abstract urinary retention, a rare childhood problem which is most commonly caused by urinary tract infection. however, neurological neoplasm must also be considered in differential diagnosis. we report here a 3 year old girlthat was referred to the pediatrics department of kashan university of medical sciences (kaums) with a history of urinary retention for 10 days. by insertion of a foley cat...

background & importance: disc herniation is defined as the prolapsed of material disc into the spinal canal. if the disc fragment is free in spinal canal, it is called sequestration disc fragment. occasionally, alteration in sequestration disc fragment makes the diagnosis of the disc herniation, challenging. case presentation: we reviewed a rare case of the cervical sequestrated disc herniation...

radical resection of a pathological lesion along with the preservation of eloquent cerebral tissue is the principle goal of neurosurgery. brain lesions are usually diagnosed by conventional magnetic resonance imaging (mri), but this method is unable to describe the relationship between lesions and neighboring specific white matter (wm) tracts. diffusion tensor tractograghy (dtt) is a new sophis...

Accepted 15 February 1995 A 54-year-old Caucasian woman living in Bahrain presented with a four-week history of headache associated with heaviness in the left arm and leg. Her past history included recurrent migranous headaches with associated visual aura. Fifteen years prior to admission she had developed a temporary left facial palsy and unsteadiness diagnosed as Bell's palsy. The patient did...

A 27-year-old Puerto Rican man presented to Yale-New Haven Hospital with a six-week history of left-sided headache, diplopia, and drooping of the left side of his face. Cerebrospinal fluid examination showed a lymphocytic pleocytosis and a CT scan of the brain revealed an unusual intrapontine mass lesion requiring systemic antifungal therapy. This case emphasizes many of the diagnostic and ther...

Mesenchymal soft tissue masses are uncommon tumours of the chest. Myofibroblastoma is a recently described entity consisting of cells with origin from the myoepethelial cell, mostly seen as benign well-circumscribed neoplasms of the breast tissue. Though usually classified as a benign lesion, rarely it can be multifocal and prone to recurrence. We describe below the case of a 26-year-old female...