Puerperal Polyneuritis

Toxic Polyneuritis

of Ten Cases Presenting Some Unusual Features By R. S. ALLISON, M.D., M.R.C.P.(LOND.), AND W. H. PATTERSON, M.D. NEURITIS is a common complaint and a term often loosely used to describe indefinite sensory symptoms. Polyneuritis or peripheral neuritis is, however, a definite entity and much less common. Harris (1) classifies its causes into four main groups (a) Caused by the absorption of poison...

Relapsing Polyneuritis

Polyneuritis Complicating Herpes Zoster

A 47-year-old male bank clerk was admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary on 7th October i963. On admission he gave a history of anorexia for 2 weeks and left sided upper abdominal Pain for x week. Vesicles had been present over the painful area for 6 days. On the day before Emission he awoke in the morning and found that he had lost the use of all his limbs. There ^vere no bulbar symptoms. In ...

Polyneuritis in Haemochromatosis.

Case Report A male taxi-driver, aged forty-seven, was admitted to the Dorset County Hospital on 7.9.60. He was a diabetic of five years standing on I8o g. of carbohydrate and 8o units of lente insulin daily. Following an attack of diarrhaea and vomiting he gave a five days' history of increasing weakness in the legs. Examination. He was thin, slightly icteric, with sparse axillary and pubic hai...

Relapsing corticosteroid-dependent polyneuritis.

Three patients are described with chronic polyneuritis of unknown cause in whom a state of corticosteroid dependence developed. A fatal relapse occurred in one patient. No clinical, electrophysiological, or pathological features were found from which it would have been possible to predict this form of response to treatment.