BACKGROUND Dengue infection may cause neurological manifestations such as encephalitis, myelitis, mononeuropathies, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, and Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS). In endemic regions, the infection course can be oligosymptomatic making difficult the diagnosis of the neurological picture associated with dengue infection. OBJECTIVE To report dengue infection and GBS ass...

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common systemic vasculitis of childhood, affecting the small blood vessels. The disease is a clinical syndrome characterized by multiple organ involvement including the skin, joints, gastrointestinal tract, and the kidneys. Headache and behavioral changes can be frequently seen during the course of the disease, but severe neurological signs such as sei...

Neuropathic pain patients often have lemniscal-mediated symptoms such as tactile allodynia. A novel method and device for testing lemniscal pathway integrity is described using a tactile illusion (TI) in patients with neuropathic pain resulting from peripheral nervous system (PNS) or central nervous system (CNS) injury. An unexpected enhanced perception of the TI was found in some PNS injured p...

A case of Churg-Strauss syndrome complicated by chronic symmetrical dacryoadenitis suggestive of Mikulicz's disease is herein presented. A 72-year-old Japanese man, who had been previously diagnosed with asthma, presented with weakness of the left leg and purpura on the lower extremities. A neurological examination showed multiple mononeuropathies and a laboratory examination revealed elevated ...

Sciatic nerve injury is one of the frequent mononeuropathies in children that occurs due to different causes such as nerve compression, trauma and stretch during surgery. Gluteal injection is an uncommon cause of sciatic injury in developed countries. Poor techniques and frequent injections are the common cause of injection palsy. Proneal division of the sciatic nerve is more prone to injury du...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relative diagnostic sensitivity of various F wave parameters. METHODS Normal values for minimum, mean, and maximum F wave latency, chronodispersion, and persistence in the four major motor nerves were established and systematically applied to at least four separate categories of patients (radiculopathies, polyneuropathies, mononeuropathies, and others). F Waves were s...

Neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) is an idiopathic brachial plexus neuritis which commonly affects the upper trunks. Since the first description during World War II there have been multiple reports highlighting the manifestations of this syndrome. The clinical presentation may be individual mononeuropathy, multiple mononeuropathies or involvement of a single trunk, most commonly ...

Objective—To examine the relative diagnostic sensitivity of various F wave parameters. Methods—Normal values for minimum, mean, and maximum F wave latency, chronodispersion, and persistence in the four major motor nerves were established and systematically applied to at least four separate categories of patients (radiculopathies, polyneuropathies, mononeuropathies, and others). F Waves were stu...

Hysterectomy currently occupies one of the leading places among obstetric and gynecological surgeries is highly effective sometimes only method treating various diseases female genital organs. Quite often, however, hysterectomy results not in elimination cause disease, but also development complications that reduce quality life patients. More more attention being paid to neurological complicati...