CONJUGAL PARESIS

Pure dysarthria, isolated facial paresis, or dysarthria-facial paresis syndrome.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pure dysarthria, isolated supranuclear facial paresis, and their combination without somatic motor dysfunction are rarely encountered clinical syndromes and have not yet been clearly characterized. METHODS Thirteen patients (9 men, 4 women; aged 33 to 72 [mean, 56] years) with unilateral strokes who developed dysarthria with or without facial paresis but without somatic...

[Conjugal violence: clinical significance].

Conjugal Venereal Granuloma

The rarity of venereal granuloma in married couples is usually brought forward as a point in favour of the non-venereal origin of the disease. It appears that no authentic instance of conjugal granuloma has so far been reported in the literature. We have seen several cases of conjugal disease during the past five years and, in view of the recent articles on the subject in the Gazette, and the c...

Conjugal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease characterized by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the motor cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord. The incidence of sporadic ALS is 1.5 to 2.7 in 100,000, and the prevalence is 5.2 to 6.0 in 100,000. Conjugal ALS is even rarer than sporadic ALS. We report a case of conjugal ALS encountered in our outpatient neurology clinic.

Acute fourth nerve paresis.

Dr. Nelson has no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein. doi: 10.3928/01913913-20121008-01 Acute fourth nerve paresis is probably the most frequent cause of acquired vertical diplopia. In this issue, Khaier et al. found that many cases of acute fourth nerve paresis have a benign etiology and clinical course. Although the most common cause of vertical diplopia relat...