INFANTILE CEREBRO-CEREBELLAR DIPLEGIA, OF FLACCID, ATONIC-ASTASIC TYPE
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- 1 June 1913
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Vol. V (6) , 425-446
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1913.04100300002001
Abstract
INTRODUCTION It is my purpose to place on record, for the first time so far as I am aware, a comprehensive description of a type of cerebral palsy of childhood, which I presume to name "Infantile Cerebro-Cerebellar Diplegia." Various writers have commented on the condition under the designation of cerebellar or flaccid diplegia, and very recently Förster1 has written a paper on the condition under the head of flaccid diplegia and has given some very excellent case descriptions. Inasmuch as there has been no attempt as yet to couple this flaccid syndrome with a definite pathogeny or morbid pathologic anatomy, this paper in this latter respect may be of interest to those engaged in the study of cerebral palsy of children. It would seem that there are two reasons for the inadequate attention which flaccid diplegias of infancy have received at the hands of clinicians. First, the spastic pareticThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: