Effect of aromatherapy massage on elderly patients under long-term hospitalization in Japan.

Objectives: To verify the effectiveness of aromatherapy massage on elderly patients under long-term hospitalization.

Design: Aromatherapy massage was performed twice a week for a total of eight times.

Setting: Nursing home.

[Two cases of symptomatic arachnoid cysts in elderly patients--a comparison and analysis with child cases].

A symptomatic arachnoid cyst in an elderly patient is rare. We report two cases of symptomatic arachnoid cysts in elderly patients. The first case is that of a 73-year-old woman complaining of headache and speech disturbance.

Insular cortical projections to functional regions of the striatum correlate with cortical cytoarchitectonic organization in the primate.

We examined the striatal projections from different cytoarchitectonic regions of the insular cortex using anterograde and retrograde techniques. The shell and medial ventral striatum receive inputs primarily from the agranular and ventral dysgranular insula. The central ventral striatum receives inputs primarily from the dorsal agranular and dysgranular insula.

[Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes with delayed and decreased cerebral blood flow on cerebral angiography--a case report].

A 9-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of fever, headache, vomiting, and convulsive seizures. On admission, she was proved to have homonymous hemianopsia as well as elevated lactate and pyruvate levels in both serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Muscle biopsy study showed scattered ragged-red fibers and strongly succinatedehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels (SSV), suggesting systemic vascular involvement.

[A case of low grade glioma with Takayasu disease (aortitis syndrome)].

We experienced a rare case of Takayasu disease with low grade glioma. A 36 year-old female had an episode of right hemiconvulsion. On admission, she complained a slight memory disturbance, urination difficulty and motor weakness of right extremities.

[Brainstem glioma with supratentorial meningeal dissemination--a case report].

We present a very rare case of 7 year-old-girl who had a pontine glioma with supratentorial meningeal involvement. She complained severe headache with meningeal irritation. She showed fluctuating cranial nerve impairment of the both abducens and glosopharyngeal nerves but no signs of weakness or facial paresis.

Facial pain due to brainstem encephalitis. MRI confirmation of the lesion.

A 67-year-old woman developed central pain in the face with bilateral horizontal gaze palsy following brainstem encephalitis. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a lesion in the pontobulbar tegmental area.

Intracranial hemorrhage associated with nontraumatic disseminated intravascular coagulation--report of four cases.

The authors report four cases of intracranial hemorrhage associated with nontraumatic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Two cases demonstrated a sudden onset of intracerebral hemorrhage. The other two showed chronic subdural hematoma initially, followed by acute multiple intracranial hemorrhages or general hemorrhagic diathesis.

Optic nerve degeneration caused by supraophthalmic carotid artery infusion with cisplatin and ACNU. Case report.

A 28-year-old woman with a left frontoparietal anaplastic astrocytoma was treated postoperatively with a combination of cisplatin and 1-(4-amino-2-methylpyrimidine-5-yl) methyl-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3-nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU). The drugs were infused via the left supraophthalmic internal carotid artery in an attempt to avoid ocular toxicity. The patient subsequently developed blindness in the left eye and a right temporal hemianopsia from marked degeneration of the left optic nerve and tract.

Coagulation and fibrinolysis in chronic subdural hematoma.

In 19 patients with chronic subdural hematoma, coagulation and fibrinolysis in venous blood taken at the time of surgery and in the hematoma contents aspirated from chronic subdural hematoma were studied. Compared with coagulation results for venous blood, the hematoma contents demonstrated marked prolongation of the recalcification time, prothrombin time, and activated partial thromboplastin time, and marked reduction of clotting factor V, the hepaplastin test, prothrombin, and fibrinogen. Antithrombin III was also decreased, and fibrinopeptide A was increased in the hematomas.

Radiological studies of the cheiro-oral syndrome.

Four cases of the cheiro-oral syndrome are reported, with a review of the clinical symptoms and signs and the neuroradiological methods used to demonstrate the responsible lesion. In each case, angiography, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed. The lesion was found in the thalamus in three cases and in the pons in one.

Effect of BCG on cytostatic activity of peritoneal macrophages from normal and tumor-bearing rats.

In tumor-bearing rats inoculated intramuscularly with 5 x 10(4) SLC cells, the cytostatic activity of peritoneal macrophages was elevated in the early stage (7 days after transplantation) and decreased in the advanced stage (21 days after transplantation). When BCG was intraperitoneally administered into normal and tumor-bearing rats, peritoneal macrophages showed higher cytostatic activity than the untreated macrophages. This elevated cytostatic activity of the marcophages obtained from BCG-treated tumor-bearing rats was maintained even at an advanced stage.

Effect of 1(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl) methyl-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3-nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU) on Sato lung carcinoma (SLC). Preliminary result of immunochemotherapy for SLC by combination of ACNU and Propionibacterium acnes.

ACNU was highly effective for Sato lung carcinoma transplanted intravenously or intramuscularly by using a large single dose, and the cytotoxic action of ACNU for SLC showed clear dependence upon tumor size. Nonspecific activation of host-defence mechanism by Propionibacterium acnes contributed to the suppression for the regrowth of solid SLC treated by ACNU.

Effect of Propionibacterium acnes or BCG on enzyme activities in spleen lymphocytes of Donryu strain rats.

Immunopotentiated rats, which were injected with Propionibacterium acnes or BCG, had the 50% survival twice as long as those in untreated controls after intravenous inoculation of Sato lung carcinoma (SLC) cells. The amount of labeled tumor cells in the lung of the adjuvant-treated rats decreased significantly in the first 20 hr after intravenous injection of 51Cr-labeled tumor cells compared to that of control animals. The elevated activities of ATPase and acid phosphatase in the whole nucleated spleen cells as well as spleen lymphocytes separated by Ficoll-Conray gradient were also demonstrated in adjuvant-treated groups.