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M Bruyland

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PubMed1984

Neonatal myotubular myopathy with a probable X-linked inheritance: observations on a new family with a review of the literature.

During the 3 weeks of his life, an infant born at term presented pronounced hypotonia, areflexia and generalized paresis with severe respiratory and feeding problems. He was the fourth male in two generations to die in the perinatal period, therefore suggesting an X-linked inheritance. Post-mortem examination revealed a centronuclear or myotubular myopathy. The difficulty in distinguishing the signs due to muscle disorder from those due to hypoxaemic encephalopathy is stressed. Infants with centronuclear myopathy have in any case a high risk for hypoxaemic encephalopathy. The literature concerning neonatal centronuclear myopathy with X-linked inheritance is reviewed.

Biopsy↗
PubMed1984

Lower motor neuron disease in a patient with Hodgkin's disease treated with radiotherapy.

A case of lower motor neuron disease after extended field irradiation for cervical stage IA nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's disease is reported. Recurrence of Hodgkin's disease is excluded and other diagnostic possibilities are discussed. We compared this case with twenty-four similar cases reported in the literature after irradiation of the spinal cord for Hodgkin's disease or other neoplasms. Special features included the relatively advanced age of the patient, the long latency period, a premonitory CK-rise and reversibility. The entity is considered to be a very rare and relatively benign complication of spinal cord irradiation important to recognize as an entity in order to avoid extensive reevaluation.

Electromyography↗
PubMed1984

Good response of a paraneoplastic neuromyopathy to cyclophosphamide.

The case history of a 59-year-old man with neuromyopathy and sicca syndrome, preceding the discovery of a small cell bronchial carcinoma for 16 months, is reported. This paraneoplastic neuromyopathy , resistant to steroid therapy, dramatically improved with cyclophosphamide treatment.

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols↗
PubMed1983

Osteopathia striata with cranial sclerosis. Report of a case and review of the literature.

This article describes a case of osteopathia striata with cranial sclerosis. The patient also has multiple sclerosis. The symptomatology includes a right sided conduction deafness and a left maxillar nerve deficit, which were both attributed to the bone disorder. The authors review the literature of this rare genetic syndrome and pay special attention to the neurological manifestations. These mainly consist of hearing loss, mental subnormality and occasionally the involvement of other cranial nerves. The bone scan in their patient shows hyperactivity in the left skull base region. This finding provides further evidence that, at least in some instances, the bone disorder has a progressive course.

Bone Diseases, Developmental↗
PubMed1983

An unusual cause of attacks of focal cerebral symptoms: multiple endocrine neoplasia type IIA.

A case of MEN type IIa is described showing among other symptoms, three attacks of transient neurological symptoms. These were attributed to a localized, transient cerebral ischemia. The latter probably developed as a consequence of the concomitant occurrence of different phenomena: the existence of hypercalcemia and on the other hand the secretion of vasoactive substances by one of the three tumours forming the MEN type IIa syndrome. The pheochromocytoma played an essential role because the symptoms did not recur after the bilateral adrenalectomy.

Adenoma↗
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Non-traumatic subdural hygroma.

Subdural hygroma consists of a cerebrospinal fluid-like subdural fluid collection with a low oncotic pressure in comparison with venous blood. Its etiology and pathophysiology, which may be different from other subdural fluid collections, are reviewed. We report the clinical history of a 80-year-old woman with a bilateral frontal subdural hygroma. Serial CT-scanning demonstrated a rapid increase in volume after two years of slow evolution. In our patient dehydration may have been the triggering factor. The course of non-traumatic subdural hygroma is not well known. This report illustrates that subdural hygroma can have a dramatic evolution and that therapeutic decisions in these patients should be based on repeated CT-scans.

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