STUDY DESIGN Prognostic, retrospective case series. OBJECTIVE.: This study is part of a larger investigation to develop and validate a standardized and reliable method to evaluate and classify the neurologic consequence of spinal cord injury (SCI) in children. Such an instrument may also find use in the evaluation of patients with concomitant brain injury and/or cognitive impairment. We examine...

The annual incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury worldwide is estimated to be 35 patients per million. Nonmissile penetrating spinal injuries most commonly occur in the thoracic region, and the majority has neurologic deficits on admission. The management of patients who lack neurologic deficits is controversial due to the risk of neurologic status alteration intraoperatively. However, fail...

This study summarizes our clinical and surgical experience with pediatric brain tumors that were initially presented with seizures. The records of 367 consecutive children, treated for brain tumors between the years 1996 and 2007, were retrospectively analyzed, focusing on the clinical manifestations, diagnostic gap, and postoperative seizure follow-up that lasted at least 2 years. Seizures, ma...

N. Montano, MD C.G. Nucci, MD F. Doglietto, MD A. Cianfoni, MD C. Lucantoni, MD P. De Bonis, MD G. Tamburrini, MD M. Visocchi, MD A 54-year-old woman with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, who had received a renal transplant 10 years previously, came to our attention for acute low back pain, associated with fecal and urinary incontinence. General examination was unremarkable. Neurol...

Chorioretinal involvement, frequently asymptomatic and self-limited, is common in patients with West Nile virus (WNV) infection associated with neurologic illness. A bilateral multifocal chorioretinitis, with typical clinical and fluorescein angiographic features, is the most common finding, but numerous other ocular manifestations can occur. Diabetes mellitus appears to be a potential risk fac...

OBJECTIVE To assess the contribution of neonatal electroencephalogram (EEG) and its correlation with the neurological examination at age of 9 months in newborns with bacterial neonatal meningitis. METHOD Twenty seven infants were studied with positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture for bacteria. We used the worse EEG result during acute phase of meningitis, and performed neurologic follow-...

OBJECTIVE To assess the neurodevelopmental health of children born after intracytoplasmatic sperm injection (ICSI). DESIGN Prospective controlled blinded study. SETTING Tertiary care center. PATIENT(S) A total of 276 term-born singletons conceived by ICSI and 273 matched spontaneously conceived (SC) singletons at the age of 5.5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Neuromotor development asses...

Inflammatory polyneuropathy may be associated with various tumorous diseases, including hematological malignancy. A 50-year-old man visited neurologic department complaining of bilateral lower extremities weakness, tingling sensation and weight loss. Initially he was diagnosed as demyelinating sensorimotor after performing the nerve conduction study, furthermore myelodysplastic syndrome reveale...

AIM To investigate differences in the quality of mother-child interaction between preterm- and term-born children at age 5, and to study the association of mother-child interaction with sociodemographic characteristics and child disability. METHODS Preterm children (n = 94), born at <30 weeks' gestation and/or birth weight <1000 g, and term children (n = 84) were assessed at corrected age of ...

CONTEXT Evidence suggests that physical activity may be related to the clinical expression of dementia. Whether the association includes low-intensity activity such as walking is not known. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between walking and future risk of dementia in older men. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Distance walked per day was assessed from 1991 t...