[Adverse drug events in out-patients as the cause of an initial consultation to neurology].

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and type of neurological adverse drug events as the cause of an initial consultation to neurology, identify the medications involved and evaluate the possibilities of prevention.

Methods: Prospective observational study lasting 1 year (February 10, 2004 to February 9, 2005) that included all new adult outpatients at a neurology ward. Suspected adverse drug events were evaluated by two investigators in order to establish causality relationships, severity, preventability and types of medication errors associated with the preventable cases.

[Cavernous sinus syndrome: an initial expression of a breast carcinoma].

Cavernous sinus syndrome (CSS) may be caused by a wide range of pathological process among we include metastatic disease. A case of a woman whose breast neoplasm was initially expressed by a CSS is discussed in this article. We describe a 64-year-old woman with several weeks progressive course of pain and numbness in her left-side facies and occasional diplopia.