CONVULSIVE STATES WITH EVIDENCE OF BRAIN HEMIATROPHY

LOUIS CASAMAJOR and ROBERT W. LAIDLAWAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 96, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.1.165

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1. Attention is called to a roentgenographic syndrome of hemilateral cerebral hypoplasia and atrophy with concomitant increase of thickness of the skull and enlargement of the head sinuses which occurs in certain convulsive states.

2. Nine cases are described which presented this syndrome. The etiological factors were traumatic, inflammatory or vascular.

3. The nature of the pathological process is discussed from the point of view of brain growth.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 96 • Number 1 • July 1939

Pages: 165 - 175

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Published in print: July 1939

Published online: 1 April 2006

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LOUIS CASAMAJOR

The Division of Child Neurology. The Neurological Institute of New York.

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ROBERT W. LAIDLAW

The Division of Child Neurology. The Neurological Institute of New York.

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CONVULSIVE STATES WITH EVIDENCE OF BRAIN HEMIATROPHY

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