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Atlantoaxial Dislocations: A Retrospective Study Of 35 Cases, Arturo Paz-Esquerre
Atlantoaxial Dislocations: A Retrospective Study Of 35 Cases, Arturo Paz-Esquerre
Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal
Of 35 patients with CI-C2 dislocations, 37% (13 cases) had a history of rheumatoid arthritis, 11% (4 cases) had trauma as well as rheumatoid arthritis, and 25.7% (9 cases) had severe motor deficit quadriparesis or quadriplegia. One patient, representing 2.8% of the total, had a brain contusion related to closed head trauma.
X-Linked Diseases With Cataract, Philip J. Howard
X-Linked Diseases With Cataract, Philip J. Howard
Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal
X-linked cataracts are a rare group and appear as a complication of other disease. Changes in the lens are difficult to visualize and the family history may alert the examiner to the possibility of cataractous changes. This paper is a review of 13 sex-linked conditions with cataract as a possible complication. Cataracts may be present in an occasional case or in some instances in every case. Short abstracts follow of Fabry's disease, glucose 6-dehydrogenase deficiency, myotonic dystrophy, ectodermal hypohidriotic dysplasia, oculocerebral syndrome, keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans with cataract, Norrie disease, incontinenti pigmenti, hypoparathyroidism due to a sex-linked recessive trait, pseudohypopara-thyroidism, …