Infantile Hemiplegia. Cerebral Angioma. Subarachnoid Hæmorrhage

Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hæmorrhage

patient, male, aged 22 years, was admitted into the Government Headquarters Hospital, Calicut, on 20th September, 1938, at 10-30 a.m. with severe headache and restlessness. The history was that on 17th September at about 8-30 p.m. the headache started suddenly and became intense in a few minutes. He vomited the food he had taken a few minutes previously. A doctor was sent for who gave an inject...

Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hæmorrhage

Infantile hemiplegia treated by removing one cerebral hemisphere.

This preliminary communication is concerned with what I believe to be a new approach to the problem of the infantile hemiplegias. It is as well however to point out at the outset that the term infantile hemiplegia is employed here in a wide sense, and that some of the cases would, in a strict attempt at classification, fall clearly into the Little's group. The work on which the present report i...

Idiopathic infantile asymmetry and infantile hemiplegia.

In their recent paper, Philippi et al. [1] proposed a welcome evaluation scale which may be used across the different approaches that have been applied to infants with idiopathic asymmetry. It provides a functional view based on posture, spontaneous and reactive movements, hopefully unifying the host of syndromes under which these children came in the past. All these disorder categories (briefl...

Infantile hemiplegia in pediatric dental set-up

Infantile hemiplegia refers to brain injuries that occur before or at birth and lead to hemiplegia/ total paralysis of one side of the body, including the face, arm and leg. The main purpose of this article is to provide valuable information to pediatric dentists about the review and treatment alternatives for patients with infantile hemiplegia. This article reports the case of a 12-year-old gi...