PROGRESSIVE LENTICULAR DEGENERATION
- 30 January 1915
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. LXIV (5) , 428-429
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1915.02570310048017
Abstract
Because of the great interest that is now being manifested in the functions of the lenticular nucleus and the symptoms produced by disease of this structure, I have deemed it important to record the following case of progressive lenticular degeneration. Although a few clinical cases of this condition have been described,1so far as I am aware the present report is the first recorded in American literature in which the diagnosis of "progressive lenticular degeneration" was confirmed by necropsy. History. —E. B., woman, aged 19, was admitted to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases in July, 1912, in the service of Dr. Charles W. Burr. Her parents and close relatives were healthy. Her parents stated that she had always been a somewhat nervous child, but had never been really ill. They declared that she was bright and intelligent, and appeared to be robust, but that occasionally sheKeywords
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