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Varicella zoster vasculopathy presenting as bilateral subdural haematoma in an infant: case report of a rare case and literature review.

Childs Nerv SystOct 24, 2026Open access

A 6-month-old boy developed chickenpox with fever, irritability, and a vesicular rash. Although the rash and fever resolved, he had persistent irritability, poor feeding, intermittent vomiting, developmental regression…

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Persistent neurological symptoms after infant VZV infection warrant investigation for intracranial complications, including subdural collections that may resemble non-accidental injury.

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Case ReportNeurologyOpen access

Spontaneous regression of post-traumatic syringomyelia: longitudinal mr imaging demonstrating a dynamic disease course.

A 69-year-old patient with post-traumatic cervicothoracic syringomyelia presented with occipital headaches, dizziness, and subjective upper-extremity weakness.

Spinal Cord Ser CasesOct 23, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgery

Stroke thrombectomy of a mural thrombus in a severe dolichoectatic basilar artery with double parallel large stent retrievers and Sofia 88.

An older adult presented with severe acute ischemic stroke from a mural thrombus on the posterior wall of the mid-basilar artery.

J Neurointerv SurgOct 13, 2026Read case
Case ReportPathology (Anatomic & Clinical)

Primary intracranial sarcoma, DICER1-mutant: 5 cases highlighting variable clinical and molecular features.

The report describes five patients aged 6 to 40 years with primary intracranial sarcoma, DICER1-mutant, identified through methylation profiling and/or sequencing.

J Neuropathol Exp NeurolOct 20, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgeryOpen access

Addressing unilateral lambdoid craniosynostosis using endoscopic suturectomy and barrel-stave osteotomies: surgical technique and literature review.

A healthy 2-month-old boy presented with features of left unilateral lambdoid craniosynostosis, including occipitoparietal flattening, ipsilateral mastoid bulge, contralateral parietal bulge, and ear-level asymmetry; 3D…

Childs Nerv SystOct 21, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgery

Ultra high-density, 4096-channel intraoperative neurophysiological brain mapping for functional localization of the human central sulcus.

During resection of a right parafalcine meningioma in a 56-year-old man, four flexible 1024-electrode micro-ECoG arrays were used to record somatosensory evoked potentials from the peri-Rolandic cortex during…

J Neural EngOct 21, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgery

Arthroscopic-assisted uniportal spinal surgery with bone-anchored annular repair for far lateral lumbar disc herniation: A case report.

A 50-year-old woman had refractory lumbosacral and gluteal pain followed by right L3–L4-distribution radicular pain, limiting walking to less than 20 minutes despite conservative treatment.

Medicine (Baltimore)Oct 16, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgery

Bilateral lower limb dysfunction due to acute hematoma in the lumbar ligamentum flavum: A case report and literature review.

A 71-year-old man developed sudden lower back pain without an identifiable trigger, followed by worsening pain, numbness, and weakness in both legs.

Medicine (Baltimore)Oct 16, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgery

Painless Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma Mimicking Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Case Report.

A woman in her early 60s receiving anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy developed neck tightness and numbness in both limbs without pain, followed by transient right hemiplegia and rapid neurological deterioration.

Ann Ital ChirOct 14, 2026Read case
Case ReportEndocrinology

Behind the Sella: A Rare Case of Pituicytoma Mimicking a Pituitary Adenoma.

A 48-year-old man presented with symptoms of hypogonadism, headaches, and visual field defects. Testing showed hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and hyperprolactinemia, while MRI revealed a sellar-suprasellar mass initially…

Am J Case RepOct 15, 2026Read case
Case ReportNeurosurgery

Inside a Programmer's Brain: Dissociating Code and Language Comprehension Networks Using a Novel fMRI-ESM Protocol.

A professional software engineer with an IDH-mutant astrocytoma in the left middle frontal gyrus underwent preoperative fMRI and intraoperative electrical stimulation mapping (ESM) to assess both language and code…

Hum Brain MappOct 15, 2026Read case
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