INTRODUÇÃO: O pineocitoma é um tumor que se origina da glândula pineal e possui caráter benigno de crescimento lento. Em geral, os tumores região são entidades raras correspondem cerca 0,4% a 1% dos intracranianos nos adultos sintomatologia pode variar desde sintomas hipertensão craniana compressão estruturas nervosas adjacentes. DESCRIÇÃO DO CASO: Paciente 18 anos, sexo masculino, relatando ce...

background: neurobrucellosis is a rare complication of brucellosis. acute meningitis and encephalitis are the most common clinical manifestations; however, symptoms of these two conditions may be subacute and diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion in patients from endemic areas. diagnosis is often based on neurological symptoms, serology, and suggestive brain imaging because cerebrospinal...

Case presentation: A 10-year-old boy, presented with early onset epilepsy, at three months of age, characterized by myoclonic and tonic seizures, associated global developmental delay. He has never developed gait or speech. Neurologic examination showed spastic tetraparesis. Cranial resonance imaging diffuse polymicrogyria, calcifications, cortical subcortical atrophy, ventriculomegaly. There w...

Introduction: Hydrocephaly is a common complication of intra ventricular brain tumors. The aim of this study was to determine, demographic and clinical features and type of hydrocephaly before and after surgical interventions in patients with intra ventricular brain tumor surgery. Material and methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 patients with intra ventricular brain tumors who were candid...

lifeline for supplying the brain with essential nutrients and growth factors throughout development and into adulthood. At the same time, the brain exercises constant control to ensure that the flow of CSF is homeostatic. CSF is secreted by the choroid plexus and moves rostrocaudally through the ventricles and into the subarachnoid space before being drained into the venous circulation (80). Fa...

introduction: we intended to assess the accuracy of re-expressed modification of diet for renal disease (mdrd) and cockcroft-gault (cg) equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (gfr) in chronic kidney disease in two different etiologies of acute renal failure (arf): acute tubular necrosis (atn) and acute glomerulonephritis (agn). methods: patients admitted for arf or the patients compl...