Publications by authors named "Mallecourt J"

Introduction: We describe here the cerebral cerebral magnetic resonance (MRI) abnormalities observed in a case of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CD).

Case: A 37 year-old man had been treated for pituitary dwarfism during adolescence with contaminated growth hormone. Neurological symptoms nearly two decades later suggested CJD.

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Peripheral neuropathy is a rare, yet treatable manifestation of sarcoidosis, a multisystem disorder characterized by the presence of non-caseating granulomas that are seldom found in nerve biopsy specimens. In order to learn more about the subject, we reviewed our clinical and pathological findings in a series of 11 patients (six men and five women aged 26-83 years) with symptomatic neuropathy associated with characteristic granulomas in nerve biopsy specimens. Only two patients were known to have sarcoidosis before the occurrence of the neuropathy.

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The clinical story of a young woman with chronic erythema migrans followed by polyradiculoneuritis and recurrent oligoarthritis is reported. The story corresponds to the disease described by Steere et al. [7, 8, 9, 10] in 1976 and known in the U.

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In Multiple Sclerosis (MS) the modification of the latency of visual evoked responses (VER's) shows sequels of the involvement of anterior optic tracts manifested by a retro-bulbar optic neuritis (RBON). This study was made on 102 patients with MS. The stimulus used the pattern reversal of a checkboard.

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In a patient with suspected Multisclerosis (M.S.), the discovery of a lesion in the anterior optic tracks is of considerable diagnostic importance.

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A case of neuromyopathy due to chronic chloroquine intoxication is reported. The neuromyopathy developped 9 months after malaria suppression therapy with chloroquine was started. The clinical picture was that of a peripherical neuropathy in the lower limbs and of a generalized myasthenic syndrome.

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A comparative study of somatic and visual projections on the cerebral cortex of the adult of the normal rat or of the rat enucleated at birth, and of the young rat. This study was first designed to examine the developmental features of somate, sensory and visual projections to the rat cerebral cortex, together with their alteration as a consequence of early sensory deafferentation. We were led to a reevaluation of these projectins in the normal adult rat.

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The authors report the results of recording EVP obtained by pattern reversal in 20 controls and 43 patients with "established", "probable" or "possible" MS on the basis of MacAlpine's criteria. Whilst the latency of the wave 1 of the EVP appeared stable in the controls (107.5 msec +/- 7.

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The authors describe a case of myxoma of the left auricle disclosed by repeated cerebral embolism and multiple aneuryms of mycotic appearance of the cerebral arteries in a woman exhibiting no cardiac symptoms. The immediate post-operative results were excellent. In the light of 7 similar cases in the literature, diagnostic and prognostic points are analysed.

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