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F M Vincent

Publications and source records attributed to F M Vincent.

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Alexia without agraphia, hemianopia, or color-naming defect: a disconnection syndrome.

A patient with alexia without agraphia, hemianopia, or color-naming defect was found at operation to have a meningioma arising from the tentorium cerebelli that compressed the inferior aspect of the left temporal-occipital junction. It is presumed to have involved only the left ventral visual association cortex and its inferior outflow tracts to the angular gyrus. The input from the right occipital area also was disconnected from the visual language verbal association area by involvement of the ventral outflow of the splenium of the corpus callosum. Preservation of color naming and matching suggests that these functions are dependent on the integrity of more dorsal occipital association systems.

Brain Neoplasms↗

Sclerosing spinal pachymeningitis. A complication of intrathecal administration of Depo-Medrol for multiple sclerosis.

Reported complications of intrathecal steroid therapy include aseptic meningitis, infectious meningitis, and arachnoiditis. We report a case of sclerosing spinal pachymeningitis complicating the attempted intrathecal administration of Depo-Medrol for multiple sclerosis. The lesion is characterised by concentric laminar proliferation of neomembranes within the subdural space of the entire spinal cord and cauda equina, resulting from repeated episodes of injury and repair to the spinal dura mater by Depo-Medrol. There is clinical and laboratory evidence that Depo-Medrol produces meningeal irritation and that the vehicle is the necrotising fraction.

Adult↗

Anterior spinal artery aneurysm presenting as a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

A woman who presented with a subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to a ruptured anterior spinal artery aneurysm of the spinal cord is reported. While this is the first report of a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior spinal artery with angiographic confirmation, it emphasizes that occasionally subarachnoid hemorrhage may be secondary to ruptured spinal artery aneurysms.

Adult↗