Postherpetic spinal segmental paralysis

Recurrent herpes zoster with segmental paresis and postherpetic neuralgia.

INTRODUCTION Postherpetic neuralgia and segmental paresis represent rare complications of herpes zoster infection. Recurrent herpes zoster is also rare and occurs within the first 3 years of the beginning of the illness in only 1.40% of cases but it is generally higher in cases of chronic lymphatic leukemia (3.5%). CASE REPORT We presented a patient with lymphatic leukemia who during the remi...

Spinal Segmental Instability

A review of the etiology, clinical, radiological, differential diagnosis and management goals of segmental instability is presented.

Paralysis of Ocular Muscles following Spinal Anaesthesia.

AT a large military hospital in England, between January and July, 1927, I examined five cases of paralysis of one or other of the recti muscles, of the eye following on the use of stovaine as a spinal anaesthetic. Although stovaine has been extensively used as a spinal anaesthetic in this hospital since 1915 there is no record of any case of paralysis of ocular muscles following its use, with ...

Diaphragmatic paralysis due to spinal muscular atrophy.

Spinal segmental myoclonus related to pregnancy.

A 33-year-old pregnant woman (gestational age, 39 weeks and 2 days) presented with a one-day history of abdominal rhythmic myoclonus. Gynecological examination revealed that the cervix was unfavorable with irregular contractions that were ineffective. Electroencephalography, MRI of the dorsal spine and blood biochemical, examinations were normal. Electrophysiological recordings from the rectus ...