BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Postoperative MR imaging is routinely performed for staging of medulloblastoma because of frequent tumor dissemination along CSF pathways. The goals of this study were to: 1) determine the timing of disease occurrence and contrast-enhanced MR imaging features of disseminated medulloblastoma involving the spine and their relationship to patient outcomes; and 2) compare the...

Objective Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), its secretion, circulation and absorption have been the subject of recent researches. There is a general agreement that the main site of CSF secretion is in the choroids plexus. However, the main absorption site is controversial. Some believe that arachnoid granulations are the principle sites of CSF absorption. In this study, different locations of CSF abs...

3. The backward pose of the head seemed assumed to relieve pain rather than as if caused by muscular spasm. The nuchal muscles were not notably hardened as in spasm. This has been also noted by Osier in a series of cases recorded by him. 4. Vomiting is usually intractable In my cases it seemed largely of gastric rather than cerebral, origin, as it yielded easily to bismuth, Ac. Hydrocyan. Dil.,...

renders it almost impossible to expect to obtain it from soil which must be teeming with other organisms which will grow much more rapidI37, and accounts for the failure of all observers to isolate the organisms from the surroundings of cases. The present inquiry, then, was necessarily limited to a bacteriological examination of fluids obtained from the cases by lumbar puncture and of material ...

Sir,?With reference to the article on 'Treatment of cerebro-spinal fever with sulphapyridine', published in your June issue of the Gazette, conclusion para 5. It has been emphasized in the article that eight pints of 5 per cent glucose solution should be administered orally in the twenty-four hours. Is there any special reason why only this solution should be given ? A well balanced, nutritious...

was written by Captain E. A. R. Newman, i.m.s., in 1902 (see Indian Medical Gazette of September 1902). Up to that time 89 cases of the disease had occurred in this Central Jail since 1897, and the period October 1900 to March 1902 shewed 41 out of the 89 cases, the disease being epidemic at that time. In continuation of this report a list of further cases is given below, commencing where the r...

At the beginning of my study of Diplococcus intracellularis I had the plan of using monkeys to reproduce the symptoms and lesions of cerebro-spinal meningitis in man. My study of the intra-peritoneal injections of guinea-pigs encouraged me to believe that the injection of suitable cultures of the intraceUularis into the spinal canal of monkeys would lead to the production of an acute inflammati...