Severe Head Injury linked to Subsequent Development of Malignant Brain Tumour within a Short Period- A Case Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Brain Tumour ◽  
Severe Head Injury ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Malignant Brain Tumour ◽  
Tumour Development ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Brain

There have been a few case reports of head injury leading to brain tumour development in the same region as the brain injury. Here we report a case where the patient suffered a severe head injury with contusion. He recovered clinically with conservative management. Follow up Computed Tomography scan of the brain a month later showed complete resolution of the lesion. He subsequently developed malignant brain tumour in the same region as the original contusion within a very short period of 15 months. Head injury patients need close follow up especially when severe. The link between severity of head injury and malignant brain tumour development needs further evaluation. Role of anti-inflammatory agents for prevention of post traumatic brain tumours needs further exploration.

scholarly journals A Series of Pure Ankle Dislocations without Associated Fracture: Our Clinical Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingjiang Gan ◽  
Yaxing Li ◽  
Wei Deng ◽  
Boquan Qin ◽  
Xi Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Reports ◽  
Degenerative Change ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Published Data ◽  
External Fixators ◽  
Functional Rehabilitation ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Ankle Dislocation

Abstract Background: Pure ankle dislocation without associated fracture is extremely rare, thus the literature almost limited to case reports and small case series. The standardized treatment protocol is in controversy and the studies of mechanism and outcome of the injury are still deficient. We report a series of eight cases of pure tibiotalar dislocations managed with emergency reduction and other heterogenic procedures, hoping to add some material to the published data on this topic and present our clinical experience.Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the eight cases of isolated ankle dislocations without associated fracture that were treated in our department from 2015 to 2019. Results: The eight cases were all posteromedial dislocations with six open and two closed. Emergency reduction was performed for all patients followed by average 6 weeks’ immobilization with external fixators in five and short leg cast in three. The mean follow-up period was 33 (range, 12 to 61) months. None of the eight patients showed obvious instability though only one patient underwent ligaments repair. The average range of motion (ROM) loss of the ankles was 10 degrees for plantarflexion and 3 degrees for dorsiflexion. Two patients complained of moderate stiffness and three complained of persistent mild pain in whom degenerative change was found. Neurovascular sequela was presented in one patient with numbness. Only one patient developed superficial infection. The average AOFAS score was 90 (range, 78 to 100) points at the final follow-up with five ankles rated as excellent and three rated as good. All of the eight patients returned to their prior daily life and the two closed patients with sports injuries resumed sports activity.Conclusion: Pure ankle dislocation is a rare ligamentous ankle injury with complicated mechanism. Most of the injuries treated with emergency reduction and thorough debridement followed by a short period of immobilization and functional rehabilitation have good clinical outcomes. Ligaments repair should only be considered in cases of chronic ankle instability after failed conservative treatment.

Course of neuropsychological recovery from moderate-to-severe head injury: a 2-year follow-up

Brain Injury ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Lannoo ◽  
F. Colardyn ◽  
C. Jannes ◽  
G. de Soete
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Severe Head Injury

Psychosocial outcome in patients with moderate to severe head injury: 2-year follow-up

Brain Injury ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dikmen ◽  
J. Machamer ◽  
N. Temkin
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Severe Head Injury ◽  
Psychosocial Outcome

Decompressive Craniectomy in 14 Children With Severe Head Injury: Clinical Results With Long-Term Follow-Up and Review of the Literature

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Pérez Suárez ◽  
Ana Serrano González ◽  
Carlos Pérez Díaz ◽  
Alberto García Salido ◽  
Amelia Martínez de Azagra Garde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Decompressive Craniectomy ◽  
Severe Head Injury ◽  
Clinical Results ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

Post-Choreic Personality and Neurosis

1946 ◽  
Vol 92 (386) ◽  
pp. 75-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Personality Development ◽  
Special Problem ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Personality Changes ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Chorea Minor ◽  
Puzzling Problem ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Post Infectious

In the relatively short period which has elapsed since the important findings about personality changes after encephalitis epidemica became known, those findings have been mainly responsible for the enormous advance in our knowledge of the sub-cortical direction of man's emotional and volitional life. This advance in psychopathology subsequently gave rise to the question whether similar sequelae could be found in the personality structure of those who had suffered from other forms of post-infectious encephalopathies. Chorea, which had already offered the puzzling problem of why the rheumatic virus becomes “neurotropic” in certain cases, was amongst the first to be considered, whereas 25 years ago no psychiatrist would have seen a special problem in the personality structure after choreic illness. The first investigations which dealt with entirely new problems in chorea minor were those of E. Straus, (1927), who found thathyperkinetic symptomsare frequently found, either in a generalized form, or as localized tics as sequelae of chorea minor, and of E. Guttmann (1927) and Schulz (1928), who both showed thathereditary predispositionof the brain plays an important role in persons who fall ill with chorea minor. Afollow-up studyof chorea cases with regard to personality development had not been undertaken until the present author's first publication on chorea (1934).

Neurological and mental outcome after severe head injury in childhood: a long-term follow-up of 318 children

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (15) ◽  
pp. 665-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Marquardt ◽  
G. Galow ◽  
R. Lorenz ◽  
M. Kieslich
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Severe Head Injury ◽  
Long Term Follow Up
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