Abstract Background Glioblastoma multiform is the most common and aggressive type of primary malignant tumor that affects central nervous system in adults. It clinically presents with seizures, headache, and/or progressive focal neurological deficits. Radiologically, glioblastoma appears as a single distinguishable, large heterogeneous lesion affecting cerebrum characteristic necrosis, marginal...

INTRODUCTION Whitlow is an infection of a finger or around the fingernails, generally caused by bacterium. However, in rare cases, it may also be caused by the herpes simplex virus. As herpetic whitlow is not seen often, it may go under-recognised or be mistaken for a different kind of infection of the finger. Delayed recognition and/or treatment puts patients at risk of complications ranging f...

Cases of herpes zoster are not rare in everyday medical practice and the various neurological complications, such as post-herpetic neuralgias, are well known. Myelitis or encephalitis, on the other hand, are much rarer complications. The following case admitted to the Neuropsychiatric Clinic of the University of Salonica is of special interest because of the focal cerebral lesions, which are ve...

picture of the encephalitis may be fulminating with a fatal outcome, or it ^ be of a much milder nature with ultimate recovery, as in the case here recor^ The present case is reported as an example of its association with occasional manifestation, the Ramsay Hunt syndrome, or so-called herpes " (Hunt, 1907). This syndrome in its most severe form, comp^, peripheral facial palsy, herpetic eruptio...

Micturitional disturbance is rarely mentioned in human herpetic brainstem encephalitis although the pontine tegmentum, called the pontine micturition centre, seems to regulate the lower urinary tract in experimental animals. The case of a 45 year old man, who developed subacute coma and hiccup-like dysrhythmic breathing, and needed assisted ventilation is reported. Examination of CSF showed mon...

1. Symptomatic herpes occurred in 190 (46.2 per cent) of 411 patients treated with fever induced by physical methods. 2. Herpes recurred in only 7, or 5.3 per cent, of 131 patients given subsequent fever treatments, suggesting that some immunity develops with the first attack. 3. An acute encephalitis-like syndrome of short duration and without sequelae developed in a group of patients with sev...

In 2010; 12(5):568-571 issue of IRCMJ journal, an article about herpetic encephalitis (HE) in children was published with the following title: Clinical Manifestations, Laboratory Findings and Outcomes of Children with Herpetic Encephalitis in Amirkola Children Hospital, Northern Iran. The authors found that during 2 years 34% (17 cases) of the 50 patients with clinical diagnosis of encephalitis...