A 59-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital after having severe headache for 1 day. Her medical history was significant for coronary artery disease, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, and rheumatic heart disease. The patient was in remission from stage II left breast cancer (T2 N0 M0) in 1997, treated with lumpectomy, 6 cycles of chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil...

BACKGROUND Giant cell arteritis typically involves the temporal arteries, but can involve other cranial arteries. Temporal artery biopsy is the mainstay for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis; however, biopsy may be problematic if giant cell arteritis involves other cranial arteries that are inaccessible for sampling. In these situations, magnetic resonance angiography is a useful, non-invas...

medications. Neurological examination revealed decerebrate rigidity and bilateral Babinski signs. CT on one day after admission demonstrated broad low-density area in the bilateral cerebral hemispheres, including the area of bilateral anterior cerebral artery and middle cerebral artery, but sparing the brainstem and occipital lobe (figure 1). Bilateral internal carotid artery embolisation was i...

BACKGROUND Distal superior cerebellar artery (SCA) aneurysms are rare and treated using various treatment strategies. Treatment often requires parent occlusion, which raises concerns regarding the potential risk of ischemia in distal territory. OBSERVATIONS An 81-year-old woman presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Diagnostic cerebral angiography revealed two tiny SCA aneurysms. Because signi...

We are aimed to observe the effect of applying the combined temporo-occipital fascial flap in the medium scalp defect with bone exposure. Three cases of moderate scalp defect with bone exposure were admitted by The 89th Hospital of PLA and China-Japan Friendship Hospital from October 2009 to March 2014, and the wounds were repaired by application of the temporo-occipital fascial flap with mediu...

Stroke occurs due to the interruption of blood flow to the brain and it is divided into ischemic and hemorrhagic. In the ischemic strokes, while the most commonly affected vessel is median cerebral artery (MCA), it is particularly affected bilateral posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is very rare condition. In this study, a case of sudden loss of vision and bilateral occipital infarct associated w...