Posterior cordectomy. Our experience.

Objective: Several surgical procedures have been proposed for the treatment of respiratory distress secondary to bilateral cord palsy. We performed a retrospective study of our experience in posterior cordectomy with a laser CO(2), analysing the improvement of dyspnoea and voice quality after surgery.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of 13 cases (9 female, 4 male).

Neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions in the dorsal horn and supraoptic nucleus of the squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus.

In the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) two types of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies have been observed sporadically in neurons of both the dorsal horn (Rexed's laminae I-III in the lumbosacral region) and the supraoptic nucleus. One of these, designated here the "vesicular body", is a round inclusion which measures up to 1.4 mu in diameter.

The supraoptic nucleus and the supraopticohypophysial tract in the monkey (Macaca mulatta).

The observations here on Golgi material are based on the study of fortunate impregnations in one horizontally sectioned and one frontally sectioned series found in the collection of Golgi preparations of the adult monkey brains (Macaca mulatta) available in this laboratory. The soma of the large supraoptic neurons have jagged protrusions and irregular crevices which give their surfaces a craggy appearance. Also they have a few somatic spines.