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A. Sghirlanzoni
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Delirium—Acute confusional states in palliative medicine
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Parenchymatous neurosyphilis
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Spinal cord lesion due to epidural anesthesia
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The insomnia plague: a Gabriel García Márquez story
“All the great writers have good eyes” is a sentence by V. Nabokov that is very suitable for G.G. Márquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel, published in 1967, introduces among many others, the cha...
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Deletion of exons 11–17 and novel mutations of the galactocerebrosidase gene in adult- and early-onset patients with Krabbe disease
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Imaging and outcome in severe complications of lumbar epidural anaesthesia: report of 16 cases
We reviewed the clinical and neuroradiological features in 16 patients with serious neurological complications of lumbar epidural anaesthesia. We observed acute, transient or permanent and delayed complicatio...
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: long-term course and treatment of 60 patients
The objective of this study was to assess the long-term course and treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). We evaluated, according to a predefined protocol, a series of ...
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Neurologic complications of epidural anesthesia
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Kennedy's disease: clinical and molecular study of two Italian families
Kennedy's disease, or spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), is a rare X-linked motoneuron disorder with variable signs of androgen insensitivity. It is associated with the expansion of a trinucleotide CAG...
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Spinal epidural abscess complicating tuberculous spondylitis
We report the case of a patient with tuberculous L1-L2 spondylo-discitis complicated by a spinal epidural abscess which extended anteriorly to the cord up to the low cervical level. Mild signs and symptoms of ...
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The last days of Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni died on 22 May 1873 at the age of 88. On the morning of 6 January 1873, on his way to Mass in the Milanese church of San Fedele, he fell and hit his head on the church steps. From the newspa...
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The POEMS syndrome: Report of six cases
We report six patients affected by POEMS syndrome (Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal gammopathy, and Skin changes), a peculiar multiorgan disease frequently associated with osteoscleroti...
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Fourth meeting of the European Neurological Society 25–29 June 1994 Barcelona, Spain
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Carbamazepine for paroxysmal distonia due to spinal cord lesions
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Combined central and peripheral acute demyelination
We describe a patient with multiple sclerosis who had a bout of central demyelination associated with an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. The contemporary involvement of central and peripheral ...
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Neurological examination in patients recovering from general anesthesia
We performed serial neurological evaluations on 86 patients who underwent surgery for herniated lumbar disk during the first 3 hours after the end of anesthesia (isoflurane-N20-02 for 25 patients, halothane-N2...
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A multicentre follow-up study of 1152 patients with myasthenia gravis in Italy
A multicentre retrospective study was carried out on the characteristics and course of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Italy. Data from 1152 patients, fairly representative of the myasthenic population seeking medic...
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Neurogenic muscle hypertrophy
Muscle hypertrophy is rare in denervating diseases. A patient with calf enlargement associated with L5–S1 radiculopathy and another with thenar, hypothenar, forearm and calf muscle hypertrophy in the course of...
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Azathioprine as a single drug or in combination with steroids in the treatment of myasthenia gravis
Azathioprine (Aza) has been used alone or in combination with steroids for two groups of myasthenic patients. Positive responses were noted in 75% of patients on Aza alone and in 70% receiving the combined reg...
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Anti AChR antibody: Relevance to diagnosis and clinical aspects of myasthenia gravis
227 sera from myasthenic patients were tested for the presence of anti-AChR antibodies (anti-AChR Abs) by mean of a fetal calf receptor (Fc-AChR); 73.5% of cases proved positive with this method. Significant c...
