porencephaly/headache

We report a case of a dermoid cyst in the parasellar area associated with porencephaly. A 22-year-old man presented with headache and visual disturbance. Non-enhanced brain CT showed a high density mass in the parasellar area and a low density area in the left temporal lobe. On gadolinium-enhanced

We describe a three generation family with recurrent strokes and cataracts. The index case, a 14 year old boy presented with stroke at the age of 14 years and again 6 months later. His mother had long standing episodic headaches diagnosed as migraine. Grandmother was initially diagnosed with

BACKGROUND The surgical treatment of hydrocephalus is one of the most commonly procedures of modern pediatric neurosurgical practice, and cerebrospinal fluid shunts are the main means of treatment of hydrocephalus, being independent of site of obstruction and ventricular shunt complications are

Trans-synaptic retrograde atrophy (trans-synaptic degeneration) is a secondary degenerative reaction that can appear in various areas of the brain. Degeneration of the optic radiation, the optic tract and the optic nerve due to a cerebral lesion in the occipital region has been described since the

A case of extensive bilateral frontotemporal schizencephaly is alleged - more extensively in the left hemisphere - which associated with polymicrogyria. The cortical anomaly was discovered only incidentally by MR examination in a 22 year-old man who suffered from headache due to a mild head trauma.