Congenital intracranial tumors are rare and account for 0.5 to 1.5% of all childhood tumours. We report a case of a 3 week old baby presenting with multi compartmental congenital intracranial immature teratoma, fi rst of its kind in the literature. The child had gross total excision in two stages with aid of neuronavigation. The short term outcome was good. The four years of follow-up with serial imaging showed no tumour recurrence with a stable hydrocephalus after shunting. However, there is global developmental delay with full time dependence of care giver

Background and Objective: There is a great challenge to establish a level 4 epilepsy care offeringcomplete evaluation for epilepsy surgery including invasive monitoring in a resource-limited country.This study aimed to report the setup of a level 4 comprehensive epilepsy program in Malaysia and theoutcome of epilepsy surgery over the past 4 years. Methods: This is a retrospective study analyzingcases with intractable epilepsy in a comprehensive epilepsy program in University Malaya MedicalCenter (UMMC), Kuala Lumpur, from January 2012 to August 2016. Results: A total of 92 caseshad comprehensive epilepsy evaluation from January 2012 till August 2016. The mean age was 35.57years old (range 15-59) and 54 (58.7%) were male. There were 17 cases having epilepsy surgeryafter stage-1 evaluation. Eleven cases had mesial temporal sclerosis and 81% achieved Engel classI surgical outcome. Six cases had lesionectomy and 60% had Engel class I outcome. A total of 16surgeries were performed after stage-2 evaluation, including invasive EEG monitoring in 9 cases.Among those with surgery performed more than 12 months from the time of data collection, 5/10(50%) achieved Engel I outcome, whereas 2 (20%) had worthwhile improvement (Engel class III)with 75% and 90% seizure reduction.Conclusion: Level 4 epilepsy care has an important role and is possible with joint multidisciplinaryeffort in a middle-income country like Malaysia despite resource limitation.

his is a short-term longitudinal study of physical, cognitive, psychological and functional outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in adults, caused by road traffic accident (RTA). Outcome measures were the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Screening Module (S-NAB), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) scale. Functional outcomes included returning to working/academia and driving, lifestyle changes, financial claims and litigation status. A total of 285 individuals were diagnosed with mTBI, involving young male motorcyclists (90%): uncomplicated mTBI, n=201; complicated mTBI, n=84. Ethnic distribution consisted of 204 Malays, 58 Indians and 23 Chinese. MoCA detected cognitive deficits (mean=23.11, SD=3.41) within 72 hours of injury. At two weeks, somatic manifestations, physical injuries, cognitive deficits and psychological symptoms were detected. At three months of injury, the language domain was persistently impaired, with a lower score on most cognitive domains in the complicated mTBI category than the uncomplicated mTBI. Psychological and somatic symptoms had improved. Almost 50% of patients had returned to a functional baseline within two weeks of injury and a further 24% within three months. A small proportion of patients made active lifestyle changes (<25%), financial injury claims (38%) and were involved in litigation (11%). In conclusion, mTBI in multi-ethnic Malaysia has multifaceted deficits and outcomes. Early management of symptoms may promote maximum recovery.
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