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We report a 57-year-old woman with progressive gait disturbance, headache, character change, convulsion and coma. She was well until 55 years of age, when she noted an onset of unsteady gait. At times she experienced transient weakness in her right hand, which was followed some difficulty in
A 63-year-old man presented with an unusual supracallosal epidermoid cyst with repetitive hemorrhages that initially manifested as severe headache in 2003. Physical examination found no neurological deficit. Computed tomography demonstrated a homogeneously high density mass lesion measuring 3 x 3 cm
We report a 47-year-old woman with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). She was a carrier of HTLV-I virus, and developed subacute right hemiparesis and marked motor aphasia. She had a malignant lymphoma in the left neck and basal cell carcinoma in the right inguinal region. Three months
An autopsy case of dementia beginning with right hand muscle atrophy was reported. A 42-year-old woman with no family history of neurologic disease developed weakness of the right hand at age 30, and was diagnosed as having amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The weakness and atrophy spread to the
A 78-year-old man was admitted in the intensive care unit for epilepsy seizure (tonic-clonic seizure). Since three months, his wife reports motor dysfunction (weakness) and since two weeks, rapidly progressive changes in cognition (apraxia, akinetic mutism). The diagnosis of probable sporadic
OBJECTIVE Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) is a novel, minimally invasive treatment that has multiple advantages in pediatric use and broad applicability for different types of lesions. Here, the authors report the preliminary results of the first series of
Five patients were examined suffering from bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction, caused by occlusion of the posterior paramedian thalamo-subthalamic arteries, when they begin from one single pedicle. All cases began with obnubilation or transitory coma, followed by hypersomnia. Four patients
Anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territory strokes account for 0.5-3% of all ischemic strokes. The etiological mechanisms of ACA territory strokes vary by race; ACA dissection is a frequent cause in Japan. The most prevalent symptom of such strokes is contralateral hemiparesis or monoparesis, usually