apraxias/fever

Diagonistic apraxia is a corpus callosal disconnection syndrome. Callosal lesions in Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) have been reported, but callosal disconnection syndrome are rare. A 48-year-old woman was treated for fever and a cough before hospitalization. Her fever abated

A 5-year-old female presented with prolonged afebrile right-sided focal seizures, right brachio-facial paralysis, and dysarthria; consciousness was not altered. Fever appeared 20 hours after onset of neurological symptoms. At admission (day 1) cerebral computerized tomography and cerebrospinal fluid

We report an 81-year-old woman who presented with motor disturbance in her right hand which was followed by parkinsonism, dementia, and supranuclear gaze palsy. She was well until her age of 73 (1989) when she had an onset of difficulty in using her right hand; she did not have weakness. She also

We report a 68-year-old man with progressive speech disturbance and dementia. He was well until 1995, when he noted an onset of difficulty in speech. He was able to name simple objects and understand language, however, he showed great difficulty in spontaneous speech. In 1998, he visited our

A 30-year-old Brazilian man hospitalized with AIDS developed a high-grade fever. Neither culture studies nor radiological examinations revealed the cause; small yet highly intense signals in the basal ganglia were detected upon gadolinium (Gd)-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of

Congenital cerebellar vermis hypoplasias diversely associated with retinopathy, nephropathy and hepatopathy are rare syndromes of uncertain nosology. We report three new cases. METHODS Case 1. A 3-month-old boy presented a brief nystagmus. At the age of 2 years, he had facial dysmorphia, hypotonia,

We report the case of a 39-year-old female with non-herpetic subacute encephalitis. Aphasia occured after a slight fever, and severe epilepsy followed 3 months later. Wernicke's aphasia was noted at the recovery stage, but the patient showed almost complete recovery. Head MRI revealed a lesion from

We report a 55-year-old woman with neuro-Behçet's disease with HLA B54 and predominant cerebral white matter lesions. She showed a cryptogenic high fever and cerebral cortical symptoms such as perseveration, limbkinetic apraxia and dementia. CSF study showed an increase of cell count and protein and

A 78-year-old Caucasian man was admitted in the Department of Neurology for visual disturbances, started two days before. The next day the patient experienced headache, fever and gait disturbances. He had hypertension, diabetes mellitus, an ischemic stroke 13 years ago, longstanding seronegative

A 64-year-old woman was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis since the age of 57. At the age of 62, she manifested episcleritis of the eyes and rheumatoid nodules in the skin, and rheumatoid factor in the blood became high. These findings indicated the presence of systemic vasculitis, and she was

The authors report the case of a 42 years-old electrician man, with an 8 months progressive manual difficulties in his specific job, with a complete disability for the last 2 months. These symptoms were associated with anemia, deterioration of the general condition, and slight fever. Three days

OBJECTIVE Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease frequently showing a relapsing-remitting disease course. Clinical manifestations of 25 inpatients with MS were summarized and analyzed so that the clinical features and therapeutic approaches to childhood multiple sclerosis (MS) were

A 74-year-old man presented with sudden onset of aphasia and apraxia. Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of the brain disclosed a left frontal hemorrhage. The concomitant low grade fever suggestive of infection was unresponsive to cefazolin 1 g q12h, and refractory to piperacillin (PIPC) 2 g q8h. Blood

The authors present a case in which the clinico-evolutive particularity was an association between a periventricular tumour (multiform glioblastoma) and acute renal failure. Considerations are made on clinical signs determined by the neoplastic process (apraxia-agnosia hyperthermia, etc.), and on

We report a 36-year-old woman with right hemiplegia, anosognosia, and rapidly deteriorating course. She was well until the end of January, 1995 when she had an onset of fever, sputum, and cough. A 5 x 5 tumor was found in her left lower lobe. She was admitted to the Pulmonary Medicine on May 24,