Further observations on the "bobble-headed doll syndrome".
Two patients are presented with a head-bobblng "tic" classically associated with a suprasellar cyst. The first of these showed hypothalamic, neuroendocrinological and limbic abnormalities not previously described, although with a classic arachnoidal suprasellar cyst. The second of these patients showed head-bobbling behaviour during the first years of life as a manifestation of one out of many episodes of ventricular shunt obstruction. This case is therefore the first reported whose head bobbling was observed with an acute lesion.
D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D013577:Syndrome