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FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

T. C. HEMPELMANN, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1927;33(2):296-299.

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The wide variation in type of the motor disturbances seen in children with so-called cerebral birth paralysis has made a more accurate classification of these disorders extremely difficult. Knowledge of the cerebral functions is still incomplete, and opportunities for necropsies in cases which have been carefully studied clinically are relatively rare. Perhaps the most commonly reported pathologic lesions in this type of spastic paralysis are those involving gross defects of the cerebral cortex, often associated with lack of development or injury to the pyramidal tracts. In addition, recent research on the function of the corpus striatum makes it seem likely that some of the most bizarre of the motor disturbances may be explained by lesions in the region of the lenticular and caudate nuclei.¹

The origin and nature of such lesions are frequently uncertain, although pediatricians are inclined to attribute a great many to intracranial hemorrhage occurring at or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS

From the Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, and the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, St. Louis Unit.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Oct. 30, 1926.

Read before the meeting of the American Pediatric Society, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 2, 1926.

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