[Paraplegia associated with intramedullary spinal cord and epidural abcesses, meningitis and spondylodiscitis (Staphylococcus aureus)].

Introduction: Intramedullary spinal cord abscesses are rare, frequently associated with meningitis, sometimes with epidural abscesses. They are frequently responsible for paraplegia. Staphylococcus aureus is the predominant organism.

[Familial orthochromatic leukodystrophy: clinicopathological study of two cases].

This paper reports the clinico-pathological data in a French family with orthochromatic leukodystrophy. The parents were first cousins and had seven children. Among those, two sisters and one brother presented with neurological signs, with onset around the 5(th) decade, including a dementing syndrome of frontal type, a tetrapyramidal syndrome, seizures, and, in one sibling, a cerebellar syndrome.

[Cerebral hemosiderosis related to hereditary ceruloplasmin deficiency. Clinical familial case study].

A 59-year-old patient progressively developed dementia, hallucinations and facial dyskinesia. Brain T and T2-weighted MRI images showed low signal intensity on basal ganglia specially striatum, posterior thalamic and dentate nuclei. He had no evidence of ceruloplasmin and a high level of ferritin in the serum.

["Polydipsia, intermittent hyponatremia and psychoses" syndrome: a diagnosis and therapeutic management of a case].

Polydipsia can be defined as an impulsive behavior leading to absorption of large amounts of water (4 to 20 litres a day), without any underlying organic disease. Its prevalence in a population of chronic psychiatric patients can be as high as 6 to 17%. Schizophrenia represents 80% of cases reported.