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Neurol India
January 2014
Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Neurosurgery
July 2010
Neurosurgical Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Niels Stensen (1638-1686) was a prominent Danish scientist who laid the foundations of paleontology, geology, and crystallography. He undertook a personal search for the truth, rejecting many assumptions of his time, and he struggled to acquire a firm foundation of knowledge based on close observation and rigorous experimentation. Niels Stensen is known eponymously for the discovery of the duct of the parotid gland (ductus stenonianus) but most clinicians are not familiar with his contributions to anatomy beyond his studies on the glands.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFourth ventricular cysts in patients with neurocysticercosis are generally solitary without accompanying parenchymal cysts and hence present with hydrocephalic symptoms at the time of implantation. We report a patient with status migrainosus-like presentation in whom the neurological examination was normal and the diagnosis was made by imaging (CT and MRI scan).
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