Pediatric cavernous sinus thrombosis: A case series and review of the literature.

abstract：:We studied the effects of long-term fish oil (FO) dietary supplementation on brain edema, polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) infiltration, and infarct size in a rat stroke model. Rats were given regular rat chow with or without FO supplement (20% of total calories) for 7 weeks. Body weight did not differ between the t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lai ML,Hsu CY,Liu TH,He YY,Xu J,Navidi M,Sun G,Hogan EL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Call-Fleming syndrome is a reversible segmental vasoconstriction of cerebral arteries manifested by a "thunderclap" headache and focal neurologic symptoms. Although of unknown etiology, it has been reported in association with vasoactive sympathomimetic drugs. The authors report Call-Fleming syndrome in two patients w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Noskin O,Jafarimojarrad E,Libman RB,Nelson JL

更新日期：2006-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new benign eating disorder associated with lesions involving parts of the right anterior cerebral hemisphere. This "gourmand" syndrome describes a preoccupation with food and a preference for fine eating. Two exemplary case reports illustrate this new syndrome. Analysis of the clinical and anatomical data...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Regard M,Landis T

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men and women with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) had more brain atrophy and ventricular dilatation, measured by quantitative CT, than did respective age- and sex-matched healthy controls (p less than 0.05). The male DAT patients with mild dementia had a larger mean third ventricle volume, whereas male patients ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Creasey H,Schwartz M,Frederickson H,Haxby JV,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report three patients with acute, chronic, and recurrent neuropathy associated with varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection but without zoster rash. CSF of all three patients contained VZV immunoglobulin G antibody, but not herpes simplex virus. In two patients, serum/CSF ratios of VZV immunoglobulin G were...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fox RJ,Galetta SL,Mahalingam R,Wellish M,Forghani B,Gilden DH

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) had advanced rapidly, particularly in the area of genetics. Clinical trials of agents that offer the promise of going beyond symptomatic treatment to actually slowing the progression of disease, perhaps by enhancing the viability of neurons, are under w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Whitehouse PJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 34-year-old man from southern Florida with a history of intravenous drug use, dually infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II), who developed a myelopathy clinically indistinguishable from HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic parap...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Berger JR,Svenningsson A,Raffanti S,Resnick L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old man presented with a 30-year history of spasmodic dysphonia. He developed a speech disturbance 1 month after a closed head injury due to a fall. Sighing, coughing, and crying were normal. He had a tremor of the right hand when he drew a vertical line. His out-stretched right hand had a minimal dystonic p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee MS,Lee SB,Kim WC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Imaging determinations of the spatial extent of diffuse low-grade gliomas (DLGGs) are of paramount importance in evaluating the risk-to-benefit ratio of surgical resection. However, it is not clear how accurately preoperative conventional MRI can delineate DLGGs. METHODS:We report a retrospective histologic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pallud J,Varlet P,Devaux B,Geha S,Badoual M,Deroulers C,Page P,Dezamis E,Daumas-Duport C,Roux FX

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), a dominantly inherited disorder, typically manifests as bilateral vestibular schwannomas and predisposes to other nervous system tumors. In this study, we present a large pedigree with a benign course of NF2 (mild Gardner type) characterized by slowly growing vestibular schwannomas but few o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sainio M,Strachan T,Blomstedt G,Salonen O,Setälä K,Palotie A,Palo J,Pyykkö I,Peltonen L,Jääskeläinen J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence of first seizures, epilepsy, and seizure mimics in a geographically defined area using the updated 2014 International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) definition, which allows an epilepsy diagnosis after a single seizure when the risk of further seizures over the next 10 years is ≈60%...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maloney EM,Chaila E,O'Reilly ÉJ,Costello DJ

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of computed tomography (CT), there have been numerous reports of brain abscess treated successfully without surgery. Because pathologic confirmation was lacking in these patients, diagnosis was based on CT abnormalities, usually ring enhancement. However, our recent clinical experience and the e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dobkin JF,Healton EB,Dickinson PC,Brust JC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a scheme using routinely available data to estimate the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dementia in HIV-infected persons over time. We performed a longitudinal review of medical records from more than 100 medical facilities in 11 U.S. cities. A total of 19,462 HIV-infected persons without histo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qureshi AI,Hanson DL,Jones JL,Janssen RS

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current medical climate, medical education is at risk of being de-emphasized, leading to less financial support and compensation for faculty. A rise in compensation plans that reward clinical or research productivity fails to incentivize and threatens to erode the educational missions of our academic institutio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weber D,Sarva H,Weaver J,Wang F,Chou J,Cornes S,Nickels K,Safdieh JE,Poncelet A,Stern BJ

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs), rare developmental abnormalities of the inferior hypothalamus, often cause refractory, symptomatic, mixed epilepsy, including gelastic seizures. We present 37 patients with HH who underwent transcortical transventricular endoscopic resection. METHODS:Between October 2003 and A...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ng YT,Rekate HL,Prenger EC,Wang NC,Chung SS,Feiz-Erfan I,Johnsonbaugh RE,Varland MR,Kerrigan JF

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent episodes of oscillopsia, rotational vertigo, and postural imbalance were elicited and modulated by changing the horizontal head positions of a patient with an arachnoid cyst in the right cerebellopontine angle that distorted the vestibulocochlear nerve. Oculomotor analysis revealed two different types of att...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arbusow V,Strupp M,Dieterich M,Jäger L,Hischa A,Schulz P,Brandt T

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, there is no accepted clinical diagnostic test for Parkinson disease (PD) that is based on biochemical analysis of blood or CSF. The discovery of mutations in the SNCA gene encoding α-synuclein in familial parkinsonism and the accumulation of α-synuclein in the PD brain suggested a critical role for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tokuda T,Qureshi MM,Ardah MT,Varghese S,Shehab SA,Kasai T,Ishigami N,Tamaoka A,Nakagawa M,El-Agnaf OM

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of intracranial arterial stenosis on the progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:A total of 423 participants with MCI were included and evaluated with clinical and neuropsychological examinations annually for 4 years. The incidence of dementia ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhu J,Wang Y,Li J,Deng J,Zhou H

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation rhombencephalopathy and radiation myelopathy may occur in patients months or years after radiotherapy for malignancy of the head and neck. We obtained multimodal evoked potentials longitudinally in 26 patients with proven nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Recordings were made before radiotherapy and at 1 week, 3 mon...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tang LM,Chen ST,Hsu WC,Leung WM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study quantitatively assessed volumes of the amygdala and its subnuclei in autopsied cases of advanced Alzheimer's disease (AD) for comparison with age-matched controls. Amygdalar nuclei showed significant atrophy in AD with the exception of the paralaminar portion of the basal nucleus. The magnocellular r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Scott SA,DeKosky ST,Scheff SW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There was a report of spongiform encephalopathy transmitted to Syrian hamsters by intracerebral inoculation with the blood buffy coat of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their unaffected first-degree relatives. We attempted to verify that report, taking measures to reduce the risk of contaminating samples wi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Godec MS,Asher DM,Kozachuk WE,Masters CL,Rubi JU,Payne JA,Rubi-Villa DJ,Wagner EE,Rapoport SI,Schapiro MB

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the prevalence of dementia in Canadians age 85 years and older. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the prevalence of dementia continued to increase in the very old, and to define the types of dementia and their relative proportions in this age group. We collected data as part of the Canadi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ebly EM,Parhad IM,Hogan DB,Fung TS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether serum Zic4 antibodies associate with paraneoplastic neurologic disorders (PND) and small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), and the association of these antibodies with other onconeuronal immunities associated with SCLC. DESIGN/METHODS:The authors studied 498 patients (215 with PND and 283 without...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bataller L,Wade DF,Graus F,Stacey HD,Rosenfeld MR,Dalmau J

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of gender in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an important issue that remains controversial. We compared men and women in late-onset familial AD kindreds for the risk of developing AD by studying 26 well-characterized familial AD kindreds from the Oregon Alzheimer Disease Center and, for confir...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Payami H,Montee K,Grimslid H,Shattuc S,Kaye J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the fornix and mamillary bodies, being part of the limbic system, are abnormal in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). BACKGROUND:The limbic system comprises the hippocampal formation, fornix, mamillary bodies, thalamus, and other integrated structures. This system is im...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuzniecky R,Bilir E,Gilliam F,Faught E,Martin R,Hugg J

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with Parkinson disease (PD) may present with various types of pain. In some instances, no cause can be identified and pain is considered a primary disorder (primary central pain [PCP]). We hypothesized that PCP in patients with PD (PD-PCP) may be due to a dysfunction of pain pathways or the processi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schestatsky P,Kumru H,Valls-Solé J,Valldeoriola F,Marti MJ,Tolosa E,Chaves ML

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report eight cases of sensory Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). BACKGROUND:The concept of sensory equivalent to ascending paralysis of GBS was raised in 1958, and the diagnostic criteria for a sensory loss and areflexia variant of GBS were proposed in 1981. However, clinical cases meeting these criteria have...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oh SJ,LaGanke C,Claussen GC

更新日期：2001-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:IgM anti-GM1 antibodies are associated with motor neuropathy syndromes, including multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). We compared the ability of serum IgM from patients with multifocal motor neuropathy to bind to GM1 ganglioside alone and to GM1 as a component of a lipid mixture that also contained galactocerebroside a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pestronk A,Choksi R,Blume G,Lopate G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When 251 relapsing-remitting patients with multiple sclerosis were randomized to receive daily subcutaneous injections of glatiramer acetate, previously called copolymer 1 (Copaxone; n = 125) or placebo (n = 126) for 24 months, there were no laboratory abnormalities associated with glatiramer acetate treatment and it ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP,Brooks BR,Cohen JA,Ford CC,Goldstein J,Lisak RP,Myers LW,Panitch HS,Rose JW,Schiffer RB,Vollmer T,Weiner LP,Wolinsky JS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subarachnoid neurolysis using ethanol to destroy selectively the posterior roots of the spinal cord is a method for providing pain relief in patients with advanced cancer. Weakness of the extremities is a complication of the procedure that has been attributed to spread of the neurolytic agent to the anterior roots. Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McGarvey ML,Ferrante FM,Patel RS,Maljian JA,Stecker M

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00