RM encefalo

Cefalea e vomito, a pensar male spesso ci si azzecca

Zanin F

2025/9 — pag. 247-248 — DOI

An 11-year-old boy presenting with occipital headache and vomiting was diagnosed with a posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytoma. This case underscores the need to promptly identify red flag symptoms in paediatric headaches and to perform timely neuroim...

Questa volta la sigla è PNES: crisi psicogene non epilettiche

Brienza C, Caputo OO, Ranucci G, Nunziata F

2025/5 — pag. 122-122 — DOI

A 13-year-old girl with a prior diagnosis of epilepsy presented to the emergency room following a prolonged generalized seizure. Despite ongoing antiepileptic therapy, she experienced recurrent seizures requiring hospitalization. During admission, sh...

Una macrocrania subacuta

Incandela V, Mazza S

2025/4 — pag. 97-98 — DOI

A six-month-old infant was admitted to the Emergency Room for loss of consciousness, vomiting and eye deviation. Clinical findings included macrocephaly, bulging fontanelle and repeated episodes of loss of consciousness and vomiting. Brain CT and MRI...

Neurofibromatosi e ipertensione arteriosa: alla ricerca della causa

Ricci S, Spagnoli C, Caponi L, Pugliese F

2024/10 — pag. 661-663 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 6-year-old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who was diagnosed with significant arterial hypertension during a routine check-up. After initial ineffective therapy and inconclusive investigations, an angio-CT r...

L’ascesso cerebrale: due casi a confronto

Pogliaghi M, Franchi F, Gaffuri M, Silvagni D, La Fauci G

2022/7 — pag. 461-463 — DOI

Brain abscess is a very rare and aggressive infection of the brain tissue; if this condition is not promptly recognized and adequately treated, it has a high mortality and a high frequency of long-term neurological outcomes. The paper describes two c...

L’ascesso cerebrale: due casi a confronto

Pogliaghi M, Franchi F, Gaffuri M, Silvagni D, La Fauci G

2022/7 — pag. 139-143 — DOI

Brain abscess is a very rare and aggressive infection of the brain tissue; if this condition is not promptly recognized and adequately treated, it has a high mortality and a high frequency of long-term neurological outcomes. The paper describes two c...

Se il problema sta alla radice...

Longhi B

2021/1 — pag. 28-28 — DOI

The paper describes a case of polyradiculoneuritis secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. At the seven-month follow-up the patient still presented a motor dysfunction of the shoulder girdle....

Una sindrome miastenica congenita

G. Ferrara

2020/2 — pag. 36-36

Amartoma ipotalamico e crisi gelastiche

M. Carrozzi, A. Skabar, C.E. Marras

2019/4 — pag. 83-85

Gelastic seizures (GS) are a rare form of epilepsy characterised by inappropriate, uncontrolled laughter. They usually originate from hypothalamic hamartomas. The paper presents a case of GS for which EEG and MR initially excluded the diagnosis made ...

Colpi di testa

E. Conversano

2018/10

Sembrava un’ADEM e invece era un tumore cerebrale

A. Delise

2017/10

Una cefalea... esplosiva!

G. Reghelin, G. La Fauci, P. Lo Tartaro-Meragliotta, B. Bonomo

2017/1

Dalla Cina con furore

E. Mazzoni, A. Lambertini

2014/4

La solita cefalea?

E. Alberti, M. Del Pistoia, M. Leoni, F. Vierucci

2013/2

“Panayiotopoulos, chi era costui?”

L. Matarazzo

2012/10 — pag. 664