BACKGROUND Preputial calculi are rarely encountered in childhood. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 5-year-old boy with symptoms of chronic balanoposthitis. OBSERVATION A preputial stone was documented and removed at circumcision. OUTCOME Uneventful postoperative recovery. MESSAGE In children, association between phimosis and neurologic impairment represent predisposing condition for preputial sto...

Posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome (PRLS) is a neurologic condition, often presents with various clinical manifestations. It is rare during pregnancy. We herein report a case of PRLS in a 31-year-old woman, presented with preeclampsia, diagnosed by computer tomography, and successfully delivered the baby with caesarean section. At discharge, patient was fully recovered without an...

Viral encephalopathy is a very rare, but a serious neurologic condition. We present a patient who was admitted to our hospital because of drowsiness, memory disturbances, non-compliance, and disorientation. Treatment with methylprednisolone pulse treatment facilitated recovery without severe sequela. Therefore; when acute viral encephalopathy is actually suspected, steroid pulse therapy should ...

Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare condition characterized by atypical psychiatric and heterogeneous neurological manifestations such as acute cerebral ischemia, seizure, tremors, myoclonus, psychosis, depression, cognitive disorders, and fluctuating loss of consciousness. Here, a case of 28 year-old man was reported who referred to the emergency department (ED) with different acute neur...

OBJECTIVE To report the clinical findings of 10 patients diagnosed with pseudomigraine with lymphocytic pleocytosis and the results of mutational analysis of the CACNA1A gene in 8 of these patients. BACKGROUND Pseudomigraine with lymphocytic pleocytosis, also referred to as headache with neurologic deficits and cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (HaNDL), is characterized by episodic transient ...

abnormalities of blinking in childhood are not uncommon. to determine the characteristics and causes of excessive blinking, this prospective, non–comparative consecutive case series study was carried out. in outpatient clinics of ophthalmology and neurology of our hospital, 60 children aging 2-16 years old with excessive blinking were examined. detailed ophthalmologic and neurologic evaluation ...

LLOWING the introduction of liver therapy for pernicious anemia in I9L6’ the curability of the neurologic manifestations of this disease became a matter of intense interest and large series of patients with acute, chronic and residual neurologic defects were treated with lightly cooked liver and oral liver extracts. It was found that while this treatment restored satisfactory blood levels and r...

acute gastroenteritis (age) is a serious disease and is one of the most important causes of early childhood mortality in developing countries. the neurologic manifestations can be propounded as primary symptoms of age. in order to determine the rate, clinical presentations, and outcome of patients with age who presented with neurologic manifestations and compare them with patients without neuro...

STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional survey of surgeon members of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). OBJECTIVE This study sought to characterize the incidence, clinical presentation, diagnostic workup, treatment, and neurologic prognosis following delayed postoperative neurologic deficit (DPND) in patients undergoing spinal deformity surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA DPND is a potentially de...