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Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome

Case contributed by Dr Necip Gungor Atikeler
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Seizures, vertigo, left hand-leg weakness and hemiparesis

Patient Data

Age: 25 years
Gender: Male
mri

Cerebral hemiatrophy, right frontal and ethmoid sinus enlargement, skull thickening, right cerebral peduncle atrophy, cross cerebellar atrophy. 

Case Discussion

Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome is merely a descriptive term given to the changes that occur in the morphology of the skull when severe hemiatrophy is present. 

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