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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...
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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...
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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
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Connor (I91o) published a case of a brakeman, aged 42, who died in hospital following an acute febrile attack and vomiting. There had been no abdominal pain, tenderness or rigidity to explain the condition but autopsy revealed a perforated appendix abscess and peritonitis. Hanser (I9I9) recorded the case of a tabetic previously unknown to him who although having no abdominal signs or symptoms w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1912
ISSN: 0002-9955
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1912.04270090431016