Hydrocephalus

Cefalea e vomito, a pensar male spesso ci si azzecca

Zanin F

2025/9 — pag. 247-248 — DOI

An 11-year-old boy presenting with occipital headache and vomiting was diagnosed with a posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytoma. This case underscores the need to promptly identify red flag symptoms in paediatric headaches and to perform timely neuroim...

Nistagmo e diplopia: occhio alla diagnosi

Savino V, Bellini T, Siri L, De Grandis E, Tortora D, Piccotti E.

2024/8 — pag. 532-534 — DOI

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, primarily located in the cerebellum. This clinical case highlights the importance of maintaining a high clinical suspicion and conducting timely evaluations, even when symptoms ar...

Nistagmo e diplopia: occhio alla diagnosi

Savino V, Bellini T, Siri L, De Grandis E, Tortora D, Piccotti E

2024/8 — pag. 164-165 — DOI

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, primarily located in the cerebellum. This clinical case highlights the importance of maintaining a high clinical suspicion and conducting timely evaluations, even when symptoms ar...

Mal di testa? Non pensare all’oculista

Campone C, Negro I, Vandone M

2023/6 — pag. 104-104 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 3-year-old girl presenting with worsening and severe headache initially attributed to astigmatism that was finally diagnosed as cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma....

Non tutte le fratture sono uguali

Lanzetta MA, Vaivoda A.

2022/8 — pag. 524-526 — DOI

Two infants with multiple bone fractures consequent to physical abuse are presented. The clinical and legal implications of the diagnosis of abuse and neglect are discussed....

Il craniofaringioma

Salce N, Giovannelli E, Graziani V, Cozzolino M, Mazzatenta D, Zucchelli M, Marchetti F

2021/7 — pag. 467-469 — DOI

Craniopharyngioma (CP) is a rare epithelial low-grade tumour that develops in the sellar/suprasellar region of the brain, along the craniopharyngeal duct. It has a bimodal distribution and the first peak occurs in paediatric age almost exclusively co...

“Mi sembra tanto depresso”… aveva tutte le ragioni per esserlo!

Iacono A

2021/7 — pag. 463-466 — DOI

The paper reports - in the form of a dialogue between paediatricians - the case of an 8-year-old boy who presented with about 10 days of sporadic episodes of vomiting, profuse asthenia and change in behaviour. Brain MRI showed the presence of a crani...

Ematoma sottogaleale: quando piove sul bagnato

S. Tagliani, M. Manfredi, R. Faggioli

2019/2 — pag. 24-26

Subgaleal haematoma is a condition that most frequently affects newborns but can be found also in older children especially in presence of predisposing factors (anti-platelets therapy or coagulopathy) after head injury. It appears as a soft swelling ...

La Pediatria per sigle: cerebral salt wasting syndrome

M. Colombo, V. D’Apolito, A. Mazza, L. Verdoni, M. Ruggeri

2018/7

Una cefalea... esplosiva!

G. Reghelin, G. La Fauci, P. Lo Tartaro-Meragliotta, B. Bonomo

2017/1

Un caso di cerebellite acuta di verosimile natura post-vaccinica

M. Daverio, C. Moretti

2013/1 — pag. 53-56

Complicanze addominali dello shunt ventricolo-peritoneale

E. Zanelli, R. Giorgi

2012/6

Ventriculo-peritoneal shunting remains the most widely used neurosurgical procedure for the management of hydrocephalus. Intraabdominal complications after its insertion are frequently located near the peritoneal end of the shunt catheter, causin...

Quando si dice...ha una testa un po’ grande...!

S. Bertelli, I. Cogo, C. Radice, R. Faggioli

2012/6

Quello che davvero conta

M. Fornaro, M. Gangemi, C. Danchielli, E. Valletta

2010/3

Teste piccole, teste grandi, teste storte

L. Genitori, F. Giordano, F. Mussa, M. Sanzo, L. Sardo, G. Di Pietro, P. Donati

2007/3 — pag. 155-159

The right and early diagnosis of craniosynostosis is a mainstay in their surgical management. The Pediatrician often makes the first medical examination of a child with a suspected craniofacial malformation. The aim of this paper is describing the f...

Una spia “capelluta”

E. Spadoni, L. Matteucci, C. Mazzatenta, R. Domenici

2005/6 — pag. 393

I difetti del tubo neurale

M. Lazzerini

2005/4

Meningoencefalite da Listeria in oncologia pediatrica

2002/7 — pag. 460-460

Report on two cases of Listeria-induced meningoencephalitis in a child aged 19 months with pre-B lymphatic leukemia, slightly neutropenic, and a child aged 15 years with T lymphatic leukemia, not neutropenic but lymphopenic. The disease rapidly ev...

Insufficienza dell'acetazolamide e della furosemide nel trattamento della dilatazione postemorragica ventricolare del prematuro

G. Bartolozzi

2001/10

Le malformazioni cerebrali, spesso diagnosi inattese in pediatria

A. D’Apuzzo, L. Amato, R. De Nicola, F. De Rosa, C. TregrossiI, R. Di Concilio, M. Spiezie

2001/5

Valutazione quantitativa dell'idrocefalo neonatale mediante TC volumetrica con ricostruzioni tridimensionali

F. Zennaro, R. Ammar, P. Guastalla, M. Quercini

2000/5

Valutazione quantitativa dell’idrocefaloneonatale mediante tc volumetricacon ricostruzioni tridimensionali

F. Zennaro, R. Ammar, P. Guastalla, M. Quercini

2000/5 — pag. 325-328

In low-weight new-borns with hydrocephalus, neither the pressure of liquor nor the size of intraventricular diameters provides reliable information to proceed to a precise calculation the amount of liquor to be removed in case of emergency without...

Un caso tipico di allergia al lattice

A. Polimeni

1999/5