BACKGROUND Parsonage-Turner syndrome is a rare and painful peripheral neuropathy that usually presents as brachial plexus neuritis and also has other nerve involvement. METHODS AND RESULTS Herein, we report the case of a patient with right recurrent nerve palsy as the first clinically isolated manifestation of underlying Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Idiopathic dysphonia was the only symptom pre...

chorea is brief, quasi-purposeful, irregular muscle contractions, not repetitive or rhythmic, but flows from one muscle to the next and athetosis is slow, writhing, continuous, worm-like movements of distal extremities (chiefly the fingers) which show bizarre positioning without posturing. metabolic causes have been documented earlier, note worthy of that being diabetes. choreoathetosis has bee...

Sixty-three patients with third cranial nerve palsies (CNPs), either isolated (31) or in association with other neurologic deficits (32), underwent neuroophthalmologic and neuroradiologic evaluation. Discrepancies between the clinical and radiologic evaluations were analyzed and useful clinical presenting symptoms were identified. Microvascular infarction secondary to diabetes mellitus and/or h...

Infectious abdominal aortic aneurysms often present with abdominal and lower back pain, but prolonged fever may be the only symptom. Infectious abdominal aortic aneurysms initially presenting with meningitis are extremely rare; there are no reports of their successful treatment. Cases with Streptococcus pneumoniae as the causative bacteria are even rarer with a higher mortality rate than those ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES) is a relatively novel approach to the craniovertebral junction (CVJ). The purpose of this analysis is to determine the surgical outcomes of patients who undergo purely EES of the CVJ. METHODS A search for articles related to EES of the CVJ was performed using the MEDLINE/PubMed database. A bibliographic search was done for additional articles. Dem...

BACKGROUND Neurologic impairment is not considered a clinical manifestation of diskitis in children and has seldom been associated with it in the medical literature. OBJECTIVE To describe neurologic findings and their implications in children with diskitis. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective medical records review of children discharged with a diagnosis of diskitis between January 1992 and December...