[Fibrous dysplasia of the skull: neurologic manifestations].

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between headache and alcohol consumption among medical students. 480 medical students were submitted to a questionnaire about headaches and drinking alcohol. Headache was assessed by ID-Migraine and functional disability was evaluated with MIDAS. The evaluation ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Domingues RB,Domingues SA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaspar Vianna is considered one of the great names in Medicine and Science in Brazil. Yet, little prominence has been given to his studies in Neuropathology. He was the first to describe, in 1911, the histopathology and pathogenesis of chagasic encephalitis in the acute phase of Chagas disease, as well as the intracel...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pittella JEH

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an isolated tuberculoma of the spinal cord is reported. The 22 years old male patient came to the hospital with paraplegia and had a laminetomy performed for a compression of the spinal cord by a tumor mass. The histopathological study showed the presence of the acid-fast bacili in the tissue. After specific...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Queiroz AC,Rizzo A,de Carvalho MS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the HLA of class 1and 2 in a multiple sclerosis (MS) population to verify the susceptibility for the disease in the Southern Brazil. METHODS:We analyzed patients with MS and controls, by direct sequencing of the genes related to HLA DRB1, DQB1, DPB1, A, B and C alleles with high resolution technique...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Lorenzoni PJ,Arndt RC,Kay CS,Scola RH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Listeria monocytogenes shows a special attraction to infect the central nervous system and its meningeals coats. It affects newborn as well as elderly people, patients with deficiencies in their cellular immune systems, and healthy adults. It presents most commonly as an acute meningitis, although it can p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Salamano R,Braselli A,Hoppe A,Monteghirfo R,Silva T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal medial sclerosis (TMS) is characterized by hippocampal sclerosis in temporal and by distinguished grades of injury near to other neurological structures such as: amygdaloid nucleus, parahippocampal girus and entorhinal region. The study analyzed 40 patients with TMS and 40 people from the control cluster....

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Chaddad Neto F,de Oliveira E,Paschoal E,Cendes F,Santana Filho M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of the endoscopic transsphenoidal technique for growth hormone (GH)-secreting adenomas. Methods:A retrospective analysis based on medical records of 23 acromegalic patients submitted to endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery. Biochemical control was defined as ba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leopoldo CMDS,Leopoldo FMDS,Santos ARLD,Veiga JCE,Lima JV Junior,Scalissi NM,Lazarini PR,Dolci RLL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty seven patients with migraine without aura were investigated. The age was between 12 and 54 years; 5 were men and 22 women. The diagnosis of migraine was made according to the classification proposed by the International Headache Society. The method of visual evoked potential was performed with pattern reversal ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Dantas AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence associated with dilation of ventricular system with normal opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Wide scientifical evidence confirms association between NPH and psychiatric symptoms. We selected 35 patients w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira MF,Oliveira JR,Rotta JM,Pinto FC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune encephalitis is an inflammatory disorder characterized by a subacute impairment of short-term memory, psychiatric features and seizures. It is often associated with a variety of other neurological symptoms, and its differential diagnosis is wide, leading to challenges in its recognition. It used to be regar...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Machado S,Pinto AN,Irani SR

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the clinical and angiographical findings of two cases of familial hemifacial spasm. This is the fifth description in the literature and presents mother and daughter at the ages of 76 and 51 respectively, in whom the left side was affected. They underwent exams of angioresonance that showed dolichoba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,da Costa Mdo D,Staut CC,Bacheschi LA,Bittar MS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboembolism is the most frequent complication in endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms, causing disability and death. As stent retrievers have achieved high rates of arterial recanalization in the management of ischemic stroke, these devices were tested as rescue therapy of thromboembolism during aneury...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Demartini Junior Z,Gatto LAM,Koppe GL,Oliveira TFVH,Francisco AN

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital muscle dystrophy (CMD) is a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive myopathies. It is known that CMD may affect the central nervous system (CNS). Some authors have shown that merosin-negative CMD patients may have encephalic metabolic disturbances. In order to study metabolic changes within the brain, th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Matta AP,Gonsalves Mde C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents has largely increased. Diagnostic lumbar puncture in patients taking these drugs represents a challenge considering the opposing risks of bleeding and thrombotic complications. To date there are no controlled trials, specific guidelines, nor clear recommendations in th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Domingues R,Bruniera G,Brunale F,Mangueira C,Senne C

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, autoimmune, demyelinating, and degenerative central nervous system disease. Even though the etiology of MS has not yet been fully elucidated, there is evidence that genetic and environmental factors interact to cause the disease. Among the main environmental factors studied,...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brum DG,Comini-Frota ER,Vasconcelos CC,Dias-Tosta E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical, epidemiological and pathological findings of 28 patients with medulloblastoma: 22 were male; age ranged from 1 to 50 years, with a mean of 15 years. The most frequent symptoms and signs were headache (64%) and vomiting (64%). Only one patient showed a desmoplastic medulloblastoma variant, the o...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reis Filho JS,Gasparetto EL,Faoro LN,Araújo JC,Torres LF

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was analysed in 170 AIDS patients. All of them showed HIV positive serological tests. All of them showed neurologic syndromes related to AIDS. The time period of the investigation was July 1984-April 1989. In 8 cases (4.7%) CSF composition was normal. Lymphoma cells were observed in three cas...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA,Machado LR,Spina-França A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze the neuronal density of the myenteric plexus of the intermediate and antimesocolic regions of the descending colon of rats. Whole-mounts were stained with three different techniques of neuronal evidenciation. Through counts of the number of neurons in an area of 6.64 mm under l...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araújo EJ,Sant'Ana Dde M,Molinari SL,de Miranda Neto MH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the predictive value of cerebral ultrasound in infants diagnoses on meningitis neonatal to the neurological outcome. METHOD:A retrospective study of 16 children admitted at Institute Fernandes Figueira RJ-Brazil, who had neonatal meningitis and were examined by cerebral ultrasound. The neurologic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro AM,Bomfim O

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four aspects of advances in inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are analysed: 1) concerning the general comprehension of the pathogenesis, genic localization and genetic heterogeneity; 2) clinical aspects, with description of new variants of known IEM or new IEM; 3) laboratory diagnostic tests presently used in our coun...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Diament AJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the occipital inter-hemispheric coherence of Electroencephalogram (electrodes O1-O2) for alpha band (alpha1--8.0 to 10.0 Hz and alpha2--10.1 to 12.5 Hz) in two groups of healthy individuals (young adults and subjects older than 50 years-old), to assess if there is significant difference between this two age...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Anghinah R,Caramelli P,Takahashi DY,Nitrini R,Sameshima K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), recognized as the founder of Neurology and the first formal teacher of nervous system diseases, died on August 16, 1893, from acute pulmonary edema secondary to myocardial infarction. In his last years, there were several descriptions of his gait and posture disorders, suggesting the d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Germiniani FM,Munhoz RP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extra-intracranial bypass may be used in selected cases of brain vascular insufficiency refractory to clinical treatment. We report a case of encephalic ischemia in the territory of the right middle cerebral artery due to occlusion of the ipsilateral internal carotid artery, with consequent reduction of the perfus...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Falavigna A,Ferraz FA,Breunig Jde A,Michelin MM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish preoperatively the localization of the cortical projection of the inferior choroidal point (ICP) and use it as a reliable landmark when approaching the temporal horn through a middle temporal gyrus access. To review relevant anatomical features regarding selective amigdalohippocampectomy (AH) for...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Frigeri T,Rhoton A,Paglioli E,Azambuja N

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To keep up to date with new advances in medical care and in the understanding of the disease process which affects their specific patients neurologists need to develop strategies for continuing education. They must be learners throughout their careers and the learning must be self-directed, active and independent. The...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lana-Peixoto MA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Febrile seizures (FS) affect almost 2-5% of children and factors related to an increase susceptibility of children to FS may involve an imbalance of inflammatory cytokines and genetic factors. FS had low morbidity, but may be associated with the occurrence of late chronic epilepsy. Here we describe factors related to ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Terra VC,Machado HR,Sakamoto AC,Arida RM,Scorza FA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess cognition in major depressed (MD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and depression in AD elderly. METHOD:Subjects were evaluated by Mini Mental, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Rey Complex Figure, Digit Span, Similarities, Trail Making A/B, Verbal Fluency and Stroop. One-way ANOVA and multivariate mode...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Araujo NB,Moraes HS,Silveira H,Arcoverde C,Vasques PE,Barca ML,Knapskog AB,Engedal K,Coutinho ES,Deslandes AC,Laks J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indication for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis still is controversial, and it is uncommon to find in the present days studies comparing conservative treatments, due to the widespread surgical treatment adopted in most centers. We studied 65 cases divided into three groups of patients: (1) 15 thymectomized patients...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Moreira PR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are lysosomal storage diseases in which a specific enzyme defect causes glycosaminoglycans storage in tissues. The authors present a necropsy case of a 10 years old boy with clinical and laboratorial diagnosis of MPS. The necropsy revealed thickening of meninges, cardiac valves and hepa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Torres LF,De Noronha L,Jacob GV,Antoniuk S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pterional craniotomy is one of the most frequently surgical approaches used in neurosurgery and currently it has become a mainsteam. It allows excellent microsurgical exposure of anterior and posterior regions of the arterial circle of Willis, supra and paraselar regions, the superior orbital fissure of sphenoid b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Figueiredo EG,Oliveira AM,Plese JP,Teixeira MJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00