An oculocardiac reflex is sometimes elicited by pressure on the eye or traction of the intraorbital surrounding structures during ophthalmic surgery(,'#", or orbit-facial trauma&". The afferent arc of the oculocardiac reflex reaches the brain stem via the nasocilliary nerve'!". Here is reported, what we believe to be the first case where catheterization of the ophthalmic artery elicited an ocul...

Accident records of the Frenchay Accident and Emergency Department for the months of January to June 1979 were examined, and 1,534 cases of head injury were recorded. Of these, the numbers of cases submitted to skull x-ray, admitted to hospital and having CT scans were noted. 1,341 skull x-rays were performed of which 23 showed fractures of the cranial vault. 351 patients were admitted, and of ...

Calcific emboli from a calcific aortic stenosis is an uncommon event, usually following local trauma, as from cardiac surgery or left heart catheterization or as a sequel to bacterial endocarditis. We report what we believe to be the first case of a spontaneous calcareous emboli demonstrated by cranial computed tomography. In this patient, systemic hypertension and mild aortic insufficiency may...

We report the case of 22-year-old man with nontraumatic intracystic hemorrhage into a middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst associated with a contiguous subacute subdural hematoma. Arachnoid cysts are benign intra-arachnoidal fluid collections frequently detected incidentally during neuroimaging. Rare complications of arachnoid cysts such as intracystic hemorrhage or subdural hematomas and subdur...

A 41-year-old man experienced intense headache and neck pain, bruits, and a complete unilateral cranial nerve palsy IX-XII (Collet-Sicard syndrome) after a trivial back trauma. Magnetic resonance imaging and angiography demonstrated features of bilateral internal carotid artery dissection with aneurysm formation at the base of the skull compressing the nerves at the level of the jugular foramen...

The Chiari I malformation is a congenital anomaly of unknown origin consisting of caudal displacement of the cerebellar tonsils protruding through the foramen magnum, whereas the brainstem and fourth ventricle remain in the cranial vault. We present a case of a sudden brain death of a 20-year-old adult man with trauma who subsequently was found to have a previously undiagnosed Chiari I malforma...

Isolated third nerve palsy develops in numerous intracranial pathologies such as closed head trauma, tumor, and aneurysm. This report describes a 61 years old female with an abrasion on the left forehead and ptosis of the left eye. Initial computed tomography did not reveal any causative cerebral and vascular lesions or orbital and cranial fractures. High-resolution and multi-axial enhanced Mag...

Traumatic asphyxia is a commonly used designation of a syndrome related to severe compressive trauma to the thorax. It is characterized by cranial cyanosis, subconjunctival hemorrhage, vascular engorgement of the head, mucosal petechiae, hemoptysis, esophageal and rectal hemorrhage, hematuria, and varying degrees of cerebral dysfunction. By 1985 approximately 210 cases had been reported world-w...

The association between arachnoid cyst and subdural hygroma (SH) is rare. We report a case, presenting of left middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst with traumatic SH and spontaneous resolution of SH. The patient was totally asymtomatic prior to the injury and his arachnoid cyst was detected incidentally during investigations following minor head trauma. Our case with normal neurological examinat...