Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to W Moskal.
Authors show the case of the 16 old years patient who was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of rise intracranial pressure sign as pseudotumor cerebri. The cause of those symptoms was thrombosis of sinus sagitalis superior confirmed by MR. Clinical analysis and immunological examination gave a diagnosis of secondary antiphospholipid syndrome in the course of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
A case is reported of severe sensorimotor polineuropathy in primary hyperparathyreoidism caused by presence of parathyroid adenoma and cancer in a 63-years old man. The question is discussed of paraneoplastic syndrome.
The authors report a case of postradiotherapy cervical myelopathy after treatment of laryngeal cancer. The patient aged 61 was referred to a neurological hospital department with suspected metastasis of laryngeal cancer to the spine with symptoms indicating cervical cord lesion. During observation and after imaging examinations of the cervical spine cancer recurrence was excluded. History data and imaging methods served a basis for the diagnosis of postradiation myelopathy. The authors warn against too ready diagnosis of cancer in such cases and a repetition of radiotherapy.