Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Volume 154, Issue 4

In diesem Supplement 82 der Acta Neurochirurgica sind die Beiträge gesammelt, die anlässlich der «Swiss-Japanese Joint Conference on Cerebral Aneurysm Management» in Zürich im Mai 2000 vorgestellt wurden [...]

Die vorliegende Supplementum-Ausgabe Nr. 84 der Acta Neurochirurgica wurde dem Rücktritt von Prof. Gerhard Pendl, dem Neurochirurgen aus dem Universitätsspital in Graz, gewidmet [...]

Das 372 Seiten umfassende Werk, verfasst von mehr als einem Dutzend Autoren, versucht in 15 Kapiteln das heutige Wissen über den Aufbau, die Funktion und die bei neurologischen und psychiatrischen Erkrankungen resultierenden Störungen des Frontalhirn...

Background: Primary dystonia is a movement disorder characterised by involuntary and sustained muscle contractions frequently causing twisting or abnormal postures [...]

The prognosis of bacterial (purulent) meningitis depends on early diagnosis and prompt initiation of antibiotic therapy. However, despite the improvement of antimicrobial therapy during the last decades, mortality rate and sequelae due to bacterial m...

Introduction: Un syndrome de Horner associé à une hémiparésie contralatérale est habituellement rencontrée lors de dissection carotidienne ou d’ictus hémisphérique étendu (syndrome télodiencéphalique). Cette présentation peut aussi témoigner une atte...

Borreliosis is a tick-borne disease which is endemic in many states of Europe and the USA. It manifests itself with a broad clinical spectrum, mainly involving skin, nervous system, heart and joints. The neurological manifestations were first recogni...

At the end of 2002, an estimated 42 million people worldwide were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In Switzerland, the number of newly diagnosed HIV infections had been declining between 1992 and 1999. However, since the year 2000, thi...

Behçet’s disease is a vasculitis of unknown origin characterised as a triad consisting of recurrent aphthous oral and genital ulcerations and uveitis. Articular, vascular and neurological manifestations may occur. Neurological manifestations are obse...

More than 100 years after the first account of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) pathogenesis of the disease remains still an unresolved issue. Several pathogenetic hypotheses have been put forward to account for the selective neurodegeneration of...

An asymptomatic occlusion of the main branch of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) was diagnosed in a 53-year-old man with multiple vascular risk factors on digital substraction angiography.Repeat digital substraction angiography 31 months later confir...

Progress in diagnostic imaging raises the question of whether conventional skull radiology is still legitimate even though, with computer tomography (CT), a technique is available that can clearly and safely diagnose intracranial haemorrhage and othe...

Cerebral vasculitis is a rare disease. Vasculitis of autoimmune origin is most common, either as cerebral vasculitis in the course of a systemic autoimmune disease or as cerebral vasculitis with exclusive manifestation within the central nervous syst...

Vasculitis applies to a heterogeneous group of diseases characterised by damage of blood vessels with infiltration of the vessel wall by inflammatory infiltrate, which leads to occlusion of the blood vessel and subsequent tissue ischemia. Necrotising...