The "Adeloye-Odeku disease" or congenital dermoid cysts over the anterior fontanelle, is a rare congenital disorder of children initially described in Nigeria. It has been rarely reported in the Indian population (3 cases in 2 reports). These rare lesions are operated on by neurosurgeons in view of their location and differential diagnoses. We present two infants with the co...

A 6 week old girl from a socially isolated family presented with seizures and was found to have a full fontanelle, retinal and subhyaloid haemorrhages, and anaemia. These findings were not the result of a shaking injury but of a ruptured intracerebral arterial aneurysm.

OBJECTIVE To study the changes in the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the era of the Hemophilus influenzae (H. influenzae) type b vaccine and pneumoccous resistance. METHODS Retrospective study which included patients admitted to Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar between January 1998 through to December 2000 with positive cerebrospinal fluid culture. RESULTS Thirty-seven patien...

SELECTIVE angiocardiography as a practical means of delineating anatomic details of cardiac malformations has been advanced by the development of contrast agents with greater radiopacity, lower viscosity, and less apparent toxicity. The severe immediate reactions of collapse, so common with older media, are rarely seen today; many patients, however, still have vomiting, intense headache, and ot...

Results Twenty six subjects were diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism, consisted of 15 (57.7%) girls and 11 (42.3%) boys, mean age 11.42 ±10.35 month. The youngest age when the diagnosis (CH) was established was 2 months and the oldest was 46 months. Thirteen subjects (50%) were referred by primary care pediatrician, 5 subjects (19.2%) by general practitioners, 4 subjects by neuropediatrici...

Introduction: Donnai–Barrow syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder first described in 1993 and characterized by diaphragmatic hernia, hypertelorism, agenesis of the corpus callosum and deafness. Case Report: A 23­year­old female with clinical features similar to Turner patients were sent to our department by cardiology department. The main features were umblical hernia, hypertelorism (...

A 34-year-old multiparous woman presented with anti-Rh-D antibodies (1: 512) and fetal hydrops at the 21(st) week of gestation. Ultrasound revealed massive fetal skin edema, ascites, hepatomegaly, placentomegaly, and anhydramnios. No fetal movements were observed. Fetal heart was enlarged, with reportedly decreased contractibility. The Doppler parameters were abnormal: the peak systolic velocit...

decreased level of consciousness in neonates may result from different etiologies, including rare metabolic and hormonal disorder due to anterior pituitary insufficiency. in this case report, a five-day-old newborn boy was referred to the neonatal intensive care unit of mustafa khomeini hospital of ilam, iran. he had an open anterior fontanel with no history of prenatal and familial diseases. c...

Background: Vein of Galen aneurysm (VGA) is the most common form of symptomatic cerebrovascular malformation in neonates. It develops in a fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy due to unknown reasons, but it is likely to have a genetic etiology. The prognosis of VGA is usually poor, particularly in newborns with heart failure due to high-flow intracerebral shunt. Surgery and endovascular em...

Meningitis is one of the most common infectious cerebral nervous system (CNS), defined as an inflammation of the meninges. It is clinically categorized into a chronic and acute based on the acuity of symptoms. Vomiting, bulging fontanel and fever are the main symptoms in the patients with meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is a severe, potentially life-threatening infection that is associated wit...