Publications by authors named "Nasser Jassim Al Maslamani"
Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) with spinal cord involvement is a rare clinical entity. We report a case of RDD with paravertebral and intraspinal epidural involvement in a 24-year-old male Bangladeshi patient who presented with progressive bilateral lower limb weakness for 20 days duration associated with spasticity and muscle spasm. MRI demonstrated an enhancing paravertebral soft tissue lesion extending from C7 through T4 with intraspinal epidural extension encasing the spinal cord with focal cord oedema.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReversible acute symmetrical basal ganglial lesion on magnetic resonance imaging and/or computed tomography in cases of diabetic nephropathy and chronic renal failure exhibiting acute onset of movement abnormalities like chorea is a very rare entity. It has characteristic clinical and imaging features. Only 29 cases are described in the literature, including the current one.
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- Pneumorrhachis is the presence of air in the spinal canal, which can occur in various spaces like extradural and intradural areas.
- Nontraumatic cases of pneumorrhachis are rare and often asymptomatic, typically resolving on their own without treatment.
- The case discussed in the text involves an adult female who developed pneumorrhachis along with pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax, and surgical emphysema following a severe coughing episode due to bronchial asthma.