A Few Cases of Spasm

Report of a few Cases of Cysticercus tenuicollis in Lambs, Kids and its Histopathhological Investigation

HEMIFACIAL SPASM: A RERORT OF 100 CASES TREATED BY MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION

100 patients with hemifacial spasm treated by microvascular decompression are presented. There were 60 females and 40 males. Their ages ranged from 29 to 75 years with a median age of 54 years, and the left side was involved predominantly. The common focal signs were facial nerve palsy in 41 cases, diminished hearing in 14 cases, trigeminal neuralgia in 11 cases, and homolateral trigeminal...

A Few Unusual Cases of Poisoning

Case 1.?A Hindu female from district Warangal, Hyderabad (July 1940), killed her husband by giving him a drink containing ground Bhilawan (marking nut) and snake poison. No snake poison was detected but Bhilawan was detected on a stone on which it was ground and in the remnant of the prepared poison which she said she gave to her husband. It could not be detected in earth soiled with vomited ma...

Importance of a second spasm provocation test: Four cases with an initial negative spasm provocation test

The spasm provocation test (SPT) is an important test in the diagnosis of vasospastic angina (VSA). In many cases, this test is performed as the gold standard test, and VSA is considered not present if the SPT is negative. However, some patients continue to experience chest symptoms despite a negative SPT. In this study, we report four cases in which SPT was repeated to evaluate chest symptoms ...

Decompression of the facial nerve in cases of hemifacial spasm.

a ) Primary hemifacial spasm, by some authors termed "cryptogenic", "idiopathic" or "autonomous". In reviewing 106 cases Ehni and Woltm a n 5 gave the fo l lowing characteristics of this group: (1) the spasms are of an intermittent, twitching nature, ( 2 ) the eyel ids on the ipsilateral side are almost always involved, ( 3 ) the spasms are usually unilateral and when bilateral they are not syn...