Items tagged “syndrome”
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Hemimedullary syndrome
Hemimedullary syndrome, also known as Reinhold syndrome, occurs as a result of the occlusion of the ipsilateral vertebral artery proximal to the posterior inferior cerebellar artery and its anterior spinal artery branches 1-3. This situation causes lateral medullary infarct and medial medullary ...
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Yunis-Varón syndrome
Yunis Varón syndrome is a rare skeletal dysplasia. It is thought to be autosomal recessive.
Radiographic features
severe neurologic impairment include small cerebellar vermis and dandy walker malformation
cleidocranial dysplasia
absent clavicles
macrocrania
diastasis of sutures
micrognath...
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Preaxial polydactyly
Preaxial polydactyly refers to polydactyly where the additional digit is towards the first digit of the hand (radial side) or foot (medially).
Radial polydactyly can be classified using the Wassel classification system.
Epidemiology
Preaxial polydactyly is less common than postaxial polydacty...
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Heyde syndrome
Heyde syndrome is an association between aortic valve stenosis and gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
The etiology of the gastrointestinal bleeding in this setting is uncertain, but it is thought to be related to intestinal angiodysplasia. The strength of this association independent of age-related d...
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Quadrilateral space syndrome
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11 Jun 2015
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Millard-Gubler syndrome
Millard-Gubler syndrome, also known as ventral pontine syndrome, is one of the crossed paralysis syndromes, which are characterized by cranial nerves VI and VII palsies with contralateral body motor or sensory disturbances 1-3.
Clinical presentation
ipsilateral facial and contralateral body he...
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Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome
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21 Dec 2016
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Dorsal brainstem syndrome
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25 Jan 2017
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Raymond syndrome
Raymond syndrome is a posterior circulatory stroke syndrome due to a lesion in the ventral medial mid-pons. It is an extremely rare condition, with only a handful of cases described in the literature.
Clinical presentation
Clinically, 2 subtypes have been reported 1:
classic type
abducens ne...
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Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome
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20 May 2017
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Babinski-Nageotte syndrome
Babinski-Nageotte syndrome is thought to be a brainstem stroke syndrome in between that of the hemimedullary syndrome (Reinhold syndrome) and the lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg syndrome), but distinct to that of Cestan-Chenais syndrome 1,2.
Terminology
In many texts this eponymous syn...
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Adie pupil
Adie pupil (also known as tonic pupil) is caused by idiopathic degeneration of the ciliary ganglion, which sometimes occurs following a viral or bacterial illness. It is usually unilateral and typically affects young females 1.
Adie pupil represents a large dilated "tonic pupil", which does not...
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Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome
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07 Jan 2019
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (mnemonic)
Clinical diagnosis requires the presence of at least two criteria to confirm the presence of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) 1.
These diagnostic criteria can be remembered with the mnemonic:
CAFE SPOT
Mnemonic
C: café-au-lait spots (greater than six seen during one year)
A: axillary or ingui...
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Yunis-Varón syndrome
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09 Mar 2019
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Multiple cerebral cavernous malformations
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09 Sep 2019
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DICER1 syndrome
DICER1 syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder predisposing individuals to the development of multiple tumor types.
Epidemiology
DICER1 syndrome most commonly manifests in children, adolescents and young adults 8.
Clinical presentation
The clinical presentation will depend on the pa...
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Van Wyk–Grumbach syndrome
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05 Dec 2020
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Multiple osteochondromas
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14 Jun 2022
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Cestan-Chenais syndrome
Cestan-Chenais syndrome is a rare brainstem stroke syndrome with features between that of the hemimedullary syndrome (Reinhold syndrome) and the lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg syndrome), but distinct to that of Babinski-Nageotte syndrome 1,2.
Clinical presentation
Cestan-Chenais syndr...
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