dysarthria/necrosis

We describe painful subcutaneous lipomatosis in four members of a two-generation family. Lipomas appeared in adulthood, were circumscribed, painful on touch and mainly localized to the trunk and proximal parts of the extremities. The disorder was associated with dysarthria, visual pursuit defect and

A 62-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with left hemiparesis grade III and dysarthria lasting for three weeks. She had undergone kidney transplantation in 2007 and had hypothyroidism, treated with immunosuppressants. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 3.8-cm peripheral

We present a 29-year-old woman with a long history of attacks of migraine with and without visual aura. She was a heavy smoker (20 cigarettes/d) and was currently taking oral contraceptives. During a typical migraine attack with aura, she developed dysarthria, left brachial hemiparesis and

A 25-year-old woman was admitted after having had a fever for one month, headache, nausea, vomiting, dysarthria and right-sided hemiparesis. A 35-year-old man was admitted because of severe loss of vision and a history of focal retinochoroiditis. Both were suffering from Behçet's disease. Behçet's

A previously neurodevelopmentally intact 5-year-old male was admitted to hospital with a right lower lobe pneumonia with pleural effusion, subsequently confirmed to be a Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. On the seventh day of the illness he had a prolonged generalized tonic or tonic-clonic

We present a 27-year-old female, a known case of classical migraine headache, who had a severe episode of migraine with visual aura attack which continued late into night. The next morning, she had persistent headache and developed abrupt onset of dysarthria and right hemiparesthesias. She

We describe a Korean family presenting with pediatric-onset, progressive, generalized dystonia with bilateral striatal necrosis and the homoplasmic G14459A mutation in the mitochondrial ND6 gene. The G14459A mutation has been reported in families presenting with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy

A 26-year-old woman was treated for a prolactin secreting pituitary adenoma by surgery and radiotherapy (5860 rads). Fourteen months later, she developed right hemiparesis and dysarthria. A T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scan using gadolinium contrast showed a small, enhanced lesion in the

OBJECTIVE Diverse neurologic syndromes have been described in association with tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) antagonist therapy for inflammatory arthritides and Crohn's disease. The objective of this study was to review the occurrence and clinical features of Guillain-Barré syndrome and its

We report a 27-year-old woman, a known case of classical migraine headache, on oral contraceptive pills. She had a severe episode of migraine with visual aura attack, which continued late into the night. The next early morning, her headache persisted and she developed abrupt onset of dysarthria,

Central nervous system is rarely involved in progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) unless there are concomitant abnormalities in renal or lung function or hypertension. A 72-year-old woman with typical PSS developed cerebellar bleeding. Medical history records revealed, she had noted the onset of

A 28-year-old man was admitted to our hospital, because of double vision, memory disturbance and dysarthria. These symptoms developed in November, 1994. His mental activity was gradually decreased and he became apathetic. A physical examination on admission was unremarkable. There were no

BACKGROUND The tertiary cutaneous syphilis is now extremely rare. We report a case of tubercular cutaneous syphilis associated with neurological dysfunction. We emphasize the difficulties to interpret serologic and CSF tests for the diagnosis of neurosyphilis. METHODS A 63 year-old-woman had

We present 3 sporadic cases of a subacute to chronic, progressive motor (i.e. weakness, ataxia, spasticity, dysarthria, and dysphagia) and cognitive disorder in adults of both sexes, without proven immunocompromise or malignancy. Neuroimaging studies revealed tiny calcifications with atrophy of the

Thiamine is an important coenzyme, which is essential for metabolism and maintaining cellular osmotic gradient. Thiamine deficiency can cause focal lactic acidosis, alteration of the blood-brain barrier and the production of free radicals through cell death by necrosis and apoptosis. Wernicke