A 63-year-old woman developed left leg weakness, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and headache. Brain MRI showed a hypointense rim on the surfaces of the cerebellum, brainstem, and cerebral cortex indicating superficial siderosis. Further examination showed an intramedullary ependymoma at the level of T12-L2. We report a patient with a spinal cord ependymoma resulting in superficial siderosis of the central nervous system.
Brain ; Brain Stem ; Central Nervous System ; Cerebellum ; Cerebral Cortex ; Ependymoma* ; Female ; Headache ; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural ; Humans ; Leg ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Middle Aged ; Siderosis* ; Spinal Cord*

We report adult-onset sleep terrors in a patient with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. A 42-year-old woman presented with abnormal behaviors during sleep. Neurologic examination revealed mild hypomimia, resting tremor and bradykinesia in her right upper limb indicating early Parkinson's disease. An episode would consist of sitting up in bed, screaming, then clapping her hands and more talking, shouting, screaming, and appearing frightened. Polysomnography documented 2 episodes of parasomnia which occurred in slow wave sleep indicating sleep terrors.
Adult ; Female ; Hand ; Humans ; Hypokinesia ; Neurologic Examination ; Night Terrors* ; Parasomnias ; Parkinson Disease* ; Polysomnography ; Tremor ; Upper Extremity

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