abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare clinical evaluation, electrophysiological investigation and magnetic resonance findings in assessing the severity of idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Seventy-four patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome were prospectively recruited. Clinical evaluation included sympt...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Martins RS,Siqueira MG,Simplício H,Agapito D,Medeiros M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the developed countries, elderly population is rapidly increasing, but outcomes of elderly patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) remain unclear. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of non-traumatic SAH patients aged 80 years or older, who were hospitalized in a singl...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Asano S,Hara T,Haisa T,Okamoto K,Kato T,Ohno H,Hasuo K,Kondo T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweet's disease with central nervous system involvement, tentatively named neuro-Sweet's disease, has rarely been reported. Although systemic corticosteroid therapy is highly effective for neurologic symptoms in neuro-Sweet's disease, relapse is common. Here, we describe the case of a 38-year-old Japanese man who pres...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Fukae J,Noda K,Fujishima K,Wada R,Yoshiike T,Hattori N,Okuma Y

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) without symptoms of cerebral ischemia or significant carotid stenosis have reduced blood flow through the middle cerebral arteries (MCAs), as well as to assess differences between blood flow through the MCA...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Porebska A,Nowacki P,Safranow K,Drechsler H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (proximal dominant form, HMSN-P) has been reported exclusively from Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. We herein report three brothers with HMSN-P who are among Brazilians of Japanese ancestry. They showed the typical clinical manifestations and were compatible with HMSN-P. Okinawa Pr...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Maeda K,Sugiura M,Kato H,Sanada M,Kawai H,Yasuda H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is limited information about risk factors of young ischemic stroke in Qatar. The aim of this study was to describe the risk factors and subtypes of young ischemic stroke among Qatari and non-Qatari residents. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Hospital based prospective observational study involving all young adult...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Khan FY

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the clinical characteristics, aetiology, neuro-physiological characteristics, imaging findings and other investigations in a cohort of patients with non-traumatic brachial plexopathy (BP). METHODS:A 3-year retrospective study of patients with non-traumatic BP identified by electromyography (EMG)...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Mullins GM,O'Sullivan SS,Neligan A,Daly S,Galvin RJ,Sweeney BJ,McNamara B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is accepted criteria for migrainous infarction, the pathophysiology of this disease process remains poorly defined. Delineation of MRI characteristics of migrainous infarction may improve our understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and prognosis of this disorder. We present a case of a migraino...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Liang Y,Scott TF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of brain necrosis is life-long risk of repeat radiation therapy, even after a long time interval and a moderate radiation dose. We report on a 34-year-old patient who had prophylactic cranial irradiation with 25Gy and adjuvant chemotherapy in childhood for leukaemia and in adulthood, 28 years later, th...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Koot RW,Stalpers LJ,Aronica E,Andries Bosch D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloid cyst of the third ventricle is a known primary brain tumor. The familial occurrence of this cyst and associated conditions has been rarely discussed in the literature. To our knowledge only 10 affected families have been previously reported in the literature. We report the 11th family with this potentially lif...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bavil MS,Vahedi P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coincidence of pulmonal sarcoidosis and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) rarely occurs. So far an entire course has been recorded in only very few cases. We demonstrate the case of a 49-year-old male developing an infratentorial localized PML in the setting of advanced pulmonal sarcoidosis. PML was not...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Völker HU,Kraft K,Arnold E,Steinhoff S,Kolios G,Sommer S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seizures occur more frequently in patients with an intracerebral haematoma (ICH) than in those with a cerebral infarct. However, the risk factors for seizures in association with an ICH are less well known. PURPOSE:The characteristics of medically treated patients with spontaneous ICHs, who developed seizur...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： De Reuck J,Hemelsoet D,Van Maele G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eumycetoma in the cerebellopontine angle region is extremely uncommon with no case being reported as per an extensive review of the literature by the authors. The authors report a case of cerebellopontine angle eumycetoma in a young female managed by subtotal decompression and antifungal treatment. The pre-operative d...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Sai Kiran NA,Kasliwal MK,Suri A,Sharma BS,Suri V,Mridha AR,Sharma MC,Garg A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this paper a new checklist (CLCE-24) for identification of cognitive and emotional problems after stroke is presented. The CLCE-24 is intended to support a clinical interview by health care professionals other than the trained (neuro)psychologist. METHODS:Patients were interviewed with the CLCE-24, 6 mont...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： van Heugten C,Rasquin S,Winkens I,Beusmans G,Verhey F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old woman, with a 7-year clinical history of invasive thymoma treated at ages 26 and 30 years by thymectomy and radiation, presented with a generalized convulsion and loss of consciousness. Following the seizure there was no neurological deficit and normal tendon reflexes. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Okita K,Matsukawa N,Hattori M,Yamada K,Takada K,Yamawaki T,Yoshida M,Hashizume Y,Ojika K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze long-term results and to determine prognostic factors on seizure outcome in a series of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) who underwent anteromedial temporal lobectomy (AMTL). MATERIALS AND METHODS:From 1995 to 1998 forty-two patients suffering from non-lesional TLE underwent tailored AMT...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Roberti F,Potolicchio SJ,Caputy AJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports a Chinese family that has suffered from occipital encephalocele over five generations with a pattern of autosomal dominant inheritance. There were 113 family members in this family, and 21 of them had an occipital subscalp encephalocele. The patients with the disease showed normal or nearly normal n...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Zhao X,Chi L,Zhao Y,Chi Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The annual hemorrhage rate of intracranial cavernous malformation (CM) is reported to range from 0.23% to 1.1%. Because of the low hemorrhage rate, operating on a deep symptomatic lesion with or without hemorrhage is considered controversial. For the prevention of hemorrhage, radiosurgery is an alternative m...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Huang YC,Tseng CK,Chang CN,Wei KC,Liao CC,Hsu PW

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine whether segmental left ventricular wall motion abnormalities (SLVWMA) are a potential cause of ischemic stroke. METHODS:Demographics, cardiovascular risk factors and echocardiographic parameters of patients with ischemic stroke (with and without SLVWMA) were collected a...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Deleu D,Kamran S,Hamad AA,Hamdy SM,Akhtar N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with the varicella zoster viral (VZV) infection of multiple cranial nerves mimicking Garcin syndrome, who initially presented with Ramsay Hunt syndrome (herpes zoster oticus). A 78-year-old man showed left facial palsy with zosteric eruptions in his left auricle and dysphagia, followed by left tota...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Nishioka K,Fujishima K,Kobayashi H,Mizuno Y,Okuma Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive impairment and seizures are both common conditions in patients with cerebrovascular disease. PURPOSE:The present study investigates whether the occurrence of late-onset seizures, following an ischemic stroke, contributes to vascular cognitive impairment. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The mean Mini-Mental ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： De Reuck J,De Clerck M,Van Maele G

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammatory infiltration and secondary chronic dysfunction of exocrine glands. Systemic (extraglandular) manifestations of the disease occur in one-third of the patients, including a wide spectrum of peripheral and central neurological disorders. We re...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Rossi R,Valeria Saddi M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Only a part of MS patients treated with interferon beta (IFN) respond positively to the applied treatment and to date no parameter predicting the response to treatment has been found. The aim of the study was to determine whether the levels of interleukin-10 and -12 (IL-10 and IL-12) might be the parameters ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bartosik-Psujek H,Stelmasiak Z

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is clinical and experimental evidence involving the insula in the control of the autonomic system and cardiac function, with differential participation of right and left brain hemispheres, and these differences could influence mortality in the acute phase of brain hemisphere ischemic infarcts. METHODS...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Mateo I,Pinedo A,Escalza I,Garcia-Monco JC

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of symptomatic and asymptomatic herniated discs and root compression in patients with lumbosacral radicular syndrome (LRS) and to correlate clinical localization with MRI findings. METHODS:Fifty-seven patients with unilateral LRS were included in the study. Using the visual analogu...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： van Rijn JC,Klemetso N,Reitsma JB,Majoie CB,Hulsmans FJ,Peul WC,Bossuyt PM,Heeten GJ,Stam J

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the safety and efficacy of targeted stimulation of the motor cortex as a treatment for essential tremor (ET). PATIENTS AND METHODS:At the University of Kansas Medical Center, two patients with essential tremor received stimulation of the (contralateral) motor cortex using an investigational implan...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lyons KE,Wilkinson SB,Pahwa R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A restricted neurological deficit is not uncommon in patients with cortical lesions. However, in cheiro-oral syndrome (COS) associated with cortical involvement, the topographic disparity of the cheiral and oral representation area is hardly explained by the restricted sensorium at the homolateral mouth angl...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Chen WH,Lan MY,Chang YY,Lui CC,Chen SS,Liu JS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioneuronal neoplasms are rare tumors that typically affect patients in the first three decades of life. Since the publication of the World Health Organization (WHO) 2000 classification of tumors, further variants of these tumors have been reported. We present an 83-year-old gentleman who presented with a history of ...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Kuo YH,Edgar MA,Luther N,Schwartz TH

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES/PURPOSES:Small vessel disease (SVD) is associated with traditional vascular risk factors (RF). The aim of our study was to determine whether different SVD types, single lacunar infarction (LI) and multiple LI (MLI) with or without white matter lesions (WML), have different RF profiles. PATIENTS AND METHODS:...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Pavlovic AM,Pekmezovic T,Zidverc-Trajkovic J,Pavlovic DM,Jovanovic Z,Mijajlovic M,Petrovic M,Kostic VS,Sternic N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is the most frequent paraneoplastic syndrome affecting the brain. Until now, anti-Tr associated PCD was only seen in patients with Hodgkin's disease. We report a male patient who presented with a progressive ataxia, affecting predominantly the lower limbs and a cerebellar d...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Bruylant K,Crols R,Humbel RL,Appel B,De Deyn PP

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) has several clinically different forms. Whereas the illness progresses slowly in most of the patients, 10% have an aggressively progressive course with fatal outcome without signs of remyelination capability. The process of remyelination depends on numerous interactive factors, including the pr...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Poljakovic Z,Zurak N,Brinar V,Korsic M,Basic S,Hajnsek S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of patients referred for neuroimaging studies unrelated to multiple sclerosis (MS) are found to have incidental lesions suggestive of MS in their nervous systems but many such patients do not develop clinical symptoms and signs and remain as "subclinical MS" (SCMS). MRI and cerebrospinal fluid (CS...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Siva A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the changes in the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) in a single neurosurgical unit in the UK, following the publication of the international subarachnoid aneurysm trial (ISAT). METHODS:The presentation, investigations, treatments and outcome data of all patients admitted with...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Gnanalingham KK,Apostolopoulos V,Barazi S,O'Neill K

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of multiple brain abscesses (BAs) in a 67-year-old man with symptoms of progredient disorientation and amnestic aphasia. Onset of symptoms occurred one week after surgical treatment of a perianal abscess. No other source of infection was identified and the abscesses were limited to the brain. The immu...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Doepp F,Schreiber SJ,Wandinger KP,Trendelenburg G,Valdueza JM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lacunes are small deep infarcts due to occlusion of long-perforating arterial branches. The clinical presentation and outcome are variable. The present study investigates the prognostic value of comparing repeated computed tomographic (CT) scans in patients with a lacunar syndrome (LACS). PATIENTS AND METHO...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： De Reuck J,Hemelsoet D,Nieuwenhuis L,Van Maele G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is rare for a dermoid cyst to develop intratumoral hemorrhage. A 61-year-old woman had a sudden-onset left hemiparesis and slow response to verbal requests for one week when unenhanced computed tomography scanning revealed a mixed iso- and hypo-dense heterogeneous lesion in the right fronto-temporal area. T1-weight...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Chen JC,Chen Y,Lin SM,Tseng SH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptomatic spontaneous intratumoral hemorrhage is a rare event in a patient with a brain tumor (BT). Although the treatment of choice in such a case is surgical removal of both the tumor and the hemorrhage, the optimal timing for surgical intervention has not been clearly established, particularly in those who presen...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Inamasu J,Nakamura Y,Saito R,Kuroshima Y,Mayanagi K,Ichikizaki K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the prognostic value of median somatosensory evoked potentials (M-SSEP) changes in the early phase of supratentorial infarction and hemorrhage. MATERIAL AND METHODS:This study includes 130 patients (mean age 62+/-11.4 years, 43 women, large middle cerebral artery territory infarction in 36 patient...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Tzvetanov P,Rousseff RT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first successfully treated case of Cladophialophora bantiana cerebral abscess with the relatively new antifungal agent voriconazole. Infection with this organism is often fatal. A 64-year-old man presented to our institution with progressive neurologic symptoms due to a brain abscess. A stereotactic brai...

journal_title：Clinical neurology and neurosurgery

authors： Lyons MK,Blair JE,Leslie KO

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00