OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To report two patients with a history of microvascular decompression (MVD) for hemifacial spasm who presented with Teflon granulomas (TG) mimicking cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors and to perform a systematic review of the English-language literature. STUDY DESIGN Case series at a single tertiary academic referral center and systematic review. METHODS Retrospective ...

Unilateral progressive iris atrophy is uncommon and only a few cases have been reported, although the clinical picture has been recognized since Harms (I903) gave the first description of this interesting atrophy, and reviewed other cases previously reported by Johnson (i886) and Hess (I892). Duke-Elder (i 966) mentions ninety authors who have reported cases. The condition occurs much more freq...

We describe a case of a 50-year-old woman who developed drug-resistant status epilepticus with complex partial and secondary generalised seizures. She had suffered from Parry-Romberg syndrome (PRS) for more than 40 years. Right-sided progressive hemifacial atrophy (PHA) had begun at the age of 7 (figure 1A), followed by epilepsy at the age of 14 years. In the past 2–3 years before the latest ad...

During a 2-year period, 31 cases of a hereditary retinal degeneration in dogs bred in India were found mainly suspected for progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) with typical history of initial nyctalopia followed by hemeralopia. Out of 31 PRA suspected dogs, 8 dogs (26%) were from the age group of 1-5 years, 15 (48%) 6-10 years and the rest (26%) 11-15 years. The most predominant breed was Spitz (...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of progressive facial hemiatrophy with unusual features of contralateral brain atrophy and transcranial Doppler ultrasound evidence of autonomic dysfunction. DESIGN Case report. SETTING A teaching hospital. PATIENT A 63-year-old man who presented with a 10-year history of progressive right-sided facial atrophy and recent facial pain. RESULTS Brain magnetic res...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disorder which affect nervous system and is characterized with progressive distal motor neuron weakness. The survival motor neuron (SMN) protein level reduces in patients with SMA. Two different genes code survival motor neuron protein in human genome. Skeletal and intercostal muscles denervation lead to weakness, hypotony, hyporeflexia, respiratory fa...