ASTROCYTOSIS ARACHNOIDEAE CEREBELLI
- 1 March 1941
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 45 (3) , 520-532
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1941.02280150128010
Abstract
Bizarre intracranial manifestations of von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis have been described frequently. The present case is a unique example of one of the peculiar lesions of this kaleidoscopic disease. REPORT OF A CASE R. N. L., a 16 year old girl, was admitted to the University of Chicago Clinics, to the service of Dr. A. Kenyon, on Aug. 6, 1939. She complained of severe headache during most of her life, aggravated recently and associated with nausea and vomiting, awkwardness and clumsiness for twelve years, urinary frequency and incontinence all her life and mental retardation. The patient was an only child of parents who separated when she was 4 years old. Both parents were in good health, and the family history was irrelevant except that the patient's maternal aunt and grandmother had multiple small tumors all over their bodies (neurofibromatosis?). In her early teens the patient's head became so large that herKeywords
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