Case of Bilateral Cervical Rib with Vasomotor Symptoms Successfully Treated by Operation

A Case of Cervical Rib Causing Unilateral Brachial Neuritis; Operation with Amelioration of Symptoms

last and asked me if I could give him some good liniment for pain in his wife's arm from which she had been suffering for a long time. On questioning him in detail he told me that in addition to the pain the right hand looked much thinner than the left. Thinking it to be a case of some nervous disease I told the man that T would come and see his wife. A week or so after I saw the patient in her...

Hydatid cyst of the spinal canal successfully treated by operation.

A Case of Cervical Rib

I. A., aged 12, came to the Royal United Hospital on March 10th, 1913, complaining that seven months previously she began to suffer severe pain of a shooting character in the region of the left shoulder. After a week or two the pain passed down into the left arm and fingers, where it remained until recently, though gradually diminishing. Shortly after the onset of pain it was noticed that her l...

Cervical Rib Syndrome. With a Case Record

Cervical ribs in man are anomalous structures Lather than examples of evolution or reversion. rhe embryological formation of supernumerary ribs is attributed to a conflict between forming plexuses and ribs. In high forms the limb buds cover several vertebral segments, the nerves from which grow into the buds. The nerves have to follow an oblique course before entering the ouds due to a differen...

Acrodermatitis Continua of Hallopeau —A Case with Lesions Localized at Bilateral Thumbs Successfully Treated with Dapsone—

A 66-year-old male suffered from painful pustular eruptions of acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau on bilateral thumbs for about 2 years, with associated nail dystrophy and markedly disabled manual skills. Initial treatment with topical corticosteroids, tars and calcipotriol failed to improve the acral lesions. Dapsone therapy began at a dose of 200 mg / day, which cleared the acral lesions wi...