Surgical treatment of Arnold-Chiari malformation type I in an adult patient
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Delirium, headache, and the type I Arnold-Chiari malformation.
Acute delirium can occur in a variety of states including migraine, l head trauma,2 nonconvulsive status epilepticus,3 and cerebral infarction.4 Acute delirium accompanied by migrainous headache is much more common in children than adults and is termed acute confusional migraine.s In 1883 John Cleland, a British poet and anatomist, first described the abnormality of the brainstem and cerebellum...
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Syncope precipitated by sneezing in an adult male associated with an Arnold-Chiari type I malformation and basilar invagination presents a clinical problem in the differential diagnosis and pathological anatomy of Valsalva-related syncope. An abnormally acute clivoaxial angle, small foramen magnum, and type I Arnold-Chiari malformation appear to be a combination of features intolerant of Valsa...
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magnetic resonance findings described above. The most common symptoms are occipital headache, triggered by Valsalva maneuver or neck extension, retroorbital pain, and visual disorders or symptoms simulating Ménière disease with hearing loss, vertigo, and tinnitus.5 Additionally, compression of the brainstem can lead to hydrocephalus or syringomyelia in up to 40% of cases.6 We describe a 54-year...
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Address for Correspondence: Dr. Joseph Abraham, Department of Anatomy, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh 32, India, 160030. Phone No.: +919041466127. E-Mail: [email protected] Chiari malformations (CM) are named for Hans Chiari, an Austrian pathologist, who first identified type I-III in 1891. This study was conducted on 400 fetuses obtained from department of Obstetrics an...
متن کاملSurgical Outcome of Adult Idiopathic Chiari Malformation Type 1
OBJECTIVE The pathophysiology of idiopathic Chiari malformation (CM) type 1 is disturbance of free cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow and restoration of normal CSF flow is the mainstay of treatment. Additional migration of the medulla oblongata in pediatric patients is referred to as CM type 1.5, but its significance in adult patients is unknown. This study is to compare surgical outcomes of adult ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0042-8450,2406-0720
DOI: 10.2298/vsp0808648m