A 66-year-old lady with a background history of hypertension and non-insulin-dependent diabetes was admitted with an episode of confusion and slurred speech and was found to have small foci of restricted diffusion in the deep white matter of the left posterior frontal lobe in keeping with small embolic acute infarcts (Figure 1). As a part of her stroke work up, she was found to have a left vent...

Background and Importance: Arachnoid cysts are benign nontumoral lesions that are usually found incidentally in brain imaging. Suprasellar Arachnoid Cysts (SSACs) are rare. They can cause hydrocephalus and increased intracranial pressure, lower cranial nerve impairment and endocrine disorder. Sometimes arachnoid cysts become complicated by subdural hematoma/hygroma.  Case Presentation: We...

A leading article in the British Medical 7ournal (1964) emphasized the poor prognosis for survival when haemorrhage involves the central nervous system in haemophilia. The purpose of this communication is to describe our experience with five such cases, only one of which terminated fatally, a result due largely to treatment with antihaemophilic globulin (A.H.G.). concentrates which have been av...

OBJECTIVE Often patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) recall a recent episode of acute severe headache, usually interpreted as a "warning headache" or first SAH. An alternative explanation is recall bias. The clinical and radiological features of patients with SAH were studied in relation to previous headaches or later rebleeding. METHODS Patients with either a previous headache episod...

Fifty-three cases of non-accidental head injury in children were subjected to detailed neuropathological study, which included immunocytochemistry for microscopic damage. Clinical details were available for all the cases. There were 37 infants, age at head injury ranging from 20 days to 9 months, and 16 children (range 13 months to 8 years). The most common injuries were skull fractures (36% of...