Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, beyin sapı tümör tanısı alan ve tedavi edilen hastalarımızın klinik bulguları, yaklaşımları sonuçlarını değerlendirmektir. Gereç Yöntem: Kliniğimizde, 2006 ile 2019 yılları arasında tümörü hastaların onkoloji dosyaları geriye yönelik olarak incelendi. Bulgular: Beyin almış 20 hasta çalışmaya dâhil edildi. Hastaların yaşı 2 16 yıl değişiyordu (median, 6,5 yıl). Cinsiye...

We examined the peripheral auditory system and the auditory brainstem pathway of children with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). One hundred and one children, 51 with AIDS diagnosis and 50 normal children were evaluated. Audiological assessment included immittance measures, pure tone and speech audiometry and auditory brainstem response (ABR). The children with AIDS more frequently had...

A case of brainstem infection by Listeria monocytogenes is described. The patient was a 63 year old man previously in good health and his illness did not follow the usual bi-phasic pattern. There was no prodromal phase, and the progressive brainstem signs with a lymphocytosis and a normal sugar level in the CSF led to a tentative diagnosis of viral brainstem encephalitis. Ampicillin was begun o...

Presented here is a 36-year-old male with arterial hypertension who developed brainstem edema and intracranial hemorrhage. Magnetic resonance scan revealed diffuse brainstem hyperintensity in T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery images, with an increase in apparent diffusion coefficient values. After a reduction in blood pressure, rapid resolution of the brainstem edema was obser...