A 61-year-old man developed progressive gait imbalance and papular skin lesions over 9 months. He reported fatigue, but no other constitutional symptoms. Neurologic examination revealed ataxia. Brain MRI (figure 1, A–D) demonstrated punctate enhancing foci supratentorially patchy pontine T2 hyperintensity; pituitary or orbital abnormality was reported. Skin biopsy 2) a histiocytic neoplasm that...

An occlusion of the artery Percheron (AOP) is a rare clinical condition that remains diagnostic challenge for physicians given its variable presentation. This infarction result an anatomical variant single vessel arising from posterior cerebral artery. Occlusion AOP results in levels alteration consciousness, vertical gaze palsy, and memory impairment. Unfortunately, due to this presentation th...

A 26-year-old woman with an 8-year history of untreated multiple sclerosis (MS) presented acute-onset continuous involuntary wavelike movements on the right side her face (video). Neurologic examination revealed right-sided hemifacial myokymia (CFM), no concurrent spasm. MRI documented a new nonenhancing lesion in dorsolateral pontine tegmentum and supratentorial demyelinating lesions (figure, ...

Neurologic complications of children with influenza A H1N1 2009 pandemic, diagnosed in two consecutive influenza seasons were retrospectively reviewed to seek better outcomes in future outbreaks. Patient demographics, clinical manifestations and neurologic outcomes were reviewed. A total of 1,389 children were diagnosed with influenza A H1N1 by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain r...

OBJECTIVE Patients with hematological malignancies frequently encounter spine-related symptoms, which are caused by disease itself or process of treatment. However, there is still lack of knowledge on their epidemiology and clinical courses. The purpose of this article is to review clinical presentations and surgical results for spinal involvement of hematologic malignancies. METHODS From Jan...

Background and Objective: Chronic renal failure (CRF) may have many effects on nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy, and some neurologic complications of transplantation. In this present study we investigate neurologic disorders in children with CRF. Methods: In this descriptive...