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A Hila

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PubMed1992

[Cervicobulbar intramedullary lipoma. Apropos of a case with review of the literature].

The authors report a case of cervical intramedullary lipoma extending into the bulbomedullary junction. 99 cases of cervical and/or dorsal intramedullary lipomas without spinal dysraphism, reported since 1884, are reviewed. There is poor correlation between lipoma's length and age of onset. Only lipoma extended to all the spinal cord begin in the first years of life. Clinical presentation is in 58% of cases a slowly compressive myelopathy, a syringomyelic syndrome in 9.5% of cases, a Brown Sequard syndrome in 6.5% of cases or atypical clinical features in 26% of patients. Finding of a subcutaneous lipoma at the level of the lesion helps for diagnosis. C.T. scan and magnetic resonance imaging (M.R.I.) precise lipomatous constitution of the tumor, its limits and relations with neighbouring tissues. Surgery is necessary when clinical features are advanced. Surgery indication is debatable when neurological manifestations are poor or absent. Post operative course is generally good and is not related with type of intervention.

Brain Neoplasms↗
PubMed1992

Bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsy in spondyloarthropathies.

Fourteen patients (12 men, 2 women) with spondyloarthropathies underwent bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), transbronchial biopsy (TBB) and other respiratory investigations. BAL revealed lymphocytosis and increased nonaltered neutrophil polynuclears in a smoker and an isolated lymphocytosis in one patient with restrictive syndrome and radiographic apical fibrosis. TBB showed interstitial fibrosis in the 2 patients and in 3 others who are all nonsmokers and among whom 2 had a restrictive syndrome. Subclinical alveolitis in spondyloarthropathies is absent. Interstitial fibrosis is not rare and its frequent association in a restrictive syndrome suggests a mechanical origin.

Adolescent↗