clinical aspects of spinal cord meningiomas: analysis of forty cases

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...

Spinal cord schistosomiasis in children: analysis of seven cases.

We describe seven cases of children (ages 2 to 14 years) with myeloradiculopathy caused by infection with S. mansoni. None of them presented hepatosplenic involvement and one presented an intestinal picture. The myeloradicular and pseudotumoral forms were observed in four and three patients, respectively. Comparing the reports in the literature, we found that the pseudotumoral form is more simi...

Medicolegal aspects of spinal cord injuries.

Psychosocial aspects of spinal cord injury.

Psychological Aspects of Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a massive assault to the psyche as well as the body. Within mo­ ments, a person who had been active and inde­ pendent becomes immobilized, loses control of bowel, bladder, sexual and other bodily func­ tions, and is dependent on others to meet the most basic needs. The instantaneous effects of the injury result in total disruption of the victim's life, and the beginn...

woman-defined identity: analysis of selected poems of adrienne rich

the current thesis is composed in five chapters in the following fashion: chapter two encompasses the applied framework of the project in details; the methodology of carl gustav jung to explain the process of individuation, the major archetypes and their attributes and his techniques to assess the mind’s strata are all explained. moreover, the austrian psychoanalysts, heinz kohut’s models of a...