Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal spongiform encephalopathy, which typically presents with a rapidly progressing dementia and additional neurological findings that can be quite variable and diverse. Here we report the unusual case of a patient who presented with left alien limb sign without overt cognitive impairment and was ultimately diagnosed with pathologically confirmed Creutzfeldt-Jako...

PURPOSE Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease affecting cartilaginous and non-cartilaginous structures. Neurological involvement is rarer but results in profound disability. Early identification and treatment of underlying RP may promote neurological recovery. CASE REPORT We illustrated a 53-year-old man diagnosed with dementia. Neuroimaging and cerebrospinal flu...

Objective: To determine the neurological complication rates of cerebral angiography performed for inpatients and explore the risk factors for neurological complications. Patients and Methods: The medical records of all inpatients undergoing diagnostic head and neck carotid and cerebral angiograms from July 2002 to April 2004 were reviewed. A neurological complication was defined as any new neur...

BACKGROUND Despite being the most common tumor of the spine, vertebral hemangioma is rarely symptomatic in adults. In fact, only 0.9-1.2% of all vertebral hemangiomas may be symptomatic. When hemangiomas occur in the thoracic vertebrae, they are more likely to be symptomatic due to the narrow vertebral canal dimensions that mandate more aggressive management prior to the onset of severe neurolo...

Zika virus (ZIKV) infections have been linked with neurological complications and congenital Zika syndrome. Given the high level of homology between ZIKV and the related flavivirus dengue virus (DENV), we investigated the level of cross-reactivity with ZIKV using a panel of DENV human mAbs. A majority of the mAbs showed binding to ZIKV virions, with several exhibiting neutralizing capacities ag...

OBJECTIVES To test a new neurological sign, the "abductor sign," which can distinguish between organic and non-organic leg paresis using synergic movements of the bilateral hip abductors. METHODS The subjects were 33 patients presenting with paresis of one leg, 17 of organic origin and 16 of non-organic origin (hysteria). To test the abductor sign, the examiner told the patient to abduct each...

A rare case of ulnar nerve entrapment due to extraneural ganglion at the elbow is presented. A 64-year old right-handed man presented with a 6 months history of pain in his right elbow, progressive numbness, tingling, atrophy and weakness in his right hand. Electrophysiological studies demonstrated a severe conduction block affecting the ulnar nerve in the retrotrochlear groove but without any ...

recmr ln com^ined with sulphadiazine found the pati*ate ^3 Per cen^these s they noted as neurological sequelae 4 cases of brain damage giving rise to hydrocephalus, mental impairment and paralysis. These were all infants under 1 year. There were 4 other cases of deafness, partial or completeOne of us (Konar 1950) reported 3 cases of pneumococcal meningitis where neck rigidity and Kernig's sign ...

INTRODUCTION Brain abscess in pregnancy is very rare, which mostly progresses to neurological abnormalities. CASE PRESENTATION The patient is a 24-year-old pregnant woman. She was referred to Saitama hospital due to severe headache and nausea on October 2008. Brain MRI detected a 1.5 cm abscess mass with extensive edema in the right frontal lobe. We performed intensive therapy using some anti...

BACKGROUND Conversion disorder (CD) is a psychiatric disorder, yet the diagnosis cannot be established without the expertise of a neurologist, as distinguishing a functional from an organic symptom relies on careful bedside examination. Joseph Babinski considered the absence of pronator drift as a 'positive sign' for hysterical paresis but the validity of this sign has never been evaluated. The...