In the present study, we examined the effects of central administration of Urotensin II on blood pressure, heart rate, and baroreceptor heart rate reflexes in conscious normotensive rabbits. Preliminary operations were undertaken to implant a balloon cuff on the inferior vena cava for baroreflex assessments and to implant cannula into the lateral and fourth ventricle. After 2 weeks of recovery ...

Two cases are described of a previously unrecognised sequel of posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation. The first case documents freely mobile blood clots within the lateral ventricular system, the second variable asymmetry in the size of the dilated lateral ventricle. The unilateral ventricular dilatation depended on which side the infant was lying, the dependent ventricle being considerably l...

A 45-year-old woman with normal physical and mental development, who had intractable epilepsy since her childhood, had neither cognitive nor neurologic deficits. Her MRI demonstrated right hemimegalencephaly (HME) with an increase in the hemispheric volume and enlargement of the right lateral ventricle (figure 1), Figure 1 T2-weighted MRIs showing an increase in the right hemispheric volume (A)...

Chordoid glioma is a rare tumor exhibiting both glial and chordoid features. This entity is generally considered to occur exclusively in the region of the third ventricle, however, that arising in the lateral ventricle is extremely rare. Herein, we report a case of lateral ventricular chordoid glioma in a pediatric patient. Additionally, relevant literatures were reviewed. An intracranial space...