Brain Stem

Il ritorno della varicella che "destabilizza"

Bloise S, Buffon S, Iacono A, Nano G, Marchetti F

2025/8 — pag. 196-199 — DOI

Chickenpox is generally considered a benign childhood disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV). However, in some cases, the infection may be associated with potentially serious complications, such as neurologic manifestations. The main forms of...

Quando cuore e cervello sono connessi: ictus ischemico secondario a mixoma atriale sinistro

Bucciarell B, Spina E, Cappelletti D, Bianco F, Bucciarelli V, Merlino E, Fornaro M, Lionetti ME, Filippelli S

2025/2 — pag. 45-48 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 17-year-old girl, apparently healthy, who presented to the Emergency Department with syncope, visual disturbances and vertigo during a walk. Neurological symptoms prompted an MRI, revealing subacute cerebellar ischemic...

Mal di testa? Non pensare all’oculista

Campone C, Negro I, Vandone M

2023/6 — pag. 104-104 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 3-year-old girl presenting with worsening and severe headache initially attributed to astigmatism that was finally diagnosed as cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma....

Due giraffe in corsia: una encefalite da Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Amendolea A, Fierabracci M, Gucci A, Malandra L, Suriano G

2021/10 — pag. 657 — DOI

The article describes the case of an encephalitic involvement during Mycoplasma infection with pneumonia. As it often happens in paediatrics, the peculiarity lies in a nuanced symptomatology that may be underestimated. A repeated anamnesis was import...

Stroke cerebellare e dissezione dell’arteria vertebrale in una adolescente

E. Manzotti, V. Bianco, B. Filippini, G. Vergine, L. Iughetti, A. Marsciani

2015/4

A 13-year-old girl presented with progressive frontal he-adache, dizziness, vomiting and hypotonia, with heat sen-sation and hyperidrosis. She referred a “contraction” of the neck some days before, while she was doing gymna-stics. The only physical s...

La bella addormentata

I. Giuseppin

2013/4