Recurrent pineal apoplexy in a child.
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Pineal apoplexy: imaging diagnosis and follow-up of three new cases.
phenomenon, being found on up to 40% of autopsy cases1. However, symptomatology as a result of these cysts is considerably rare. Mukherjee, Banerji and Sharma identified 74 cases in the literature1. Symptomatic pineal cysts present as one of three syndromes identified by Wisoff and Epstein2: (1) paroxysmal headache with gaze paresis, (2) chronic headache, gaze paresis, papilledema and hydroceph...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neurology
دوره 69 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007