Cervical spine surgery and handwriting: a case report.

The 53-year-old right-handed woman underwent decompressive laminectomies and foraminotomies at the C3-C7 levels. The course of illness and postoperative recovery were documented by handwriting and MRI views, but not statistical analysis.

Effect of hemorrhagic shock upon spinal cord blood flow and evoked potentials.

Although somatosensory evoked potentials are being used in the evaluation of spinal cord injury and the monitoring of cord function during surgical procedures, their limitations in the face of fluctuations in blood pressure await further clarification. To study the effect of hypotension upon spinal cord blood flow (SCBF) and spinal evoked potentials (SEPs), we subjected five anesthetized lambs to graded hypotension to a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of 80, 60, 40, and less than or equal to 30 mm Hg. Five animals served as controls.

Primary intracranial rhabdomyosarcoma.

Primary intracranial rhabdomyosarcoma is rare. Twenty-one cases with dismal outcomes have been reported. We add five children with this disease treated between 1977 and 1982.