Case Report: The Association of Wilson Disease in a Patient With Ataxia and GLUT-1 Deficiency.

Wilson disease (WD) and glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome are two syndromes with different modes of inheritance but share certain similarities on neurological presentation. To date we have not found previous reports of an association between these two disorders. Here we describe a 9-year-old male with global developmental delay that presented with intermittent and sudden onset weakness that first occurred at age 3.

Subitizing and counting in typical and atypical development.

Enumeration performance in standard dot counting paradigms was investigated for different age groups with typical and atypically poor development of arithmetic skills. Experiment 1 showed a high correspondence between response times and saccadic frequencies for four age groups with typical development. Age differences were more marked for the counting than the subitizing range.

[Traumatic aortic rupture in ankylosing spondylitis--a fatal complication].

Fractures of the spine represent a severe complication particularly in patients with ankylosing spondylitis because of high morbidity and mortality. We report on a patient with a hyperextension fracture of the lumbar spine, leading to disruption of the aorta and caval vein.

[Ultrasound imaging and localization of metal implants. A clinical study].

In a first experimental study we investigated the visualisation of metal implants in reference to dimension, shape, material (titanium, steel, biodegradable screws) and surface structures and an eventual change of the echo pattern in correlation to the surrounding structures, the vicinity to bone and the change of the sound angle. For this purpose ultrasound investigation was performed in artificial and cadaver bones and in cadaver limbs after implantation of screws, plates, K-wires and cerclage wires. We found that metal implants of a certain dimension can be localised by typical artefacts (resonance artefact, comet tile artefact).

[Rehn-Delorme operation in pelvic floor insufficiency].

Rehn-Delorme's procedure was introduced as one of a couple of methods to remove rectal prolapse with insufficiency of the pelvic floor. Rehn-Delorme's procedure wasn't well accepted until the last twenty years, when some authors reported good results with low recurrence rate of the prolapse, especially for old people with high risk or otherwise unfit for abdominal surgical procedures. On the German Clinic for Diagnostic during the years 1991-1994 in a therapeutical concept of the conjoint problems "chronic constipation--rectal prolapse-faecal incontinence" 205 patients, aged 20 to 86 years, were operated on with that procedure.