Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.53 número2

On cases of hemispheric strokes with an important mass effect, surgical treatment must be considered as an alternative therapy on patients with high intracranial pressure, progressive

SUMMARY - We analysed sera and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 20 cases of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type (HTLV-I) associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP)

SUMMARY - The main objective of this retrospective review of clinical and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) data from 41 patients with intracranial tumors diagnosed between 1975 and 1989,

Therapeutic trial with low doses of levodopa is recommended in selected cases with dystonic symptoms even without diurnal fluctuation of uncertain etiology in view of the

detected statistically significant abnormalities of near-diploid tumor such as gains of whole copies of chromosome 7, losses of chromosomes 10, structural abnormalities of 9p and

These studies suggest that development and maintenance of optimum arterial caliber results of the interaction between the blood stream (shear stress) and the vascular

The systematic categorization of disorders, provided by the World Health Organization in the "International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes

In virtue of the high prevalence here observed in a Psychiatric hospital, and of the clinical polymorphism of its psychiatric pictures, we recommend that neurocysticercosis be