An infant with hyperalertness, hyperkinesis, and failure to thrive: a rare diencephalic syndrome due to hypothalamic anaplastic astrocytoma

An unusual case of an infant with failure to thrive.

An infant with respiratory distress and failure to thrive.

A 4-month-old male was referred to the Dept of Paediatric Surgery at the authors9 institution, for the investigation of respiratory distress, failure to thrive and complete situs viscerum inversus since birth. A chest radiograph obtained a few hours after birth showed situs viscerum inversus, left apical atelectasis, hyperinflation and hyperlucency of the remaining left lung, and a mild shift o...

An infant with repeated respiratory infections and failure to thrive.

KIRTI GUPTA, *SURJIT SINGH, *DHRUBAJYOTI SHARMA, #MINI P SINGH AND *MEENU SINGH From the Departments of Histopathology, *Pediatrics, and #Virology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. Correspondence to: Dr Kirti Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER), Chandigar...

Diencephalic syndrome: a cause of failure to thrive and a model of partial growth hormone resistance.

Diencephalic syndrome is a rare but potentially lethal cause of failure to thrive in infants and young children. The diencephalic syndrome includes clinical characteristics of severe emaciation, normal linear growth, and normal or precocious intellectual development in association with central nervous system tumors. Our group initially described a series of 9 patients with diencephalic syndrome...

Acquired stuttering due to recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma.

Acquired (neurogenic) stuttering is a rare phenomenon seen after cerebral infarction or brain injury. Aetiology of this symptom is unclear, but recent evidence supports that it is a disturbance in the left hemispheric neural network involving the interplay between the cortex and basal ganglia. We present the case of a patient who develops acquired stuttering after a recurrence of a right tempor...