Chronic exertional anterior compartment syndrome is debilitating disease of the lower limb. Limited symptomology characterises the clinical picture at rest, pain during sporting activities, tumefaction, and contractures of the limb as well impotency by the pain of the entire forefoot and hypoesthesia. Usually, the most affected patients are athletes. We analyse a case of chronic post-traumatic ...

We report a case of a 45-year-old man with a complaint of both leg weakness and hypoesthesia. Radiological evaluation revealed an osteolytic lesion of the ninth thoracic vertebra. The patient underwent posterior corpectomy with total excision of the tumor, mesh cage insertion with posterior screw fixation and subsequent radiotherapy. Histology confirmed the diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocy...

Autism is the most common developmental disability, affecting 1/45 children [1]. Its cause remains unknown. Clinically, it is defined by the appearance of social/language delay, unusual, repetitive behavior, and abnormal sensory responses by the age of 3 [2]. Abnormal responses to touch are amongst the earliest and most universally prevalent of abnormal sensory symptoms [3]. In 2013, when abnor...

The authors evaluated changes in position and angle of the proximal segment, including the condyle, after intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy (IVRO) with and without a Le Fort I osteotomy to verify whether displacement of the proximal segment could induce postoperative complications. Changes in condylar angle, ramus angle, and displacement of proximal segment were measured pre- and postoperative...

We present a 57-year-old male who presented a right arm paresthesia lasting for 5 minutes. Two hours later he suffered from a right faciobrachial paresthesia lasting for 10 minutes. Cranial MRI didn’t reveal ischemic lesions. The patient was discharged home with acetyl salicylic acid and atorvastatin. Three months later the patient presented two episodes of a right faciobrachial paresthesia las...

A 69-year-old man presented with a recent history of painless diplopia and left eye conjunctival injection. He had a cutaneous adenosquamous carcinoma removed from the left forehead 3 years before. The examination showed complete left ophthalmoplegia, exophthalmos, ptosis, and ipsilateral V1 hypoesthesia. Brain MRI revealed thickening and contrast enhancement of the external wall of the left ca...

The authors report the case of a 54-year old type-2 diabetic female patient with a Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP). She progressively developed distal hypoesthesia and tetraparesis. She deteriorated after two courses of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) administration and became rapidly wheelchair bound. After one month of steroid treatment, the patient was walking alo...

Background: Few reports represent palmar cutaneous nerve neuropathy in the wrist due to a ganglion cyst. Case Presentation: A 25-year-old female was presented with a mass at volar side of the wrist and hypoesthesia at the base of thenar eminence. At ulrasonographic examination, a simple cyst was detected. Sensory response of palmar cutaneous branch of median nerve was absent at the affec...

Spinal cord compression due to extramedullary hematopoiesis is a well-described and rare syndrome encountered in several hematological disorders including β-thalassemia. Hereby, a 37-year old pregnant woman with intermediate β -thalassemia with paraparesis and lower limb hypoesthesia was presented. MRI s...