World Neurosurg
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Case Reports
Unusual Clinical Sequelae of Kawasaki Disease-Symptomatic Extracranial Internal Carotid Stenosis in Young Adult.
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis that primarily affects the coronary artery, but it does not commonly affect the carotid artery. Cerebral infarction (CI) with internal carotid artery stenosis (ICS) in patients with KD has not been reported until now. We report a patient with CI as a remote-phase complication of KD. ⋯ KD in childhood may cause symptomatic ICS as a sequela of a remote phase.
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Vascular pineal malformations are rare and technically demanding lesions. Because the locations of these lesions, endovascular techniques and radiosurgery have been increasingly used in the recent decades to accomplish safe occlusion. Nevertheless, microsurgical treatment may be required sometimes. ⋯ The pineal region is an infrequent but challenging location for vascular lesions. A careful and stepwise operative strategy for the different types of vascular lesion is paramount to accomplish an effective and safe microsurgical treatment when other alternatives fail or are not available.
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Case Reports
Dural Arteriovenous Fistula Between the Inferolateral Trunk and Cavernous Sinus Draining to Ophthalmic Vein.
Formation of a dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) between the inferolateral trunk (ILT) and cavernous sinus (CS) is rare. ⋯ Although ILT-CS DAVF is rare, it can still be seen in clinical practice. Coiling the ILT via a transarterial approach is a good option for treatment.
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Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive neuroimaging method acquired in absence of task. ⋯ Our results suggest that pretherapeutic resting-state seed-FC of left VLV predicts tremor arrest after SRS-T for ET. Visual areas are identified as the main regions in this correlation.