Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others].

  • Mills, Charles K. (Charles Karsner), 1845-1931.
Date:
1905
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    sway or fall to the side of the lesion an irritative lesion bringing about the opposite result. In connection with these discussions of the direction of movement as symptom of cerebellar tumor, it is probable that the lesions more often act as destructive than as irritative factors. Physiologists, as the results of their experi- ments upon animals, have frequently observed spasticity or rigidity. In some cases curvatures of the body, apparently the result of spastic con- ditions, have taken place. In some clinical re- ports spasticity and contractures are set down as among a comparatively common phenomena of cerebellar tumor. Retraction of the head and neck, opisthotonos, and general tetanic rigidity have been recorded. In the experience of the writer tonic spasms and contractures are very rare in tumors strictly lim- ited to the cerebellum. I have, however, seen these symptoms associated with hydrocephalus and in cases in which the tumor has invaded parts outside of the cerebellum, as for instance, the oblongata or pons. When present, the tonic spas- ticity may be on the side of the lesion or on the opposite side. The spasticity may be a transient symptom. It has never proved of diagnostic im- portance in my studies of cerebellar disease. One reason for the difference between the re-