[Dysplastic gangliocytoma of the cerebellum (Lhermitte-Duclos)].

In a surgical specimen from a 33-year old woman with features of expansive cerebellar symptomatology, dysplastic gangliocytoma of the cerebellum (Lhermitte-Duclos) was diagnosed by histology. The lesion was characterized by typical proliferation of dysplastic neuronal elements in the cortical granular and Purkinje cell layers. Immunohistology showed focal positivity of synaptophysin in some cells, thus confirming their neuronal origin.

Correlation of histopathological and clinical findings in neuromuscular diseases.

Our file comprises bioptic and necroptic materials of skeletal muscles: progressive spinal muscle atrophy of adults 16, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 12, infantile progressive spinal amyotrophy Werdnig-Hoffmann 9, chronic progressive amyotrophy Oppenheim 6, syringomyelia and syringobulbia 3, conditions after spinal cord accidents. Diagnosis was difficult because one time the neurological marks were at the head and other time the muscular ones. In the clinical picture there was muscle weakness and atrophy, the spontaneous and palpation painfulness was missing.

Histopathological changes in paravertebral muscles by chronic discopathies.

Samples of paravertebral muscles were obtained from the lesion sites of forty patients operated on for recurrent lumboischiadic syndrome of discogenic etiology. None of the specimens was physiological. All of them were pathologically altered in various grades of involvement.

Oesophageal diverticula.

The classification and etiopathogenesis of oesophageal diverticula is discussed, based on the experience with the treatment of 91 (68 Zenker's, 7 parabronchial, and 16 epiphrenic) diverticulectomies performed at the First and Second Departments of Surgery in Olomouc from 1948 to 1987. The tactics and technique of surgical management and its results in the single groups of diseases are analyzed in detail. Parapharyngeal diverticula represent typical true diverticula associated with hypertonia of the upper oesophageal sphincter.

Thyroid surgery in advanced age.

The total of 1,931 patients had been operated on in the Second Department of Surgery, Faculty Hospital and Policlinic, in Olomouc for thyroid disorders. The present paper deals with the operation on the thyroid gland in advanced age. The symptoms of the disease, types of interventions and kinds of complications, factors influenced by age and the secondary diseases are pointed out.