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Diagnostics
A FDG PET (fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography) scan is used to assess the metabolic activity of certain tumours. It's often used to detect...
Diagnostics
A functional MRI scan (fMRI) uses a magnetic field to take pictures of the insides of your body. Unlike a normal MRI, it can show which parts of your brain...
Diagnostics
Sural nerve biopsy has an important role in diagnosing peripheral nerve disease. The sural nerve carries sensation to the outside of the foot and lower...
Conditions
Gliomas are brain tumours starting from the glial cells, which support the neurons/nerve cells in the brain. There are three types: Astrocytoma:...
Conditions
Syringomyelia is where a fluid-filled cyst (syrinx) develops within the spinal cord. This can enlarge over time, distorting the spinal cord and causing...
Conditions
The sural nerve is located in your lower leg. It lies very close to the short saphenous vein, which is a major vein located in your calf. It sends sensory...
Conditions
Caphocephaly is where the sagittal suture — the dense connective tissue joint between two main plates of skull bone — fuses before birth. This can lead...
Conditions
Skull bone tumours are tumours that grow in the bones at the bottom of your skull. They also grow in the bony rim behind the nose and eyes. There are different...
Conditions
When a baby is born, the bone plates in their skull aren't joined together. As they get older, natural seams called sutures help to gradually fuse these...
Conditions
Trigeminal neuralgia is a severe and sudden type of facial pain. It's believed to be caused by an artery or vein compressing your trigeminal nerve (the...
Conditions
A tremor is an involuntary shaking or trembling in part of your body. Essential tremor is the most common type. People with it tend to experience shaking...
Conditions
Most cancer in the spine arises within the bones, having spread from elsewhere in the body. Occasionally tumours may arise directly from the tissues of...
Conditions
Pituitary tumours (adenomas) are non-cancerous (benign) growths that develop on the pituitary gland. They can cause an over or under production of the...
Conditions
A spinal cord cavernoma is an abnormal collection of blood vessels in your spinal cord. Cavernomas can compress the structures in your spinal cord, causing...
Conditions
Occipital neuralgia causes intense, shock-like pain in the back of the head, as well as migraine-type symptoms. It's often caused when the occipital nerve,...