Alterations of the cerebral white matter in a middle-aged patient with turner syndrome: an MRI study.

A 52-year-old woman with intellectual disability was admitted to the hospital due to pneumonia. MRI of her brain showed diffuse hyperintensities on T(2)-weighted and fluid attenuated inversion recovery images in the bilateral cerebral white matter. Laboratory examination revealed sustained high levels of serum KL-6.

[A case of lung tuberculosis which also incidentally found intestinal tuberculosis by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography].

A 60-year-old women presenting with an abnormal shadow on a chest X-ray film was admitted to our hospital in June 2004. Her CT scan of the chest showed a cavitary mass shadow in the left upper lobe. FDG-PET was performed to examine whether this shadow was the lung cancer or not, and incidentally it showed an additional accumulation of FDG in the ileocecal resion.

[Clinical, neuroimaging and electroencephalographic findings of encephalopathy occuring after the ingestion of "sugihiratake" (Pleurocybella porrigens), an autumn mashroom: a report of two cases].

We report a 54-year-old man (case 1) and a 79-year-old woman (case 2) who presented with encephalopathy of unknown cause. Both patients were on hemodyalysis and took an autumn mashroom, "sugihiratake" (Pleurocybella porrigens), two to three weeks prior to the onset of neurological alterations. The clinical syndrome of those patients was characterized by weakness and involuntary movements of the extremities (cases 1 and 2) or dysarthria (case 1) at the onset of the disease and subsequent intractable focal motor seizures, resulting in generalized status epilepticus or comatose state, six (case 1) or three (case 2) days after the disease onset.

[An outbreak of encephalopathy after eating autumn mushroom (Sugihiratake; Pleurocybella porrigens) in patients with renal failure: a clinical analysis of ten cases in Yamagata, Japan].

In September and October, 2004, an outbreak of encephalopathy of unknown etiology occurred in certain areas of Japan including Yamagata, Akita, and Niigata prefectures. These patients had a history of chronic renal failure, most of them had undergone hemodialysis, and also had a history of eating Sugihiratake (Pleurocybella porrigens), an autumn mushroom without known toxicity. Since clinical details of this type of encephalopathy remain unknown, we analyzed the clinical, radiological and electroencephalographic (EEG) features of ten cases of this encephalopathy in Yamagata prefecture.