4 results match your criteria: "New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical Center of Cornell University[Affiliation]"
Isolated primary intracerebral mycetoma: presenting as a mass lesion in a patient with prostate cancer and multiple myeloma.
J Neurooncol
January 2005
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, USA.
We report a patient with a history of prostate cancer and multiple myeloma, with a solitary indolent intracerebral mass lesion without any constitutional symptoms and minimal neurologic symptoms. The radiographic appearance of the lesion was that of a tumor but resection revealed a mycetoma, consistent with Aspergillus. A brief review of the literature discusses the rarity, presentation, diagnosis, and management of primary intracerebral mycetomas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShould thrombolysis be given to a stroke patient refusing therapy due to profound anosognosia?
Neurology
December 2004
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, 520 East 68th Street, F-610, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Transient aphasia and reversible major depression due to a giant sagittal sinus dural AV fistula.
Neurology
August 2003
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
A 61-year-old man presenting with transient global aphasia and chronic major depression was found to have a giant high flow dural arteriovenous fistula of the superior sagittal sinus. EEG and SPECT scan showed left frontoparietal dysfunction. This resolved after fistula embolization, as did the patient's neuropsychiatric complaints.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pathogenesis and treatment of optic disc swelling in neurosarcoidosis: a unique therapeutic response to infliximab.
Arch Neurol
March 2003
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, 520 E 68th St, F-610, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Objective: To review the pathogenesis and treatment of optic disc swelling in neurosarcoidosis, including a novel therapeutic response to infliximab.
Design And Setting: Case reports from an inpatient neurology service.
Patients: A 35-year-old woman presented with headache, chronic visual loss, papilledema, and optic atrophy, characteristic of chronic intracranial hypertension.