Memantine attenuates the impair ...
Cognitive disorders after epilepsy can have a great impact on the quality of life of epileptic patients, though it has not drawn much attention. Eve ...
New disposition for pain therap ...
On March 15th 2010, Italy adopted the Law no. 38 ‘‘Disposizioni per garantire l’accesso alle cure palliative e alla terapia del dolore’’ (Provisions ...
Italian Law ‘‘Measures to guara ...
The Italian Law 38/2010 assures the citizens’ right to have access to palliative care and to antalgic centres in case of either oncologic or non-onc ...
Scintigraphic, neuroradiologica ...
Bilateral striopallidodentate calcification, usually termed Fahr’s disease, can give rise to various clinical manifestations including hyperkinetic ...
Cranial Ewing’s sarcoma in chil ...
Ewing’s sarcoma is a highly malignant neoplasm of bones which accounts for the 10% of primary bone malignancies. Primary Ewing’s sarcoma of skull va ...
The diagnosis of postencephalit ...
The objective of the study is to ascertain the rationale for the diagnosis of postencephalitic parkinsonism (PEP) at Boston City Hospital’s Neurolog ...
Migraine with aura: conventiona ...
Migraine with aura (MwA) is a primary headache that affects up 30% of migraine patients. Although the frequency ofMwA attacks is usually low and the ...
Co-existence of Parkinson’s dis ...
Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) are distinct clinicopathological entities characterized by a-synuclein ...
Microscopic polyangiitis presen ...
Although peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of microscopic angiitis, manifestations involving themuscle and the central nervous systemha ...
Headache secondary to an unusua ...
We present the case of a 48-year old female patient with a history of migraine without aura, who also reported a headache triggered by a Valsalva ma ...
A small pontine infarct on DWI ...
A 64-year-old man presented with alternating exotropia and bilateral medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) syndrome known as wall-eyed bilateral inte ...
Expression of Bcl-2 and Bax aft ...
To determine the impact of x3 fatty acids on post-ischemic expression of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins in hippocampus, male rats were received 10 ...
Early CT signs of progressive h ...
Introduction Since progressive hemorrhagic injury (PHI) was introduced in neurosurgical literatures, several studies have been performed, the result ...
Categorization and characteriza ...
Introduction The apex of the orbit is formed by the union of the lesser and greater wings of the sphenoid bone and acts as an osseous tunnel for num ...
Dural attachment of intracrania ...
Introduction The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of contrast-enhanced fast imaging with steady-state acquisition (CE-FIESTA) for asse ...
Long-term MRA follow-up after c ...
Introduction Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) screening for recurrence of a coiled intracranial aneurysm and formation of new aneurysms long-ter ...
An in vitro study of silk stent ...
Introduction Morphology of the Silk stent (Balt, Montmorency, France) after deployment is not fully understood, especially in tortuous vessels. An i ...
Perfusion-CT guided intravenous ...
Introduction Patients with unknown stroke onset are generally excluded from acute recanalisation treatments. We designed a pilot study to assess fea ...
Ethanol threshold doses for sys ...
Introduction Ethanol has been used for many years for superficial venous malformations (VM) sclerotherapy. Although ethanol is well-tolerated in mos ...
CTand MR perfusion can discrimi ...
Introduction Computed tomography perfusion (CTP) and magnetic resonance perfusion (MRP) are expected to be usable for ancillary tests of brain death ...
Endovascular embolization for s ...
Introduction Perimedullary arteriovenous fistula (AVF) has shunt on the spinal cord surface and it can be treated with surgery, or endovascular embo ...
Intra-arterial adjuvant tirofib ...
Introduction Intra-arterial (IA) thrombolysis with plasminogen activator is well-known, but the use of IA tirofiban as an adjuvant for IA thrombolys ...
CT angiography helps to differe ...
Introduction Currently, there is no reliable method to differentiate acute from chronic carotid occlusion. We propose a novel CTA-based method to di ...
Renal Metastasis from Follicula ...
Clinically detectable well-differentiated metastatic thyroid carcinoma to the kidney is rare and should be differentiated from primary renal maligna ...
Intragastric Balloon Treatment ...
Background The intragastric balloon is a widely used method in the treatment of obesity indicated for those patients who have failed to achieve and ...