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Vertebrobasilar transient ischemic attacks: an unusual clinical manifestation of a cervical aneurysmal bone cyst
No full textAn aneurysmal bone cyst arising from the spinous processes of the second and third cervical vertebrae in a 13-year-old boy became clinically evident as a slightly tender mass. Symptoms were referable to transient ischemia in the vertebrobasilar circulation. After complete removal and irradiation, the patient has no symptoms or signs seven years following operation. © 1981
Tuberculoma of the anterior optic pathways. Case report
No full textA tuberculoma, encasing the anterior optic pathways in a neoplastiform growth, was found in a 25-year-old man complaining of severe visual loss, diabetes insipidus, and sexual impotence following tuberculous meningitis. Following biopsy and anti-tuberculosis treatment, a satisfactory restoration of sight in one eye allowed the patient to resume an almost normal life
Importance of auditory brainstem responses in the CT diagnosis of traumatic brainstem lesions.
No full textGliomas of the optic nerve and chiasm. A clinical review
No full textA series of 24 children with anterior optic gliomas, observed and for the most part operated upon in a neurosurgical service, is reviewed. A low incidence of unilateral nerve tumors and of associated neurofibromatosis, and a rather high frequency of precocious or pseudoprecocious puberty were noted in comparison with other series. Most tumors were low-grade growths. The results of surgical treatment reflect a good prognosis for unilateral tumors and an increasing prognostic ominousness for the posterior neoplastic development. Cerebrospinal fluid shunts and radiation treatment do have a role as adjuncts to surgical exploration and biopsy, which are generally indicated since no preoperative test seems to grant an absolute diagnosis. The opinion that chiasmal tumors should not be treated at all is not shared. When the treatment of an illness falls as far short of the ultimate, as does the therapy of neoplastic disease, then it is necessary to reconsider frequently the principles upon which it is based and the results it achieves. These results are two-fold, curative and palliative and, while our efforts are directed toward the former, we realize only too frequently that the best results will sometimes lie in palliation. The disappointment in accepting this lesser goal must not allow us to underestimate its importance or neglect the help it may give
Die bedeutung der akustisch evozierten hirnstamm¬potentiale bei schweren schädelhirnverletzungen.
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Calcificazioni cerebrali bilaterali senza angiomatosi cutanea: forma atipica della malattia di Sturge-Weber.
No full textPosttraumatic intraventricular haemorrhages
No full textOf a series of 350 patients studied for blunt head trauma by CT scan 10 were found to have an intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH); in 8 cases we could find concomitant CT abnormalities as well as intracerebral contusion or haemorrhage, and in two cases no other CT abnormality was noted. CT scan represents the first reliable and non-surgical tool for identifying this process. Two possible mechanisms that govern the formation of an IVH are postulated: a) an erosion of the ventricular wall by an intracerebral haemorrhage; b) the rupture of subependymal veins deformed by the negative pressure following dilatation of the ventricular wall. The prognosis in our cases is severe
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