Westphal on Spastic Spinal Paralysis

The New Treatment of Spastic Paralysis by Resection of Posterior Spinal Nerve

OF DISCUSSION In discussing the paper, Dr. 0GILVY said when the patient of Case I first passed through his orthopa!dic se rvice he had intended to have him use braces and crutches, so severe and extreme had the spasticity seemed to him. The second case (not shown in person) had absolutely no spasticity after operation, and the contracture in the biceps and long flexors of the hand could not be ...

Spinal cavernous haemangioma causing spastic paraparesis.

To cite: Valizadeh N, McCarthy P, Lynch JM. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013200679 DESCRIPTION A 66-year-old woman presented with a 9-month history of increasing difficulty in walking. Examination revealed asymmetric spastic paraparesis and a pyramidal pattern of weakness: Medical Research Council grade 4 on the left and 4+ on the right lower l...

External branch spinal nerve paralysis on keloid scar

The paralysis of the external branch of spinal nerve is very rare. It manifests clinically by a weakness and abnormal morphology of the shoulder. We must think about it in front of any simple surgery of the cervical region. We report the case of a 20 year old patient, who consulted several doctors for pain and progressive weakness of the left shoulder appeared a few days after resumption of a k...

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.