Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M Medici.
One hundred patients with primary cerebral hemorrhage were studied to evaluate previously established guidelines for surgical treatment. Sixty two patients were not operated upon and 38 were. The mortality in the 100 cases was 51%. It appears that the mortality can be lowered if a careful selection of surgical cases is made.
A classical physiological observation not usually apparent with methods used for detecting nerve potential in man, heterochronia of the nerve fibres is often found in extraordinary circumstances with considerably higher than normal frequence : mainly in muscular disorders, in particular myotonic dystrophy ; more incidentally in disorders of muscle tone. The authors draw attention to certain sources of error which could lead to wrong diagnosis of heterochronia and emphasize that these are only the initial results of research which needs to be pursued further.