Diseases of the spinal cord.

  • Bramwell, Byrom, Sir, 1847-1931.
Date:
1882
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    condition in a case quoted by Dr Boss,1 which was under the care of Dr Leech. Fig. 149. The position o f the, hand in Pachymeningitis Cervicalis Hypertrophica, affecting the upper part of the cervical enlargement. (After Ross.) Transverse myelitis at the seat of the compression, and secondary descending degeneration below the lesion, gradually develop, and a condition of spastic paraplegia, together with the sensory disturbances and other symptoms which have been described as characteristic of a transverse myelitis (see p. 58), slowly supervenes. The duration of the case is always long; in some cases, the termination is in death, which may result from some intercurrent complication, or from cystitis, bed-sores, etc.; in others the morbid process is arrested; the paralysis and rigidity in the lower extremities may become less, but the contractures and deformities of the upper limbs, in the great majority of cases, remain. Diagnosis.—The condition may at first sight be mistaken for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or progressive muscular atrophy. 1 Diseases of the Nervous System, vol. ii. p. 388.