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METHODS
A 45-year-old woman with a history of seizures, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and decreased visual acuity of 5 years. Visual field detected a bitemporal heteronymous hemianopia. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed basal cistern arachnoiditis and supratentorial hydrocephalus. Cranial computed
OBJECTIVE
Functional monocular hemianopia is an extremely rare condition, for which measurement of hemifield visual evoked potentials (VEPs) has not been previously described.
METHODS
A 14-year-old boy with functional monocular hemianopia was followed up with Goldmann perimetry and measurement of
BACKGROUND
Migraine with aura is characterized by reversible focal neurological symptoms preceding or accompanying headache. Visual aura is the most common type of aura and its patognomic symptoms are scintillating fortification migrating across the visual field or scintillating scotoma. However,
We report a case of basilar artery migraine with transient MRI and EEG abnormalities. A 25-year-old male medical student developed a right occipital throbbing headache one hour after the abrupt onset of vertigo, nausea, left-sided homonymous hemianopsia and nystagmus. All of his complaints subsided
A 40-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of headache, nausea and vomiting, with generalised seizures for the past 15 days. On examination he had bilateral papilloedema, visual acuity was 6/6 in both eyes but perimetry showed right homonymous inferior quadrantanopia. His MRI showed numerous
A 29-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of dizziness, nausea and convulsive seizure. She complained of left sided tinnitus. Neurological examination revealed right homonymous hemianopsia, and systolic murmur on the left retroauricular area. Angiograms revealed a dural AVM in the
Postoperative epidural hematomas remote from the operating field are sometimes seen as a complication after ventricle drainage, ventricle-peritoneal shunt or suboccipital craniotomy. Reported here is a very rare case of epidural hematoma which occurred on the opposite site of craniotomy after
A total of 17 patients with lacunar syndromes due to intracerebral hemorrhage or hemorrhagic lacunar stroke (pure motor hemiparesis 9, sensorimotor stroke 5, pure sensory stroke 3) are reported. Data from these patients were obtained from consecutive stroke patients included in the prospective
BACKGROUND
Pituitary apoplexy is a rare clinical emergency which results from hemorrhage or infarction in the pituitary gland.
METHODS
We present a 14-year-old girl with pituitary apoplexy and review the literature.
RESULTS
Our patient experienced blurred vision, nausea, and headache. Her
This paper describes an unusual case of primary reticulum cell sarcoma of the brain in the left temporal lobe which was considered to be metastasized to the right frontal lobe and bilateral eyes. The patient is a 60-year-old man who was completely well until Nov. 1979 when he developed headache
Hyponatremia can be a marker of an underlying disease. We report a 52 years-old male with Diabetes Mellitus who consulted for an episode of nausea and vomiting lasting four days. His baseline serum sodium was 118 mEq/L. He had no neurological deficit. Hyponatremia was initially interpreted in
A totally thrombosed large arteriovenous malformation (AVM) which operated as an intracranial space occupying lesion was presented. The patient was a 24-year-old woman who had had frequent attacks of loss of consciousness since the age of 13 years and had been on anticonvulsant medication at the
OBJECTIVE
To describe a patient with an undiagnosed pituitary macroadenoma, in whom pituitary apoplexy developed after heparin anticoagulation for treatment of unstable angina.
METHODS
We chronicle the clinical course, treatment, and outcome in a 53-year-old woman with pituitary apoplexy. Potential
We report a 85-year-old woman who died after one year history of convulsion, dementia, and consciousness disturbance. She was apparently well until January 6, 1995 when she was 85 year old; on that evening, she suddenly stated that some one was in her room and she became confused. A local MD gave
BACKGROUND
Stroke is a decidedly devastating event for any patient, but particularly for a military aviator in a single-seat aircraft. Incidence of acute ischemic infarct in men ages 25 to 29 ranges from 3.4 to 5.6/100,000. The neurological sequelae of stroke can have a lasting and profound impact