abstract：:The appearance of unilateral papilledema in the fundus photos of 6 women with pseudotumor cerebri is presented. Associated findings included obesity in 5 and a partially empty sella in 2. The possible explanations for the development of unilateral papilledema in pseudotumor cerebri are reviewed and favor a mechanism t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro ML,Hoyt WF,Imes RK,Narahara M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present three cases where the involuntary, imotivated laughter was a distinct finding. The first patient was a 29-year-old engineer, who had had several bursts of neurologic deficits, either sensitive or motor, which recovered almost completely and was diagnosed as suffering from multiple sclerosis. During...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bertolucci PH,Andrade LA,Pereira JS,De Campos CJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a retrospective study of 50 patients with hepatic encephalopathy treated at the University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto since 1959 and discuss clinical, laboratory and anatomo-pathologic aspects. The diagnoses of the different types of liver disease as well as the factors that tr...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Resende LA,Speciali JG

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of central nervous system histoplasmosis located at the pons is reported. The authors point out difficulties for the diagnosis of the pathology during life and some aspects of the treatment and their results. The rarity of the process is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Moraes Júnior LC,Guembarowski AL,Adum S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Déjérine-Roussy syndrome was not revised for several years by neurologists, although it has been known since 1906. The authors describe a typical case involving thalamic ischemic and calcarine other side cortex lesions emphasizing its study by computed axial tomography and by using new drugs on a vasodilatation, i...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rosa ED,Gamarra FH,Vieira JB,Machado RE

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through information gathered at the statistical and medical register service it was done a descriptive study of some epidemiologic aspects of neurosyphilis at the Juliano Moreira Hospital (Bahia) in a period of 50 years (1930 - 1979). Coeficients of specific mortality were stablished . The distribution of the disease ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Costa GF

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Sjögren-Larsson syndrome are reported. In analysing the clinical symptoms and laboratory data the authors established the diagnosis of this rare entity which has an autosomal recessive kind of inheritance. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marques-Dias MJ,Lefèvre AB,Gonzalez CH,Saldanha PH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytomorphometric study was performed in lumbar spinal ganglia neurons of Gallus domesticus on the 10th and 18th incubation days and 8th, 35th, 61st, and 120th post-hatching days. The absolute volume of nucleus and relative volume of cytoplasm were respectively estimated by the Bach caryometric method and by point-co...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Carvalho CA,da Silva CF,Silva Júnior BA,de Araujo MV

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred thirty one epileptic patients, aged 10 years or more old, have been studied in the neurology clinic of Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da U.S.P., from February to July, 1981. The authors selected 119 patients aged between 13 to 45 years, that presented periodic menstrual b...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Schelp AO,Speciali JG

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 10-year-old patient with a benign congenital myopathy, suddenly aggravated because of an accentuated deficit in respiratory muscles is reported. The institution of assisted respiration at night allowed the patient to return to her daily activities. Examination of muscular biopsy with ultra-microscope permi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Levy JA,Tsanaclis AM,Saraiva PA,Mion CC,Salum PN

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex and mixed atypical absences and tonic epileptic seizures of 12 patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome with onset after age 6 were studied. By complexes seizures we mean the associations of two elementary epileptics phenomena and by mixed that of three or more. Complex and mixed epileptic seizures already re...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barreira AA,Lison MP,Speciali JG

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author establishes an analogy between the control mechanism and regulation of the cerebral blood flow and of protection of the vascular wall of the internal carotid constituted by the conjunction "internal carotid-cavernous sinus" with the group represented by the system "vertebro basilar-transverse occipital sinu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira MB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of calvarial meningeoma in a 42 year old female is reported. Arising from the inner table of the skull, it projected a extracranial mass without neurological simptomatology. The surgical procedure give good results. Some aspects of the literature and radiologics finds are commented. The infrequency of this path...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Moraes EC Jr,Haddad F,Maciel DR,Ribeiro JI,Wanderley EC,Passos EM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two syndromatic forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are illustrated with data from two cases confirmed by necropsy and studied by means of electroencephalogram, evoked potential recording and neuropathological techniques. One of the cases presented the typical hypersynchronous periodic discharges through to be characte...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferrer S,Cartier L,Lolas F,Perez M

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty five patients with carpal tunnel syndrome were studied trough electrophysiological techniques. Nerve sensory conductions, motor conductions and electromyography were performed in all patients and the results discussed. The authors call the attention for the technic of sensory conduction stimulating ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nóbrega JA,Atra E,Goldenberg J,Nóbrega JL,Lima JG,Dias PL

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of the oedematous form of neurocysticercosis are reported. This form is relatively rare and characterized by symptoms of intracranial hypertension and severe bilateral papilledema. Focal convulsive disorders are common. CSF studies show positive reaction for cysticercosis and ventriculography, the presence ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Braga FM,Ferraz FA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromyelitis of cyanocobalamin deficiency (group 1) post vaccination myelopathy (group 2), multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica (group 3) are studied comparatively as to the respective cerebrospinal fluid changes on cytology, proteins and gamma globulins. Changes were found to be more intense and frequent in t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Limongi JC,Machado LR,Spina-França A

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The many kinds of complication that have been observed following operations of basilar impression and/or malformation of Arnold-Chiari are analysed. Two surgical techniques were adopted in the treatment of the patients. In the first 64 cases, the operation consisted in the craniectomy of the posterior fossa and high c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves da Silva JA,Gonçalves da Silva CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of probable neurobrucellosis are reported. The diagnosis was made on the basis of immunological tests. Two patients with a clinical picture of meningomyelitis showed a definitive clinical improvement under tetracycline and streptomycin therapy. The immunological reactions found in the record case were even...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Guerreiro CA,Scaff M,Callegaro D,Facure NO,Dianin VM

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of acute spinal epidural abscess, all in male, two of them in children (6 and 7 years old) and the others in patients older than fifty years are reported. In four cases the pathology was related to skin infection and the staphylococcus was the main agent. All the patients had a severe infectious clinical pi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Braga FM,Ferraz FA,Jordy CF

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of peritoneal pseudocysts are reported with guidelines for the diagnosis of this type of complication. The authors point out the value of the following signs: 1--increase of ventricular pressure with worsening of the clinical picture; 2--localized pain in the abdomen; 3--difficulty to depress the capsule; ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Figueiredo DG,de Carvalho FF

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary granulomatous lesions due to cysticercosis in the brain were found by computed tomography in six patients. The CT images were in all cases very similar to those from brain neoplasms. The cerebrospinal fluid complement fixation test for cysticercosis was negative in all of the cases. The definite etiological d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Shibata MK,Bianco E,Moreira FA,de Almeida GM

更新日期：1980-12-01 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

authors： Ferreira NP,Costa DM Jr,Flores JA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions with antiepileptic drugs are common and may have important clinical consequences. The physician should always consider carefully the need for and the implications of adding a new drug to any therapeutic regime and should be prepared to think about the possibility of an interaction whenever an unusual resp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Perucca E

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This disease was described by McArdle as an inherited autosomal recessive affection characterized by glycogen storage with normal chain in the skeletal muscles, due to absence of myophosphorylase activity. Under a clinical aspect, excessive fatigability, cramps and myoglobinuria appear following physical exercise. A c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Levy JA,Gagioti SM,Cavalieri MJ,Pereira JR

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of carotid-basilar anastomose with persistence of the primitive hypoglossal artery is reported. The authors related aspects of intracranial aneurysm. Anatomical, embryological, physiopathological and angiographical aspects are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bueno MG,Riff PE,Nassar KE,Aisen J

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a young female patient with acute symmetrical ascending polyneuropathy as a manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus is reported. There was involvement of several cranial nerves and the cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytologic dissociation. Pathologic examination of the sural nerve showed degenera...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filho PF,Nascimento OJ,Cinnicinatus D,Porto FJ,Freitas MR,Santos PC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the literature about the cronic nervous form of Chagas' disease, directing their attention toward peripheral neurological aspects. Specifically, they analyse the results obtained from a "bind" research realized in a small community in the countryside of the state of Bahia, Brazil, where a high frequ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fortes-Rêgo J,Macedo VO,Prata A

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the period March to May 1979, 6 patients with trigeminal neuralgia were operated on, neurovascular decompression being carried out in the posterior fossa. In 5 cases an arterial loop was found compressing the root of the V nerve at its apparent origin in the protuberance, and in one case a large calibrous twisted v...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Niemeyer Filho P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A therapeutic trial using barbexaclone in uncontrolled seizures was undertaken showing favourable results. Special reference to the association of barbexaclone with acetazolamide with good results in many cases is made. Collateral effects are minimal in pacients using barbexaclone. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Lima JM,Oliveira C,Duro LA,Poiares Nde M

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute progressive panencephalitis is usually a progressive and fatal disease, being uncommon temporary or definitive remissions. A three years old boy, previously vaccinated against measles, developed trembling, progressive and severe mental deterioration, partial seizures and myoclonic jerks. The electroencephalog...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Villaca LM,de Macedo DD

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERP) constitute an heterogeneous group of brain electrical signals time-locked to sensory stimulation, motor responses, and associative processes, recorded using computer averaging. Several kinds of brain electric activity are encompassed by the generic term "event related potentials": sensor...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lolas F

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important methods and results found in literature on immunoglobulins of the normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are reviewed. A study was made of immunoglobulins in the CSF of 50 individuals who suffered from chronic migraine but showed normal results for the physical and neurological examinations; electroenceph...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of familial spastic paraplegia with amyotrophy in siblings from a consanguineous married are reported. The routine laboratory examination were normal. The electromiography and muscle biopsy processed by histochemistry showed signs of denervation with reinervation. The motor nerve conduction velocity was dec...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,Sanches MC

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the central nervous system in cysticercosis was demonstrate as an incidental finding in a frequence of 0,3% in 4000 autopsied cases. Most of the 12 patients came from rural areas of the State of Bahia. The low frequence compared to other sites reported in Brasil shows that the neurcysticercosis does...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： De Queiroz AC,Martinez AM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 67 years old woman with giant cell arteritis and neuritis multiplex is reported. The diagnosis was based on the microscopic appearances of temporal artery biopsy specimens. The authors described the involvement of peripheral nerves in this disease and made differential diagnosis with polyarteritis nodosa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moreira Filhio PF,de Freitas MR,Caldas ML,Almeida E

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, laboratorial and radiological features of a 3-month-old child with neurocutaneous melanosis are described. The patient was born with multiple disseminated benign cutaneous nevi, proven by skin-biopsy, and presented with drug-resistant seizures and psycho-motor retardation. Serial cerebrospinal fluid stud...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brandt RA,Schwartzman JS,Naspitz C

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an isolated tuberculoma of the spinal cord is reported. The 22 years old male patient came to the hospital with paraplegia and had a laminetomy performed for a compression of the spinal cord by a tumor mass. The histopathological study showed the presence of the acid-fast bacili in the tissue. After specific...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Queiroz AC,Rizzo A,de Carvalho MS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the clinical quantification of the neurologic symptomatology the authors made observations and avaliated the action of Ciba 34.647-Ba, a GABA derivative, in 12 patients suffering from spasticity and motor incapacity due to spinal cord lesions. The results are reported emphasizing the effects of the drug on the m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Roitman I,Anghinah A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained in a casuistic of 170 patients with mental diseases and behavior disturbances treated by neurosurgical procedures are reported. The authors call attention to the advantages of the atraumatic stereotaxic psychosurgery over the major surgical procedures on the frontal lobes for the treatment of psyc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Grnés RR,Torres DR,Reis AL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00