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Mashup Score: 0Teaching Video NeuroImage: Wernekink Commissure Syndrome - 1 year(s) ago
A 62-year-old woman presented with sudden-onset staggering gait and dysarthria. Neurologic examination revealed truncal and appendicular ataxia in all limbs and cerebellar dysarthria (Video 1), slight slowing of internal right eye rotation during leftward gaze, and left eye nystagmus on abduction. The deep tendon reflexes were normal. Diffusion-weighted imaging showed a high-signal midline lesion…
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Mashup Score: 0Teaching NeuroImage: Reinhold Hemimedullary Syndrome - 1 year(s) ago
A 32-year-old man without vascular risk factors presented with acute onset vertigo, swallowing dysfunction, and right-sided weakness. Physical examination revealed the following signs on the left side: Horner syndrome; lower motor neuron 9th, 10th, and 12th cranial nerve palsies; cerebellar limb ataxia; loss of pain and temperature on the face; and loss of fine touch and proprioception on the…
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Mashup Score: 1Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Treatment of Rasmussen Encephalitis - 1 year(s) ago
A 9-year-old woman presented with acute amnesia and dysphasia, resolving within 24 hours. After 2 months of episodic altered behavior, she developed right leg focal motor seizures with secondary generalization. FLAIR MRI, CT, and brain biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of Rasmussen encephalitis (Figure), a progressive inflammatory neurologic disease.1
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Mashup Score: 0NeuroImage | Benchmarks for Machine Learning in Neuroimaging | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - 1 year(s) ago
Today, machine learning has become an essential tool in almost every niche in the world of neuroimaging. It is now important to support this movement by drawing on the lessons learned from experience in other fields. The underlying enthusiasm has overshadowed a great deal of challenges that are usually addressed through community-building based on good benchmarks. Gauging the potential of new…
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Mashup Score: 7Teaching NeuroImage: Intraventricular Fetus-in-Fetu With Extensive De Novo Gain in Genetic Copy Number - 1 year(s) ago
An intraventricular fetus-in-fetu, a malformed monochorionic diamniotic twin, was identified in a 1-year-old girl with motor delay and enlarged head circumference (Figure 1). After surgical removal, whole-genome sequencing revealed identical single-nucleotide variants in the host child and fetus-in-fetu, with extensive de novo copy number gains in the fetus-in-fetu (Figure 2, eMethods,…
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Mashup Score: 1
A 41-year-old woman presented with bradykinesia, tremor, and dysarthria 2 years ago and progressively developed to cognitive decline after being treated for Parkinson disease. The dystonia progressed, and eventually she developed akinesia and was unable to speak or walk. After being referred to our hospital, she was diagnosed with Wilson disease (WD) based on the presence of Kayser-Fleischer…
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Mashup Score: 2Diffuse Leptomeningeal Glioneuronal Tumor Involving Circle of Willis and Spinal Nerve Roots - 1 year(s) ago
A 14-year-old adolescent girl had headache and intermittent crying and screaming for 4 months and upper back pain for 10 days. On examination, she was confused and had bilateral lagophthalmos and hearing loss, neck rigidity, and decreased deep tendon reflexes in the limbs. CSF analyses showed an elevated level of protein (1628 mg/L), a decreased level of glucose (0.934 mmol/L), and a normal…
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Mashup Score: 2Primary Melanocytoma Arising From Trigeminal Nerve - 1 year(s) ago
A 12-year-old girl presented with a 3-week history of left-sided hemifacial pain. Physical examination revealed hemifacial numbness, hypesthesia, and chewing weakness without signs of nevus of Ota. Neuroradiologic examinations showed a dumbbell-shaped lesion in middle and posterior fossa along the distribution of the trigeminal nerve (Figure 1). Intraoperatively, a well-defined black extra-axial…
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Mashup Score: 6Teaching NeuroImage: Mobile Hypopyon as a Clinical Clue for the Diagnosis of Behçet Disease - 1 year(s) ago
A 29-year-old man presented with subacute new-onset headache, confusion, and hallucinations. On examination, he had obtundation and bilateral decreased visual acuity. Brain MRI revealed a T2/fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) hyperintense signal of the diencephalon and basal ganglia. Subsequently, he developed anterior uveitis with mobile hypopyon (Figure). Further questioning of his…
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Mashup Score: 4Marin-Amat Syndrome - 1 year(s) ago
A 52-year-old man complained of right eye closure whenever eating. He had experienced a right-sided Bell’s palsy approximately before 12 months. An examination showed unilateral eye closure on jaw opening or lateral jaw movements, related to active contraction of the entire orbicularis oculi muscle, in addition to ipsilateral hemifacial spasm (Video 1). Marin-Amat syndrome is an acquired…
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