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Publikováno v:
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 71:472-479
– A retrospective analysis was made of the natural history and treatment of 44 patients with syringomyelia, followed for a median interval of 10 years after diagnosis. Twenty-four patients were treated surgically. Four of 12 patients who had a lami
Publikováno v:
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine. 25:703-706
BACKGROUND The cause is not found in one third of patients presenting with chronic meningitis. Biopsy of the leptomeninges and brain is often recommended in these patients, but the value of a biopsy is uncertain. AIMS To review the results of leptome
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 54:1001-1003
The value of a brain biopsy in diagnosis and management of suspected herpes simplex encephalitis was studied in 29 patients (16 prospectively and 13 retrospectively). The biopsy showed herpes simplex encephalitis in eight, culture-negative encephalit
Publikováno v:
Australian and New Zealand journal of medicine. 28(6)
Background: Some patients with chronic lymphocytic meningitis appear to respond to corticosteroid treatment, but investigations fail to identify the cause. The use of corticosteroids in patients with chronic meningitis is controversial and the long t
Autor:
E. W. Willoughby, N. E. Anderson
Publikováno v:
Annals of Neurology. 21:470-474
We describe 5 patients who presented with an acute cauda equina syndrome, which we believe was due to infarction of the conus medullaris. In 3 patients, the onset was spontaneous, and in 2 patients it was secondary to temporary occlusion of the dista
Autor:
N E, Anderson, E W, Willoughby
Publikováno v:
The Quarterly journal of medicine. 63(240)
Eighty-three previously healthy patients with chronic meningitis presenting to a general hospital were reviewed. The single most common cause was tuberculosis (40 per cent) with cryptococcosis (7 per cent), malignancy (8 per cent) and other definable
Autor:
E W, Willoughby
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the Australian Association of Neurologists. 13
CSF IgG was measured in 190 patients by Single Radial Immunodiffusion, A high value for the ratio CSF IgG/total protein (normal values being up to 14%) was obtained in 13 of 22 patients (54%) with definite or probable multiple sclerosis and in 16 of
Autor:
E W, Willoughby
Publikováno v:
The New Zealand medical journal. 102(860)
Publikováno v:
Annals of neurology. 25(1)
A prospective study of serial magnetic resonance (MR) scans of the brain was carried out every 2 weeks for 4 to 6 months in 9 patients with mild, clinically definite, relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). Six of the 9 patients developed a tota
Publikováno v:
Australian and New Zealand journal of medicine. 4(4)
Summary: Clinical experience with the use of L-alpha-methyldopa hydrazine (Carbidopa), an inhibitor of peripheral decarboxylation of L-dopa, in the treatment of idiopathic Parkinson's disease in twenty-six patients is described. Malaise, nausea and v