Prescribed versus actual length of stay and inpatient neurorehabilitation outcome for brain dysfunctional patients.

Objective: To determine (1) whether brain dysfunctional patients have better rehabilitation outcomes if they receive prescribed length of stay (LOS) versus less than prescribed and (2) if LOS and cognitive status relate to goal attainment.

Design: Prospective inception cohort study.

Study Setting: Medical center and a neurological institute.

Appearance of venous malformations on magnetic resonance imaging.

The magnetic resonance (MR) imaging appearance of venous malformations, all angiographically verified, was evaluated in 11 patients. A venous malformation is characteristically depicted as a tubular area of decreased signal intensity in the white matter of the brain. In one patient, a histologically verified cavernous malformation was also present with a characteristic mixed signal-intensity core on the T2-weighted MR images.

Surgical treatment of an abscess in a Rathke's cleft cyst.

An abscess in a Rathke's cleft cyst was surgically treated in a 39-year-old man. The patient presented with headaches, fever, and visual deficits. Transcranial decompression of the optic chiasm was carried out first.