The clinical examination of neck pain patients: the validity of a group of tests.

We evaluated whether a blinded observer could identify the neck pain patients in a sample of 42 subjects consisting of neck pain patients and asymptomatic controls.The allocation of subjects to either the control or patient group was based on the scoring of a VAS scale for pain intensity, a Bournemouth Questionnaire (BQ), a manual examination of the rotation of C0-2-7 (rated for Range Of Motion, end feel, onset of pain), an adapted Spurling test and Cervical Range Of Motion (CROM) measurements.The VAS and BQ resulted in a high % of correct allocations (>/= 77.

Cerebral sarcoidosis presenting as supranuclear gaze palsy with hypokinetic rigid syndrome.

A 31-year-old man with histologically documented pulmonary sarcoidosis developed a severe hypokinetic rigid syndrome with a supranuclear gaze palsy following recurrent lymphocytic meningitis and occlusive hydrocephalus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed multiple hyperintense foci in the CNS, not detectable by computed tomography (CT). Long-term steroid therapy led to clinical complete remission.

Benign juvenile focal muscular atrophy of upper extremities--a familial case.

A 53-year-old man and his 18-year-old son, both suffering from benign focal muscular atrophy of upper extremities are described. To our knowledge this is the first familial case of this disease in Caucasians.