Delayed cerebral thrombosis complicating bacterial meningitis.

Background: Delayed cerebral thrombosis has been described as a potential cause of cerebrovascular complications in patients with bacterial meningitis. We report a case of delayed cerebral thrombosis in a 63-year-old woman admitted for pneumococcal meningitis. Initially, there was a good clinical evolution under treatment with steroids and antibiotics.

Becker-type muscular dystrophy. Report of a family with one postmortem study.

Becker-type muscular dystrophy (BMD) is reported in two brothers. In one of the patients, the molecular demonstration of an in-frame deletion of exons 45, 46 and 47 has confirmed the clinical and pathological diagnosis of BMD. The autopsy of the other patient revealed mild neuronal losses in the anterior horns at C8, lumbar and sacral levels of the spinal cord.

Dural arteriovenous malformation involving the Galenic system and producing hydrocephalus.

The case of a man with a large arteriovenous malformation, fed by meningeal arteries and draining into the Galenic system is reported. Mental deterioration and gait ataxia were attributed to an associated noncommunicating hydrocephalus. The symptoms recurred two months after successful ventriculoatrial shunting.

Success and failure of evoked potentials in detecting clinical and subclinical lesions in multiple sclerosis patients.

The value of visual, brain stem auditory and somatosensory potentials in detecting clinical and subclinical lesions as compared to the routine neurological, ophthalmological and vestibular examinations was investigated in 100 M.S. patients.