Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system is a rare and possibly underdiagnosed disorder.

Methods: Series of cases collected from Brazilian centers.

Results: We studied 13 cases of patients presenting with progressive histories of neurological dysfunction caused by SS-CNS. The most frequent clinical findings in these patients were progressive gait ataxia, hearing loss, hyperreflexia and cognitive dysfunction.

High-resolution computed tomography findings in hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

The hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an acute, rapidly progressive disease transmitted by rodent excreta, with endothelial damage playing a central role in the pathophysiology. It usually affects rural workers. The lung itself is the target organ and reflects all the patterns of endothelial involvement of this disease.

Chronic myelopathy associated to intramedullary cysticercosis.

Study Design: Case report.

Objective: Discuss an isolated intramedullary neurocysticercosis (NCC) case in an adult patient with chronic progressive onset myelopathic symptomatology with clinical, radiologic, and pathologic correlation.

Summary Of Background Data: NCC is the most common parasitic infection in the central nervous system.