case presentation we report a 5-year-old boy, who was presented with sudden right hand monoparesis and dysarthria. conclusions the patient was investigated with magnetic resonance angiography and diagnosed as md. introduction moyamoya disease (md) is a disorder caused by blocked arteries at the base of the brain. as the normal blood vessels narrow and become blocked, a person may suffer a strok...

The association between superior laryngeal nerve (SLN) paresis and laryngeal granuloma formation has not been described earlier. The aim of this study was to present a series of patients with isolated unilateral SLN paresis who developed contralateral vocal process granulomas. The study design was a retrospective chart review including all patients presenting to Indiana University from February...

The selection of patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) for surgery depends on the concordance of data from clinical, imaging and electroencephalographic evaluation. Though clinical examination is often normal, emotional facial paresis has been described in patients with TLE. Utilizing a well-characterized group of mesial TLE (MTLE) patients, who have achieved excellent...

sant action on the muscular and nervous systems, cases of actual paresis following injections of emetine hydrochloride are rare, and the following may be of interest. Case 1.?A Chinese lady had six hypodermic injections of emetine hydrochloride in the arm; after the third injection she developed increasing weakness in both upper extremities, and eventually could hardly lift up her hand or any-

The development of effective neurobiological adjuvants to rehabilitation of paresis caused by stroke will depend on understanding mechanisms of paresis. Our objective was to determine the extent to which upper-limb (UL) paresis after nonlacunar ischemic middle cerebral artery (MCA) distribution stroke is caused by infarction of posterior periventricular white matter (PVWM), where corticospinal ...

Sixteen operative cases of parasagittal and falx meningioma were analyzed retrospectively. Parasagittal meningioma totaled 12 cases and falx meningioma numbered 4 cases. Preoperative symptoms were paresis of a lower extremity in 7 cases and disturbed consciousness or mentality in 6 cases. Paresis and/or consciousness deteriorated just after the operation in 11 cases. the deterioration was ident...

I used leg and arm paresis to predict outcome measured as extremity function in a prospective study of 75 consecutive hemiplegic patients admitted to an inpatient stroke rehabilitation unit. In each patient, extremity paresis was quantified according to the five-point scoring system advised by the Medical Research Council, upper extremity function was quantified using the Barthel Index subscore...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of laryngeal paresis within a selected population of dogs and identify some of the distinguishing characteristics of affected dogs. DESIGN A prospective study involving laryngoscopic examination of 250 dogs. PROCEDURE The laryngeal movements of 250 dogs undergoing general anaesthesia were observed. The severity of laryngeal paresis in these dogs was grad...