PRIMARY VENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE
- 1 June 1938
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 39 (6) , 1272-1276
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1938.02270060162008
Abstract
In a previous study of ventricular hemorrhage based on an anatomic clinical survey of twelve cases, of both extraventricular and primary ventricular types, an effort was made to find a differential picture for diagnostic purposes.1Three additional cases of the primary ventricular type are submitted here. The clinical course of events and the verification of anatomic lesions at autopsy enable me to amplify the diagnostic statement made in the first study, the characteristic symptom group described which remains essentially corroborated. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —M. D., a laborer aged 55, who was obese, had complained of a slight headache for a few days. The sugar content of the blood was 170 mg., and the blood pressure 175 systolic and 100 diastolic. On returning from work, he suddenly fell unconscious. Half an hour later convulsive seizures appeared in the left arm and leg, which lasted only a fraction ofThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: