This paper concerns the tomodensitometric (TDM) study, with the same clinical and radiological criteria, of 78 schizophrenic patients (age: less than 60 years) from psychiatric hospitals in Madrid and from Sainte-Anne hospital (Paris). The length of evolution and the severity of disturbances seemed to be the most important causal elements of cerebral atrophy. Some TDM peculiarities appeared correlated with some clinical forms (paranoid or hebephrenic).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActas Luso Esp Neurol Psiquiatr Cienc Afines
February 1982
Beside the principal aspects of cysticercosis (see the first part of this article) there are others clinical forms : medullar, ocular, subcutaneous, often associated to cerebral cysticercosis, latent or not. The complemental investigations are numerous, their value is variable. The complemental investigations are numerous, their value is variable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProduced by the larval form of Taenia solium, human cysticercosis is especially redoutable because of its great affinity for the nervous system and the eyes. In France, the isolated cases, apparently autochtons, are very seldom; cysticercosis is discovered, more frequently, among immigrated people. After an historical recall, the authors describe the lesions and, among clinical manifestations, the epileptogenic, ventricular and diffuse cerebral forms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report their experience of one years use of a cerebral scanner in the investigation of the sequelae of head injuries, and the medico-legal interest of this discovery. It permits one to visualise the pathological processes responsible for the symptoms following head injuries and its is thus of major intetrest in legal medicine where the subjective factor in these symptoms is difficult to assess. Increasing considerably the proportion of definite etiologies in this pathology, the authors believe that this new method will become standard in the medico-legal assessment of head injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA young man (30 years) suffered a head injury in the course of a road accident. Four years after the accident, there was progressive development of hypertonia of the muscles of the left shoulder in association with certain movements, with torsion dystonia of the left upper limb. The presence of minimal neurological signs differentiated this cases from so-called idiopathic torsion dystonia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe two cases described exhibited elastopathy associated with arterial stenosis (case 1) or aneurysms (case 2). The first was clearly a case of elastic pseudo-xanthoma with characteristic cutaneous lesions associated with retinal angioid streaks and severe arterial lesions, notably stenosis of the vertebral arteries (especially the left) causing disorders in the mechanism of balance. There were, in addition, mild diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and abnormal cutaneous pigmentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris)
August 1976