Identifier: organicfunctiona00star (find matches)
Title: Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Starr, M. Allen (Moses Allen), 1854-1932
Subjects: Nervous system Nervous System Diseases
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Abscess of the temporal lobe after otitis media. (Larkin.) In a second case, seen with McBurney at Roosevelt Hospital, acompound fracture of the superior portion of the left parietal bone,which had healed, had been followed three months later by the gradualdevelopment of paralysis of the right leg. At the operation a largeabscess was found involving the superior parietal lobule and adjacentportion of the posterior central convolution. In the midst of theabscess a considerable piece of bone was found, which evidently hadbeen driven in at the time of the fracture. The operation wassuccessful. The patient recovered and gradually regained powerin the leg. PLATE XXIV
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Abscess of Cerebellum Secondary to Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media. (Bacon.) The right cerebellar hemisphere has been divided and the lower half removed,exposing the abscess cavity and its wall (a) and the area of hemorrhagic softeningposterior to the abscess (b). ETIOLOGY. 551 , In a third^case, also seen with McBuj-ney at Roosevelt Hospital, asimilar compound depressed fracture, with spicula of bone in the brain,had led to the development of an abscess within two weeks of the timeof fracture. The abscess cavity invaded the middle third of the motorarea, and caused hemiplegia with paralysis chiefly marked in the arm,and here, too, at the time of operation, pieces of bone had to beremoved as well as the purulent accumulation around them. Theoperation was successful and the boy recovered. In a fourth case, seen with McCosh at the Presbyterian Hospital, afracture of the skull over the left occipital region had produced well-marked right homonymous hemianopsia. Trephining resulted in th

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