Characteristics of post-stroke depression in Japanese patients.

Post-stroke depression (PSD) has an important impact on the quality of life of patients with stroke. We studied 100 stroke patients (mean age+/-SD: 64.6+/-11.

[The bilateral long thoracic nerve palsy presenting with "scapula alata", as a result of weight training. A case report].

A 28-year-old male barber with no similar disease in his family admitted to our hospital because of difficulty of raising his arms in March 2003. When he was 18 years old, he broke his left clavicle. He started weight training from January 2003, then he gradually felt difficulty to raise his arms.

[Usefulness of carotid duplex ultrasonography in a patient with moyamoya disease].

The patient is a 35-year-old man who had a medical history of epilepsy in childhood. He came to our hospital because of transient disturbance of consciousness and left hemiplegia just after evacuation. At first, we thought that he had epilepsy with Todd's palsy.