Laryngeal Paralysis Recovered Two Years after a Head Trauma by Growth Hormone Treatment and Neurorehabilitation

Brain Recovery after a Plane Crash: Treatment with Growth Hormone (GH) and Neurorehabilitation: A Case Report

UNLABELLED The aim of this study is to describe the results obtained after growth hormone (GH) treatment and neurorehabilitation in a young man that suffered a very grave traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a plane crash. METHODS Fifteen months after the accident, the patient was treated with GH, 1 mg/day, at three-month intervals, followed by one-month resting, together with daily neurorehabi...

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis after Esophagectomy

1 Received June 15, 2015; revised and accepted July 21, 2015. Published online August 11, 2015; doi: 10.1620/tjem.237.1. Correspondence: Kazuo Koyanagi, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Esophageal Surgery, Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis after Esophagec...

Actinomycotic Brain Abscess Developed 10 Years after Head Trauma

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Actinomyces species are members of the endogenous flora of mucous membranes, and are freque...

A Clinical Diagnosis Made Bench Side after Two Years

Pseudotumor Cerebri in a Child with Idiopathic Growth Hormone Insufficiency Two Months after Initiation of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Treatment.

Purpose. To report a rare case of pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) in a child two months after receiving treatment with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) and to emphasize the need of close collaboration between ophthalmologists and pediatric endocrinologists in monitoring children receiving rhGH. Methods. A 12-year-old boy with congenital hypothyroidism started treatment with rhGH on a dose of 1...