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M Scanarini

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Intrarachidian lipomas. Observations on 4 cases and pathogenetic considerations.

The Authors report 4 cases of spinal lipomas: 2 intradural, 2 completely intrarachidian extradural. The intradural lipomas observed were 2 cases in the lumbo-sacral area, both operated on by the partial removal of the lesion with very good clinical results; histologically they were found to be 2 fibrolipomas. The 2 cases of extradural lipomas, completely intrarachidian, were situated in the thoracic and lumbar areas. Both were operated on with very good results and it was possible to remove all the lesion. They were found to be an angiolipoma and a mature lipoma. On the basis of the literature, the Authors maintain that, for these cases of intradural lipoma, the disembryogenetic hypothesis (such as embryological ectopia) should be accepted as etiopathogenesis. They point out the nature and origin of extradural lipomas, arising in a site where adipose tissue is abundant, have never aroused interest on their origin, but they too can be considered malformative lesions of the hamartomatous type and not neoplastic lesions. These data are confirmed by the remarkable frequency in these cases of the mixed variety of lipoangiomato or angiomiolipomatosis. The Authors thus underline the importance of the relationship between the presence of a subcutaneous lipoma in cases of completely intrarachidian extradural lipomas to support the hypothesis of malformative origin.

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[Ischemic cerebrovascular accidents in childhood. Problems of neuroradiological diagnosis].

The authors present 19 cases of stroke with subsequent hemiplegia in children from 5 months to 15 years of age. These cases are not strictly correlated with haematologic alterations. The aetiopathogenesis remains uncertain in the most of patients, in which predisposing causes are absent and angiographic pictures do not demonstrate anatomical lesions or occlusions of cerebral vessels. In our series, cerebral angiography was performed in 16 children and showed vascular alterations only in 6 cases. CT scan some time after the acute hemiplegia, demonstrated low-density areas in 12 cases over 17 examined, with the characteristic evolution of ischemic lesions.

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Traumatic cerebral aneurysm in pediatric age. Case report.

Cerebral aneurysm following head trauma in pediatric age is a rare complication particularly in the absence of skull fractures or penetrating brain wounds as in the present case. In the presence of rapid worsening of neurological conditions after head trauma, one may take into consideration this complication among other possible vascular accidents.

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[Penetration of amoxicillin into the cerebrospinal fluid].

The results of a study of the CSF concentration of i.v. amoxicillin in control subjects free of meningeal inflammation are presented. The drug proved capable of passing the blood-brain barrier when employed in sufficiently high doses, even in the absence of meningeal inflammation. The CSF level of the antibiotic was higher than the MIC required for most of the meningeal pathogens.

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