Athetosis *
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Although several varieties of tremor were known to the ancients, involuntary mobile spasm appears to have remained unrecognized as a physical disease until modern times. The "dancing sickness" of the Middle Ages seems to have been a purely psychic epidemic.7 Parkinson20 quotes Linnaeus and Vogel as establishing the dassification of Hieranosos: Corporis agitatio corntina, indolens, convulsiva, cum sensibilitate (Linnaeus); Agitatio corporis vel artuum convulsiva continua, chronica, cum integritate sensrum (Vogel). He also cites a case reported by Macbride:15
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In a previous communication (Asher and Schonell, 1950) it was observed that 31 out of 55 cases of athetosis had a history of neonatal jaundice; 19 of these jaundiced babies were proved cases of Rh iso-immunization. Clinically we could not detect any difference between the various groups of athetoids, classified according to their neonatal history. Meanwhile, Crabtree and Gerrard (1950) had show...
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It is still not clear whether jaundice of unknown aetiology, developing during the neonatal period, is of significance for the subsequent development of athetosis and related diseases. In a previous study (Trolle, 1961), the author calculated that among children who have had neonatal jaundice of unknown aetiology, athetosis of later onset is so uncommon that the decision to perform an exchange ...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1939