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Developmental changes in the occipital cranial sutures of children less than 2 years of age
The occipital bone is located on the boundary between the membranous and cartilage bones and contains a wide variety of accessory sutures. In this study, we describe the age distribution of pediatric patients ...
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Open AccessNanoparticle chemisorption printing technique for conductive silver patterning with submicron resolution
Silver nanocolloid, a dense suspension of ligand-encapsulated silver nanoparticles, is an important material for printing-based device production technologies. However, printed conductive patterns of sufficien...
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Endoscopic observation of pathophysiology of ventricular diverticulum
Although there have been reports dealing with ventricular diverticulum (VD) analyzed by cisternography and computed tomography (CT), those focusing on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or neuroendoscopic findin...
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Myelopathy caused by tics in an adolescent, associated with T2 signal intensity changes of the spinal cord
Course: A 15-year-old boy who had suffered motor tics since age 9 developed progressive cervical myelopathy involving both his hands and his lower extremities. T2-weighted MRI revealed mild canal...
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Ventricular diverticulum at the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle presenting as aplasia cutis congenita
Non-communicating hydrocephalus can cause rupture of the lateral or third ventricle, generally in the medial wall of the trigone or the posterior wall of the third ventricle, resulting in a cystic lesion know...
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Atretic cephalocele – report of two cases with special reference to embryology
We report two cases of atretic cephalocele, a diverse form of cranium bifidum. The patients were 15-year-old and 3-month-old girls, who each had a hard, nonpulsatile, nonreducible lump covered by alopecic scal...
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Intracranial hemorrhage in an infant owing to vitamin K deficiency despite prophylaxis
A 3-month-old male infant with intracranial hemorrhage attributable to a vitamin K deficiency is reported. Vitamin K2 was administered orally at birth and then at 5 days and 1 month of age. Oral antibiotics we...
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The effectiveness of O2 administration for transient ischemic attacks in moyamoya disease in children
Moyamoya disease is a cerebrovascular obstructive disease of unknown etiology. The rebuild-up phenomenon, slowing of waves on electroencephalogram (EEG) seen after cessation of hyperventilation (HV), is one of...
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Crouzon disease associated with sinus pericranii: a report on identical twin sisters
Crouzon disease is a form of craniosynostosis with the autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Among the anomalies associated with craniosynostosis, aberrant dural sinus is well known. We report on identical t...
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Reversible porencephaly
The cases of four infants (five lesions) are reported, where “porencephalic cysts,” located along the ventricular catheter after shunt malfunction and ommaya reservoir insertion, disappeared after ventriculope...
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Cloverleaf Skull Syndrome with Occipital Bone Cristae
Two cases of cloverleaf skull syndrome are reported. The patients were born with trilobed deformity of the skull associated with synostosis of the lambdoidal, coronal, and sagittal sutures in Case 1 and of the...
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Marked Cerebrospinal Fluid Collection Associated with Hepatic Failure
We report two cases with abnormal CSF accumulation in the cranium. One case had marked dilatation of the ventricular system, for which a vetriculoperitoneal shunt was carried out. The shunt was not beneficial ...
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Neurofibromatosis with Aqueductal Stenosis and Cavum Septi Pellucidi
A 10-year-old boy was admitted to Kensei General Hospital with complaints of limitation of eye movement, and gait disturbance. His head circumstance had been about 90 percentile large since the birth. Six mont...
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Postinflammatory arachnoid cyst of the quadrigeminal cistern
Arachnoid cysts of the quadrigeminal cistern are rare. Patients with this lesion are usually normal at birth, and signs of increased intracranial pressure (IICP) develop at about 4 to 12 months of age. However...
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Moyamoya disease
The authors reviewed the Japanese literature on moyamoya disease. In the article we discuss the history of such investigations in Japan, the signs and symptoms, the diagnosis (especially concerning diagnostic ...
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A case of porencephaly associated with aneurysm
A case of aneurysm of the middle cerebral artery with congenital porencephaly in the same region is reported. The cyst was opened and the aneurysm was wrapped with a muscle strip. The resected specimen of the ...
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Electroencephalography in minor head injury in children
EEG and CT scans of 280 cases of minor head injury in children under 15 years of age were studied. Abnormality on initial EEG was shown in 42.5%. Those who lost consciousness had a higher incidence of abnormal...
