Teaching NeuroImages: Frontal lobe Streptococcus abscess

O5: Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

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Teaching Video NeuroImages: Frontal opercular seizures with jacksonian march.

A 31-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of progressive dysarthria and 1 month of gradually worsening motor seizures predominantly affecting the right face. Examination was unremarkable except for a mild spastic dysarthria and slow, alternating tongue movements, probably due to a partial opercular syndrome. Seizures captured during EEG recording showed a jacksonian march starting over...

Endonasal endoscopic drainage of frontal lobe epidural abscess.

Teaching NeuroImages: Gasperini syndrome.

Gasperini syndrome is a rare crossed brainstem syndrome characterized by ipsilateral impairment of the VI, VII, and occasionally VIII cranial nerves and contralateral sensory loss. The syndrome, initially described by Ubaldo Gasperini in 1912, results from a lesion of the caudal pons tegmentum (figure e-1, links.lww.com/WNL/A47). The most frequent cause is the occlusion of the long circumferent...

Teaching NeuroImages: chordoma.

A 30-year-old man presented with recurrent headaches. CT head revealed a clival chordoma (figure 1A). Chordomas originate from the embryonic remnants of the notochord and account for 2%–4% of all malignant bone tumors. They have a predilection for the axial skeleton, with 35% affecting the spheno-occipital region. The incidence peaks at ages 20–40 years. Male patients are affected twice Figure ...