Cerebral abcess

The authors report 22 cases of intracranial venous sinus thrombosis and study what is new about that old pathology. Sagittal superior sinus is still the most touched one, followed by the lateral sinuses. Half of the cases are traumatic: their clinical picture consists either of benign intracranial hypertension, either of intracranial hypertension and neurological signs. Puerperal thrombosis of the sinuses have quite disappeared and have been replaced by thrombosis in women taking oestro-progestional agents, whose clinical picture is absolutely the same...

The authors appraise the value of CAT in the study of epilepsy from their personal experience and from the few published works that are available. The CAT confirms and supports a large number of already acquired facts:--the almost complete absence of cerebral lesions in "functional" epilepsies (primary generalized epilepsies and benign childhood epilepsy with rolandic paroxysms);--the large number of abnormalities in the secondary generalized epilepsies (West syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome) where the majority of patients present a bilateral fronto-temporal atrophy;--the high percentage of cerebral lesions in partial epilepsies...

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Inflammatory disease of the brain, particularly of pyogenic etiology, may be most accurately assessed by the use of computed tomography and contrast enhancement. Examples of cerebritis, evolving and mature intracerebral abcesses, and inflammatory extracerebral collections are presented and discussed, particularly with reference to differential diagnosis and the problem of infectious versus neoplastic etiology. Ancillary studies, particulary selective arteriography, are reviewed where appropriate. The residual changes of inflammatory disease of the brain after medical and/or surgical therapy are illustrated, and the value of serial examinations is emphasized...