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Long-term follow-up of children with chronic relapsing polyneuropathy.

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Long-term follow-up of three children with early-onset chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is presented. A 3-year-old male (Patient 1) manifested initially progressive muscle weakness during 6 months with spontaneous regression, followed by two severe relapses at 5 and 6 years of age.

[Guillain-Barré syndrome as a rare cause of acute respiratory insufficiency].

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BACKGROUND Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute inflammatory demyelinating disease of peripheral nerves. Antibodies acting against antigens on the myelin or the axons seem to play a causative role. In up to 80 % the onset of GBS follows an antecedent respiratory or gastrointestinal

Clinicopathologic features and outcomes of neuro-Behçet disease in Spain: a study of 20 patients.

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BACKGROUND To describe the clinical characteristics and evolution of a series of adult patients hospitalized for neuro-Behçet disease (NBD). METHODS Consecutive patients admitted for NBD in a teaching hospital were retrospectively selected. Disability at discharge and during follow-up was graded

Chronic meningitis with intracranial hypertension and bilateral neuroretinitis following Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

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A previously well 12-year-old boy presented with a 2-week history of headache, nausea, vomiting and left-sided weakness. He subsequently developed meningism, right abducens nerve palsy, persistent papilloedema and reduced visual acuity in association with a bilateral macular star, consistent with

Post-embolisation flow disturbances at the basilar tip triggering the development of an arterial aneurysm. A case report.

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CONCLUSIONS We present the case of an ll-year-old boy with a large intracerebral and intraventricular haemorrhage due to rupture of a left temporal arteriovenous malformation. The child initially presented with severe headaches and meningism, right VIth nerve palsy, right hemianopsia, and expressive

An unusual presentation of epidural Acinetobacter infection.

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OBJECTIVE We report a case of spinal-cord compression caused by epidural fat infection with Acinetobacter. The initial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan suggested epidural hematoma or abscess, although both were absent at surgery. METHODS A 60-year-old man had a thoracic epidural sited at the

[Acute low back pain with progressive sensorimotor paralysis. Differential diagnosis and therapy of acute decompression disease].

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METHODS A 38-year-old man presented with acute low back pain and paraesthesia in dermatome S1. 4 hours before onset of symptoms he had finished the last of three scuba dives with a maximum depth of 30 m and a total diving time of 3 hours. No alcoholic beverages were taken during or before diving.

A patient with thyroid storm presenting with apathetic thyrotoxicosis and features of meningoencephalitis.

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BACKGROUND Apathetic thyrotoxicosis is distinctly unusual in thyroid storm and features of meningoencephalitis are very rare. Here we present such a patient. METHODS The patient was a 67-year-old Chinese woman who presented with acute generalized weakness, decreased mentation, fever, and rapid

Rare clinical findings in a patient with sporadic hemiplegic migraine: FDG-PET provides diminished brain metabolism at 10-year follow-up.

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BACKGROUND Sporadic hemiplegic migraine (SHM) is defined as migraine attacks associated with some degree of motor weakness during the aura phase and where no first-degree relative has identical attacks. SHM has a wide inter- and intraindividual clinical spectrum and, in case of prolonged aura

Optic neuritis as isolated manifestation of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis: a case report and systematic review of ocular manifestations of neoplastic meningitis.

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Introduction. Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurs in about 5% of cancer patients. Ocular involvement is a common clinical manifestation and often the presenting clinical feature. Materials and Methods. We report the case of a 52-year old lady with optic neuritis as isolated manifestation of

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