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Research in neuroradiology: A personal view
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Visual loss: A rare complication following oil myelography
A case of visual loss occurring 24 h after oil myelography, in a patient with an intraspinal cervical meningioma, is reported. The disturbance is attributed to the penetration of contrast medium into the chias...
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The spinal cerebrospinal fluid absorptive pathways
The perfusion of Berlin blue and trypan blue into the spinal subarachnoid spaces of dogs and sheep, during fixation, colored and distended the arachnoid proliferations, thus making them visible macroscopically...
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A practical approach to the phlebographic study of the lateral cerebral ventricles
The main anatomical features of the subependymal veins of the lateral ventricles are summarized. The important role of the subependymal veins for the study of the size and shape of the lateral ventricles is ou...
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Normal limits of the lateral cerebral ventricles on the lateral phlebogram: A statistical analysis
The highest points of the subependymal veins of the lateral cerebral ventricles (frontal horn, body and atrium) and the height of the body have been evaluated in selected patients. Through a statistical analys...
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The value of CT for the diagnosis of pituitary microadenomas in children
Three cases of prepuberal hypopituitary dwarfism regarded as idiopathic, are reported. In two of them the skull X-rays showed questionable minimal alterations of the sella turcica; in the remaining child the e...
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Early degeneration of the cerebellar cortex, particularly the granular cells
An 8 month old infant, who died of severe gastroenteritis, presented a degeneration of the cerebellar cortex involving cells arising from the outer granular layer as well as Purkinje and Golgi II cells. Residu...
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The ideal head CT scanner
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Electrophysiological findings in workers exposed to n-heptane fumes
Electrophysiological examination of the peroneal nerve was performed in a group of individuals exposed for professional reasons to vapours of n-heptane.
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Sanfilippo B syndrome (MPS III B): Case report with analysis of CSF mucopolysaccharides and conjunctival biopsy
A case of a child with Sanfilippo B syndrome (MPS III B), born of a consanguineous marriage, is reported. Urinary mucopolysaccharide analysis showed an abnormal excretion mainly of heparan sulphate. N-acetyl-a-gl...
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Adverse side effects of metrizamide and Iopamidolo in myelography
Nonionic water-soluble contrast medium, at first metrizamide and later Iopamidolo was used for lumbar myelography. Three serious neurological complications were noted: one case of total aphasia, one case of ge...
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Cytochrome-C-oxidase deficiency in muscles of a floppy infant without mitochondrial myopathy
A 4-month-old girl had hypotonia, muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy at birth and died at the age of 8 months from heart failure. Muscle biopsy showed normal muscle fibers, normal mitochondria and type II hypo...
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Dandy-Walker syndrome: Diagnosis in utero by means of ultrasound and CT correlations
A case of Dandy-Walker syndrome was diagnosed by ultrasound during the 30th week of pregnancy, observed again more clearly at 33 weeks and confirmed by CT after birth.
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Neuroradiologic picture of cerebral vasculitis in rheumatoid arthritis
The central nervous system is rarely involved in rheumatoid arthritis. In this paper the authors report a case of a 50-year-old woman who had rheumatoid arthritis for about 6 years. A month before admission sh...
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Electromyography and nerve conduction study in autosomal dominant olivopontocerebellar atrophy
Electromyographic examination and studies of motor and sensory conduction velocities were performed in 11 patients with a presumptive diagnosis of olivopontocerebellar atrophy with autosomal dominant transmiss...
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Clinical-angiographic correlations in 132 patients with megadolichovertebrobasilar anomaly
We have found numerous case reports, but no systematic study of the megadolichoverte-brobasilar anomaly (MDVBA). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relationships between arterial shifts of the verteb...
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Parkinsonism, basal ganglia calcification and epilepsy as late complications of postoperative hypoparathyroidism
A patient with post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism, basal ganglia calcification, parkinsonism and seizures is reported. The parkinsonism was resistant to levodopa therapy but was not significantly improved b...
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Continuous Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
It is well known that intracranial hemorrhage, especially subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) may secondarily cause cardiac arrhythmias. In order to patients aged 16–70 years (mean age 52 years) with SAH secondary t...
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Fahr's syndrome: local inflammatory factors in the pathogenesis of calcification
Three cases of Fahr's syndrome are described. All patients had disturbances of calcium metabolism and had had a meningoencephalitis in childhood. It is suggested that gliovascular changes, induced by cerebral ...
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An unusual case of central nervous system vasculitis
A patient with CNS vasculitis limited to small vessels is described. Initial spinal cord involvement with paraparesis was followed by multifocal cerebral and cerebellar involvement, depicted by magnetic resona...
