TOW CASES OF JUVENILE DEMENTIA PARALYTICA

Dementia paralytica: deterioration from communicating hydrocephalus.

Five patients suffering from dementia paralytica who failed to improve or deteriorated after one or several high dosage courses of penicillin, had pneumoencephalographic patterns suggesting communicating hydrocephalus. Measurements of the ventricular index, ratio of cella media to width of the temporal horn, and the callosal angle differed from that in seven cases of dementia paralytica with as...

Dementia Paralytica: Therapeutic Measures and Results.

THE malarial treatment of general paralysis was commenced at the County Mental Hospital, Rainhill, in June 1923; and later, in MIarch, 1927, this form of therapy was augmented by arsenical treatment with tryparsamide. The total number of patients with general paralysis-all clinical diagnoses being confirmed by serological investigation-admitted from January, 1923 to December, 1928, was 274, and...

Lissauer's Dementia Paralytica: Contribution to the Study of Its Diagnosis and Pathogenesis.

Five Cases of Juvenile Megalocolon

was megalocolon. In order to facilitate reproduction the rr-ray plates have been reduced to diagrammatic form drawn to scale. Dr. Galstaun has been good enough to check the diagrammatic reproductions with the original plates. The predisposing causes of megalocolon are still a matter of discussion, but it is admitted that a proportion are secondary to obstruction, either from a narrowed anal can...

Giant Juvenile Fibroadenoma: Report of two cases

Juvenile giant fibroadenoma(JGF) is a rare benign breast tumor usually presenting in adolescent female and constitute 0.5 % of all fibroadenomas. JGF characterized by rapid and massive growth of encapsulated mass measuring more than 5 cm.We are reporting two cases of giant fibroadenoma in prepubertal girls aged 13 and 11 years. The provisional diagnosis was made on FNAC which was subsequently c...