Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J G Chusid.
A 66-year-old female presented with the acute onset of paraplegia progressing rapidly to quadriplegia and terminating fatally in less than a month. At autopsy extensive hemorrhagic infarction of the spinal cord was noted associated with widespread venous thrombosis. Other similar cases are reviewed and the pathophysiology is discussed.
A patient with a primary malignant lymphoma of the brain manifested a peripheral polyneuropathy during his illness that could not be accounted for by the usual causes. The polyneuropathy is considered to be a nonmetastatic complication of the primary brain tumor. A review of the literature did not uncover a similar case.
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A 27-year-old woman with a small cerebral arteriovenous malformation and a primitive trigeminal artery had subarachnoid hemorrhage. This case and a review of the literature suggest that some of the "spontaneous" subarachnoid hemorrhages reported in patients with a primitive trigeminal artery may have been due to rupture of an unrecognized small arteriovenous malformation or aneurysm.
Rapid onset over several days of a complete transverse myelopathy occurred 3 1/2 months after completion of mediastinal radiation for Hodgkin's disease in a 12-year-old boy. Postmortem examination revealed low cervical and high thoracic radiation myelopathy. The name "subacute radiation myelopathy" is proposed for this type of rapidly developing myelopathy.
An infant with hydrocephalus, aqueductal stenosis and partial agenesis of the corpus callosum in association with Down's syndrome is reported. Review of the literature reveals that hydrocephalus is infrequent in Down's syndrome. Of special interest is the occurrence of agenesis of the corpus callosum in our patient, a lesion often reported with other chromosomal abnormalities, but not previously observed in Down's syndrome.
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