Pregnancy is a recognized risk factor for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Headache is very frequent in normal pregnancy and it is a common sign shared between several intracranial diseases. We present a case series of 10 women in the third trimester of pregnancy admitted to our intensive care unit (ICU) with neurological signs and symptoms. 4 of these patients were diagnosed with SAH....

A 56-year-old female teacher presented to Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran, with history of progressive headache, difficulty to read and write (dyslexia and dysgraphia), and seizure since 3 months ago. Neurological examination demonstrated mild bilateral papilledema and left side Babinski sign. The exam was otherwise normal. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed (Figure 1). 1What ...

In this paper, we develop methods for inferring tumor growth rates from the observation of tumor volumes at two time points. We fit power law, exponential, Gompertz, and Spratt’s generalized logistic model to five data sets. Though the data sets are small and there are biases due to the way the samples were ascertained, there is a clear sign of exponential growth for the breast and liver cancer...

nystagmus, dislocation of the left lens in the vitreous humour, and multiple retinal atrophic lesions were also found. An IQ of 49 was found on the Wechsler adult intelligence scale.4 The neurological clinical examination showed cerebellar ataxia with limb and truncal ataxia and ataxic gait; also in this patient, mild hypertonia of the lower limbs, brisk tendon reflexes, and Babinski's sign on ...

We report on a 46-year-old woman with a sciatic nerve schwannoma. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a well-defined, lobulated, intensely enhancing mass posterior to the left hip joint along the left sciatic nerve suggestive of neurogenic tumour. The Tinnel sign was positive on the posterior aspect of the left thigh. The tumour was excised without neural damage. Postoperatively, the patient sh...

oligoclonal bands (ocb) can be detected in a significant percentage (90%) of patients with multiple sclerosis (ms), however, a much lower percentage has been reported in some studies, mainly from oriental countries. on the other hand, ocb have been detected in other neurological disorders (ond), even in diseases without any definite evidence for inflammation in csf such as myasthenia gravis. th...

as being too ill and was retained. At 6 o'clock that evening, the patient was reported to be unconscious. I found him lying motionless, unconscious and undisturbed by shell fire near at hand. The eyes were sunken, the pupils were normal and deep reflexes not exaggerated. Kernig's sign was absent and the plantar response was flexor. There were no neurological signs. The rectal temperature was 10...

Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects about 1% of the general population. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is the one of the most common type of epilepsy [1].There are various signs and symptoms that can help physicians diagnose TLE. The most obvious sign is of course a seizure; however, there are several more subtle signs like memory loss, visual illusions and hallucinations, mig...

Abstract Background Dysgraphia is one of the learning disabilities that require a complex set motor actions. It affects writing skills in form poor handwriting, spelling problems, and difficulty thoughts ideas. Children with often show some soft neurological signs as graphesthesia. The aim this work to study graphesthesia predictive sign could be associated developmental dysgraphia. Results Gra...