Eyes on communication: trialling eye-gaze control technology in young children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy.

Purpose: This study aims to identify eye-gaze control technology outcomes, parent perception of the technology and support received, and gauge the feasibility of available measures.

Methods: Five children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy, mean age 4 years, 4 months (1 year, 0 months); n = 4 males; trialled two eye-gaze control technology systems, each for six weeks. Parents completed pre- and post-questionnaires.

[Pathophysiology of one warm foot. Anatomy of the autonomic nervous system].

A 50-year-old man presented with a persistently warm left foot, which did not perspire. What initially seemed to be an innocent disorder turned out to be a retroperitoneal germ cell tumour situated at Liii-Liv. In most people this location is the site of the lumbar paravertebral ganglia (an important part of the sympathetic nervous system).