Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Bristowe's syndrome

Overview said, corpus callosum tumor syndrome, for the corpus callosum tumor specific symptoms. Clinical manifestations and contralateral hemiplegia pyramidal tract sign; Characteristics of psychiatric symptoms often occur in the early stage, desires, lethargy, memory impairment, and depression; often found epileptic seizures, or a tremor, chorea and other involuntary movements. Levy increased intracranial pressure often absent or mild, not at the same time headache, vomiting, dizziness and DVDs edema. Corpus callosum damage to the knee when the spirit of the early appearance of symptoms, facial palsy, hemiplegic limb than the lower limb re-arm; corpus callosum damage to the body may appear on both sides of hemiplegia; corpus callosum were damaged tail first leg paralysis, facial palsy absent. often gait ataxia. Differential diagnosis (1) temporal lobe tumors (frontal lobe tumor) few obvious signs of nerves, In addition to the corpus callosum tumor syndrome specific psychiatric symptoms, there are personality changes, affective disorders, and explore movement and strong grasp reflex. Intracranial pressure increased levy will rise little, oppression suprachiasmatic may have visual impairment and DVDs edema. (2) cerebral hemisphere stroke (cerebral hemisphere apoplexy) General that the left hemisphere of speech, behavior, knowledge, the more important intelligence activities, and the right hemisphere is the emotional, mental activities close. The internal carotid artery embolization of hemiplegia, has depression, hallucinations, paranoia and other psychotic symptoms, the right for 27.5%. Left accounted for 67.9%. Characterized by sudden onset, often history of hypertension and arteriosclerosis, in the spirit of symptoms after hemiplegia.

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