RESUMO
Case report of a 12 years old female child who developed in the last seven months focal neurological signs and progressive intracranial hypertension. CT scan showed a giant cystic tumor, and cerebral hydatidosis has been diagnosed. The hydatic cyst was surgically removed without complications. Cerebral hydatidosis is rare, its diagnosis is clinical and tomographic, and the treatment is always surgical.
Assuntos
Encefalopatias , Equinococose , Encefalopatias/diagnóstico por imagem , Encefalopatias/tratamento farmacológico , Encefalopatias/cirurgia , Criança , Equinococose/diagnóstico por imagem , Equinococose/tratamento farmacológico , Equinococose/cirurgia , Feminino , Humanos , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios XRESUMO
Presentation of clinical-tomographic correlation in 111 cases of non tumoral intracranial expansive processes seen between 1984-1988 in the Hospital Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru). Emphasis is given fundamentally to: (1) the importance of establishing the organicity of partial and late epilepsy; (2) the high incidence rate of inflammatory infectious processes with CNS compromise in underdeveloping countries; (3) the necessity of making public the importance of two parasitic diseases in the differential diagnosis of non tumoral intracranial expansive processes: free living amebiasis, and toxoplasmosis (especially in association with AIDS).
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Encefalopatias/diagnóstico por imagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Amebíase/complicações , Encefalopatias/etiologia , Lesões Encefálicas/diagnóstico por imagem , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Epilepsia/etiologia , Humanos , Lactente , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Toxoplasmose/complicaçõesRESUMO
Se presentan 159 casos de procesos expansivos de los cuales se revisan 111 catalogados como no neoplásicos vistos durante los años 1984-1988 en el HGBCH, lhamando la atención fundamentalmente sobre 3 aspectos: (1) la importancia de establecer organicidad en la epilepsia parcial y la epilepsia tardía; (2) la incidencia cada vez mayor de procesos infecciosos e inflamatorios intracraneanos en países en desarrollo; (3) la existencia de dos procesos parasitarios que deben encontrarse en el diagnóstico diferencial de procesos expansivos no tumorales: amebiasis de vida libre, y toxoplasmosis (especialmente en pacientes con SIDA)
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Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Criança , Adolescente , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Humanos , Encefalopatias/diagnóstico , Amebíase/complicações , Encefalopatias/etiologia , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Epilepsia/etiologia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Toxoplasmose/complicaçõesRESUMO
Twenty seven cases of Pott's disease in children between 6 months and 14 years of age are reported. They were observed during a two years period, with a follow-up time till 18 months. In report to their ages 67% were lower than 6 years old and two of them lower than one year old. There was a male sex predominance. The 'hump' sign was the most frequently observed. The most frequent damage localization was at dorsal level. All patients received treatment with four drugs, 14 of them needed orthopedic methods, and only 6 were submitted to surgical correction. In more than 50% of the patients there was good outcome toward cure or improvement with sequelae.