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INTRODUCTION: Cavernomas rarely occur in the ventricular system. Only 10 pediatric cases out of 46 well-documented cases have been published. CASE REPORT: We report the case of an 11-year-old girl operated on for a voluminous cavernoma at the ventricular trigone which was diagnosed after absence seizures. CONCLUSION: Interestingly, the case we report showed a hypointense rim on T2-weighted magnetic resonance images which has not been a common finding in the cases previously reported.
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Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms/diagnosis , Epilepsy, Absence/etiology , Hemangioma, Cavernous/diagnosis , Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms/complications , Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms/surgery , Child , Craniotomy , Female , Hemangioma, Cavernous/complications , Hemangioma, Cavernous/surgery , Hemianopsia/etiology , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
To assess clinical predictors of 1-year outcome in schizophrenia, 63 patients were studied prospectively. Persistent negative and total symptoms after 4 weeks of neuroleptic treatment accounted for 62% of the variance of 1-year outcome, whereas baseline measures showed no relationship to outcome. Thus, 1-year outcome in schizophrenia can be reasonably predicted on the basis of symptoms persisting after 4 weeks of treatment.
