Unilateral weakness of an upper extremity is most frequently caused by traumatic nerve injury or compression neuropathy. In rare cases, lesion of the central nervous system may result in syndromes suggesting peripheral ...

Brain abscess is a rare and often fatal disease. Bacterial infections of the brain could develop by direct extension of local infections e.g. sinusitis, otomastoiditis, or due to hematogenous spread. Headache, fever and ...

INTRODUCTION: In single-payer health care financing systems data extracted from hospital report forms submitted for reimbursement purposes may be used for epidemiological investigations. AIM: Based on data submitted by 14 ...

BACKGROUND: Stroke has been associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We assessed patients with RA and healthy control subjects by transcranial Doppler (TCD), carotid ultrasonography and brain magnetic resonance imaging ...

The two most important representatives of the primary headaches are migraine and tension-type headache. More than 10% of the population suffer from migraine and even a greater part, approximately 30-40% from tension-type ...

Type IV collagen alpha1 and alpha2 chains form heterotrimers that constitute an essential component of basement membranes. Mutations in COL4A1, encoding the alpha1 chain, cause a multisystem disease with prominent ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The incidence of hospitalizations, treatment and case fatality of ischaemic stroke were assessed utilizing a comprehensive multinational database to attempt to compare the healthcare systems in six ...

The purpose of our study was to examine how the pathologic type of polyneuropathy affects nerve size as assessed by high-resolution ultrasonography with a 15 MHz transducer. Cross-sectional area (CSA) of the C5-C7 nerve ...