background & aim: chronic subdural hematoma (csdh) is a common neurosurgical pathology. the objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of this pathology and the results in treating it combined from three hospital centers in benin. methods & materials/patients: from september 2010 to september 2013 a multi-center, retrospective and descriptive study was conducted in three hospital ...

BACKGROUND The role of intra- and extra-cranial venous system impairment in the pathogenesis of various vascular, inflammatory and neurodegenerative neurological disorders, as well as in aging, has not been studied in detail. Nor have risk factors been determined for increased susceptibility of venous pathology in the intra-cranial and extra-cranial veins. The aim of this study was to investiga...

Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome represents a phenotypic spectrum of motor, sensory, and cranial nerve neuropathy, often with ataxia, optic atrophy and respiratory problems leading to ventilator-dependence. Loss-of-function mutations in two riboflavin transporter genes, SLC52A2 and SLC52A3, have recently been linked to Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome. However, the genetic frequency, neuropat...

INTRODUCTION We report an unusual case of facial pain and swelling caused by compression of the facial and vestibulocochlear cranial nerves due to the tortuous course of a branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Although anterior inferior cerebellar artery compression has been well documented in the literature, compression caused by the posterior inferior cerebellar artery is rare. ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to describe the pathological findings and to analyze clinical predictors of abnormal imaging findings in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with syncope. METHODS The database was retrospectively reviewed for all patients who underwent cranial computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), having the symptom of syncope. Patients were...

The main aim of the research was to study the addressability for CT scanning of neonates with suspicion of cerebral pathology and the role of this investigation in diagnosis. The specific objectives of the research were to describe the population characteristics in terms of age, sex and clinical diagnosis and to investigate the value of computer tomography as diagnosis test for hydrocephalus. I...

Volume measurements of the brain are of interest in the diagnosis of brain pathology. This is particularly so in the investigation hydrocephalus and canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD), both of which result in thinning of the cerebral cortex and enlarged ventricles. Volume assessment can be made using computed tomography or more usually magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). There is, however, some u...

A 53-year-old man with severe headache, blurred vision, and single generalized tonic-clonic seizure during hemodialysis presented to the emergency department (ED). On admission to the ED, the patient was in postictal state and measured at the following levels: blood pressure 203/113 mmHg, pulse rate 80/ min, respiratory rate of 17/min, body temperature of 36,5 °C, peripheral O2 saturation of 96...

Vestibular schwannoma is a benign and common slow-growing tumor that develops on the vestibular divisions of cranial nerve VIII. Some risk factors may enhance intratumoral hemorrhage which leads to management early surgical procedures. Hence, we describe 57-year-old man presented with hearing loss 5*8 mm schwannoma. Eight months later, patient was referred headache, nausea vomiting, right hemif...