DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Brainstem injury
Peduncular hallucinosis
Peduncular hallucinosis, also known as Lhermitte's peduncular hallucinosis, is a rare neurological syndrome with a relatively rich series of detailed clinical case studies in the medical literature. The French neurologist Jean Lhermitte in 1922 first wrote about a patient with odd visual hallucinations that were associated with suggestions of brain damage involving the midbrain and the pons. After other case studies were published, this type of presentation was labelled "peduncular hallucinosis. " The accumulation of additional cases by Lhermitte and by others influenced academic medical debate about hallucinations and about behavioral neurology...
Brainstem injury - List of case studies
- Tentorial Meningioma
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about prognosis. Her most recent MRI does not show brainstem injury, so this is favorable. It may be difficult for her to regain normal ...
- List of Diseases and Conditions
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deficiency B12 defienncy B19 BPH Back injury Back trauma Bacteriospermia Bakers cyst Basocellular ... Brain metastases Brain stem lesions Brainstem glioma Brainstem glioma (encephalic trunk) Brainstem injury ...
- Diffuse Intra-Axial expansive Lesion of the Enchephalic Trunk not surgically investigated_4
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Head computed tomography demonstrated a tumor at the brainstem/posterior fossa, and then MRI confirmed a diffuse intrinsic pontine ... not possible without devastating, catastrophic neurologic injury, or a bad outcome . Tumors such these diffusely infiltrate all ...
- 1st and 2nd Motor Neuron Disease of ALS-type
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He also underwent accidental fall and traumatic brain injury during his last in-hospital evaluation. The only proven treatment for ... some difficulty with swallowing, clearly show that the brainstem motor nuclei are affected in addition to the limb muscles . The MRIs ...