[Management of muscle cramp: what's to be done?].

Muscle cramp is characterized by involuntary, painful, visible contraction of a muscle (or a part of muscle) and is always associated with irregular repetitive firing of motor unit action potentials (200 à 300 Hz) which is caused by hyperexcitability of intramuscular terminal motor axons. It's a common condition in normal people, but most commonly in young people (pregnancy, exercise) and more in the elderly (50% after 65 years-old). A careful history and examination should allow the physician to determine the significance of cramp.

At-risk phenotype of neurofibromatose-1 patients: a multicentre case-control study.

Objectives: To assess associations between subcutaneous neurofibromas (SC-NFs) and internal neurofibromas in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) and to determine whether the association between SC-NFs and peripheral neuropathy was ascribable to internal neurofibromas.

Patients And Methods: Prospective multicentre case-control study. Between 2005 and 2008, 110 NF-1 adults having two or more SC-NFs were individually matched for age, sex and hospital with 110 controls who had no SC-NF.

[Meningitis due to Capnocytophaga canimorsus without dog bite].

Introduction: Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a fusiform and filamentous gram-negative rod, part of the normal oral flora of dogs and cause rare human febrile acute meningitis, usually severe but curable.

Observation: A sixty years old man presented a severe acute meningitis with fever and confusion. CSF show 4,000 cells/mm3 with 83% neutrophilis, increased protein level (5,02 g/L), very low glucose and positive Gram stain result.

Neurofibromatosis 1-associated neuropathies: a reappraisal.

Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a common disease which is a source of various multisystemic manifestations related either to the accumulation of neurofibromas or to specific developmental abnormalities. The neurofibroma is the hallmark lesion of NF1 and develops from peripheral nerves. However, to date, the description of peripheral neuropathies of NF1 has not been investigated.