CHARCOT JOINTS AS AN INITIAL OR EARLY SYMPTOM IN TABES DORSALIS

Tabes dorsalis: electrodiagnostic features.

Electrodiagnostic data have not been previously reported in tabes dorsalis. A patient with tabes dorsalis is described whose nerve conduction studies and median nerve somatosensory evoked responses (SEPs) were normal. H-reflexes were absent. SEPs of the tibial nerve suggested posterior column dysfunction. These electrodiagnostic findings correlate precisely with the known pathology of tabes dor...

Bilateral total knee arthroplasty for Charcot knees associated with tabes dorsalis.

Relief of lightning pains in tabes dorsalis.

The immediate relief of lightning pains in tabetics remains a problem. Though sedatives are still the commonest drugs prescribed, medical measures such as administration of vitamin B1, ephedrine, adrenaline, and insulin have been suggested on supposed etiological grounds, but have failed to meet with general approval. Surgical procedures, such as epidural injections, division of the nerve roots...

A Case of Tabes Dorsalis in an Indian

K. L. A., male, Indian Christian, aged 45, who had never been out of India, was admitted to the ophthalmic ward for drooping of the right upper lid, and was soon transferred to the medical wards. History.?For two years he had suffered from shooting pains in the lower extremities?described by him as ' electric shocks'?the attacks lasting for fifteen to twenty minutes, and recurring at indefinite...

The Mercurial Treatment of Tabes Dorsalis

The question of the mercurial treatment of tabes has been very often debated in congresses and also learned societies in France during recent years. Diametrically opposite opinions have been expressed with equal firmness. On the side of the syphilographers, Fournier, Gaucher and Hallopeau trace a very fine dividing-line between syphilitic spinal complications which may be treated