#ContinuumCase#tbt:
A 51 year old developed progressive confusion and personality change over 3 months. EEG was unrevealing. CSF showed a mild lymphocytic pleocytosis. After the MR below, she was treated with high dose steroids, with no change
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1/ Pre-print alert! Work from brilliant #CancerNeuroscience post-doc @TaraBarronPhD demonstrates that interneurons promote the growth of diffuse midline gliomas #DMG#DIPG through GABAergic neuron-to-glioma synapses 🧵…https://t.co/K4VeVCs7nN
Not feeling like you want to tackle a ruptured, Grade IV frontal Sylvian AVM that comes in the middle of the night? Emergency hematoma evacuation, hemicraniectomy, transfer to an AVM center like @BarrowNeuro can be lifesaving. This comatose patient is now alert, Ox3…#SevenAVMs
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It is rare a patient tells you where their pathology is—but they do when they tell you they have a cranial nerve palsy—you just have to know where to look!
A #tweetorial about the Six Syndromes of the Sixth Cranial Nerve. #FOAMed#medtwitter#Medstudenttwitter@medtweetorials
Finding the 6th nerve during #skullbase#surgery may look like a needle in a haystack, but not when you know the key anatomy as published in our latest @TheJNS paper. The spectacular #illustration by Josh Klein @AaronCohenGadol has it all! Our roadmap for #transclival surgery.
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Medial sphenoid wing meningiomas often encase adjacent neurovascular structures, turning resection into an archeology dig. Internal carotid, middle, and anterior cerebral arteries must be skeletonized or excavated from tumor. Remember the 3 D’s: devascularize, debulk, dissect…