Items tagged “cns”

Rupture of a berry aneurysm, also known as a saccular aneurysm, can cause either a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), cerebral hematoma and/or  intraventricular haemorrhage. Epidemiology Berry aneurysms form 97% of aneurysms of the central nervous system. Up to 80% of patients with a spontaneous ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a relatively common acquired chronic relapsing demyelinating disease involving the central nervous system, and is the second most common cause of neurological impairment in young adults, after trauma 19. Characteristically, and by definition, multiple sclerosis is diss...

Intracranial tumours comprise a heterogeneous group of tumours. In adult patients, the majority represent metastatic disease with a smaller proportion being primary brain tumours. Metastasis to the brain occurs from lung, breast, melanoma, renal cell and colorectal cancers. Reference article T...

Cerebral abscesses represent focal areas of infection within brain parenchyma, usually containing pus and having a thick capsule. They typically have enhancing walls and can mimic a number of other significant pathologies. Reference article This is a summary article; read more in our article o...

ABC/2 is a fast and simple method for estimating the volume of intracerebral haemorrhage (or any other ellipsoid lesion for that matter) which does not require volumetric 3D analysis or software. Intracerebral haemorrhage volume is an important predictor of morbidity and mortality (and thus tria...