Parkinson's Disease as the Onset of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. A case Report by Miguel de Jesús Mazorra Pazos

“…Normal pressure hydrocephalus is a syndrome characterized by gait abnormalities, cognitive impairment, urinary incontinence that is associated with enlargement of the ventricular system in the absence of elevated cerebrospinal fluid pressure. A 43-years-old patient who presented a single seizure event, accompanied by gait disturbances, bradypsychia, bradykinesia, tremor at rest, and urinary sphincter disorder is presented. …”
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Neurosyphilis in interwar period in Lithuania: etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment methods by Š. Jukna, E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“…Wasserman, Pandy and Nonne-Apelt globulin reactions, as well as evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid cytosis were the most commonly used laboratory tests to diagnose the disease. …”
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Targeted Anterior Cervical Epidural Blood Patch in a Patient with Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension by Ravindra Singh Shekhawat, Ming Hui Yong, Si Ying Julienne Keong, Kunihiko Chen, Chow Wei Too, Shahul Hameed

“…He had the site of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage identified at the anterolateral aspect of the C7-T1 spinal level. …”
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FCM Clustering Algorithms for Segmentation of Brain MR Images by Yogita K. Dubey, Milind M. Mushrif

“…Segmentation of brain images, especially into three main tissue types: Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF), Gray Matter (GM), and White Matter (WM), has important role in computer aided neurosurgery and diagnosis. …”
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Anaesthetic management of infant with occipital encephalocele associated with Arnold Chiari III malformation - A Case Report by Vandana Patilbuwa Pakhare, K. Naga Sri Sowmya, Mohammed Mohsin Ali, Reshma Sultana, Doli Suresh Chander

“…Meningoencephalocele is a congenital anomaly wherein meninges, brain, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are herniated through defect in the skull. …”
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Papillary Ependymoma WHO Grade II of the Aqueduct Treated by Endoscopic Tumor Resection by Andreas M. Stark, Heinz-Herrmann Hugo, Arya Nabavi, H. Maximilian Mehdorn

“…The tumor was completely removed via a right-sided endoscopic approach with restoration of the aqueduct. The free cerebrospinal fluid passage through the aqueduct was not only visualized by endoscopy but also controlled by intraoperative high-field magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Ovarian Teratoma Masquerading as a CSF Pseudocyst in a Female with a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt by John M. K. Mislow, Jonathan R. Slotkin, Mark R. Proctor

“…This case report describes the unexpected finding of a cystic ovarian neoplasm in a young female with an abdominal mass and a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, initially diagnosed as a cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst. We use this case to illustrate that the astute clinician must always synthesize a diagnosis from all data sources and not to rely on initial radiographic evaluations. …”
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Normalization of Bilateral Adrenal Gland Enlargement after Treatment for Cryptococcosis by Yuka Muraoka, Shintaro Iwama, Hiroshi Arima

“…We report the case of 24-year-old man with fevers, headaches, and impaired consciousness who had been treated with glucocorticoids for a protein-losing gastroenteropathy. The cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed cryptococcal meningitis. …”
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The Rise of Inflow Cisternostomy in Resource-Limited Settings: Rationale, Limitations, and Future Challenges by Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye

“…Its practice is based on the cerebrospinal fluid shift edema theory that attributes injury to increased pressure within the subarachnoid space due to subarachnoid hemorrhage and subsequent dysfunction of glymphatic drainage. …”
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Evaluation of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and Sepsityper Kit™ for the Direct Identification of Organisms from Sterile Body Fluids in a Canadian Pediatric Hospital by Manal Tadros, Astrid Petrich

“…The authors evaluated a commercially available kit – the Sepsityper Kit (Bruker Daltonik, Germany) – and MALDI-TOF MS for the rapid identification of organisms from 80 flagged positive blood culture broths, of which 73 (91.2%) were blood culture specimens and seven (8.7%) were cerebrospinal fluid specimens, in comparison with conventional identification methods. …”
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Symptomatic Pneumocephalus Associated with Lumbar Dural Tear and Reverse Trendelenburg Positioning: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Stephen M. Pirris, Eric W. Nottmeier

“…When encountering cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage intraoperatively, spine surgeons should level the operating table until closure of the dural defect to prevent potential complications associated with pneumocephalus. …”
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Drainage or Packing of the Sella? Transsphenoidal Surgery for Primary Pituitary Abscess: Report of Two Cases by Soichi Oya, Junichiro Kumai, Taku Shigeno

“…This led to the postoperative meningocele, the cerebrospinal fluid leak, and bacterial meningitis despite the successful abscess drainage. …”
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Class imbalance learning–driven Alzheimer’s detection using hybrid features by Ran Baik

“…An efficient method is proposed to detect the Alzheimer’s disease in the early stage using magnetic resonance imaging. k -Means clustering is used to develop the proposed method for efficient segmentation of the white matter, cerebrospinal fluid, and grey matter. The amalgam feature vectors are formed using the grey-level co-occurrence matrix and speeded-up robust features based on textural feature extraction. …”
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Role of Carbamazepine in the Symptomatic Treatment of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sandhya Ravikumar, John Ross Crawford

“…After extensive workup, a diagnosis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis was suspected by the presence of period epileptiform discharges on electroencephalogram and confirmed by elevated measles titers in the cerebrospinal fluid. Combination immunomodulatory therapy with isoprinosine, ribavirin, and intra-Ommaya interferon alpha did not result in clinical improvement. …”
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Bilateral Renal Cortical Necrosis in Meningococcal Meningitis by C. Kennedy, S. Khilji, A. Dorman, J. Walshe

“…Bacterial meningitis is a relatively common infection of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and leptomeninges. The clinical picture evolves rapidly and, if treatment is delayed, can result in a variety of long-term sequelae, including death. …”
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Partial resection of epithelialized placode without added neurological deficit in myelomeningoceles. Presentation of three cases by Ernesto Enrique Horta-Tamayo, Diana Rosa Ortega-Raez, Lary Benice Rodríguez-Santillán

“…Two cases showed complications (cerebrospinal fluid fistula, surgical wound infection, and post-repair hydrocephalus). …”
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TSE Diagnostics: Recent Advances in Immunoassaying Prions by Anja Lukan, Tanja Vranac, Vladka Čurin Šerbec

“…However, the ultimate goal of TSE diagnostics is an ante mortem test, which would be sensitive enough to detect prions in body fluids, that is, in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or urine. Such a test would be of paramount importance also for screening of asymptomatic carriers of the disease with the aim of increasing food, drugs, and blood-derived products safety. …”
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Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Encephalitis after Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis by John J. Vaidya

“…The patient had a history of headache and fever of 1–2-week duration, and cerebrospinal fluid and magnetic resonance imaging picture suggestive of HSV encephalitis. …”
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Varicella-Zoster Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Male without Fever or Rash by Raju Raghunathan, Qasim Khalil, Mohamad Mooty

“…The diagnosis was established by a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed on cerebrospinal fluid samples. The patient was treated with acyclovir and responded very well. …”
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Exacerbating Guillain–Barré Syndrome Eight Days after Vector-Based COVID-19 Vaccination by Josef Finsterer

“…The patient is a 32-year-old male who developed progressive sensory disturbances and muscle weakness 8 days after the first dosage of a vector-based vaccine. Cerebrospinal fluid investigations revealed a dissociation cyto-albuminque, and nerve conduction studies revealed demyelination. …”
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