Abstract:
:The authors report 6 cases of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examinations in which malignant cells were found. In 5 cases the finding was incidental: medulloblastoma (case 1); malignant melanoma (case 2); adenocarcinoma (case 3); meningitis carcinomatosa (case 4) and neuroleukaemia (case 5). In only one case neuroleukaemia was suspected before the study of the CSF (case 6). The unexpected occurrence of malignant cells in the CSF demands the pathologist to be well acquainted with tumor cell cytology, in order to identify them providing so useful information that can decidedly influence subsequent diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The cell collection technic developed in the authors' laboratory was considered adequate, because both inflammatory and malignant cells were securely identified. Its principle is to obtain thin air-dried smears that dry almost instantaneously on slides, in order the cellular structure be preserved. After centrifuging about 5-8 ml of CSF the tube is inverted so as to pour off the whole of the supernatant fluid. It is kept inverted with the operator's left hand, so that no drop of fluid can run back on to the cells. With his right hand the operator touches the bottom of the inverted tube with a Pasteur micropipette preciously made by distending a microhematocrit tube under the flame of a Bunsen burner and attached with adhesive tape to the handle of a wire loop 2 mm in diameter.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
journal_name
Arq Neuropsiquiatrjournal_title
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatriaauthors
De Moraes-Rêgo SF,De Moraes-Rêgo KGdoi
10.1590/s0004-282x1986000200008subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1986-06-01 00:00:00pages
165-73issue
2eissn
0004-282Xissn
1678-4227journal_volume
44pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Since the last decades of the past century there have been several reports in the medical literature describing patients with dystonia. The clinical and phenomenological concepts of dystonic movements have been debated. Presently, dystonia is defined as a syndrome of sustained muscle contractions, frequently causing t...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Major depression have been associated with cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) changes in old depressed patients. We examined the association between depression, cortisol, and DHEA, correcting for confounding variables, including physical capacity. In addition, the association between hormone levels an...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20160059
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hypoxemia secondary to sleep apnea is commonly seen in patients with acromegaly, and this alteration apparently leads to considerable morbidity and mortality among such patients. With the objective of identifying hypoxemia based on clinical data, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 34 patients with acromegaly, all...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2007000200009
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the case of a 41-year-old man with iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) acquired after the use of growth hormone (GH) obtained from a number of pituitary glands sourced from autopsy material. The incubation period of the disease (from the midpoint of treatment to the onset of clinical symptoms) was rat...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2002000300022
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The degree of depression in 88 abandoned children was analysed through a depression rating scale adapted to prepubertal children. The items were grouped into three dimensions: sociological-relational, psychological and biological. In 46 children from this sample it was dosed plasmatic cortisol and the urinary excretio...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1991000400008
更新日期:1991-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::We attempt to correlate the patient's disability and serum enzymes (creatinekinase, lactic dehydrogenase, aldolase, glutamic oxalacetic and glutamic piruvic transaminase) in several neuromuscular disorders using the Vignos and Archibald scale (V&A). In 806 cases we studied, serum enzyme levels and the V&A disability u...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1995000100010
更新日期:1995-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A child, who had undergone ventriculoperitoneal shunting, presented with repeated episodes of pneumonia and expectoration of CSF. Chest x-ray demonstrated the presence of the shunt catheter in the base of the left lung. In the present case the distal end of the catheter perforated the diaphragm, entering the thoracic ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1980000400013
更新日期:1980-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report on four cases of primary orthostatic tremor. The purpose of this study is the rarity of this type of tremor and the differential diagnosis with other tremors. The electrophysiological study showed a 15-20 Hz tremor frequency in our cases. There are clinical, electrophysiological and therapeutic differences o...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2000000100022
更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The authors emphasize the importance of computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. Before CT, neurocysticercosis was considered rare in the Northeast Brazil. They reviewed fifteen cases diagnosed as neurocysticercosis by CT at the Institute of Radiology, in Natal. A case of neurocysticercosis dia...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1993000400021
更新日期:1993-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1995000400012
更新日期:1995-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Acupuncture has been widely used for alleviating pain. However, its mechanisms remain largely enigmatic. OBJECTIVE:In the present study, we focused on whether the analgesic effect of electroacupuncture is related to its regulation on adenosine and substance P expression. METHODS:We established chronic infl...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20200078
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2007000100024
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe an autistic male adolescent with congenital rubella who has developed bipolar disorder, discussing possible diagnostic and therapeutic implications. ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2012001200005
更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1987000200006
更新日期:1987-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The choline/N-acetyl-aspartate (Cho/NAA) ratio, obtained by the multivoxel spectroscopy with short echo time (TE), was evaluated, in the histological grading of the brain astrocytomas (grades I, II and III-IV) in comparison with the normal cerebral parenchyma. A significant increase (p<0.05) in the average ratios of C...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2007000200019
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:the aim of this report is to warn that sodium valproate used during pregnancy can produce craniosynostosis in the newborn, particularly trigonocephaly. METHOD:we describe a case of trigonocephaly in a six month-old girl, daughter of a young non-smoker couple, whose mother had used phenobarbital 100 mg daily ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2012000800007
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2008000100008
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2004000600034
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1977000300006
更新日期:1977-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2010000200024
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::According to the definition of disease, epilepsy shall not be considered neither a symptom nor a syndrome. Epilepsy is a generic term for a group of diseases characterized by seizures. It implies a state quite distinct from health. Therefore it seems worthy to keep epilepsy as such in the International Classification ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1994000400025
更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2002000100021
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1977000100002
更新日期:1977-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1994000400005
更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2006000300031
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1992000300021
更新日期:1992-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1984000200012
更新日期:1984-06-01 00:00:00