At the same time with the lesser spasm there would be a less extensive sinking of intracranial pressure with less consecutive collateral hyperaemia of the lower centres and therefore no convulsion.
Occasionally the symptoms instead of abating increase, and coma supervenes, often indicating meningitis, encephalitis, orintracranial hemorrhage.
Death occurring during or soon after a prize-fight may occur from some of the above classes of intracranial extravasations.
As a rule, however, the diagnosis of concussion, especially if it is severe enough to be fatal, is easily made by the marks of external violence with or without intracranial lesions.
This may occur with only a bruise on the scalp and with no intracranial hemorrhage or laceration of the brain.
The intracraniallesion most often associated with concussion is ecchymosis and laceration on the surface of the brain, but there may be no lesion visible even if the case is a fatal one.
On autopsy only slight erosions and no intracranialor extracranial lesions were found.
The following question may arise in cases of intracranialhemorrhage and especially in the latter class of such cases, i.
Intracranial hemorrhage, laceration with ecchymosis of the brain, on the same or opposite side to the injury, and concussion of the brain may result.
A thin layer of hemorrhage in connection with a superficial laceration of the brain is of frequent occurrence with or without the other two forms of intracranial hemorrhage.
Cooke and Laycock mention a case of intracranial injury with extensive destruction of brain-substance around the Rolandic area; there was recovery but with loss of the so called muscular sense.
Pepper records a case in which a knife was thrust through the spheroidal fissure, wounding a large meningeal vein, causing death from intracranial hemorrhage.
Intracranial aneurysm# involves the internal carotid and its branches, or the basilar artery, and appears to be more frequently associated with syphilis and with valvular disease of the heart than are external aneurysms.
It gives rise to symptoms similar to those of other intracranial tumours, and there is sometimes a loud murmur.
The inflammation may spread to the meninges, the intracranial venous sinuses, the eye, or the ear.
It usually proves fatal by rupture, and intracranial hæmorrhage.
If there be intracranial pressure from encephalitis, the brain tissue usually protrudes as a dark, hæmorrhagic friable mass, in which shreds of necrotic brain tissue will be seen.
The chief intracranial complications are meningitis and cerebellar abscess; the former usually from extension of the septic thrombosis along the petrosal sinuses.
If there be difficulty in exposing the antrum in the performance of the radical operation owing to the lateral sinus projecting far forwards and the middle intracranial fossa overlapping it externally.
The patient is frequently seen too late, that is, after intracranial complications have already occurred.
Although no set operation can be described, the principles of the operation are to expose the infected area widely so as to allow of free drainage and, at the same time, to relieve intracranial pressure.
Increase of the intracranial pressure, as shown by the bulging outwards of the dura mater, and absence of pulsation are suggestive of an abscess.
If, at the time of operation, it be doubtful whether intracranial suppuration already exists or not, the surgeon should content himself with removing the septic thrombus from the sinus and await further symptoms.
Of the intracranial complications, meningitis is most frequent, and next in order cerebellar abscess.
In those who die in coma, preceded by delirium or convulsions, during the eruptive stage, the intracranial congestion is usually marked, with perhaps some transudation of serum, but without inflammatory lesions.
It must be noted, however, that in a certain number of autopsies serious intracranial lesions are found, which are evidently the results of the attack of relapsing fever.
The case of intracranial neoplasm mentioned by Oppenheim, in which irritation of the upper branch of the trigeminal was accompanied by homolateral facial contraction, is wholly comparable to the so-called "tic douloureux.
The exhibition was an exact replica of the effect produced in animals by intracranial galvanisation of the facial nerve.
I have now seen several of these cases of intracranial neuralgias, and very perplexing and (at first sight) alarming they certainly are.
This development led to increased attention being paid to the intracranial complications of suppurative ear disease, in the treatment of which great strides have been made in the last few years.
Diseases of the internal ear may be primary or secondary to an affection of the tympanum or to intracranial disease.
They are now due merely to exaggeration of more or less normal feelings within the head which have come into the realm of the conscious because of the attention attracted to them when the intracranial affection was first noted.
The hemorrhage would actually push certain neurons apart within the skull, or the intracranial pressure produced by it would keep them from making proper connections.
Drugs are seldom needed for the underlying condition which occasions the headache, for when it is due to such organic affections as brain tumors or other intracranial lesions, drugs can accomplish very little.
Some people have become so anxious in the matter that they foster the development of feelings of discomfort both in their abdominal and intracranial regions.
All conditions which can give rise to a local intracranial or a general bodily increase of the arterial pressure, i.
Or of psychosis due to commotio cerebri, that is, an effect of heightened intracranial pressure?
Even when a man falls to the ground without a scratch upon his skin, there is some question whether in his fall he has not sustained some slightintracranial hemorrhage which the lumbar puncture fluid might show.
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