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A Journal of Neurology
1967
Volume 90
Part IV
Defective Autonomic Control of Blood Vessels in Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension. Roger Bannister, Leslie Ardill and Peter Fentem
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The Circle of Willis—the Incidence of Developmental Abnormalities in Normal
and Infarcted Brains. S. K. Battacharji, E. C. Hutchinson and A. J.
McCall
Intracerebral Microaneurysms and Small Cerebrovascular Lesions. F. M. Cole
and Peter Yates
Cerebral Effects of Rewanning following Prolonged Hypothermia: Significance
for the Management of Severe Cranio-cerebral Injury and Acute Pyrexia.
Maurice Bloch
A Pharmacological Investigation of Cerebro-spinal Fluid from Patients with
Migraine. Margaret Barrie and Alison Jowett
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Experimental Porphyria and its Relationship to the Human Disease. T.
Lehoczky, J. Sos, L. Selmeci and Margit Halasy ..
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Clinical, Biochemical and Histopathological Findings in a Family with Muscular
Dystrophy. L. J. Hurwitz, Nina A. J. Carson, Ingrid V. Allen, T. F.
Fannin, J. A. Lyttle and D. W. Neill
Nemaline Myopathy: Report of a Fatal Case, with Histochemical and Electron
Microscopic Studies. S. A. Shafiq, Victor Dubowitz, Hart de C. Peterson
and A. T. Milhorat
The Brain in Multiple Neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's Disease): a
Suggested Neuropathological Basis for the Associated Mental Defect.
N. Paul Rosman and John Pearce ..
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"Infantile Hydranencephaly"—a Report of Five Cases of Infarction of both
Cerebral Hemispheres in Infancy. Richard Lindenberg and Phillip D.
Swanson
Ataxia and other Neurological Disorders as Sequels of Severe Hypoglycaemia in
Childhood. T. T. S. Ingram, G. D. Stark and Ivy Blackburn ..
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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Electron Microscope Study of
Four Cases. M. A. Woodhouse, A. D. Dayan, J. Burston, I. Caldwell,
J. Hume Adams, D. Melcher and H. Urich ..
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Geographical Considerations in Multiple Sclerosis. Uri Leibowitz, David
Sharon and Milton Alter
Spinal Segmental and Long-loop Reflexes on Spinal Motoneurone Excitability
in Spasticity and Rigidity. C.-B. Yap
The Effect of Undernutrition and Subsequent Rehabilitation on the Growth
and Composition of the Central Nervous System of the Rat. J. W. T.
Dickerson and Ann L. Walmsley
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Notices of Recent Publications
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Index
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Klinische Echo-Encephalographie
In KQrze erscheint:
Von Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Schiefer und Dr. med. Ekkehard Kazner, Erlangen
Mit einer Einfuhrung in die akustischen GrundJagen von Dr. phil. Werner Guttner, Erlangen
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Die Ultraschalluntersuchung des Gehirns in Form der eindimensionalen Echo-Encephalographie hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmende
Bedeutung erlangt, da sie ohne GefShrdung des Patienten in kurzester Zeit Einblicke in die rilumlichen VerhSltnisse innerhalb der
Schadelkapsel zulSflt. In dieser Monographic werden zunachst die
physikalischen Voraussetzungen, soweit sie fur das Verstandnis des
Ultraschall-Echoimpulsverfahrens am Schadel erforderlich sind,
beschrieben. Nach ausfuhrlicher Erdrterung der Untersuchungstechnik, des normalen und des pathologischen Echo-Encephalogramms legen die Autoren an Hand von flber 9000 Einzeluntersuchungen bei 2747 Patienten den Wert der Methode eingehender
dar. Im speziellen Teil werden besonders die echo-encephalographischen Befunde bei supra- und infratentoriellen Hirntumoren,
cerebralen Massenblutungen, Enveichungen und beim kindlichen
Hydrocephalus demonstriert. Einen groBeren Raum nimmt die
Darstellung der Anwendung des Verfahrens beim SchSdel-Hirntrauma und seinen Komplikationen ein. Auf diesem Gebiet ist die
Methode bereits heute unentbehrlich geworden und hat zu einer
Verbessening der diagnostischen und damit auch der therapeutischen
Ergebnisse gefOhrt. AJle Kapitel sind durch 'eine ausfQhrliche
Kasuistik belegt, wobei die neuroradiologischen Befunde den Echogrammen gegeniibergestellt werden. Instruktive Abbildungen,
schematische Darstellungen sowie tabellarische Obersichten gestatten eine rasche Orientierung. Ein besonders ausfuhrliches Literaturverzeichnis bietet dem Leser die Mdglichkeit, sich auch in
Einzelfragen weiter einzuarbeiten. Das vorliegende Werk gibt erstmals einen Gesamtuberblick uber die klinische Anwendung der
eindimensionalen Echo-Encephalographie. AUe diagnostischen
Mbglichkeiten des Verfahrens sind erschopfend dargestellt. FOr
denjenigen, der sich mit der Echo-Encephalographie befaBt, ist
dieses Standardwerk nicht nur empfehlensw«rt, sondern unentbehrlich.
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