Clinical and anatomical observation of a patient with a complete lesion at C1 with maintenance of a normal blood pressure during 40 minutes after the accident.

The authors report on their clinical observations concerning a patient with a complete spinal cord injury at the level of C1, followed by a cardiac hypoxic arrest, due to immediate respiratory paralysis after the accident. Normal cardiac activity was obtained as a result of rapid resuscitation measures, using only intubation and external cardiac massage without any drug administration. The blood pressure was maintained without any drugs at a level of 130 Torr during 40 minutes before it fell to a permanent level of 50--40 Torr on ventilation alone.

[Intracerebellar schwannoma].

Only some rare examples of schwannomas localized in the medullary parenchyma are cited in the literature. The first was described by Kernohan in 1933; 9 cases were rapported in the thirty following years. For Brain a few observations about one case were cited by David (1965), Gibson (1966), New (1972) and Ghatak (1975).

[Cutaneo-digital metastasis of a cancer of the buccal floor (author's transl)].

The authors describe the case of a patient with cancer of the buccal floor presenting with an inflammatory tumefaction of the tip of the little finger of the left hand passing for a whitlow. No cure was obtained after two lancings, and X-Rays showed lesion of the bone. Amputation revealed neoplastic tissue similar to that in the buccal floor.