Neuropathies form an integral part of the symptomatology leprosy. leprosy take various forms and shapes. At one end is cutaneous nerve involvement adjacent to anaesthetic skin patch other symmetrical pansensory neuropathy devastating sensory ataxia leprous ganglionits. Lepra reactions add spectrum. Hosts immunological status largely decides clinical manifestations seen in nerves skin. A wide ar...

OBJECTIVE To describe presenting symptoms, evaluation findings, and surgical management of cranial base hyperostosis in patients with Camurati-Engelmann disease (CED). DESIGN Retrospective study and literature review. SETTING The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. PATIENTS A total of 306 patients diagnosed as having CED, including 12 primarily evaluated at our institution between 1968 and...

BACKGROUND Symptomatic early neurosyphilis with isolated acute multiple cranial nerves palsy as initial manifestation of HIV infection is very rare. It is caused by direct invasion of the central nervous system by the spirochete Treponema pallidum. CASE REPORT A 31-year-old African-American homosexual man presented with bilateral hearing loss, constant vertigo, intermittent horizontal diplopi...

Sinonasal organized hematoma (SNOH) is rarely encountered in clinical practice. The disease demonstrates a high tendency for occurrence in East Asian individuals, and in the majority of cases, is located in the maxillary sinus. The current report presents the case of an 81-year-old female who developed a space-occupying lesion, which masqueraded as a skull base malignancy, following surgery for...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) has a severe influence on the nervous system and it is more likely to occur on the nerves of the upper and lower extremities than on the cranial nerves. According to the statistics, the incidence of cranial nerve involvement ranges anywhere from 3% to 14%. The aim of this study is to perform facial nerve conduction studies in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy, ...

Infrared thermography analyzes changes in the surface temperature of skin and has been used companion animals to identify inflammatory processes, neoplasia, pain, neuropathies. This study evaluated compared surgical wound temperatures Nigerian Indigenous Dogs (NID). indigenous dogs are a medium-sized breed that weighs between 8 30 kg with moderate hair length, mesocephalic cranial index. The we...

Involvement of the peripheral nervous system is one of the complications of multiple myeloma with a varying incidence of clinical and subclinical neuropathy in different studies. As most of the patients with multiple myeloma suffer from generalized systemic symptoms such as malaise, bone and low back pain, the clinical clues to the diagnosis of the neuropathy in its initial stages could be ...

Objective N/A. Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is one of the most common systemic vasculitides in adults over age 50 with incidence ranging from 15 to 35 per 100,000 individuals. The disorder often included differential diagnosis maladies producing atypical facial pain, headache, visual loss, amaurosis fugax, jaw elevated inflammatory markers, and anemia. GCA typically known affect crania...