Introduction: Mental neuropathy is a sensory neuropathy characterized by hypoesthe-sia or paresthesia of the chin and lower lip. It can be a symptom of a latent malignant disease. Case Presentation: This report presents a case of a 34-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer who complained of severe pain and numbness of the right lower lip. We reviewed numerous reliable articles (throu...

conclusions complete recovery of the hand and finger extension was achieved in nine months. case presentation a 61 year-old man presented with the chief complaint of inability to extend the wrist and the fingers of the left hand which began suddenly the night before admission, following a three-week history of pain, numbness and tingling sensation of the affected extremity. he had no history of...

objective concern for side-effects of therapy related to treatment of childhood malignancies is becoming an increasingly important topic. in this study, we evaluated extent of vincristine (vcr) induced neurotoxicity in a group of children who underwent chemotherapy, with vcr being part of the regimen. materials & methods in this investigation, for 75 children (54% boys, 46% girls), aged between...

aim : the aim of this study was to review cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) cases and to determine the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as a cause of elevated alanine aminotransferase (alt) in healthy blood donors in the permian area and also assess risk factors of nafld such as body mass index (bmi) and correlation with metabolic syndrome in these subjects. back...

Introduction: Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is a common and one of the major complication diabetes mellitus. It also most under diagnosed least understood diabetic complication4. Objective: To determine frequency cardiac its various grades in type 2 Study Design: Cross Sectional Study. Setting: Medical OPD as well from clinic Services Hospital, Lahore. Methodology: Total 195 patient...

Hereditary sensory neuropathy type I (HSN I) is a slowly progressive neurological disorder characterised by prominent predominantly distal sensory loss, autonomic disturbances, autosomal dominant inheritance, and juvenile or adulthood disease onset. The exact prevalence is unknown, but is estimated as very low. Disease onset varies between the 2nd and 5th decade of life. The main clinical featu...

Serum and tissue hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers were compared in 35 alcoholic and 23 non-alcoholic subjects affected by chronic liver disease. Seventeen point one per cent of alcoholic and 21.7% of non-alcoholic subjects had HBV tissue markers, but not serum markers, for this virus. It is therefore concluded that showing the presence of HBV tissue markers permits a better aetiological definiti...

intracranial hemorrhage and entrapment neuropathy are the most serious and disabling complications in hemophilia.the occurance of these neurological complications was studied in 214 hemophiliac patients during a 3 month period. nine patients (4.2%) suffered intracranial hemorrhage (one epidural and others intracerebral). all of intracranial hemorrhage patients had the sevee form of disease (<1%...