from hypotonia with brisk deep tendon reflexes and ataxic gait. They had bil...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2006.01.009
更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of rituximab on acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) followed by recurrent optic neuritis (ON) is not yet known. PATIENT:We are reporting the case of a 4-year-old Japanese girl who was diagnosed with anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody positive ADEM followed by recurren...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2018.03.011
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The characteristics of epilepsy in patients with Kabuki syndrome with KMT2D mutations (KABUK1) have not yet been well documented. This is the first review to explore this. MATERIALS & METHODS:We enrolled 14 patients with KABUK1, whose median age was 13.6years (range=4.1-21.3years). Their medical records fro...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2017.03.025
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To report on two children with encephalopathy caused by dietary thiamine deficiency due to newly developing nutritional problems in contemporary Japan. SUBJECTS:A 1-year-old boy who had consumed 1l of isotonic drinks per day for 4 months after an episode of diarrhea, and presented with ocular movement disorder, dy...
journal_title：Brain & development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.braindev.2009.08.004
更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00
