persistent mullerian duct syndrome in a 71-year-old man, case report h. salehi md , m.r. vatani baf md received:27/06/06 sent for revision: 11/10/06 received revised manuscript: 07/02/07 accepted: 12/02/07 background and objective: normal sexual differentiation occurs in the 6th embryonic week and in a normal embryonic life. both wolffian and mullerian ducts are present until the onset of sexua...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe the results of surgery performed in a group of adult patients with tethered cord syndrome with their outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective study included 56 patients. There were 38 females and 18 males. All patients were older than 18 years. RESULTS The mean age at referral was 36 years and 1 month. The mean follow-up period was 10 month...

A 19-year-old man presented with long lasting significant back and bilateral leg pain, and hypoesthesia on the lateral side of both his thighs for which he had undergone several courses of medication and bouts of physical therapy treatment. His urodynamic parameters were normal and lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a low-lying conus at the L2-3 level with a thickened fatty filum,...

The authors describe a patient who presented with acute tetraparesis and a proposed acute traumatic spinal cord injury that was the result of nitrous oxide myelopathy. This 19-year-old man sustained a traumatic fall off a 6-ft high wall. His examination was consistent with a central cord syndrome with the addition of dorsal column impairment. Cervical MRI demonstrated an isolated dorsal column ...

Spinal cord neurological disorders associated with Hashimotos disease are rare and very rarely described.Thediagnosis is based on a set of arguments the performance an exhaustive assessment in order to eliminate other possible causes medullary damage. In this case, we report 21 years old man, who was admitted for spinal syndrome D12-L1 sensory level diagnosed acute transverse myelitis thyroidit...

OBJECTIVE This case report presents an application of spinal cord stimulation to a patient with intractable abdominal pain Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome, that conventional treatment failed to ameliorate. MEASUREMENTS The patient underwent an uneventful spinal cord stimulator (SCS) trial with percutaneous placement of 2 temporal 8-electrode epidural leads (Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, Minne...

We describe a patient with acute respiratory insufficiency and difficult ventilator weaning in the ICU ward, leading to diagnosis of small cell lung cancer with superior vena cava superior syndrome. Bilateral vocal cord paralysis caused his respiratory distress and weaning difficulties. Thyroidectomy and neurological problems (such as Parkinson disease and Guillain Barré syndrome) are more comm...

The spinal cord may be injured directly by the weapon or by indriven bony fragments. The damage to the cord may be either direct or indirect due to impaired arterial supply or venous drainage with resulting hemorrhage or edema.[1,5] The indriven fragment of the weapon may cause a foreign body granulomatous reaction[3] or may act as a micro-traumatizing agent[6] and cause delayed neurological da...

Cardiovocal syndrome or Ortner’s can be caused due to a myriad of etiologies in the neck mediastinum. The also consequence many cardiac mediastinal pathologies even complications surgical treatment. objective this research was systematically review provide an overview etiopathogenesis syndrome. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews used methodology and adhered “Preferred Reporting Items Revi...

RATIONALE The spinal cord compression caused by intraspinal epidural fibrous cord. PATIENT CONCERNS All patients in this study had spinal cord compression syndrome caused by an intraspinal epidural fibrous cord, manifested as abnormally increased epidural adipose tissue by imaging. DIAGNOSE These abnormal fibrous connective tissue strips were not identical to the known pathological tissue s...