A twelve year old girl, an established case of systemic lupus erythematosus, was referred to us suffering from diplopia and nasal speech for a period of 3 months. Neurological examination was conducted which revealed a right-sided sixth nerve palsy and a pulsatile nasopharyngeal mass. Neurodiagnostic imaging studies confirmed a giant intracavernous internal carotid aneurysm. The malady of t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the use of brain CT as a routine diagnostic tool in patients presenting with syncope. METHODS From March 2006 to April 2008, 292 patients presented with a history of transient loss of consciousness to the emergency department at the King Hussein Medical Center, Amman, Jordan. A neurologist examined all investigated patients and brain scans were obtained. Patients were c...

purpose: to determine the clinical and paraclinical features of multiple sclerosis (ms) in patients presenting for the first time with optic neuritis. methods:  in this descriptive study, 35 patients with clinical evidence of optic neuritis were enrolled. our evaluation included a neurological examination, visual evoked potentials (vep), brainstem-auditory evoked potentials (baep), and brain mr...

a twelve year old girl, an established case of systemic lupus erythematosus, was referred to us suffering from diplopia and nasal speech for a period of 3 months. neurological examination was conducted which revealed a right-sided sixth nerve palsy and a pulsatile nasopharyngeal mass. neurodiagnostic imaging studies confirmed a giant intracavernous internal carotid aneurysm. the malady of the a...

BACKGROUND The presence of neurological deficits as obtained from clinical examination increases the likelihood of detecting serious underlying brain disorders. OBJECTIVES In this study, we assessed the frequency of reported clinical neurological examination in patients referred to neurology. METHODS We consecutively evaluated referrals to a neurological centre during a 6-month period. RE...