Association between performance on Neurology In-Training and Certification Examinations.

abstract：:Three sisters with adult fucosidosis showed prominent psychomotor retardation, gargoyle features, and angiokeratoma corporis diffusum, meeting the criteria for type II fucosidosis. By histochemical and ultrastructural studies, biopsy of rectal mucosa revealed many abnormal macrophages that were filled with fucose-rich...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ikeda S,Kondo K,Oguchi K,Yanagisawa N,Horigome R,Murata F

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) are classified clinically as pure when progressive spasticity occurs in isolation or complicated when other neurologic abnormalities are present. At least 22 genetic loci have been linked to HSP, 8 of which are autosomal recessive (ARHSP). HSP complicated with the presence...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Al-Yahyaee S,Al-Gazali LI,De Jonghe P,Al-Barwany H,Al-Kindi M,De Vriendt E,Chand P,Koul R,Jacob PC,Gururaj A,Sztriha L,Parrado A,Van Broeckhoven C,Bayoumi RA

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the inpatient hospitalization burden and costs of patients with autoimmune encephalitis (AE) at a tertiary care institution. METHODS:Adult inpatients with AE were identified retrospectively from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2015. Demographic and clinical data were collected and analyzed. Billing data ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cohen J,Sotoca J,Gandhi S,Yeshokumar AK,Gordon-Lipkin E,Geocadin RG,Frick KD,Probasco JC,Venkatesan A

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the association of established multiple sclerosis (MS) risk variants in 3,254 African Americans (1,162 cases and 2,092 controls). METHODS:Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1, HLA-DQB1, and HLA-A alleles were typed by molecular techniques. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping was conducte...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Isobe N,Gourraud PA,Harbo HF,Caillier SJ,Santaniello A,Khankhanian P,Maiers M,Spellman S,Cereb N,Yang S,Pando MJ,Piccio L,Cross AH,De Jager PL,Cree BA,Hauser SL,Oksenberg JR

更新日期：2013-07-16 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 conducted a case-control study of the possible association of occupations with likely exposure to electromagnetic fields and Alzheimer's disease (AD) with patients from the Alzheimer Disease Treatment and Diagnostic Center, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, CA. Patients with definite or probable AD were the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sobel E,Dunn M,Davanipour Z,Qian Z,Chui HC

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl developed simple partial motor and sensory seizures due to a right perirolandic astrocytoma. Subdural EEG recording and functional stimulation disclosed close correlation between EEG-clinical manifestations of focal seizures and functional responses to cortical stimulation. This case supports the id...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arroyo S,Krauss GL,Lesser RP,Gordon B,Hart J Jr,Carson BS,Uematsu S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful screening for neuropathy in patients with diabetes is available using the 10 g Semmes-Weinstein monofilament (Mid-Delta Health Systems, Inc., Belzoni, MS) (touch/pressure sensation) and the Neurothesiometer (Horwell Scientific, London, UK; vibration perception threshold). In healthy volunteers and patients ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dimitrakoudis D,Bril V

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors correlated neurologic features of rostral lateral pontine infarct (rLPI) with lesion location on MRI. rLPI is a motor-sensory stroke presenting as crural monoparesis or crural dominant hemiparesis and segmental superficial or deep sensory disturbances. The dorsolateral pontine base causes crural paresis wi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kataoka S,Miaki M,Saiki M,Saiki S,Yamaya Y,Hori A,Hirose G

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Coma is rare in temporal arteritis (TA). We describe a patient with TA who suddenly developed coma with a triphasic EEG pattern that resolved after initiation of steroid treatment. Although the arterial lesions in TA are segmental in nature, TA may present with signs of diffuse neurologic deficit; early treatment can ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tomer Y,Neufeld MY,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine associated demographic and clinical correlates and the development of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) over 8 years in a community-based cohort of patients with Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:A total of 232 patients with PD were included in a population-based prevalence study in 1993. Patients ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gjerstad MD,Alves G,Wentzel-Larsen T,Aarsland D,Larsen JP

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To cross-sectionally compare the regional white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) of cognitively normal (CN) older individuals and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD), separately focusing on the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) and white matter hyperintensities (WMH), ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee DY,Fletcher E,Martinez O,Ortega M,Zozulya N,Kim J,Tran J,Buonocore M,Carmichael O,DeCarli C

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the genetic and physiologic basis of the neuromuscular symptoms of hypotonia-cystinuria syndrome (HCS) and isolated PREPL deficiency, and their response to therapy. METHODS:We performed molecular genetic, histochemical, immunoblot, and ultrastructural studies, investigated neuromuscular transm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Régal L,Shen XM,Selcen D,Verhille C,Meulemans S,Creemers JW,Engel AG

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and evaluate a model for staging cortical amyloid deposition using PET with high generalizability. METHODS:Three thousand twenty-seven individuals (1,763 cognitively unimpaired [CU], 658 impaired, 467 with Alzheimer disease [AD] dementia, 111 with non-AD dementia, and 28 with missing diagnosis) fr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Collij LE,Heeman F,Salvadó G,Ingala S,Altomare D,de Wilde A,Konijnenberg E,van Buchem M,Yaqub M,Markiewicz P,Golla SSV,Wottschel V,Wink AM,Visser PJ,Teunissen CE,Lammertsma AA,Scheltens P,van der Flier WM,Boellaard R

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared MRI and CT in a study of 175 patients; 87 infarcts within a week, 40 from 1 to 40 weeks, 25 a year after onset, and 23 hemorrhages, 18 within 2 weeks and 5 in 4 to 8 weeks. Fifty-nine infarcts and eight hemorrhages had sequential scanning. MRI is more sensitive than CT in the early detection of cerebral in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kertesz A,Black SE,Nicholson L,Carr T

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures in a transplant candidate or recipient raise complicated management issues, but there are no results from controlled drug trials to guide their pharmacologic treatment. Most seizures in the transplant population are isolated events that do not require long-term antiseizure therapy. Short-term therapy, however...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chabolla DR,Wszolek ZK

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory disturbance in the unilateral hand and ipsilateral mouth region, the cheiro-oral syndrome, may be due to cortical, thalamic, or brainstem lesions. We report five patients with this syndrome due to infarction at the border of the posterior limb of the internal capsule and the corona radiata. The sensory fibers ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Isono O,Kawamura M,Shiota J,Araki S,Hirayama K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to assess the innervation density of dermal nerves in human skin biopsies by bright-field immunohistochemistry. METHODS:The size of dermal area where nerve length was quantified was validated in 30 skin biopsy sections (5 controls and 5 patients with small-fiber neuropathy [SFN]). It was obtained di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lauria G,Cazzato D,Porretta-Serapiglia C,Casanova-Molla J,Taiana M,Penza P,Lombardi R,Faber CG,Merkies IS

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine quantitative size thresholds for enlargement of the optic nerve, chiasm, and tract in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). METHODS:Children 0.5-18.6 years of age who underwent high-resolution T1-weighted MRI were eligible for inclusion. This consisted of children with NF1 with or withou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Avery RA,Mansoor A,Idrees R,Biggs E,Alsharid MA,Packer RJ,Linguraru MG

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Babinski sign is a well-known sign of upper motor neuron dysfunction that is widely considered an essential element of a complete neurologic examination. Little is known about reliability and validity of this sign. A less well-known sign of upper motor neuron dysfunction, decreased speed of foot tapping,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller TM,Johnston SC

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test efficacy and safety of atorvastatin in subjects with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). METHODS:Subjects with CIS were enrolled in a phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 14-center randomized trial testing 80 mg atorvastatin on clinical and brain MRI activity. Brain MRIs were performed quarter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waubant E,Pelletier D,Mass M,Cohen JA,Kita M,Cross A,Bar-Or A,Vollmer T,Racke M,Stüve O,Schwid S,Goodman A,Kachuck N,Preiningerova J,Weinstock-Guttman B,Calabresi PA,Miller A,Mokhtarani M,Iklé D,Murphy S,Kopetskie

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of bromocriptine on periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS) of narcoleptic patients. Bromocriptine significantly reduced the number and index of PLMS without improving the nocturnal sleep disruption in that disorder. These results support the hypothesis that dopaminergic mechanisms are involved ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Boivin DB,Lorrain D,Montplaisir J

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the association of HLA-DR and -DQ haplotypes and alleles with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 91 patients and 91 controls from Iceland using the relative predispositional effect method. The aim was to establish whether there is heterogeneity in HLA associations with MS, whether there are both predispositional a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Haegert DG,Swift FV,Benedikz J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether there are distinct thalamic regions statistically associated with either contraversive or ipsiversive disturbance of verticality perception measured by subjective visual vertical (SVV). METHODS:We used modern statistical lesion behavior mapping on a sample of 37 stroke patients with isol...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Baier B,Conrad J,Stephan T,Kirsch V,Vogt T,Wilting J,Müller-Forell W,Dieterich M

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied clinical characteristics and coexisting causes of stroke in 305 patients admitted to a population-based primary care center with an initial ischemic stroke and a potential cardiac source of embolism (PCSE). Using systematic standardized cardiac, arterial, and cerebral investigations and the logistics of the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bogousslavsky J,Cachin C,Regli F,Despland PA,Van Melle G,Kappenberger L

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with unilateral lesions of the substantia nigra were treated with L-dopa 25 mg/kg subcutaneously 30 minutes after treatment with carbidopa 25 mg/kg intraperitoneally. In the ipsilateral striatum, dopamine levels achieved a peak of 1.57 +/- 0.63 micrograms/g (control 0.19 +/- 0.05 micrograms/g) at 20 minutes and d...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spencer SE,Wooten GF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report two cases of patients with word deafness. The word deafness occurred after a head injury for the first patient and after an arterio venous malformation embolization for the second patient. MRI demonstrated bilateral lesions of the inferior colliculi but brainstem auditory-evoked potentials (BAEP) we...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vitte E,Tankéré F,Bernat I,Zouaoui A,Lamas G,Soudant J

更新日期：2002-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe clinical characteristics, imaging findings, morbidity, and mortality in a single-center cohort of 12 pediatric cavernous sinus thrombosis cases and to review all cases available in recent English literature. METHODS:Clinical data and radiographic studies on 12 cases from our institution were anal...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith DM,Vossough A,Vorona GA,Beslow LA,Ichord RN,Licht DJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin types A, B, and E cause most cases of the paralytic disease botulism. Little is known about the epidemiology, clinical features, or microbiology of botulism type F. METHODS:Cases of adult type F botulism were identified by review of data collected by CDC's National Botulism ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gupta A,Sumner CJ,Castor M,Maslanka S,Sobel J

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In children with and without infantile spasms, this study determined brain volumes and cell densities in epilepsy surgery patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and cortical dysplasia with balloon cells (CD). METHODS:We compared TSC (n = 18) and CD (n = 17) patients with normal/autopsy controls (n = ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chandra PS,Salamon N,Nguyen ST,Chang JW,Huynh MN,Cepeda C,Leite JP,Neder L,Koh S,Vinters HV,Mathern GW

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00