abstract：:The first applications of positron emission tomography (PET) for the study of brain tumours appeared early in the development of this technology. New trends in these particular PET applications tend to take into account the histological heterogeneity of these tumours and the necessity to integrate PET data in their su...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Goldman S,Wikler D,Damhaut P,Monclus M,Levivier M,Pirotte B,De Witte O,Brotchi J,Hildebrand J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorganized sleep patterns, can be found both during normal development and in pathological conditions. Aging could also be accompanied by a disorganization of the night sleep episode; sleep could be interrupted by spontaneous awakening, sleep cycle could be shortened or incomplete, sleep states modified. These patte...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Salzarulo P,Formicola G,Lombardo P,Gori S,Rossi L,Murri L,Cipolli C

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68 year-old man developed progressive hemidystonia and chorea 8 months after a contralateral thalamic stroke. The neurological examination also showed a right pyramidal syndrome without hemiparesis, a right horizontal sectoranopia, and a right hemihypesthesia for all sensory modalities. The MRI revealed infarctions ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Gille M,Van den Bergh P,Ghariani S,Guettat L,Delbecq J,Depre A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1992 and June 1995, 160 patients were presurgically evaluated for medically refractory epilepsy by the Epilepsy Monitoring and Surgery Team at the University Hospital of Gent. All these patients underwent a comprehensive presurgical evaluation, including extensive neurological history and examination, ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Boon P,Vandekerckhove T,Calliauw L,Achten E,De Reuck J,Thiery E,Caemaert J,Desomer A,Drieghe C,Vanbelleghem H,Vonck K,Defreyne L,Van Duyse A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intensive research efforts, the cause of the muscular dystrophies has remained elusive for many decades. In the late 1980s, major advances in molecular genetics have led to the discovery of the dystrophin gene and its protein product, dystrophin. Mutations in the dystrophin gene result in dystrophin deficiency...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Van den Bergh PY,Tomé FM,Fardeau M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients (11 male, 7 female) with left thalamic haemorrhage confirmed by CT-scan of the brain were investigated for their language function. Aphasia Test for Turkish Citizens modified from Mayo Clinic Aphasia Test and Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination were given for evaluating the language modalities. Flu...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Ozeren A,Sarica Y,Efe R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is best viewed as a clinical syndrome which can have at least two clinical substrates: the commonest is an acquired demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy and the other is an acute motor axonal neuropathy. An acute acquired neuropathy can also sometimes cause the Miller Fisher syndrome of o...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Hughes RA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral haemodynamic and metabolic changes due to cavernous angiomas in three patients and to arteriovenous malformations in four patients were compared by positron emission tomography, using the steady state technique with 15O. In the brains with a cavernous angioma no important changes in blood flow were observ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： De Reuck J,De la Meilleure G,Boon P,Decoo D,Strijckmans K,Goethals P,Lemahieu I

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine cases (seven men and two women, mean age 64.5 years) of classical lacunar syndromes due to intracerebral hemorrhage are reported. Three patients presented with pure motor hemiparesis (two putaminal hematomas with proportional weakness and one cortical hemorrhage with brachio-crural hemiparesis). Four patients pre...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Milandre L,Donnet A,Graziani N,Grisoli F,Khalil R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term cyclophosphamide pulse therapy was administered to five patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) which were refractory to corticosteroids and, in two cases, to other aggressive therapies. Both disease remission and a reduction in corticosteroid dosage were obtained in four patients. Three of t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： De Vita S,Fossaluzza V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with hypereosinophilia showed different forms of peripheral neuropathy: severe polyneuropathy of prevalently sensory type (case 1), mild sensory neuropathy (case 2), acute mononeuropathy of the median nerve with subclinical polyneuropathy (case 3). Hypereosinophilia was probably idiopathic, however the ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Guidetti D,Gemignani F,Terenziani S,Ragni P,Fornaciari G,Dall'Asta D,Marbini A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A knowledge of the mechanisms used in adaptation to vestibular lesions is important for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Here we discuss commonly encountered circumstances--habitual wearing of spectacles, unilateral or bilateral labyrinthine dysfunction--that call for adaptation. The context specificity of ve...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Zee DS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep and sleep deprivation are often used for EEG activation in epilepsy. We compared postprandial naps and day-long sleep deprived EEGs in 36 patients with generalized seizures, 57 complex partial seizure patients, and 7 individuals with mixed seizure disorders. Ten of 36 generalized seizure patients had normal slee...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Drake ME Jr,Pakalnis A,Phillips BB,Denio LS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective study of 62 patients with syringomyelia. Most noteworthy among the clinical features in our patient population are the following: segmental sensory disturbances are usually less restrictive than the classical thermoanalgesia, pain is a presenting symptom in almost 50% of cases, and skeleta...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Van den Bergh R,Hoorens G,Van Calenbergh F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical records and EEGs of 114 consecutive patients with clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease have been reviewed. The EEGs of 15 patients (13%) contained triphasic waves. Triphasic waves were always atypical as they occurred singularly or in short bursts, and/or they had occipital predominance, and/or they were...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Primavera A,Traverso F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of neurotransmitter release has been performed on human brain biopsies obtained during the course of a therapeutic neurosurgical procedure. The electrically evoked-release of 3H-dopamine and 3H-acetylcholine was studied on slices from the thalamus of two parkinsonian and two non-parkinsonian subjects. Electric...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Malais P,Waltregny A,Maula A,Dresse A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the case of a 26 year old woman with acute anterior poliomyelitis contracted during the vaccination of her baby. Despite having been herself vaccinated in infancy she was not protected against the poliovirus. The clinical interest of this uncommon case is a severe paralytic state with definitive par...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Derenne F,Vanderheyden JE,Bain H,Jocquet P,Jacquy J,Yane F,Druyts-Voets E,Lamy ME,Vanhaeverbeek M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report ten cases of progressive dementia. Nine are associated with gait disturbances and seven with urinary incontinence. Despite the severity of dementia and Ct Scan signs of cortical atrophy, magnitude of neuroradiological ventricular dilatation and ventricular reflux at isotopic cisternography lead to s...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： De Mol J,Retif J,Brihaye J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar alterations in the neuronal cytoskeleton (paired helical filaments) and modifications in the molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase (specific decrease in the G4 form) have been detected in the elderly rat as well as in patients suffering from SDAT. These observations challenge the specificity of some manifest...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Klosen P,Goemaere-Vanneste J,Terao E,Van den Bosch de Aguilar P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of ataxic hemiparesis (dysarthria-clumsy hand syndrome plus crural hemiparesis with homolateral ataxia), secondary to a single cerebellar lacuna (CT scan), in a left rostral para-vermian position in the vicinity of the peduncle and secondary to arterial hypertension. They discuss the nosologi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： De Smet Y,Gengler L,Muller R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Refsum's disease in a 62-year-old man, with an ophthalmologic symptomatology dominated by a tight bilateral miosis, is reported. The miosis mechanism in this disease is discussed. The clinical evolution has been stabilized by a diet poor in phytanic acid. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Defebvre L,Blondel M,Dhellemmes-Defoort S,Hache JC,Arnott G

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old female patient presented acute hallucinatory psychotic episodes with irritative EEG for seven years before an initial state of complex partial mal. A single convulsive episode occurred 14 years after the beginning of the psychiatric symptoms. The intercritical EEG showed independent temporal lobe foci pr...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Soeur M,De Mol J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute atypical psychotic episode characterized by hallucinations and delusions suddenly developed in a 63-year-old right-handed male following an extensive right hemisphere infarction in the carotid artery distribution. While hallucinations were visual, tactile and auditory, delusions were associated with specific ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Berthier M,Starkstein S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:123Iodo-Amphetamine (IAMP) brain distribution was studied with a specially dedicated multilevel tomographic system in 30 patients with vascular ischemic (18) or hemorrhagic (12) disorders. Results were compared with clinical data, CT scan and rCBF measurement obtained by the 133Xe continuous inhalation method. Abnorma...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Steinling M,Mazingue A,Rousseaux M,Destee A,Blanc D,Warot P,Vergnes R

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a long-term period (25-30 years) the author sums up the results obtained by cervical discectomy through a ventral route followed by interbody arthrodisis. In the disc diseases, the radicular syndromes gave excellent results, the medullar syndromes good results. In the cervical injuries, the results were always goo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Dereymaeker A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrocnemius and quadriceps muscles findings in 18 patients with chronic arterial insufficiency were reviewed with regard to mitochondrial changes. Prominent mitochondrial alterations were present in eight out of 18 patients. The comparison of clinical data between patients with and without mitochondrial changes ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Marbini A,Gemignani F,Scoditti U,Rustichelli P,Bragaglia MM,Govoni E

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total lateral paralysis in a case of "One and half" Fisher's syndrome accompanied by paralytic pontine exotropia is described. Oculographic investigation indicates involvement of the nucleus of the VIth cranial nerve. Paralytic pontine exotropia, may therefore be encountered where the VIth nucleus is involved. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Blondel M,Defoort S,Bouchez B,Guerouaou D,Hache JC,Arnott G

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a lapse of not less than two years the authors study the functional and clinical evolution of 62 patients presenting myelopathy in cervical arthrosis treated by surgery. A scoring system for evaluating the functional deficit of the patients is used for quantitative assessment of the disorders. Surgery brought a ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Delreux V,Laterre C,Stroobandt G,Thauvoy C

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of femoral palsy associated with chronic pain sensible to Carbamazepine, secondary to iliacus haematoma during anticoagulant therapy is reported. Late femoral nerve decompression followed by transcutaneous neurostimulation permit the normalization of the sensory nerve conduction and a complete clinical recovery...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Bouchez B,Arnott G,Delandsheer E,Blond S,Guieu JD

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of 90 cerebral AVMs, the authors study clinical signs which show the AVM, before a dramatic bleeding. Such clinical signs are: benign subarachnoid hemorrhage or intracranial hypertension and, only for lobar AVMs, migraine, epileptic seizures, progressive neurological deficit. In such cases a misdiagnosis ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Bonnal J,Remacle JM,Vanderlinden M

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of isolated cerebral vasculitis showing benign outcome is presented. Review of pertinent literature suggests that isolated benign arteritis of the CNS should be considered as a distinct entity, in a heterogeneous group of vasculitides. The common features of the syndrome are as follows: 1(0) benign evolution; 2...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Bettoni L,Juvarra G,Bortone E,Lechi A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the brominated monoureide and bromide salt containing drugs are obtainable in Belgium without prescription. Apart from the regularly encountered suicidal attempts, these drugs can also, without the intention of the patient, cause bromism . We report two cases of patients recently admitted because of bromism af...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： De Keyser J,Maes V,Malfait R,Segers O,Ebinger G

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculomotor functions are analysed by clinical examination and oculography in 21 cases of deep cerebral hematoma. Significant paralysis of verticality and of movements contralateral to the lesions was observed in all cases where the hemorrhage affected the paramedian thalamo-subthalamic region. A slight deficit of elev...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Rousseaux M,Lesoin F,Hache JC,Petit H

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of eight case studies conducted since 1980 the authors define the concept of subdural hematoma showing a level on the CAT scan image. The concept throws some light on the etiopathogenesis of certain hematoma. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Lesoin F,Servato R,Destee A,Leys D,Jomin M,Pruvo JP

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological tests (visual and somatosensory evoked potentials, flicker fusion test) and electrophoretic examination of cerebrospinal fluid were performed in 17 patients who previously suffered from one or more attacks of optic neuritis. The association of the tests revealed the demyelinating inflammatory path...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Ghezzi A,Caputo D,Zaffaroni M,Giussani D,Cazzullo CL

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A language test protocol for aphasia in French-speaking patients was drawn up recently by workers in Toulouse and Montreal. The protocol has been applied to sixty hospitalized sciatica patients of the same age range and socio-cultural level as the average population of aphasics in our department. Only one of the norma...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Dordain M,Nespoulous JL,Bourdeau M,Lecours AR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors study the characteristics of a group of 23 patients for whom an initial tentative diagnosis of Hakim-Adams syndrome (H-A syndrome) was eventually rejected. On account of several factors distinguishing these patients from the true H-A group, the authors propose using the term "pseudo Hakim-Adams syndrome". ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： De Mol J,D'Haens J,Brihaye J

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 57-year-old woman is described with a two months history of proximal muscle weakness and pain, marked hypotrophy and brisk reflexes. Clinical investigation demonstrated normal serum CK, myopathic EMG and osteomalacia. Muscle biopsy showed type II fibre atrophy and mitochondrial alterations without inclus...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Palmucci L,Bertolotto A,Doriguzzi C,Mongini T,Coda R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage of echinocytes in the blood from patients affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, in mothers carriers of the dystrophic state, and in Steinert dystrophic patients, has been investigated after addition of low levels of lysolecithin. The echinocyte content was significantly higher in both Duchenne patien...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Dellantonio R,Capriotti M,Angeleri F,Curatola G,Mazzanti L,Bertoli E,Lenaz G

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present and illustrate most of the ultrastructural abnormalities encountered in skeletal muscle in cases of neuromuscular disease. The diagnostic significance of the changes are discussed but emphasis is laid on the nonspecific character of most of them. For diagnostic purposes, examination by light micros...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Belgica

authors： Tassin S,Brucher JM

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00