Teaching NeuroImages: Hypothalamic hamartoma and polydactyly
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Teaching video neuroimages: hypothalamic hamartoma: an overlooked entity.
Neeraj N. Baheti, DM Ajith Cherian, DM Ramshekhar Menon, DM Ashalatha Radhakrishnan, DM A 21-year-old man presented with brief spells of inappropriate laughter since 6 years of age. Three gelastic seizures were recorded during video-EEG monitoring (video on the Neurology Web site at www.neurology. org). MRI revealed a small hypothalamic hamartoma (figure 1). Gelastic seizures can also arise fro...
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Antonio J. da Rocha, PhD Marcos Rosa Junior, MD Fernando Norio Arita, PhD Isolated hypothalamic hamartomas (HH) have a distinct clinical phenotype from that of PallisterHall syndrome (PHS), as HH consist of more severe seizures and cognitive, behavioral, and endocrine disorders.1 The imaging features help one to distinguish these conditions (figures 1 and 2). Isolated HH are hyperintense on flu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008580