cerebellar ataxias are a heterogenous group of disorders, clinically and etiologically, that result in considerable health burden. finding out about the various etiologies, and their relative prevalences in the population suffering from cerebellar ataxia helps the clinician to perform a better management, in treatment process. this is a cross sectional study designed to estimate the relative pr...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the temporal bone is a rare and destructive malignancy and represents both diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The complex regional anatomy of the temporal bone requires equally intricate surgical techniques to adequately resect the tumour mass during surgical excision. Adjuvant radiotherapy is offered to patients with advanced disease and has been showed to confer ...

A 4-year-old male patient was the fourth child of a Turkish family. He was admitted to hospital with the complaints of headache, vomiting, drowsiness, and backache. In the past, he had developed a localized infection at the site of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) inoculation and progressive axillary lymphadenitis, starting 3 months after BCG vaccination. He also developed pneumonia unresponsive ...

PURPOSE To analyze the clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcome of patients with solely cerebellar bacterial brain abscess (BBA). CASE REPORT Eight patients with solely cerebellar BBA, collected during a period of 23 years from 210 BBA patients, were included in this study. The eight patients were five men and three women, aged 5-54 years (mean, 36.6 years). Six of them were adults, o...

Of the two reported immunocompetent patients with an isolated cerebellar aspergilloma, one was an adult[3] and another was an infant (his immune status being debatable).[4] The source of infection in our patient is unclear. Though Aspergillus is known to reside in tuberculous cavities, the chest X-rays did not reveal cavitatory lesions or a fungal ball. The other possibility is that he suffered...