Pseudotumor cerebri in childhood and adolescence: data from a specialized service
Objective: To report cases of children and adolescents diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri associated or not with rheumatic disease. Methods: This was a retrospective study based on medical reports of 29 patients, up to 18 years of age and diagnosed with
Gabriela G. M. Balbi+5 more
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Hipertensão intracraniana idiopática de apresentação atípica com papiledema unilateral Unilateral papiledema as an atypical presentating sign of idiopathic intracranial hyperthension [PDF]
Este trabalho descreve o caso de uma paciente de 56 anos que se apresentou com cefaléia, edema unilateral de papila e constrição do campo visual nasal. Os exames laboratoriais e de neuroimagem, o acompanhamento clínico e resposta ao tratamento permitiram
André Luís Freire Portes+4 more
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Membrana neovascular sub-retineana justapapilar em paciente com papiledema e hipertensão intracraniana idiopática Juxtapapillary subretinal neovascular membrane in a patient with papilledema and idiopathic intracranial hyperthension [PDF]
Este trabalho descreve o caso de uma paciente de 41 anos, com diagnóstico da síndrome da hipertensão intracraniana idiopática (síndrome do pseudotumor cerebral) que desenvolveu perda visual em um dos olhos decorrente de membrana neovascular sub-retiniana
Mário Luiz Ribeiro Monteiro+2 more
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SUMMARY:Pseudotumor cerebri is a clinical syndrome in which signs and, sometimes, symptoms of raised intracranial pressure are present hut in which mental and neurological function are unaffected. Therefore, the diagnosis is reached after mass and other structural causes of raised pressure have been excluded.Many causes of pseudotumour have been ...
Frederick L. Moffat
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Pseudotumor cerebri with status epilepticus in a child: A rare presentation of vitamin D deficiency [PDF]
Key Clinical Message Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) encompasses a constellation of symptoms caused by elevated intracranial pressure of unclear etiology. Various associations have been described, rarely hypovitaminosis D.
Soumya Pahari+4 more
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The MRI has been used to clarify the pathophysiology of pseudotumor cerebri in seven children, aged between six months and 13 years, reported from British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver.
J Gordon Millichap
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Pseudotumor cerebri comorbid with meningioma: A review and case series [PDF]
Background: Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC), which has a prevalence in the general population of 1 to 2 out of 100,000, presents with raised intracranial pressure (ICP) but generally lacks a space occupying lesion.
N. Sharma+3 more
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Therapeutic approaches to pediatric pseudotumor cerebri: New insights from literature data [PDF]
The pseudotumor cerebri syndrome (PTCS), also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), is characterized by signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure such as headache and cranial nerve palsies, in the absence of any space-occupying
Giovanna Vitaliti+11 more
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Intracranial hypertension due to venous sinus stenosis from meningioma is rare. Symptoms resemble pseudotumor cerebri, but patients are typically older and not obese.
Sadegh Bagherzadeh+3 more
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Investigators from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and centers in Philadelphia and Salt Lake City, propose updated criteria for the diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri (PTCS) and its variations.
J Gordon Millichap
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