Congenital oculo-bulbar palsy.

Congenital oculo-bulbar palsy.

A girl developed progressive weakness of bulbar and ocular muscles starting before the age of two years. Electromyography revealed a widespread subclinical myopathy. An intercostal muscle biopsy showed complex abnormalities including occasional neurofilamentous accumulations and honeycomb-like membranous material in terminal axons. Endplates were small and some secondary synaptic clefts were ab...

On the Etiology of Myasthenic Bulbar Palsy

Thyrotoxicosis presenting as acute bulbar palsy.

Myopathy chiefly affecting the proximal muscles of the limbs is frequently seen in hyperthyroidism. But isolated acute bulbar palsy without skeletal muscle involvement is rare in thyrotoxicosis. We report the case of a 52 year old man who presented with severe dysphagia, dysphonia and bouts of aspiration. Laboratory testing revealed an underlying Graves' thyrotoxicosis. His symptoms recovered d...

Ponto-bulbar palsy with deafness (Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome).

The syndrome described by Brown(l) Vialetto(2) and Van Laere(3) is a rare, often familial, characterized by bilateral nerve deafness followed or accompanied by involvement of various motor cranial nerves, e.g., 7th and 9th to 12th, rarely 3rd, 5th and 6th. On rare occasions, there may also be involvement of spinal motor nerves and less commonly of upper motor neurons. The onset of the disease i...

Congenital ocular palsy.

A full-term male infant, weighing 8 lb Ii oz at birth, was delivered by forceps on July I5, I960, because of occipito-posterior presentation. He had a large cephalhaematoma on the right side with considerable bruising and swelling around the right eye, the upper lid of which did not open for one month. When it did open, it was noted that the eye itself did not move, and that the pupil was small...