INTRODUCTION Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome is described as unilateral optic disc swelling with contralateral optic atrophy in the absence of an intracranial mass causing compression of the optic nerve. This occurs typically due to bilateral sequential optic neuritis or ischaemic optic neuropathy. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome in a two year old boy wit...

Outcome measurements are essential to monitor the clinical course or treatment response of peripheral neuropathy. Even though there no designated standard scale for neuropathy currently, several scales were validated use outcome based on many researches. Here, we reviewed commonly used and fulfilled clinimetric properties in neuropathy, especially focusing inflammatory (Guillain-Barré syndrome,...

Leprosy is a major cause of peripheral neuropathy in developing countries, affecting sensory, motor, and autonomic nerve function. Neuropathy complications can include sensory loss muscle weakness. Impaired function often the first symptom encountered leprosy neuropathy. Early detection treatment are important to prevent disability.

percutaneous vertebroplasty is a promising therapeutic technique for pain control in patients with pathologic fractures of vertebral bodies. percutaneous vertebroplasty is an appropriate treatment for vertebral pathologic fractures, which is resistant to other usual treatment. it is a useful and only choice in special cases, because of less tissue damage and there is no risk of open surgery and...

“Saturday night palsy”, also known as “lovers’ paralysis”, is a neuropathy of the radial nerve, caused by extrinsic compression at certain point in its path along humerus, usually level spiral groove. This designation based on fact that this occurs, frequently, after excessive alcohol intake, thus resulting an incorrect position arm during sleep. fourth most common mononeuropathy worldwide, aff...

conclusions demyelinating disease, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, autoimmune disease, and hereditary optic neuropathy could cause optic neuropathy. normal cbc parameters and the absence of clinical manifestations of vitamin b12 deficiency could not rule out its diagnosis. careful physical examinations and history-taking with a classical app...