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OBJECTIVE: To study the acute phase serum biomarkers in patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and to correlate them with short term cognitive deficits. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a prospective observational study conducted at a tertiary care center for neurotrauma. The participants included patients with mTBI (n = 20) and age, gender, and education-status matched healthy controls (n = 20). In both the groups, the serum concentrations of biomarkers ubiquitin C terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1) and S100 calcium-binding protein B (S100B) were measured. Both the groups underwent neuropsychological tests. The serum tests were done in the acute stage after injury and the neuropsychological tests were done 3 months after injury. RESULTS: There was no significant increase in the serum S100B and UCH-L1 levels in patients with mTBI. Patients with mTBI had significant cognitive deficits at 3 months after injury, which was suggestive of involvement of diffuse areas of the brain, in particular, the premotor, prefrontal, and medial inferior frontal lobes and the basitemporal region. The correlation of biomarkers with cognitive deficits in patients with mTBI was found in the following domains: working memory, verbal learning, verbal fluency, and visual memory. CONCLUSION: The serum biomarkers of mTBI have a correlation with selective domains of neuropsychological outcome.
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Biomarcadores/sangue , Concussão Encefálica/sangue , Disfunção Cognitiva/sangue , Subunidade beta da Proteína Ligante de Cálcio S100/sangue , Ubiquitina Tiolesterase/sangue , Adolescente , Adulto , Concussão Encefálica/complicações , Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico , Disfunção Cognitiva/etiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Síndrome Pós-Concussão/sangue , Estudos Prospectivos , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Choriocarcinoma is the most malignant tumour of gestational trophoblastic origin. Most ovarian choriocarcinomas are gestational in origin and usually metastasize to the ovary from uterine or tubal choriocarcinoma. Non gestational choriocarcinoma (NGOC) of the ovary is exceedingly rare and usually seen along with other germ cell tumors. Non gestational choriocarcinoma has been found to be resistant to single-agent chemotherapy and has a worse prognosis than gestational choriocarcinoma. We are reporting long term follow up of published rare case of pure non gestational ovarian choriocarcinoma (NGOC) with concurrent metastases to the spleen and adrenal glands, who developed a delayed solitary brain metastases, two years after completion of primary treatment. Surgery along with triple agent chemotherapy and radiotherapy was found to give good remission in this aggressive disease.
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Meningioma/patologia , Meningioma/cirurgia , Procedimentos Neurocirúrgicos/métodos , Neoplasias Cranianas/patologia , Neoplasias Cranianas/cirurgia , Osso Esfenoide/patologia , Osso Esfenoide/cirurgia , Adulto , Feminino , Hemianopsia/etiologia , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Exame Neurológico , Doenças do Nervo Oculomotor/etiologia , Paresia/etiologia , Resultado do Tratamento , Zigoma/cirurgiaAssuntos
Abscesso/microbiologia , Espinha Bífida Oculta/complicações , Espaço Subdural/microbiologia , Tuberculose da Coluna Vertebral/complicações , Abscesso/patologia , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Espinha Bífida Oculta/patologia , Espaço Subdural/patologia , Tuberculose da Coluna Vertebral/patologiaRESUMO
Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy or Rosai-Dorfman disease is a rare, but well documented entity. We report a lady who presented with progressive quadriparesis, with cervical extradural lesion on magnetic resonance imaging. She underwent decompression of the lesion and histological diagnosis of the lesion was Rosai-Dorfman disease. On one-year follow-up, she had complete improvement of the deficits with no further progression of the lesion. The presentation of this disease as an isolated spinal extradural mass lesion is quite rare, with only six cases reported in literature.