Several Cases of Spinal Irritation

CLINICAL ASPECTS OF SPINAL CORD MENINGIOMAS: ANALYSIS OF FORTY CASES

A retrospective analysis was performed on forty cases of spinal cord meningiomas, operated on at Dr. Shariati Hospital from 1976 to 1990. Age and sex distribution, clinical presentation and tumor location were comparable to those reported by others. In males the tumors were distributed evenly in cervical and dorsal areas and were often anterior to the cord. This finding makes a different s...

Transient radicular irritation after spinal anaesthesia with 2% isobaric lignocaine.

A typical case of transient radicular irritation after spinal anaesthesia with 2% isobaric lignocaine is described. The definition and history of this syndrome and the implications of the use of pencil point needles with lignocaine for spinal anaesthesia are discussed.

A family with several cases of hypogammaglobulinaemia.

Agammaglobulinaemia was first described by Bruton in 1952. Since then it has been shown that y-globulin is rarely completely absent and that, therefore, the term hypogammaglobulinaemia is more appropriate; a recent leading article in the Lancet (1961) gives a classification based on Firkin and Blackburn (1958) and Gitlin, Gross and Janeway (1959a): the congenital type has occurred chiefly in ma...

Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Spinal extradural haematoma: report of two cases.

Case I A 66 year old woman was sitting quietly at home when she experienced a sharp pain in the epigastrium and in the region of the lower thoracic spine. She was admitted to hospital and over the next 24 hours the epigastric pain settled but the thoracic pain became worse. After 36 hours she was found to have developed a paraparesis with urinary retention. On admission to the neurosurgical uni...