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A REPORT OF SIX CASES

FRED C. HUNT, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;39(1):84-90.

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Despite the fact that internal hemorrhagic pachymeningitis is not uncommon during infancy, there are few cases reported in the literature. Moreover, comparatively few have been followed over prolonged periods of time, so that observations as to sequelae are incomplete. Recovery following the initial lesion is usual, although Burhans and Gerstenberger¹ found that many of these infants later showed a permanent disability. Feer² and Finkelstein³ expressed the belief that hydrocephalus was the most frequent sequel. Rosenberg⁴ was able to locate a few of his patients eight or nine years after the first appearance of the disease and found that 70 per cent had some defect directly traceable to the original lesion.

Virchow,⁵ who first described the condition, believed that the primary lesion was a proliferation of subendothelial tissue followed by serofibrinous exudate and hemorrhage. This view was also supported by Heschl⁶ among the earlier writers. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Pediatrics, Cornell University Medical College, and the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 18, 1929.

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