Intraparenchymal meningiomas without dural attachment are extremely rare, especially when they occur in basal ganglia region in child. An 8-year-old boy was admitted at our hospital, complaining of recurrent headache and vomiting for 3 months. Neurological examination showed impaired vision and mild paresis of the left extremities. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a lesion located in the...

The clinical features and long term outcome of familial idiopathic intracranial calcification in three members of one family are described. The illness presented as psychiatric disorder in all patients, and in one patient, epilepsy and intellectual deterioration were later manifestations. Skull radiographs and CT were performed sequentially, in one patient, over a 22 year period and, in another...

PURPOSE To review the cranial CT and MR examinations of 29 children with perinatally transmitted HIV infection and correlate the imaging findings with clinical and pathologic data. METHODS 28 children were examined with CT, four with MR. RESULTS CT abnormalities were seen in 25 children studied (89%), including cerebral atrophy (25 children), basal ganglia calcification (10 children), periv...

For the majority of adults and children with AIDS, the disease is associated with neurologic manifestations [1, 2]. In children, a progressive encephalopathy has been described that often has characteristic findings on CT scans, including diffuse cerebral atrophy with secondary enlargement of the ventricular system [2-4] and symmetrical bilateral calcifications of basal ganglia and white matter...

In-utero transmission of rubella virus during pregnancy leads to congenital Rubella syndrome (CRS), which is characterized by cataracts, deafness and sensorineural hearing loss. While the nuclear cataract is the most frequently occurring abnormality, basal ganglia calcification is a rarer manifestation. The Risk of fetal transmission of rubella virus is highest during the first 12 weeks of gest...

we present a 19-year-old patient with hematologic and neurologic manifestations associated with wilson’s disease. idiopathic thrombocytopenia was diagnosed in october 2009. bone marrow aspiration was normal. gradually her neurologic and psychiatric symptoms emerged, dysarthria, writing apraxia, learning difficulties, emotionalism and eventually dystonia of hands. the serum ceruloplasmin was low...

B striato-pallido-dentate calcinosis (Fahr’s disease) is known as bilateral symmetric calcification, mainly of the basal ganglia and the dentate nucleus of the cerebellum.1 The clinical features can be varied. The diagnosis is established by CT or MRI of brain and ruling out calcium metabolism abnormalities and developmental defects. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological sensori...