how to cite this article: iibtihel rébai i, benrhouma h, kraoua i, drissi c, ben hammouda m, gouider-khouja n. mirror movements and myelomeningocele: report of a single case and review of literature. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer;7(3):58-61.   objective mirror movements (mm) have been described in several pathological conditions. their association with neural tube defects is rare, and only 5...

Introduction: Polymer gel dosimeters contain chemical materials sensitive to the radiation which are polymerized by the radiation as a function of absorbed dose. So information of spatial dose distribution can be extracted by imaging from irradiated gel. Among imaging techniques, computed tomography (CT) poses as an attractive method because of practical advantages such as acce...

we report a rare genetic disorder case of neuroacanthocytosis with clinical profile (oro-lingual-facial abnormal involuntary movements, neuropathy) and typical magnetic resonance findings (cerebral atrophy, bilateral caudate nuclei atrophy with dilated anterior horns of the lateral ventricles), positive family history in his brother and acanthocytosis in peripheral blood smear.

how to cite this article : molla mohammadi m, tonekaboni sh, khatami ar, azargashb e, tavasoli a, javadzadeh m, zamani gr. neuroimaging findings in first unprovoked seizures: a multicentric study in tehran. iran j child neurol. 2013 autumn; 7(4):24-31. objective seizure is an emergency in pediatrics. it really matters to the parents of the involved child to have information about the causes, ma...

abstract radionuclide cisternography (rnc) is of potential value in pointing out the sites of cerebrospinal fluid (csf) leakage in patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (sih). in the current report, we present two patients who underwent rnc for suspected csf leakage. both patients underwent magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and rnc for evaluation. we describe a simple method to incr...

central nervous system involvement arising from schistosomiasis is uncommon. it may be produced most fre­quently by schistosoma japonicum infection, but reports of s. mansoni presenting as an intracerebral mass lesion are particularly rare. the authors describe the case of a 35-year-old woman with a 3-month history of partial epilep­tic seizures and head­aches. she immigrated to egypt 4 years a...

spinal epidural lipomatosis is a rare condition which is described as the accumulation of fat in the extradural territory and often causes dural impingement. spinal epidural lipomatosis has been implicated in causing a variety of neurologic impairments ranging from back pain, radiculopathy, claudication, myelopathy or even cauda equina syndrome. we report a 46-year-old female with obesity and a...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: there is a broad variation in reported frequencies of seizure in multiple sclerosis (ms). in this study, the seizure and its characteristics analyzed among a large group of patients with ms. materials and methods: we reviewed the medical records of all definite ms patients referred to the ms clinic of kashani h...

abstract primary cardiac tumors are rare in all ages. their reported prevalence ranges from 0.001 to 0.03 percent in autopsy series. 25 percent of primary cardiac tumors are considered to be malignant, the majority of which are sarcomas. on account of the late presentation of symptoms in malignant heart masses, finding locally infiltrative tumors or systemically widespread cases at initial pres...