More than two centuries ago, Alexander Monro applied some of the principles of physics to
the intracranial contents and for the first time hypothesized that the blood circulating in the …

Background: Incidence rates for internal carotid artery dissection (ICAD) have been reported
to be 2.6 to 2.9 per 100,000, but reliable epidemiologic data for vertebral artery dissection (…

Background Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT),
often termedHashimoto encephalopathy, is a poorly understood and often …

Background Spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries is increasingly
recognized as a cause of ischemic stroke in young people. An underlying arteriopathy is …

We studied the characteristics of headaches in 161 consecutive symptomatic patients with
spontaneous dissections of the internal carotid artery (n equals 135) or the vertebral artery (n …

In seven patients with Duchenne dystrophy, high-resolution phase microscopy demonstrated
a population of non-necrotic fibers with one or more focal lesions. The typical lesion was …

Of 40 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), 28
completed a controlled three‐month trial of prednisone. Prednisone was shown to cause a …

We studied 36 patients (21 women and 15 men) with spontaneous dissection of the internal
carotid arteries. The ages of these patients ranged from 21 to 63 years. Focal unilateral …

✓ Spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks are often implicated as the cause of the syndrome
of spontaneous intracranial hypotension, but they have rarely been demonstrated …

Intracranial hypotension causes orthostatic headaches and diffuse pachymeningeal gadolinium
enhancement on magnetic resonance imaging with or without subdural fluid collections …