Clinical Neuroscience - 1952;5(01)

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 28, 1952

[Clinical significance of abdominal-reflex dissociation]

LEHOCZKY Tibor, FODOR Tamás

[1. The behaviour of the abdominal skin reflex and abdominal muscle reflex was investigated in 500 subjects. Seven pathologies were found to have complete or true abdominal reflex dissociation: myelopathy 86.6%, multiple sclerosis 77%, syringomyelia 75%, tumor spinalis 53.3%, hemiplegia 28.8%, tabes 11.5%, neurolues 9.2%. Partial dissociation was observed in parkinsonism (5%) and neurasthenia (2%), the significance of which is debatable. The number of cases of syringomyelia is too small to draw conclusions. 2. Dissociation is most frequent in the 3 pathologies whose clinical differentiation is particularly difficult (multiple sclerosis, myelopathy, spinal cord tumour). Within these, the percentages for multiple sclerosis and myelopathy are almost identical. 3. Complete or true abdominal reflex dissociation is most often seen in multifocal spinal diseases. It has no pathognomonic value, but it can be evaluated with a 77 and 86.6% probability in clinical symptomatology in multiple sclerosis and myelopathy, respectively. 4. The examination of the abdominal muscle reflex and thus the search for abdominal reflex dissociation is a valuable and important data in organic neurology.]

HUN 1952;5(01)

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 28, 1952

[Brain chamber sutures]

ZOLTÁN László

[The author performed stitching of a brain chamber opened during meningocerebral scar excision in six cases. Five patients suffered from post-traumatic epilepsy. Of these, 4 were virtually asymptomatic. The condition of the fifth, whose suture proved inadequate, did not improve. One patient had an abscess at the site of the ventricular suture that did not travel with the ventricle after surgery. Besides the novelty of the surgical technique, for which no equivalent or similar surgical procedure has been found in the literature, the author considers the significance of the method to be that the ventricular suture may play a role in normalising the cerebrospinal fluid balance, in addition to preventing possible postoperative ventricular haemorrhage.]

HUN 1952;5(01)

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 28, 1952

[Posttraumatic intracerebral pneumocele]

STEPIEN Lucjan

[The intracerebral pneumothorax (IP) was first described by Chiari in 1884 (1), and then detected by Luckett (2) in 1913 with rtg. as air trapped in the brain ventricle after a skull fracture. Since that time, numerous publications have discussed the aetiology, symptomatology and treatment of IP; in the Polish literature Chorobski and Tyczka (3), Zawadowski (4), Herman and Spiro (5). There are about 120 publications on the same subject in the literature.]

HUN 1952;5(01)

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 28, 1952

[Foreign Language Summaries]

[A summary of the articles published in the issue in Russian and German]

HUN 1952;5(01)