UNLABELLED The majority of the information available about the disease course of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is restricted to the first five years after disease onset. However, data about early damage were rarely reported. OBJECTIVE to describe the early damage outcome of SLE patients in early disease and to discriminate the influence of disease itself or its therapy as t...

Stab wounds of the spinal canal are rare and constitute an uncommon cause of spinal cord injury. They are usually responsible for an immediate neurological deficit that requires emergency therapeutic management to minimize the extent of neurological deficit and to prevent further loss of neurological function. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to evaluate damage to the spinal cord, inclu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Oxidative stress is probably involved in neuronal damage induced by ischemia-reperfusion. The purpose of this study was to assess the role of antioxidant activity in cerebral ischemic stroke. METHODS Antioxidant activity of blood plasma and cerebrospinal fluid was assessed in 22 patients with cerebral hemisphere infarction that was verified and quantified by MRI. RESU...

A 5-year-old girl tripped while carrying a bowl of rice and plastic chopsticks. One the chopsticks penetrated medial aspect right upper eyelid. In emergency room, she was fully conscious without any evident neurological damage. From computed tomography (CT) study ([Fig. 1A B]) three-dimensional reconstruction 1C]), chopstick found to be passing through superior orbital fissure into cranium. No ...